THE '60s

The Killer Awoke - The Doors [Kiderian Rekords] - World Pacific studio demos Sept 1965 [6] + various live '69 -'70 [8]

The Matrix Tapes - The Doors [Swingin' Pig 2CD] - Live at Matrix, SanFrancisco, Mar 7-10 1967.

Poems, Lyrics & Stories By James Douglas Morrison - The Doors [Men At Work] - Live at the Matrix, SF, Mar 7 1967.

The Doors - The Complete Matrix Club Tapes [KTS BX009 4CD] CD1 & 2 live at Matrix Club, San Francisco, Mar 7, 1967. CD 3 & 4 live at Matrix Club, Mar 10, 1967. The Matrix was owned by Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane who had set up a reel-to-reel recorder to record his own performances. The Doors used the recorder to tape their shows. These recordings were made a month before The Doors released the single, Light My Fire. Ex SBD stereo.

The Doors - Danbury High School 1967: COMPLETE [no label 1CD torrent 123409] live at Danbury, CT, Oct 17, 1967. Recorded by a staff member of school. Third generation. This is complete version with inferior People Are Strange from official Boot Yer Butt added in. VG+ AUD stereo. Vocals are badly recorded and very rough.

The Doors - Texas 1968 [no label 1CD] live at Sam Houston Coliseum, Texas, July 10 1968 + 2 bonus tracks in soundboard quality. The Texas show is VG AUD mono. It is said to be a unique show as Morrison waxed lyrical between songs.

The Doors - Saratoga 1968 [Dubwise 1CD] live at Saratoga Performing Arts Centre, Saratoga Springs, Sept 1, 1968. VG+ to Ex- SBD stereo.

The Doors - All Hail The American Night [Tuff Bites 1CD Version tradersden 34602] Tks 1-5 live at Television Byen, Gladsaxe, Copenhagen, Denmark, TV studios, Sept 18, 1968. Tks 6-11 live at Critique Show, PBS studios, New York, Apr 28, 1969. Ex- broadcast mono?

Live In Stockholm 1968 - The Doors [Swingin' Pig 2CD] Live at Konserthuset Sept 20 1st and 2nd show.

Apocalypse Now - The Doors [KTS] - Live Waiting For The Sun tour 1968. No other details.

The Riot Show - The Doors [World Productions] - Live Hollywood Bowl, LA, July 5 1968 + two Jonathan Winters Show performance Dec 27 1967

The Doors - The Roundhouse [Late show] 1968 [no label 1CD] live at The Roundhouse, London, UK, Sept 6, 1968, late show. There is a voiceover at the beginning. Sounds like this is taken from a video/laser disc source? Ex- TV/FM? mono.

The Beautiful Die Young - The Doors [Living Legend] - Live Toronto Canada, Open Air Festival Sept 13 1968.

Mystic Man: The Uncut Soft Parade Sessions - The Doors [On The Air] - Studio sessions 1968-'69, also called the Rock Is Dead sessions

The Doors - Miami 1969 [no label 1CD] Live Mar 1 1969, Dinner Key Auditorium, Miami, Florida. Infamous show where Morrison allegedly exposed himself. VG audience.

Liquid Night - The Doors [Screaming Butterfly] - Live Dinner Key Auditorium, Maimi, Florida Mar 1 1969 [7] + live at LA Forum, Dec 14 1968 [5]. This is the infamous Miami Flash incident which landed Morrison in court for flashing his penis.

The Doors - Missing Links [Memorial Records 1CD] studio sessions Feb 25 1969[?]. This is same as On The Air's Mystic Man less the 2 bonus tracks. Also the titles and track marks differ. This is the Soft Parade sessions with two long jams on Rock Is Dead. VG+ SBD

Doors - Missing Tapes [Rock Adventure 1CD] Soft Parade sessions in Los Angeles, Feb 25? 1969. Similar to Missing Links bootleg. VG SBD stereo

The Doors - Rock Is Dead Sessions [no label 2CD tradersden 35916] studio session at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, Feb 25, 1969. CD1 complete Sandy Gibson tape. Gibson produced Doors radio shows in the ‘80s. CD2 incomplete tape in superior sound quality from Bruce Botnick? Ex- to Ex SBD stereo.

The Doors - The Rock Is Dead Sessions: NEW MIX OF 2 TAPES [no label 2CD tradersden 56580] CD1 Tk1-24. CD2 Tk25-28. Sessions at Sunset Sound, Hollywood, CA, Feb 25, 1969. "This version has two tapes mixed into one to provide a high quality (where possible) and complete recording." - co9ol. Fan mix of the 1st and 2nd generation tapes [tradersden 35916] of this session which apparently is quite different from each other. Ex SBD stereo.

