In Concert

Perfect live sampling of this band's music !

It is worth having this in one’s collection.

Part of this was recorded at the old Philly Spectrum and Morisson was well aware on how to manipulate an audience.

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.

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.

Best doors album ever.

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".

Ahhhh...forget all the greatest hits albums...this is the Doors...(a)live and irreverent the way they were !!! This album does a great job of splicing together some classic shows !! All the magic and energy is packed into this 2 cd set and served up the way it was intended....LIVE....this is history boys and girls...rock's history !! You get all your favorites....Roadhouse, Light My Fire, The End, Backdoor Man, Five to One, Love Me 2 Times, etc....but you also get Jim waxing poetically in front of a live audience..remember "Ode to a Grasshopper ?!?!"....you become part of the scene as the band winds you through some incredible jams as Jim stirs your mind and your soul !! Light some candles and grab someone special...dim the lights and enjoy the show !! A must have for any Doors fan (I was replacing a lost/stolen cd) and a great place to start for anyone wanting to learn more about the Doors !!

It’s Jim what more can you ask for great cds. Guy

Valioso porque tiene una de las últimas canciones publicadas por los Doors, "Gloria".

Tudo perfeito. Porém seria melhor o Site liberar e exigir os Vendedores a adicionarem Fotos reais dos Produtos.

El CD viene sellado

... 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.