The Band’s Historic
Performance Has Been Restored From Original Camera
Negatives And Remixed And Mastered Using Original
Multi-Track Tapes
To Create The Definitive Version
The Concert Will Be Released On DVD,
Blu-Ray, And Digital Video From Eagle Rock
Entertainment And CD, Digital Audio, And Double-LP From
Rhino On October 23
LOS ANGELES – The Doors supplied plenty
of post-Independence Day fireworks on July 5, 1968 when
the legendary quartet played the Hollywood Bowl, a
concert that is considered to be the band’s finest on
film. For the first time, the film from the historic
performance has been painstakingly restored using the
original camera negatives and the audio has been remixed
and mastered from original multi-tracks by the group’s
engineer Bruce Botnick. This new restoration
offers a stunning visual upgrade from
earlier versions and will give fans the closest
experience to being there live along side Jim Morrison,
John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek, who
opined, “You can hear it as if you were at the Hollywood
Bowl, on stage with us.”
LIVE AT THE BOWL ’68 will include three
previously unreleased tracks from the performance.
Technical issues with the recording of “Hello, I Love
You,” “The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat),” and
“Spanish Caravan” prevented them from being released in
the past. Now, through meticulous restoration of the
audio, all three will be included, marking the first
time the concert has been available in its entirety.
LIVE AT THE BOWL ’68 – the definitive
version of this concert – is coming October 23 in
several formats. Eagle Rock Entertainment will present
the concert on Blu-Ray ($19.98), DVD ($14.98), and
digital video ($12.99). Rhino will release the remixed
audio for the entire concert on CD ($18.98), digital
audio ($11.99) and double-LP ($34.98).
The DVD, Blu-Ray and digital video each
feature a 16x9 high-definition digital transfer with
both a stereo and 5.1 audio soundtrack as well as over
an hour of bonus material. Included in the additional
content are “Echoes From The Bowl,” The Doors’ route to
the Hollywood Bowl; “You Had To Be There,” memories of
The Doors’ performance at the Bowl; “Reworking The
Doors,” an in-depth look at how the film was restored;
and three bonus performances: “Wild Child” from
The Smothers Brothers Show in 1968, “Light My Fire”
from The Jonathan Winters Show in December
1967 and a version of Van Morrison’s “Gloria” with
specially created visuals.
Jeff Jampol, Doors
manager and producer of the film said “The Doors’ live
performances were a shamanistic journey into dark rock
and roll psychedelic theater – a swirling mixture of
rock ‘n’ roll heat, poetry, danger, drama and unbridled
musical virtuosity. Captured at the height of The Doors’
magical powers, in one of the world’s greatest venues,
this brand new restoration, edit and mix, corny as it
may sound, made me fall in love a hundred times, all
over again.”
Geoff Kempin,
executive producer for Eagle Rock said “The Doors were
one of THE most incredible live bands ever – we wanted
to apply the top technology so that everyone can fully
appreciate the phenomenon of The Doors captured at their
height on 5 July 1968”.
LIVE AT THE BOWL ’68
Track Listing
1. Show Start/Intro
2. “When The Music’s Over”
3. “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”
4. “Back Door Man”
5. “Five To One”
6. “Back Door Man” (Reprise)
7. “The WASP (Texas Radio And
The Big Beat)”
8. “Hello, I Love You”
9. “Moonlight Drive”
10. “Horse Latitudes”
11. “A Little Game”
12. “The Hill Dwellers”
13. “Spanish Caravan”
14. Hey, What Would You Guys Like
To Hear?
15. “Wake Up!”
16. Light My Fire (Segue)
17. “Light My Fire”
18. “The Unknown Soldier”
19. The End (Segue)
20. “The End”