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LOS ANGELES – Four months into the band’s 1970 Roadhouse Blues Tour, The Doors lit up Vancouver like the Northern Lights with an incandescent performance ignited by a rollicking set list, and blues legend Albert King, who sat in for four songs.
Recorded June 6, 1970, at the Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Ray Manzarek opened the show in high gear, barreling through 15 minutes of raunchy, stomping blues with “Roadhouse Blues,” “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar),” “Back Door Man,” and “Five To One.” Next the group briefly shifted gears, taking a hard left turn into psychedelic territory for a nearly 14-minute take on “When The Music’s Over.”
Midway through the two-hour show, King joined The Doors on stage, lending his trademark stinging guitar licks to covers of Willie Dixon’s “Little Red Rooster,” the Motown classic “Money,” and the blues standards “Rock Me” and “Who Do You Love.”
On the second disc, The Doors head for the homestretch with “Petition The Lord With Prayer,” a spoken word piece often featured live, but not officially released until a few weeks after the Vancouver show, when it appeared on Absolutely Live. Nearly 18-minute versions of “Light My Fire” and “The End,” two legendary tracks from the band’s groundbreaking 1967 self-titled debut, close out the show in epic fashion.
“What a funky night,” recalls Manzarek in the set’s liner notes. “Jim singing his ass off with the prod in the butt by a legendary old blues man (King).”
“Jim lit Albert King's cigar, and we were off!” remembers Densmore.
“The Vancouver show was so much fun for me because one of my heroes (King) was our second act,” says Krieger. “Not only did we get to hang with the man, but we convinced him to come up and jam with us.”
Vince Treanor, The Doors’ tour manager, recorded the show for the band on a Sony reel-to-reel using two microphones placed on the stage. While not a multitrack high fidelity recording, it is clean, quiet, and clear, allowing the unbridled energy of the performances to shine through.
Recorded June 6, 1970, at the Pacific National Exhibition Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Ray Manzarek opened the show in high gear, barreling through 15 minutes of raunchy, stomping blues with “Roadhouse Blues,” “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar),” “Back Door Man,” and “Five To One.” Next the group briefly shifted gears, taking a hard left turn into psychedelic territory for a nearly 14-minute take on “When The Music’s Over.”
Midway through the two-hour show, King joined The Doors on stage, lending his trademark stinging guitar licks to covers of Willie Dixon’s “Little Red Rooster,” the Motown classic “Money,” and the blues standards “Rock Me” and “Who Do You Love.”
On the second disc, The Doors head for the homestretch with “Petition The Lord With Prayer,” a spoken word piece often featured live, but not officially released until a few weeks after the Vancouver show, when it appeared on Absolutely Live. Nearly 18-minute versions of “Light My Fire” and “The End,” two legendary tracks from the band’s groundbreaking 1967 self-titled debut, close out the show in epic fashion.
“What a funky night,” recalls Manzarek in the set’s liner notes. “Jim singing his ass off with the prod in the butt by a legendary old blues man (King).”
“Jim lit Albert King's cigar, and we were off!” remembers Densmore.
“The Vancouver show was so much fun for me because one of my heroes (King) was our second act,” says Krieger. “Not only did we get to hang with the man, but we convinced him to come up and jam with us.”
Vince Treanor, The Doors’ tour manager, recorded the show for the band on a Sony reel-to-reel using two microphones placed on the stage. While not a multitrack high fidelity recording, it is clean, quiet, and clear, allowing the unbridled energy of the performances to shine through.
