THE DOORS MOONLIGHT DRIVE lp LIVE AT THE MATRIX 1967 nm
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You are viewing the auction for THE DOORS MOONLIGHT DRIVE, THE SCREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY, RECORDED LIVE AT THE MATRIX from 1967. The vinyl is in NEAR MINT + condition and sounds AWESOME when tested. This is a pressing on an unknown label, perhaps privately done. The generic white label states "The record guidance library" and other wording making it look like it's a lecture by a professor, but it is surely The Doors performing as I listened to the whole album, both sides. The generic white inner sleeve is in NM condition. The jacket is VG+ with some corner wear but NO splitting, rips or tears. The paste on picture on the cover is very nice showing a host of celebrities including Jim Morrison, Buddy Holly and others I can't identify......maybe you can when you receive it.
TRACKS:
PEOPLE ARE STRANGE
ALABAMA SONG
CRYSTAL SHIP
UNHAPPY GIRL
MOONLIGHT DRIVE
SUMMER'S ALMOST GONE
20TH CENTURY FOX
BACK DOOR MAN
MY EYES HAVE SEEN YOU
SOUL KITCHEN
GET OFF MY LIFE
CRAWLING KING SNAKE.
The Doors were still a club band in the late winter and spring of 1967 — not yet stars, not quite spectacle, reliant on blues and R&B covers to get through a whole evening on the bandstand. Stuck in a long limbo between the January release of their debut album, The Doors, and the summertime explosion of their second single, "Light My Fire," the group played discothèques in Los Angeles and New York and, during a legendary engagement that March, more than a dozen sets over five nights at the Matrix, a tiny seated club in San Francisco. This lp is the first official release of the tapes made there, and barring the discovery of previously unknown reels from the band's 1966 learning curve on the Sunset Strip, the dozen rough but vivid tracks on Live at the Matrix are the closest we will get to hearing the live Doors in their early heated maturity, before singer Jim Morrison's addiction to abandon turned their arena shows into hit-and-miss theater.
Even with a year's gigging and that perfect first album behind them, Morrison, organist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore seem at times like a band in transition, not yet done working out the kinks in their interplay. Densmore's military snap, Krieger's metallic-sinew sustain and Manzarek's meaty, rolling-Bach surge in the midsection of "Soul Kitchen" and the long climax of "Moonlight Drive" are punchy psychedelic funk.
There is an unusual restraint in Morrison's vocals, a concentration rare on later live recordings, as if he didn't have enough room to perform at the Matrix. But he was never better, onstage or on record, than when he was in control of his impulses, and Morrison directs his eruptions in the dark march of "The Crystal Ship," the hellbent charge of "My Eyes Have Seen You" with a feral will and melodic clarity. The sparse, polite applause on these recordings suggests the Doors were not, in March 1967, the hottest thing in town. Everything else shows why that would change — soon.
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