The Doors - Live In Miami 1969 [no label 1CD 1CD thetradersden 33204] live at Miami Dinner Key Theatre, Miami, Florida, Mar 1, 1969. This is taken from the same tape used during Jim Morrison’s indecency trial. Morrison was accused of exposing himself. Much of Morrison’s personal decline seems to have stemmed from this trial. >From Doors collector Greg Shaw’s Archives. VG+ AUD stereo. Best version with nice atmosphere of the hall.

In Mexico - The Doors [Goldtone] - Live at The Forum, Mexico City, June 1969 [6] + soundcheck Dec 1970 [3]

The Doors - Toronto 1969 [no label 1CD thetradersden 33275] live at Toronto Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival, Varsity Stadium, Canada, Sept 13, 1969. This is the famous festival where John Lennon recorded his Live Peace In Toronto album. Ex- AUD stereo. Taken from the master copy.

The Doors - "Morrison Hotel Outtakes 1969" [no label 1CD] Outtakes from ‘Morrison Hotel’ & bonus studio tracks. Some cuts [dropouts?] and hiccups in the Morrison Hotel sessions. VG to Ex SBD stereo/mono?

The Doors - Studio Outtakes [no label 1CD tradersden 34853] recorded in Elektra Sound Recorders, Hollywood from 1966-1969. Recently in 2006 The Doors released a new boxset Perception which contained outtakes. These are different but possibly from the same sessions. VG to VG+ SBD stereo.

THE '70s

New York Blues - The Doors [Document] - Live Felt Forum, NY, Jan 17 1970

Build Me A Woman - The Doors [Great Dane] - Live Felt Forum, NY, Jan 17 1970, four songs different from New York Blues

The Doors - Live in Boston: The Joe Maloney Archive #25 [no label 2CD Torrent: 51883] live at Boston Arena, Apr 10, 1970, late show. Gd AUD stereo? Not as good as Miami 1969 in sound quality. The taper is a bit far from the stage.

The Doors - Honolulu Convention Center 1970: COMPLETE [no label 2CD Torrent #123467] live in Hawaii, April 18, 1970. This is complete show. "The recording was probably done by the Doors enginer Bruce Botnick on personal material, so it's not a soundboard recording but not really an audience one and it's quality is very good." VG+ AUD stereo.

The Doors - Live in Philadelphia [Bright Midnight 2CD] live at the Spectrum, Philadelphia, May 1, 1970. This is an official bootleg. Ex SBD stereo. NOT FOR TRADE.

Shattered - The Doors [KTS] - Live Seattle Center Colisuem, June 5, 1970

The Doors - The Complete Seattle 1970 [no label 2CD pinkrobert 951] live at Seattle Center Coliseum, June 5, 1970. Ex SBD stereo.

Canadian Night - The Doors [Buccaneer] - Live in Vancouver, Canada 1970 with Albert King

The Lizard King - The Doors [Banana] - Live in Canada June 6, 1970

The Doors - One Hundred Minutes [Tuff Bites 2CD] live in Vancouver, Canada, June 6 1970 with Albert King on guitar. The bonus tracks from Nov 9 1968 are missing on this copy. Includes an interview with Jim Morrison. Ex SBD

The Doors - Bakersfield 1970 [no label 1CD thetradersden 33165] live at Bakersfield Civic Auditorium, CA, Aug 21, 1970. This tape was dangled by the Doors in the hope of getting other rare recordings in exchange for their Bright Midnight label. To date no non-lossy version has appeared. Ex- SBD stereo. MP3 source, NOT FOR TRADE.

Palace Of Exile - The Doors [Colosseum] - Live Isle of Wight, Aug 31 1970

The Doors - Palace Of Exile [Megaphone 1CD] Live at the Isle of Wight Festival, Aug 31 1970. This CD is extracted from Megaphone disc and some bits from BBC broadcast added to make The End complete. All previous versions have The End missing a minute or so. Ex SBD stereo

The Doors - Isle Of Wight Festival: COMPLETE [no label 1CD losslesslegs] live at Isle of Wight, Aug 29-30 1970. Show started late Aug 29 and into early hours of Aug 30. This is the complete show from an unmixed soundboard tape. This supersedes the bootleg Palace Of Exile which was missing one minute from The End and had an edited When The Music's Over. Allegedly from a multi-track master recording. A glitch in the announcer's intro is on the source tape. Ex SBD stereo. Note that the mix is probably better on Palace of Exile.