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CD-1:1-Start Of Show 2-Roadhouse Blues 3-Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) 4-Back Door Man 5-Five To One 6-When The Music's Over 7-Applause - Jim Talks 8-Love Me Two Times 9-Applause - Tim Talks 10-Little Red Rooster 11-Tuning 12-Money 13-Tuning 14-Rock Me 15-Tuning 16-Who Do You Love CD-2:1-Tuning 2-Petition The Lord With Prayer 3-Light My Fire 4-Tuning 5-The End 6-Thank You & Good Night (2010/RHINO) 22 tracks - ecopac 2-CD Set Of Unreleased Music Live From The Pacific Coliseum June 6, 1970! The Band Rocks The Great White North With This Unreleased Concert Featuring Guest Appearance By Blues Legend Albert King.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Albert King opened for The Doors in Vancouver June 6, 1970, The Doors asked him to jam with them for four blues standards, they were only months away from starting the recording of L.A. Woman in the fall of that year. And from the versions of the songs The Doors played "Live in Vancouver" it seems they already had the blues on their minds.
There was some experimenting going on in Vancouver. The Doors were seemed to be pushing the limits of rock or at least stretching those limits between rock and the blues. At first it sounds like the Vancouver show is more sedate (not sedated) than the Felt Forum shows a few months prior. Upon a closer listening you can see The Doors were going for more of a bluesy feeling than a hard rock sound, and explains why Morrison, in introducing Albert King gives a quick tutorial to the audience about the two main indigenous forms of American music blues and country coming together in rock `n' roll, he`s tipping the audience off as to what they're doing.
The instrumentals in most of the songs highlights the bluesy feeling such as in "5-1" and "Light My Fire." While they didn't change the song substantially, during the instrumental of "Light My Fire" Morrison comes in using "St. James Infirmary" as a starting point and slips in some bucolic, blues tinged imagery from "Porgy and Bess" to highlight the blusier aspects of The Doors usual repertoire "the fish were jumping, and the cotton is high." What band today of the same caliber as The Doors would or could risk such onstage experimentation?
That's not to say The Doors didn't delve into their psychedelic roots they played "When The Music's Over" and an interesting rendition of The End. Early in their career The Doors were interested in dissonance for their experimental journeys, in Vancouver they show that assonance had taken over their experimental interest. The End in Vancouver is a mature rendering of that song, it isn't as frantic as earlier versions, The Doors let it play out like a noir film, Morrison stacking the familiar images upon each other, until the dramatic crashing climax, creating a movie for the mind of the audience.
Albert King played four songs with the band onstage, "Little Red Rooster," "Money," "Rock Me," and "Who Do You Love." King's solos on these songs, like the rest of the CD doesn't display a lot of unnecessary pyrotechnics but is solid playing all the way through.
I've been to a lot of rock concerts and listened have listened to a lot of live albums but none of those seem to have the context or coherence that The Doors were able to imbue into their best shows, and this is one of their best.
These Bright Midnight releases are great for fans like me who didn't have the connections to get bootlegs, or weren't' collectors but still longed to hear the shows they've long heard about. The Bright Midnight releases are like raiding The Doors archives without having to worry about the quality, the sound is crisp and clear. The liner notes give you some background right from The Doors' own pens that's more reliable than second generation legend. "The Doors Live in Vancouver" will make a nice addition to your collection.
Jim writes The Doors Examiner.
There was some experimenting going on in Vancouver. The Doors were seemed to be pushing the limits of rock or at least stretching those limits between rock and the blues. At first it sounds like the Vancouver show is more sedate (not sedated) than the Felt Forum shows a few months prior. Upon a closer listening you can see The Doors were going for more of a bluesy feeling than a hard rock sound, and explains why Morrison, in introducing Albert King gives a quick tutorial to the audience about the two main indigenous forms of American music blues and country coming together in rock `n' roll, he`s tipping the audience off as to what they're doing.
The instrumentals in most of the songs highlights the bluesy feeling such as in "5-1" and "Light My Fire." While they didn't change the song substantially, during the instrumental of "Light My Fire" Morrison comes in using "St. James Infirmary" as a starting point and slips in some bucolic, blues tinged imagery from "Porgy and Bess" to highlight the blusier aspects of The Doors usual repertoire "the fish were jumping, and the cotton is high." What band today of the same caliber as The Doors would or could risk such onstage experimentation?
