THE DOORS
December 26, 1967
San Francisco, Winterland Arena, CA
1. Back Door Man (5:44)
2. Break On Through (5:35)
3. When The Music's Over (14:45)
4. Close To You (3:21)*
5. I'm A Man (7:34)*
6. Light My Fire (9:25)
Total Running Time: 46:24
Jim Morrison - vocal
Robby Krieger - guitar
Ray Manzarek - organ, vocal
John Densmore - drums
*Close To You & I'm A Man - featuring Ray on vocals - has been deleted from this torrent as they're released on 'Boot Yer Butt' (2003)
NOTES taken from Stephen Davis' book on Jim Morrison p.219-220:
The Doors finished 1967 at Winterland, in San Francisco, where Jim Morrison seemed to come live again. Otis Redding whom Jim had idolized, had been booked to headline, but he'd died in a plane crash on December 10, and Chuck Berry subbed instead when The Doors were bumped by Bill Graham to the top of the bill. January Jansen made Jim a new black velvet shirt with grey cobras twining up the left sleeve. Backstage Jim asked Jansen to get him a dozen red roses. - "Not romance red. Blood red" - for a tribute he wanted to make to Redding. (Jansen also says he intercepted megadoses of LSD and STP intended for Jom from Owsley Stanley, so that Jim could perform straight.) That night Jim appeared with a dozen long stem roses and handed them out to the youngest girls in the front row. Then he sang: "Poor Otis, dead and gone, left me here to sing this song, pretty little girl with the red dress on, poor Otis, dead and gone," and the band slid into "When The Music's Over."
The first show on December 26 was filled with poetry and ad-libs, due in part to the presence of Michael McClure in the audience. The new and hideous demonic peal of laughter began "Back Door Man." "Break On Through" was intercut with Jim riffing, "Come on baby, be myman, be my man, you understand - yeahhhh." He put his whole body into a suggestive posture during Muddy Water's "I'm A Man" and seemed to gaze longingly at a handsome guy in the crowd.
The next night at Winterland (December 27, 1967), a TV set was wheeled onstage during the Doors set so the band could see themselves on the Jonathan Winters Show. They stopped playing Back Door Man when their song came on (there are no home VCRs as yet). The audience wathced the Doors wathcing themselves on TV. They finished the song when their bit was done, and Ray walked over and turned the TV off. The next night was their last ever in Winterland. All the girls were cried at a stunning, beautifully sung version of "You're Lost, Little Girl." "Love Me Two Times" was killer hard rock, played with discipline and real heat. As a prelude to "Light My Fire" Jim deployed an anguished variation on his recitation "Wake Up."
The encore was "Unknown Soldier," and with this Jim Morrison blew them away. The execution scene was now a skit where Densmore rolled the drums, Jim stood at attention with his arms behind his back, Robby pointed his guitar like a rifle, and Ray raised his arm in a quasifascist salute. whe he brought it down, Densmore hit a shattering rim and shot and Jim dropped to the stage like he'd been kicked in the scrotum or gut-shot, point blank. It was the Doors' last great bit of rock theater and it brought the house down, and would for the next year.
SOURCE
2nd generation audience recording
Seeded by maggie7 at Trader's Den on November 20, 2006 as
THE DOORS 1967-xx-xx "Boot yer butt" Companion Pt 1 -uncensored!
Original source - GS MASTER CASS. - Metal cass. (this) - NAK EX 125-TASCAM CDR standalone - CDR - Flac - world
On this source of Maggie's 2nd gen recording, - which comes from Greg Shaw's masters, - 'I'm A Man' was in separate tracks due to a 1 sec cut on the tape. I filled this missing part from another, unidentified generation tape of this very same recording (taken from the Trader's Den Doors vine.)
Maggie also included an additional 'Light My Fire' (also dated to (Dec 26, 1967 which proved to be correct) which I happily used for filling up another existing cut in this track as well (missing part were pasted into where the master ended (edit made right in the last clap before 'Light My Fire' starts with John's enter (-0,925). - Buda
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Setlist (as it was seeded) taken from the original info file:
(from 7-15 are from Dec 28, 1968)
1. Back Door Man (with laughing bit)
2. Break On Through
3. When The Music's Over
4. Close To You
5. Mannish Boy
6. pt 2
into Light My Fire (fades)
7. Wake up!
8. Light my fire (end cuts on this master)
9. (beg. cut) Alabama Song
10. Back Door Man (cuts after 1st half)
11. Your lost little girl (cuts after 1st half)
12. Love me two times (beg. cut)
13. Wake up! (beg. cut) - same as #7 alt. GS source
14. Light my fire - same as #8 alt. GS source
15. Unknown soldier (beg cut)
plus
16. Light my fire (26 dec Full version) from another GS cass.
Original Fingerprints:
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