(THE DOORS-Absolutely Live)-influential and controversial rock bands-E7-2xLP

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ITEM: VINYL 12” 2xLP 33 1/3rpm
ARTIST: THE DOORS
TITLE: Absolutely Live
COUNTRY PRINTED: OZ
CAT No: ELEKTRA, EKS 9002
COVER: Gatefold (Grade at NEAR MINT-)
LABELS: (Grade at MINT-)
VINYL:
Record #1:(Grade at strong EXCELLENT+)
Record #2:(Grade at NEAR MINT+)
TRACKS:

Side one
1."House Announcer" – 2:40
2."Who Do You Love?" (McDaniel) – 6:02
3."Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (Brecht, Weill) – 1:51
4."Back Door Man" (Dixon) – 2:22
5."Love Hides" (Jim Morrison) – 1:48
6."Five to One" (The Doors) – 4:34

Side two
1."Build Me a Woman" (Jim Morrison) – 3:33
2."When the Music's Over" (The Doors) – 16:16

Side three
1."Close to You" (Dixon) – 4:04
2."Universal Mind" (The Doors) – 4:54
3."Petition the Lord with Prayer" (The Doors) – 0:52
4."Dead Cats, Dead Rats" (The Doors) – 1:57
5."Break On Through (to the Other Side) No. 2" (The Doors) - 4:41

Side four
1."Celebration of the Lizard" - 14:25
o"Lions in the Street" (The Doors) – 1:14
o"Wake Up" (The Doors) – 1:21
o"A Little Game" (The Doors) – 1:12
o"The Hill Dwellers" (The Doors) – 2:35
o"Not to Touch the Earth" (The Doors) – 4:14
o"Names of the Kingdom" (The Doors) – 1:29
o"The Palace of Exile" (The Doors) – 2:20
2."Soul Kitchen" (The Doors) – 7:15

PERSONNEL:
?Jim Morrison - vocals
?Ray Manzarek - lead vocals on "Close To You", backup vocals, organ, Keyboard bass
?Robby Krieger - guitar
?John Densmore - drums
COMMENT:
Review: Wikipedia
Absolutely Live is the first live album released by American rock band The Doors in 1970. Many shows were recorded during the 1970 tour to create the "Absolutely Live" album. The Doors producer, and long time collaborator Paul Rothchild painstakingly edited the album from many different shows to create one cohesive concert. For example, the best part of a song from the Detroit show may have been spliced together with another part of the same song from the Boston show, again trying to create "the ultimate concert". It can become very difficult to identify what parts are from what shows. Rothchild has said "I couldn't get complete takes of a lot of songs, so sometimes I'd cut from Detroit to Philadelphia in midsong. There must be 2,000 edits on that album".

Absolutely Live and 1983's Alive, She Cried were both repackaged and released as a two-disc set in 1991 entitled In Concert.

Biography: by William Ruhlmann & Richie Unterberger
The Doors, one of the most influential and controversial rock bands of the 1960s, were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by UCLA film students Ray Manzarek, keyboards, and Jim Morrison, vocals; with drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. The group never added a bass player, and their sound was dominated by Manzarek's electric organ work and Morrison's deep, sonorous voice, with which he sang and intoned his highly poetic lyrics. The group signed to Elektra Records in 1966 and released its first album, The Doors, featuring the hit "Light My Fire," in 1967.

Like "Light My Fire," the debut album was a massive hit, and endures as one of the most exciting, groundbreaking recordings of the psychedelic era. Blending blues, classical, Eastern music, and pop into sinister but beguiling melodies, the band sounded like no other. With his rich, chilling vocals and somber poetic visions, Morrison explored the depths of the darkest and most thrilling aspects of the psychedelic experience. Their first effort was so stellar, … and … their next few albums contained a wealth of first-rate material, …

On The Soft Parade, the group experimented with brass sections, with mixed results. Accused (without much merit) by much of the rock underground as pop sellouts, the group charged back hard with the final two albums they recorded with Morrison, on which they drew upon stone-cold blues for much of their inspiration, especially on 1971's L.A. Woman.

From the start, the Doors' focus was the charismatic Morrison, who proved increasingly unstable over the group's brief career. In 1969, Morrison was arrested for indecent exposure during a concert in Miami, an incident that nearly derailed the band. Nevertheless, the Doors managed to turn out a series of successful albums and singles through 1971, when, upon the completion of L.A. Woman, Morrison decamped for Paris. He died there, apparently of a drug overdose. The three surviving Doors tried to carry on without him, but ultimately disbanded. Yet the Doors' music and Morrison's legend continued to fascinate succeeding generations of rock fans: In the mid-'80s, Morrison was as big a star as he'd been in the mid-'60s, and Elektra has sold numerous quantities of the Doors' original albums plus reissues and releases of live material over the years, while publishers have flooded bookstores with Doors and Morrison biographies. In 1991, director Oliver Stone made The Doors, a feature film about the group starring Val Kilmer as Morrison.

VINYL GRADING SYSTEM

MINT:
RECORD: New condition with no surface marks or loss of sound quality.
COVER: New condition with no surface marks, creases or wear.
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RECORD: Barely noticeable surface mark with no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Barely noticeable surface mark/ wear.
EXCELLENT:
RECORD: Some signs of being played with extremely little if no loss of sound quality.
COVER: Slight wear or creasing.
VERY GOOD:
RECORD: Obviously been played with noticeable surface marks & the occasional light scratches but exhibits no major loss of sound quality.
COVER: Noticeable wear on cover, seam or spine.
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