That's not to say The Doors didn't delve into their psychedelic roots they played "When The Music's Over" and an interesting rendition of The End. Early in their career The Doors were interested in dissonance for their experimental journeys, in Vancouver they show that assonance had taken over their experimental interest. The End in Vancouver is a mature rendering of that song, it isn't as frantic as earlier versions, The Doors let it play out like a noir film, Morrison stacking the familiar images upon each other, until the dramatic crashing climax, creating a movie for the mind of the audience.
Albert King played four songs with the band onstage, "Little Red Rooster," "Money," "Rock Me," and "Who Do You Love." King's solos on these songs, like the rest of the CD doesn't display a lot of unnecessary pyrotechnics but is solid playing all the way through.
I've been to a lot of rock concerts and listened have listened to a lot of live albums but none of those seem to have the context or coherence that The Doors were able to imbue into their best shows, and this is one of their best.
These Bright Midnight releases are great for fans like me who didn't have the connections to get bootlegs, or weren't' collectors but still longed to hear the shows they've long heard about. The Bright Midnight releases are like raiding The Doors archives without having to worry about the quality, the sound is crisp and clear. The liner notes give you some background right from The Doors' own pens that's more reliable than second generation legend. "The Doors Live in Vancouver" will make a nice addition to your collection.
Jim writes The Doors Examiner.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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We all know that this show was taped by Vince Treanor the Doors road manager together with the Seattle concert on the previous day. Vince kept the tapes for years before they were finally broadcast on radio in the US. Bootleggers got the tapes and various CD versions of this concert starting appearing. I am really pleased that this full concert has been published. The tapes have reworked to reduce the audience noise. However,the sound quality whilst still good has been adversely effected. I think they could have cut out all the tuning and dead time between tracks and put this concert out on one CD. The sound quality is much better on some of the bootlegs but for Doors fans this is a must have CD. The songs with Albert King are fabulous and it contains the best versions of When The Music's Over and Light My Fire they ever recorded.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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The Door's live sets are always worth seeking out - I think this is their best (Live in Detroit, recorded a month or so earlier - a comfortable second..). With the addition of blues-guitarist Albert King accompanying the band on songs like 'Money', 'Little Red Rooster' and the brilliant 'Who do you love?', with his distinct way of bending those strings is felt throughout these recordings; these blues numbers don't feel ''bleached''- something that the 60's british invasion bands wanted to re-capture and re-juvenate. The band themselves, soon to record 'L.A Woman' at the end of '70 into '71, also a 'blues' endeavour - a great album (and I'm sure many folks favourite) but personally, their final album with Jim doesn't quite reach the sonic-depth or diversity compared to their earlier works, specifically their debut and 'Strange Days' now regarded as quintessential 'Doors' classics.
Also on 'Live in Vancouver' is another stretched-out version of 'Light my Fire' (on disc 2) and in my opinion the best of all versions- by far, a piece of 'bliss' for anyone who loves The Door's jazz- melodies; Jim, Ray and Robbie give nods to songs 'Summertime' and of course the blueprint of 'Light my Fire' - John Coltrane's 'My Favourite things'- these all make up for the slow-burning intro's and below-par sound quality, so 5 stars it is!!. Anyway, no more self-indulgent reviewing, buy it - if you 'dig' this, also look for Jimi Hendrix, '2 days-Live at Fillmore East'.
Also on 'Live in Vancouver' is another stretched-out version of 'Light my Fire' (on disc 2) and in my opinion the best of all versions- by far, a piece of 'bliss' for anyone who loves The Door's jazz- melodies; Jim, Ray and Robbie give nods to songs 'Summertime' and of course the blueprint of 'Light my Fire' - John Coltrane's 'My Favourite things'- these all make up for the slow-burning intro's and below-par sound quality, so 5 stars it is!!. Anyway, no more self-indulgent reviewing, buy it - if you 'dig' this, also look for Jimi Hendrix, '2 days-Live at Fillmore East'.
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