In Concert

This is a great CD (well, two CDs). Every song on here is great(except "Little Red Rooster", I didn't realy like that one). If they removed the concert noises this could pass a studio album. The songs flow great, as if it was one concert, isntead of what it really is, which is the best parts of the songs being edited together. I would recomend this to any Doors fan. The songs "Build Me a Woman" and "Universal Mind" although written by The Doors were never recorded. "Alabama Song" has a much more eerie/haunting (for lack of a better word) sound, and is part of a great medley: "Alabama Song/Backdoor Man/Love Hides/Five to One". The medley of "Dead Cats, Dead Rats/Break on Through" is also great. "Dead Cats, Dead Rats" gets you pumped up for an energized and intense version of "Break on Through" with an extra verse added. The extended versions of "Souls Kitchen", "Roadhouse Blues", "Light My Fire", "Moonlight Drive", "The Unknown Soldier", and "When The Music's Over" are all great. They do great covers of "Who Do You Love" and "Gloria". The fifteen minute version of "The End" has most of the original lyrics swapped out with new stuff put in. "The Celebration of the Lizard" medley is the highlight of the CD. It is an epic poem that, if you really listen to it, will blow you away. I would recommend this to be your first live Doors CD. If you have this don't get "Absolutely Live" because that is just thed first CD from "In Conert", and you'll miss out on songs like "Light My Fire" and "Love Me Two Times".

Alright, Alright, Alright...

It was a great concert.

Culled from several shows this compilation has some strong moments and also some weeker ones in terms of catalog selections by the band. Vocal and band performance vary but the sound is quite good. Check out Live at the Hollywood Bowl for a definitive live example of the Doors power.

Track #1 makes this a superb collection of live Doors work. Most live albums don't include ambient, before/after concert crowd audio. The ~2 minute admonition from the promoter & crowd sounds and responses are priceless. It totally makes you feel like you are actually at the event being taped. It reminds me of an article I read about a renown "taper" from the '70's that would include many minutes of pre-show crowd audio of Led Zeppelin tour concerts. "Robert, you have great hair!!!!", "Pass me some grass!", and other random/candid statements from the concert-goers from 40 years ago makes for an awesome time-capsule of audio. Plus, Jim's voice is spot-on in all of these tracks. Not to mention, the guitar, drums, and keyboard are at top form. And I really love it during one of the songs on disc #2 where Jim tells the audience to "shut up!"

I got this to replace the cassette box set I had 35 years ago. Sounds great and finally got my music back! The only issue was due to the packaging that amazon seems to think is padded. There is a small crack in the center of the front of the case.

Jim Morrison and the Doors live, here's a good two and a half hour experience from start until the end, a take of different shows all compiled into one main event. This is classic rock-n-roll done so in the Doors fashion, their own unique brand of style - "Gloria", "The Music's Over", "Roadhouse Blues", "Unknown Soldier", there's also a few rarity songs included not available on the studio issues, - Willie Dixon's "Little Red Rooster", "Universal Mind", "Build Me A Woman", "Who Do You Love?". "In Concert" sets the stage right for the ultimate Doors experience, naturally including Jim Morrison's bizarre, intellectual poetry. There may be better Doors live shows available, most are on the high dollar side. This compilation is a cheaper way to hear most of the Doors best live stuff.

Terrific Doors album. One of my favorite Doors albums. Had the vinyl when it fist came out, sold it many years later, new DVD had brought back pleasant memories. Have listened to it over and over.

Buen producto, varios conciertos en directo

This is a superb 2 disc live album featuring one of the best rock groups of the late 1960's and early 1970's. The lyrics of Jim Morrison are articulate and often thought provoking. The music is impeccable, and the audio is clear and crisp. Personally, I am incredibly grateful to add such a stellar CD into my collection.

