Live at the Matrix '67: The Doors
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About a month after the Doors released their first album they played some shows at a 100-seat San Francisco club, and from the crowd noise it sounds like about only 20 people were there. These Matrix shows have been heavily bootlegged over the decades, and with good reason. Still unknown, the Doors rocked through most of their first album, much of their second, along with a number of straight blues covers, and their tough garage rock sound had not yet become as pompous or pontificating as it sometimes became after they became hugely famous a few months later, with the release of "Light My Fire". Morrison's singing, in particular, is strong and expressive-and he kept his pants on. A number of live Doors recordings have been released over the past few years; this latest Bright Midnight Records release is the first that precedes the 1969-70 series of recordings the Doors made for 1970's so-so Absolutely Live. These earlier sets show the Doors as a rock band at their best, are remarkably clean sounding and are highly recommended to Doors fans, and fans of bluesy garage rock. Originally posted on lala.com (11/08)
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Comments (3)
Good post, Maudeman.
Did you ever get a chance to see The Doors live?
Regrettably, I never did - but my older brother did. At the Filmore in New York City.
No, I missed them. Reviews I remember from bsck them aways talked more about Morrison's language (and pants) than their music, but they are about the only real Rock band I can think of that wasn't guitar based, and I am sure I would have been a bigger fnan had I seen them live.
Ah, ok. Cool. I always thought they were wild and mysterious. I also always loved Ray Manzarek as a keyboard player.
Did you hear about this recent film?
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/the_doors_movie_in_selected_theaters.html
I'm enough of a fan to want to see it.