In Concert (The Doors album)

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Thursday, 30 September 2010
  • Released: May 21, 1991
  • Recorded: 1968-1970
  • Genre: Psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock
  • Length: 140:43
  • Label: Elektra
  • Producer: Paul A. Rothchild

In Concert is a live double album, recorded by The Doors. The album's performances are culled from a variety of different concerts and releases. In Concert includes all the tracks from Absolutely Live (with all but one track appearing on disc one with the remaining track on disc two) and Alive, She Cried. The three remaining tracks come from An American Prayer, Live at the Hollywood Bowl and one previously unreleased.

Track listing

Many shows were recorded during the 1970 tour to create the Absolutely Live Album. The Doors producer, Paul A. Rothchild, painstakingly edited the album from many different shows to create one cohesive concert, "the perfect Doors show". In fact many of the songs were pieced together from various performances. When it comes to identifying which song came from which show, it becomes very difficult. 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".

Below is a listing of most likely venues of where a song was performed based on information from several books including Greg Shaw's The Doors on the Road.

Disc I

(Same As Absolutely Live minus "Close To You")

  1. "House Announcer" – 2:40 (Philadelphia Spectrum 5/1/70)
  2. "Who Do You Love?" (McDaniel) – 6:02 (New York Felt Forum 1st Show 1/17/70)
  3. "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (Brecht, Weill) – 1:51 (New York Felt Forum 1st Show 1/17/70)
  4. "Back Door Man" (Dixon) – 2:22 (New York Felt Forum 2nd Show 1/18/70)
  5. "Love Hides" – 1:48 (Philadelphia Spectrum 5/1/70)
  6. "Five to One" – 4:34 (New York Felt Forum 2nd Show 1/17/70 & 1st & 2nd Show 1/18/70)
  7. "Build Me a Woman" – 3:33 (New York Felt Forum 2nd Show 1/17/70)
  8. "When the Music's Over" – 14:50 (New York Felt Forum 2nd Show 1/17/70)
  9. "Universal Mind" – 4:54 (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 2nd Show 7/21/69)
  10. "Petition the Lord with Prayer" – 0:52 (New York Felt Forum 2nd Show 1/18/70)
  11. "Dead Cats, Dead Rats" – 1:57 (Detroit Cobo Arena 5/8/70)
  12. "Break on Through, #2" - 4:42 (Detroit Cobo Arena 5/8/70)
  13. "Lions in the Street" – 1:14 (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
  14. "Wake Up" – 1:21 (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
  15. "A Little Game" – 1:12 (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
  16. "The Hill Dwellers" – 2:35 (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
  17. "Not to Touch the Earth" – 4:14 (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
  18. "Names of the Kingdom" – 1:29 (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
  19. "The Palace of Exile" – 2:20 (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 1st Show 7/21/69)
  20. "Soul Kitchen" – 7:15 (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 2nd Show 7/21/69)

N.B. All tracks written by The Doors, unless noted otherwise.

Tracks 3-6 are a medley, as are tracks 11-12.

Tracks 13-19 are "The Celebration of the Lizard"

Disc 2

(Includes "Close to You" from Absolutely Live; The complete Alive, She Cried album; and selected other tracks)

  1. "Roadhouse Blues" - 6:13 (New York Felt Forum 1st show 1/17/70 & Detroit Cobo Arena 5/08/70 & End Dialogue Boston Arena 2nd Show 4/10/70)
  2. "Gloria" (Van Morrison) - 6:17 (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater Rehearsal 7/22/69)
  3. "Light My Fire" (Krieger) including "Graveyard Poem" (Morrison) - 9:51 (New York Felt Forum 1st & 2nd Show 1/18/70 & Boston Arena 1st & 2nd Show 4/10/70)
  4. "You Make Me Real" - 3:06 (Los Angeles Aquarius Theater 2nd Show 7/21/69 with new guitar overdub)
  5. "Texas Radio & The Big Beat" - 1:52 (Copenhagen Denmark T.V. Show 9/18/68 with new guitar overdub)
  6. "Love Me Two Times" - 3:17 (Copenhagen Denmark T.V. Show 9/18/68 with new drum overdub)
  7. "Little Red Rooster" (Dixon) - 7:15 (New York Felt Forum 1st Show 1/17/70 & Dialogue 2nd Show 1/18/70 with Harmonica overdub)
  8. "Moonlight Drive" including "Horse Latitudes" (Morrison) - 5:34 (vocal from New York Felt Forum 1st Show 1/18/70 with a newly recorded instrumental track)
  9. "Close to You" - 5:26 (New York Felt Forum 2nd Show 1/18/70)
  10. "Unknown Soldier" - 4:25 (Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl 7/5/68)
  11. "The End" - 15:42 (Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl 7/5/68)

N.B. All tracks written by The Doors, unless noted otherwise.


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