... but you might find you only play the second CD. The Doors "In Concert" album is a compilation of live Doors albums, but a compilation with a difference. The first CD in this two CD set is the Doors "Absolutely Live" album almost in full, the only live album to have been released when they were still a functioning band, while the second disc contains the "Alive, She Cried" album sandwiched between cuts from the "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" album and "Close To You" from the "Absolutely Live" set, completed with a fifteen minute live take on "The End". I've already written at length on the Doors "Absolutely Live" album which in summary I found to be only "good in parts, at best interesting overall but not what I wanted from a live Doors album..." and awarded it three stars and even that was generous. I'm not going to repeat that review here, you can see it on Amazon, other than to say that the "Absolutely Live" album, and therefore the first CD in this set, is short on the Doors' hits and long on Morrison's "Celebration of the Lizard": fourteen or fifteen minutes of mystic-nonsense poetry and random sounds from Krieger, Manzarek and Densmore's instruments with only two short tunes; has far too much audience noise that destroys the atmosphere, at one point even Morrison has to tell the audience to shut up[!]; and has too many lengthy and unnecessary house announcements (one would have been too many for me!), surely these could have been cut out amongst the other numerous edits that were made to assemble the set. Enough said, rant over, and I except that many will disagree with me delighting in the less hits more obscure material on this disc. So to the second CD and here's where the hits are, well some at least. Opener "Roadhouse Blues" has always been one of my favourite Doors numbers and this recording from the "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" is wonderful as Robby Krieger is unleashed early on with a guitar solo before Jim Morrison starts a lengthy improvised scat. From start to finish it rocks, but on the downside there is a minute of Morrison and crowd feedback at the end that's unnecessary and subtracts from my enjoyment and could/should have been edited-out. "Roadhouse Blues" is followed by the entire "Alive, She Cried" album starting with a cover of Van Morrison's "Gloria" that veers between the down and dirty and the rousing, can it get any better? The answer is yes as next up is a fast paced near ten minute "Light My Fire" that includes driving solos in turn from Ray Manzarek and Krieger that fuse before Morrison recites his short "Graveyard Poem" and then it's back to "Light My Fire", in a word: magnificent. The pounding "You Make Me Real" follows before things slow down with the short artsy spoken word "Texas Radio & The Big Beat" and then pick-up again with a rocking "Love Me Two Times". John Sebastian of the Lovin' Spoonful joins the Doors on harmonica for a gloriously, swamp-bluesy workout of Willie Dixon's "Little Red Rooster" at only seven minutes it's just not long enough for me before the "Alive, She Cried" segment closes with Krieger's eerie slide guitar providing the canvas for a mash-up of "Moonlight Drive" and a spoken word "Horse Latitudes", it's Ok but perhaps too arty, particularly as the closer, for what was a rocking album. Following "Alive, She Cried" there's a cover of Willie Dixon's "Close to You" that I think has been cut and pasted from the "Absolutely Live " set; it has a very-Stonesy sound and is an opportunity lost for the Doors whose organ/guitar led sound could have taken it in a different direction. It's followed by "The Unknown Soldier" as ever its great but there's too much audience noise during the quiet pieces, what is about these [I'm assuming] American audiences that they can't keep quiet? Finally the second disc closes with a wonderful rambling sprawling fifteen minutes of "The End", and what an ending, alone it's worth the price of the album and that's why this CD is five stars. And that's it. I bought "In Concert" because I was disappointed with the "Absolutely Live" album [it's off to the charity shop now I have this set] and doubt I will pay disc one often [or ever again] but based on listening a couple of times today the second CD is going to spend a lot of time on rotation. An average of three stars for the first CD and five for the second would be four, but given how much I like the second CD it's five stars from me but with a caveat.

Questo doppio cd in realtà contiene i brani di due dischi live , il primo è il famoso " Absolutely Live " (uscito nel luglio 1970 ) mentre il secondo , " Live At The Hollywood Bowl " , uscì postumo nel 1987 . Nel primo ( " Absolutely Live " ) i pezzi che vanno dal n.13 ( Lions in the street ) al n.19 ( The palace of exile ) suonati uno dietro l'altro , costituiscono insieme il famoso brano-suite intitolato " The celebration of the Lizard " ( il titolo "unitario " non viene riportato nel cd , ma vengono riportati i titoli dei pezzi che lo compongono ) . Consiglio l'acquisto di questo doppio cd , sia per la qualità audio che per l'importanza che riveste nella discografia dei Doors oltre che , naturalmente , per la bellezza delle esecuzioni .

