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Rating: We were very close to Christmas, the holidays would start soon... The situation was exactly the same as every other year, you look forward to the day of the celebration... Then you realize it’s crap. ...Let's get back to us, it was a Sunday in December, the next week the moment would come. I was still tangled up in my blanket and kept torturing my pillow, then suddenly I felt my phone vibrating... I grabbed it and answered:
"Hi... why did you call me, don't you see it’s barely 10?"
"Hi mate! This afternoon, at three... Come take a trip to Turin with the whole gang?"
"Turin? You must be crazy! We are close to Christmas, do you realize how many people will be there? Why not Cuneo, it may be smaller, but it's more livable!"
"Oh come on! Come! We’ll have fun!"
"Listen... But will Fra be there too? At least I will have a reason to come..."
My friend, resigned: "Okay, I’ll tell her too... But don't sneak off like you did last time, huh?..."
"Okay... And thanks mate..."
And so, after a very boring bus trip, here we are in the crappiest city in the world. Streets crowded with elderly ladies and you feel like bashing them, me holding hands with the brunette and two balloons are forming where my decency should be... you try not to show it, but you are shattered...
What brings back my attention is a record store and the girl drags me inside... To myself, I think: "You shouldn’t have done that", I'm indeed comparable to a bride undecided between two dresses in record stores... I immediately search for the "Doors" section and find a maroon case labeled "The Doors, live at the Matrix in Los Angeles 1967", nothing else matters now, the brunette finds nothing interesting and pulls me into a corner to make out... "Who the hell feels like it?!... Stupid horny duckling!", I think and after the Odyssey of the return journey, I can finally enjoy the new record in peace.
It's a bootleg and I don't think it's the full live, as there are only eight tracks. A beautiful "Back Door Man" bursts out with all its power from the speakers, the recording is just about decent, yet Jim's grit shines through, it was the early years of their career, and his voice was still completely intact. Truly moving. A downside is the audience, which is almost imperceptible. "Light my Fire" lacks the famous riff, but it is still thrilling, the instrumental sections are not very highlighted, yet Manzarek’s and Krieger’s solos are equally frightening. Unfortunately, the drums are often overshadowed. During the 11 minutes of "When the Music is Over" I experience every kind of emotion, Morrison penetrates into the brain and a part of him seems to continue to live in the listener. Stunning "Alabama Song" and "Break on Through". The audience seems to be composed of two people, well... let’s continue with "Fever", at the end of which a part of "Light my Fire" is picked up again. The two concluding songs are the most intense moment, in "People are Strange" the poor recording increases the pathos, with the singer's voice prominently ahead. "The End" has a very high Morrisonian pathos and closes the record well.
I haven’t found any information about the product, some sites say it was recorded in San Francisco, the cover says Los Angeles, who knows...
Despite everything, it’s a nice bootleg and evokes great emotions also thanks to its poor quality...
Well... That trip to Turin wasn’t so bad after all... I can say I found a trace of light in the middle of a dark tunnel... That light was indeed the Doors...
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Back Door Man (05:37)
Oh yeah babe
Yeah I'm a back door man
I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
Hey, all you people that tryin' to sleep
I'm out to make it with my midnight dream, yeah
'Cause I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
All right, yeah
You men eat your dinner, eat your pork and beans
I eat more chicken any man ever seen, yeah yeah
I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
Well, I'm a back door man
I'm a back door man
Whoa, baby
I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
02 Light My Fire (08:33)
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
03 When the Music's Over (11:52)
When the music's over
When the music's over, yeah
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
When the music's over
When the music's over
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection
Send my credentials to the house of detention
I got some friends inside
The face in the mirror won't stop
The girl in the window won't drop
A feast of friends, alive she cried
Waiting for me
Outside
Before I sink into the big sleep
I want to hear
I want to hear
The scream of the butterfly
Come back, baby
Back into my arms
We're getting tired of hangin' around
Waitin' around with our heads to the ground
I hear a very gentle sound
Very near yet very far
Very soft yet very clear
Come today
Come today
What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down
I hear a very gentle sound
With your ear down to the ground
We want the world and we want it
We want the world and we want it
Now
Now?
Now!
Persian night, babe
See the light, babe
Save us, Jesus
Save us
So when the music's over
When the music's over, yeah
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Well the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end
Eh? Okay, let's do one more.
05 Break on Through (03:56)
You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Chased our pleasure here
Dug our treasure there
Still recall
Time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, yeah!
Wow!
Wow!
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
She get
She get
She get
She get high
She get high. She get high.
She get high. She get high.
The woman get high. The woman get high.
She get high. Baby, get high.
She get high. She get high.
The woman get high. She get high.
She get high. Baby, so high.
She get high. She get high.
The woman get high. She get high.
Wow!
She get high. She get high.
I found an island in your arms
Country in your eyes
Arms that chain us
Eyes that lie
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, yeah!
All right!
Yeah, made the scene
Week to week
Day to day
Hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
07 People Are Strange (02:17)
People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange
People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange
Alright, yeah
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange
When you're strange
When you're strange
08 The End (04:53)
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need of some stranger's hand
In a desperate land
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the king's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake
The ancient lake, baby
The snake he's long, seven miles
Ride the snake
He's old
And his skin is cold
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is callin' us
The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you takin' us?
The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived and then he
Paid a visit to his brother and then he
He walked on down the hall and
And he came to a door
And he looked inside
"Father?" "Yes, son?" "I want to kill you"
"Mother? I want to... fuck you"
Come on, yeah
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
C'mon baby, take a chance with us and
Meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, on a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, come on, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end
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