Dallas 1968.
Boston Back Bay Theatre 1968
A good year!
I’m impressed that you keep showing new Doors bootlegs, but where are you finding them? Are they any good?
I have a lot of bootlegs on CD and vinyl: SQ varies as you can imagine. You Tube is great at having Doors stuff. Hoffman Forum members also post a lot of unreleased/rare stuff too. Some also possess a wealth of knowledge about the band. Were you ever a member of the official Doors Forum? I used to hang out there a lot, reading and dreaming, occasionally posting.
‘Good’ is somewhat relative - if you want great recordings then you’ll most likely not bother with a lot of them…but if you’re a diehard fan ( I am) who wants to hear The Doors, released recordings or not, then…pretty much essential.
I think that I have managed to order the ‘Felt Forum’ set (which seems to hover somewhere between bootleg and official release), but I won’t know if I’ve actually got it until I get home.
I’m not very attracted to actual bootlegs, as the sound on the few that I’ve heard is usually pretty ropy. And I’m not sure whether there’s a protocol on this Forum about promoting ‘unofficial’ recordings.
…if the artist or the owner of the music is not being paid then I would hope that no-one would be promoting an ‘unofficial’ recording.
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The only bootlegs I have are those for two artists/bands for whom I have already purchased their entire available catalog - I’ve already given them all the money I can…but I wanted more of their output and obtained some live bootlegs, which were actually gifted to me.
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Felt Forum is an official release. It’s very good indeed.
You’d best stay well away from Robbie’s official set, Boot Yer Butt then - SQ is not good, but as a historical record, I’d argue it’s worthwhile to a fan/follower of the group.
As for boots in general, depends what you mean by promoting I guess. A video of a fan recording, is that promotion?
A discussion for another thread.
And if the powers-that-be think that posting such content breaks Forum rules, I’m happy have them removed, of course.
Makes for an interesting discussion point. Most later Rush tours were heavily bootlegged and there were an awful lot of those that apparently came from the Soundboard. Now maybe I am missing something but how can that happen repeatedly without the band being aware of it?
Well, the Dead as we know had a very different approach to fan taping. Their recorded legacy is the richer for it.
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The Grateful Dead used to have an area near the front of the stage at their shows for the Deadheads to set up their recording equipment to make ‘band-approved’ bootlegs.
I only saw them once, at the Wembley Arena in 1990 (best guess), and didn’t know this at the time - not that I had an Uher (or similar) to make my own bootleg.
I’d love to be able to acquire a couple of CDs of that concert. I am sure that copies must be ‘out there’, but it’s a closed world to me.
Back to LA…and yes, this has been officially released. Great version of QOTH:
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Hearing that once is quite enough for me. I wouldn’t rush out to buy it, wherever it might come from.
Sucks the life out of the (fabulous) original album track.
My fave off that album is Peace Frog.
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Robbie Krieger on fire on that track!
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I was the best man in my old roommate’s wedding in 1982, and the gift given to all the groomsmen was a lithograph of this famous pic of Jim Morrison drawn by one of the other groomsmen (I guess he got something different) for one of his art classes in college. It is literally as perfectly drawn as it could be to my eye.
Sorry about the weird angle, but it was a struggle to get away from the glare of the light.
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I’m very envious indeed!
If ever it needs a new home…
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Beautiful drawing. Puts a hand drawn JDM I have to shame…my wife won’t allow it on the wall. I wasn’t the artist, luckily.
It’s a drawing of a very famous photo - was it used on the reverse cover of ‘An American Prayer’? Joel Brodsky was a favourite photographer for Elektra Records, so I imagine that he may have taken the original photo.