Ja, es ist wirklich traurig, wenn ich darüber nachdenke, dass ich die Doors niemals live sehen werde. Jahrzehnte vor meiner Geburt starb Morrison und bis zu seinem Tod wurden leider recht wenige Aufnahmen von Livekonzerten gemacht, insbesondere Videoaufnahmen. „In Concert“ umfasst aber eine ganze Menge an Live-Auftritten, angefangen mit „Absolutely Live“ aus dem Jahre 1970 und einer zweiten CD, die mehrere verschiedene Auftritte und Songs präsentiert. Für Fans sowieso ein Muss, vor allem, weil es wahrscheinlich die beste Live-CD der Band darstellt… CD 1 „Absolutely Live“: Eins der populärsten Live-Alben der Doors, wenn nicht sogar das Bekannteste (zumindest auf CD). Dies ist ein Zusammenschnitt aus vielen verschiedenen Auftritten, die die Band 1970 hatte. Ja, richtig ein Zusammenschnitt! Das Verblüffende daran ist, dass man es eigentlich gar nicht raus hört. Na ja, ich jedenfalls nicht. Für mich klingt es wie eine Aufnahme eines Abendkonzerts ohne Unterbrechung. Die Eröffnung mit „House Announcer“ trägt viel zur einleitenden Atmosphäre bei. Und dann geht’s los und die Doors treten mit tobendem Applaus und Geschrei auf. Diese CD fängt unglaublich dicht die Stimmung eines Konzerts ein und lässt uns so nah wie möglich an den Doors dran sein, wie es in der heutigen Zeit noch geht. Gespielt werden (trotz der Tatsache, dass zu dem Zeitpunkt schon fünf der Doors-Alben veröffentlicht waren) nur Songs von den ersten drei Alben, zusätzlich aber auch Stücke, die offiziell nicht auf den Original-Alben zu hören waren (auch nicht ein Jahr später auf „L.A. Woman“). Dazu gibt’s aber auch viele Auszüge aus Morrisons „Celebration Of The Lizard“, eins der Highlights. Ansonsten sind die Live-Versionen der Songs einfach grandios. „Break On Through“ dauert fast doppelt so lange, wie sein Original, „Not To Touch The Earth“ hat einen wahnsinnigen Aufbau und „When The Music's Over“ ist natürlich einer der Höhepunkte im Programm, vor allem, wenn Morrison mit dem Publikum „spielt“. Die Klangqualität ist atemberaubend und klingt wie eine Aufnahme von heute. Hier steckt wirklich viel Arbeit drin in der Abmischung und dem Schnitt, dafür Respekt. „Absolutely Live“ hat eine Laufzeit von knapp 72 Minuten. CD 2: Hier findet sich eine Ansammlung von vielen Live-Auftritten der Doors aus verschiedenen Shows, wie etwa dem Hollywood Bowl. Hier hören wir vor allem große Hits, wie „Light My Fire“ und „The End“, die live natürlich nochmal besonders kraftvoll und stark klingen. Aber auch die Versionen von „Roadhouse Blues“, „Love Me Two Times“ und „Moonlight Drive“ sind richtig klasse, ebenso wie einige Tracks, die auf den Standardalben fehlten, wie „Gloria“ oder „Close To You“, wo Ray Manzarek sogar mal singen darf. Diese Disc hat eine Laufzeit von 68 Minuten. Fazit: 140 Minuten Doors live! Muss ich noch eine Empfehlung für Fans schreiben? Wahrscheinlich nicht. Der Klang ist super, die Musik selbst und die Live-Versionen der Songs natürlich auch, der Preis unschlagbar und mit jedem Hördurchgang bekommen die CD's mehr und mehr Suchtfaktor. Und selbst diejenigen, die die Doors vielleicht noch nicht so gut kennen, dies aber gerne nachholen wollen, können ohne Bedenken zugreifen und die Band mal in Hochform erleben. „In Concert“ ist ein grandioses Live-Album einer grandiosen Band!