Detailed item info | Track listing | DISC 1:
1. Break On Through (To the Other Side)
2. Soul Kitchen
3. Money
4. Crystal Ship, The
5. 20th Century Fox
6. I'm a King Bee
7. Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)
8. Summer's Almost Gone
9. Light My Fire
10. Get Out of My Life, Woman
11. Back Door Man
12. Who Do You Love
13. End, The
DISC 2:
1. Unhappy Girl
2. Midnight Drive
3. Medley: The Woman is a Devil/Rock Me
4. People Are Strange
5. Close To You
6. My Eyes Have Seen You
7. Crawling King Snake
8. I Can See You Face In My Mind
9. Summertime
10. When the Music's Over
11. Gloria
| | Details | | Producer: | Allessandra Quaranta (Compilation), Bob Martin (Compilation), Bruce Botnick, Cory Lashever (Compilation), Jeffrey Jampol, John Espinoza (Compilation), Kenny Nemes (Compilation), Paul A. Rothchild, Peter Tarinoff (Compilation), Steven Gorman (Compilation) | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording type: | Live | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | The Doors: Ray Manzarek (vocals, keyboards); Jim Morrison (vocals); Robbie Krieger (guitars); John Densmore (drums).
Officially released for the first time in 2008 on the Rhino label, this two-disc, 24-track Doors concert album presents the revered rock band on the cusp of massive success. Recorded at a small Los Angeles club in March 1967, LIVE AT THE MATRIX captures frontman Jim Morrison and company mere weeks before "Light My Fire" topped the U.S. charts and catapulted the group to stardom. Fittingly, the performance features many songs from the Doors' self-titled debut (see the aforementioned track and a spare version of "The End"), but it also includes tunes that would make their appearances on later albums such as "People Are Strange" (STRANGE DAYS) and "Crawling King Snake" (L.A. WOMAN), and rare covers, most notably a slinky take on Allen Toussaint's "Get Out of My Life, Woman." Although the ensemble is clearly in a formative stage on MATRIX, with Morrison in particular not completely settled into his brooding shaman/poet persona, the concert still makes for a fascinating aural document of a legendary band in the making.
| | Editorial reviews | 4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he two dozen rough but vivid tracks on LIVE AT THE MATRIX are the closes we will get to hearing the live Doors in their early heated maturity...
Rolling Stone
4 stars out of 5 -- The Doors truly cut their teeth in public: Krieger's languid guitar is in place of Manzarek's later ubiquitous intro to 'Light My Fire,' while trial lyrics fly through the likes of 'The End'...
Record Collector
3 stars out of 5 -- Best of all is 'The End,' here with additional lyrics, which still sounds extraordinary: raga-rock lying somewhere between the Velvets and early Floyd.
Mojo
LIVE AT THE MATRIX spotlights a few numbers that never found their way onto any of the Doors' six albums.
Magnet
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