THE DOORS ROCK THE STEEL CITY
Live In
Pittsburgh 1970 Captures a Stunning Night from
The Doors' Final
Tour with A Single Disc Featuring Classic Hits and Choice Covers from
the Legendary Band
Available March 4 from Bright Midnight Archives and Rhino
LOS ANGELES -- Rhino and Bright Midnight Archives deliver another
spectacular live performance from
The Doors' final tour with THE DOORS LIVE IN
PITTSBURGH 1970. This single disc serves as a fitting bookend to the
three-disc Live In
Boston collection released last year featuring shows from the same tour.
PITTSBURGH 1970 captures the quartet tightly focused and intent on taking
the audience on an epic musical journey. THE DOORS LIVE IN
PITTSBURGH 1970 is available March 4 at all retail outlets and at
www.thedoors.com and
www.rhino.com for a suggested list price $18.98, or online
from all digital outlets for $11.99.
Recorded May 2, 1970 at the
Pittsburgh Civic Arena, the album includes more than an hour of fire and
energy from singer Jim Morrison, keyboardist
Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger. Always
eager to take a chance onstage or otherwise, Morrison experiments with the
musical dialogue during a 22-plus-minute version of "When The Music's Over,"
leading the band into bits of songs that they'd never played live. Along
with gems like "Five To One" and "Break On Through," the group also performed
covers of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads Blues" and the band's signature cover of
Howlin' Wolf's "Back Door Man." Before closing with an extended
take on "Light My Fire," Manzarek took the microphone with backup by Morrison
for "Close To You."
LIVE IN
PITTSBURGH 1970 is mixed and mastered by engineer Bruce Botnick, who
recorded several shows from
The Doors' 1970 tour on multitrack tape for the Absolutely Live
album. The concert would have been released sooner if it were not for two
missing sections from the 8-track masters. The dialogue section that comes
before "Close To You" has been replaced using the live 2-track stereo tapes and
titled here as Tonight You're In For A Special Treat. The other missing section
was of the first 16 bars of music from the beginning of Manzarek's solo on
"Light My Fire." Instead of allowing the missing music to prevent the release of
this show, the band decided to insert the missing music from one of the other
1970 concerts.
The new year includes two more releases from
The Doors. Vinyl collectors will get a special treat with the release of
THE DOORS VINYL BOX on March 4. The set features the original stereo mixes of
all six studio albums on 180-gram virgin vinyl in replicas of their original
vinyl releases. The set also contains a second copy of the band's
self-titled debut album in mono. This boxed set will be limited to 12,500
individually numbered copies and offered in a deluxe box covered in faux lizard
skin. The set will be available at all physical retail outlets as well as
www.rhino.com and
www.thedoors.com for a suggested price of $149.98.
Also coming in early 2008 is THE FUTURE STARTS HERE: THE ESSENTIAL DOORS HITS.
The only single-disc collection of hits from
The Doors, the album
offers a fine introduction to the songs that made the band a legend. The
album will be available as a disc or download on January 29 for $11.98 and $9.99
respectively.
THE FUTURE STARTS HERE features brand-new mixes from the original multitrack
tapes, created by
The Doors and original engineer/producer Bruce Botnick to celebrate
the band's 40th anniversary. Using the latest technology and equipment available
today, the new mixes include parts recorded during the original recording
sessions but left out of the initial releases. The new mixes also restore vocal
and instrumental parts, intros, background vocals, and other snippets as
originally recorded but never heard outside the original recording sessions
until now.
THE DOORS LIVE IN
PITTSBURGH 1970
Track Listing
1. "Back Door Man"
2. "Love Hides"
3. "Five To One"
4. "Roadhouse Blues"
5. "Mystery Train"
6. "Away In
India"
7. "Crossroads Blues"
8. "Universal Mind"
9. "Someday Soon"
10. "When The Music's Over"
11. "Break On Through"
12. "Push Push"
13. The Soft Parade Vamp
14. Tonight You're In For A Special Treat
15. "Close To You"
16. "Light My Fire"
(thanks, George)
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