Orange County Suite - The Doors [Document] - Sessions for Rock Is Dead and An American Poet, Dec 8 1970 + live at Felt Forum, NY, Jan 17 1970

The Doors - Dallas 1970 [no label 1CD thetradersden 33164] live at State Fair Music Hall, Dallas, Texas, Dec 11, 1970. VG AUD stereo. Very boomy. From first generation copy.

The Lost Paris Tapes - Jim Morrison [Jomo] - The Paris June 1971 recording + poetry session Mar 1969 in LA.

Doors - Other Voices/ Full Circle [Russian label 2CD] this is the out-of-print post-Jim Morrison Doors albums from 1971-'72. Ex SBD stereo.

The Doors - Aragon Ballroom 1972 [no label 1CD Torrent: 86162] the post-Morrison Doors live at Aragon Ballroom,, Chicago, IL, July 12 or 21?, 1972. Broadcast on WGLD-FM, Oak Park, IL. Lineup: Ray Manzarek: Keyboards, Vocals, Robby Krieger: Guitar, Vocals, John Densmore: Drums, Jack Conrad: Bass & Bobby Ray: Percussion. Ex- FM stereo.

COMPILATIONS + BOXSETS

The Doors - Three Hours For Magic: The Jim Morrison Story [London Wavelength 3CDs] This is one of the rarest Doors recordings out there, once even considered a "phantom recording" until a vinyl edition popped up. This recording was made in 1982 and was supposedly broadcast once in England in '83. It was pressed in a limited number of 500 vinyl copies that were promos given to radio stations in the early 80's. Very few have seem to have survived. It contains three hours of anecdotes about Jim Morrison from everyone from Corky Courson, Pam's father, to Tony Liscandro, to journalists, the Doors and the like. It is truly an amazing set for any Doors fan. It also contains Jim reading poetry from the Lost Paris sessions of '71. Ex SBD stereo. On the poetry readings, to my ears, the speed is a bit fast. Taken from vinyl so there is some noise but not intrusive. Scott Muni hosts.

The Doors - The Bright Midnight Sampler 1CD out-of-print
http://www.rhinohandmade.com/browse/ProductLink.lasso?Number=7901

Further Adventures With The Mojo Wire - The Doors [RHP] - Rehearsals San Francisco Feb & Mar 1967 [6] + Rock Is Dead sessions LA, Feb to May 1969 [5] + live Danish TV Show Sept 1968 [1]

From The Inside - The Doors [Manic Depression] - live + demos, Whiskey A Go Go '67 [2], Fillmore East '68 [2], Miami '69 [1], and Hollywood Bowl 1968 [8]

Celebration - The Doors [Swingin' Pig] - TV shows '67-'68, Ed Sullivan, Smothers Brothers and Jonathan Winters + two live tracks from Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles July 5 1968

When The Music's Over - The Doors [Great Dane] Smothers Brothers '68 + Hollywood Bowl and live at the Matrix in San Francisco Mar 1967

TV Bleeding - The Doors [Snakeskin] - Alternate studio mixes for Best of Doors Quad LP [7] + TV broadcast May 3 1972 without Jim Morrison [7]

Liberation - The Doors [Strange Days] - no info

The Doors In 1970 - The Doors [Banzai 3CD] - Live Felt Forum, NY, Jan 18 1970 + Long Beach California Feb 2 1970 + Isle of Wight Festival Aug 29 1970

Jim Morrison - HWY: An American Pastoral [no label 1VCD] Jim's experimental art film from 1969 in which he starred, wrote and directed. Gd image, Ex sound.

The Doors & Scott Walker - Nite Flights * Ghost Songs On Dawn's Highway [bootleg 1CD] Tks 1-14 are taken from Jim Morrison's officially released An American Prayer. The rest are tracks by Scott Walker and Harold Budd. A very strange pairing. Ex SBD stereo. All official releases mashed together to offer a different atmosphere. NOT FOR TRADE.

The Doors - "Boot Yer Butt Companion" Pt 1 - 1967 [no label 2CD thetradersden 29848] Compiled October-November 2006 from Metal Tape copies from Greg Shaw masters, transfered in the late 80's. Much thanks to Greg for all his hard work! go buy his book if you can find it!

In honor of the Doors 40th anniversary and given the fact that for whatever reason, the "official" set used many inferior tapes.

CD1 - Tks 1-5 live at Swing Auditorium, San Bernadino, CA, Dec 16, 1967. Tks 6-10 live at Continental Ballroom, Santa Clara, CA, July 9, 1967.
CD2 - Tks 1-8 live at Winterland, SF, Dec 26, 1967. Tks 9-16 live at Winterland, SF, Dec 28, 1967. VG to VG+ AUD stereo/mono?

