Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: Jim Morrison & The Doors - Who Do You Love

Jim Morrison & The Doors - Who Do You Love
Oil Well RSC CD 098

1 Roadhouse Blues 5:53
2 Back Door Man 2:31
3 Five To One 6:04
4 When The Music Is Over 12:17
5 Who Do You Love 7:22
6 Light My Fire 10:59
7 Fever 6:38
8 The End 16:39

Note:
All songs by Morrison/Krieger/Densmore unless noted
Recorded liive at PNE Colliseum, Vancouver, June 6th, 1970

Lineup:
Jim Morrison: vocals
Robby Krieger: guitars
Ray Manzarek: keyboards and vocals
John Densmore: drums
Albert King: guitar on "Who Do You Love".

This rare CD was copied from Lion Tavern (International Broadcasting Recording IBR 2245)
which was a copy of Feel The Blues (American Concert Series ACS 024).
This Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only. Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended.
On the front cover Jim Morrison performing live during the Hollywood Bowl show on July 5, 1968.
Please note that this bootleg is one of the rarest from this italian bootleg label!

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This concert has been released officially as: Live in Vancouver 1970 - Rhino - Bright Midnight Archives (2010) produced by Bruce Botnick

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Live in Vancouver in 1970

Live in Vancouver 1970 is a two-disc live album by the American rock band the Doors. It was recorded at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 6, 1970.
The summer of 1970 wasn't a happy one for Jim Morrison and the Doors. The singer had his Miami obscenity charges hanging over his head, with an impending trial in August, and the band had nearly come undone while recording Morrison Hotel a few months earlier.

The Doors attempted to move away from its chaotic cocktail of music and mayhem with a return to its origins as a psychedelic blues-rock band. With Jim Morrison’s trial for indecency – stemming from an incident at a 1969 gig – also hanging in the balance, the LA group reinvented themselves as a blues-based band with some fairly heady jazz and pop poetry overtones. That artistic metamorphosis certainly shows at this Vancouver concert as guitarist Albert King sits in with the quartet on four blues covers.
Curiously, the Doors' music was getting stronger during this time, starting with their hit from that year, Roadhouse Blues, and then their outstanding final album with Morrison, L.A. Woman. This unearthed live document, recorded at Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum, captures the band in this tail-end creative spurt and features a lengthy guest appearance by legendary blues guitarist Albert King.

Morrison sounds reserved early on but comes out of his shell when King arrives, perhaps to prove he isn't just a teen idol and can sing the blues with the best.
The Doors nail all of its classic material and then the band stretches out to jam with formidable focus and nuance, especially on “Light My Fire” and “The End.” The Doors, led by Morrison – the legendary Lizard King – may have winding down in 1970, but the band certainly wasn’t finished creating their own myth. This album is a must for Canadian Doors fans.

The Roadhouse Blues Tour: The Doors live in 1970
The Roadhouse Blues Tour was a 1970 tour undertaken by rock band the Doors. The group recorded many of the concerts which have been subsequently released through Elektra Records, Rhino Records and Bright Midnight Records.

Concerts on the tour included:
Felt Forum in New York City January 17-18, 1970
Winterland Arena in San Francisco February 2, 1970
Boston Arena in Boston April 10, 1970
Honolulu International Centre in Honolulu April 18, 1970
Spectrum in Philadelphia May 1, 1970
Pittsburgh Civic Arena in Pittsburgh May 2, 1970
Cobo Arena in Detroit May 8, 1970
Seattle Center Coliseum in Seattle June 5, 1970
Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver June 6, 1970
Bakersfield Civic auditorium in Bakersfield August 21, 1970
Isle of Wight Festival in the UK, August 29, 1970
Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas December 11, 1970 last officially recorded concert, and
The Warehouse in New Orleans December 12, 1970 the last Doors' concert featuring singer Jim
Morrison

The Doors a biography
Of all creative bands in the history of rock music, the Doors may have been the most creative. Their first album contains only masterpieces and remains virtually unmatched. Jim Morrison may well be the single most important rock frontman. He is the one who defined the rock vocalist as an artist, not just a singer. Ray Manzaker's style at the keyboards was at the vanguard of the fusion of classical, jazz, soul and rock music. The virulence of some of their riffs bridged the blues-rock era and the hard-rock era. Whether it was him, Krieger or Manzarek or all of them, their songs have a unique quality that has never been repeated. They are metaphysical while being psychological and while being physical (eroticand violent). They are the closest thing rock music has produced to William Shakespeare.

The Doors were the leading performers of a brief but intense creative season, during which they recorded one the greatest masterpieces in the history of rock music. The more time passes by, the more it seems that their fame will be forever tied to that first effort.

The band was dominated by the histrionic personality of singer Jim Morrison, the inspiration behind their music. James Douglas Morrison was born December 8, 1943, in Melbourne, Florida. His father, a high ranking Navy officer, expected him to pursue a similar career. After severing all ties with his family, Jim moved to Los Angeles to enroll at UCLA where he studied cinematography, Latin and Greek. He majored in Technical Cinematography in 1964, after directing an experimental film.

At UCLA Morrison met Ray Manzarek, nine years older, a graduate in economy, who loved the blues of his Chicago and played the piano for Rick and the Ravens, a Santa Monica band held together by members of the same family. Drummer John Densmore, a jazz aficionado, and guitarist Bobby Krieger, a flamenco and jug music enthusiast, both members of The Psychedelic Rangers and followers of guru Maharishi Yogi, soon joined Morrison and Manzarek. It was September 1965. The Doors were born.

The name "Doors" is a double tribute: to the poetry of William Blake for whom the doors divide that which is known from that which is unknown, and to the book about psychedelic drugs by Aldous Huxley "The Doors of Perception". The tribute clearly conveyed a debt of gratitude and set the way for the development of their sound. The Doors began playing regularly at The London Fog, on Sunset Boulevard. Soon after they were hired by the famous Whiskey-a-go-go, where they competed with the best bands of the area - Turtles, Seeds, Love.

Their sound, a fierce blues-rock far more mature than the shy beat in circulation at the time, catapulted them to the top: the exuberant organ played by Manzarek (that also served as bass and chorus), the neat, dreamy, hallucinogenic, typically West Coast guitar of Krieger and the bluesy fiber in the fabric of Densmore's drumming sound, created the suggestive backdrop to which Morrison added with his cavernous voice continual references to darkness, void, oblivion and death. His sensational sermons shocked and enlightened the existentially damned. Like many of the Bay Area, Doors concerts also became actual "acid tests", during which the band rambled and stretched blues classics to the limit.