The Doors - "Boot Yer Butt" companion: Pt 2 [no label 3CD Torrent: 123122] Compiled October-November 2006 from Metal Tape copies from Greg Shaw masters, transfered in the late 80's. CD 3 : live at L.A. Forum, Inglewood, CA, Dec 14, 1968. CD 4: live at Back Bay Theatre, Boston, MA, March 17, 1968 late show [three tracks removed as they are on official Boot Yer Butt]. CD 5: live at International Sports Arena, San Diego, CA, Aug 22, 1970 and Long Beach Arena, CA, Feb 7, 1970. VG to VG+ AUD stereo/mono?

The Doors - "Boot Yer Butt" companion: Pt 3 [no label 3CD tradersden 46440] Two shows this time with the second show offered twice with a fixed and raw version. Compiled August 2007 from Metal Tape copies from Greg Shaw masters, transfered in the late 80's. CD 1 : live in Chicago Coliseum, May 10, 1968. CD 2: live at Philadelphia Arena, Aug 4, 1968, the last show of the US Tour. Echo on this version fixed. CD3 same as CD2 but this is the raw version. VG to VG+ AUD stereo/mono?

- Tori Amos

- Ryan Adams

- Alice Cooper

- Animals

- Byrds / Buffalo Springfield / CSNY

- Band

- Beach Boys

- Brian Wilson

- Dennis and Carl Wilson

- Beatles

- Paul McCartney

- John Lennon

- George Harrison

- Ringo Starr

- David Bowie

- Badfinger

- Bee Gees

- Black Sabbath

- Blood, Sweat & Tears

- Jackson Browne

- Jeff Beck

- Can

- CCR + John Fogerty

- Eric Clapton

- Elvis Costello

- Clash

- Captain Beefheart

- Carpenters

- Johnny Cash

- Chicago

- Leonard Cohen

- Sandy Denny

- The Doors

- Bob Dylan

- Deep Purple

- Donovan

- Nick Drake

- The Eagles

- Steve Earle

- Emerson, Lake & Palmer

- Brian Eno

- Faces

- Fleetwood Mac

- Free

- Guns N' Roses

- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

- Peter Gabriel

- Rory Gallagher

- Genesis

- Grateful Dead

- Nanci Griffith

- Jimi Hendrix

- Emmylou Harris

- PJ Harvey

- John Hiatt

- Hollies

- Iron Butterfly

- Elton John

- Janis Joplin

- Jam

- Jan and Dean

- Jefferson Airplane

- Billy Joel

- Rickie Lee Jones

- Joy Division / New Order

- Kansas

- King Crimson

- Carole King

- Kinks

- Led Zeppelin

- Nicolette Larson

- Gordon Lightfoot

- Claudine Longet

- Nick Lowe

- Van Morrison

- Joni Mitchell

- Bob Marley

- Monkees

- Noise

- Nirvana/ Foo Fighters/ Hole

- Randy Newman

- Laura Nyro

- Roger Nichols

- Oasis

- Phil Ochs

- Mike Oldfield

- Pink Floyd

- Iggy Pop

- Elvis Presley

- Prince

- Pearl Jam

- Graham Parker

- Gram Parsons

- Police

- John Prine

- Procol Harum

- Queen

- Quicksilver Messenger Service

- R.E.M.

- The Replacements

- The Rolling Stones

- Linda Ronstadt

- Radiohead

- Rainbow

- Jonathan Richman

- Todd Rundgren

- Sigur Ros

- Smashing Pumpkins

- Patti Smith

- Bruce Springsteen

- Santana

- Boz Scaggs

- Simon & Garfunkel

- Frank Sinatra

- Sly & The Family Stone

- Smiths

- Soft Machine

- Sonic Youth

- Steely Dan

- Cat Stevens

- Rod Stewart

- Sting

- Television

- Talking Heads

- James Taylor

- Ten Years After

- T Rex

- Traffic

- U2

- Van Der Graaf Generator

- Various Artists

- Velvet Underground/ Lou Reed

- The Who

- Wilco

- Lucinda Williams

- Tom Waits

- Jimmy Webb

- Gillian Welch

- Whiskytown

- White Stripes

- Wishbone Ash

- Stevie Wonder

- Robert Wyatt

- Neil Young

- Yes

- Yo La Tengo

- Frank Zappa

- Zombies

* * * * *

Jazzlist

John Coltrane

Miles Davis

John McLaughlin

DVDs