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    The Doors, 'Break On Through (Live in New York)' -- Song Premiere

    • Posted on Aug 27th 2009 10:30AM by Steve Baltin
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    Back in 1970, the Doors played four nights at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum. The shows, which would be the band's last in New York City, were part of 12 recorded for the 'Absolutely Live' album. "We would use one song from here, one song from there to make a live album. We didn't really think about using an entire show because we thought, 'Well, let's take the best song out of each night and put those together as an album,'" Doors guitarist Robby Krieger tells Spinner.

    But Krieger believes that ultimately didn't work. "When you do that it's kind of sterile. It's like it doesn't really have the flow of a live show," he says. "And even though there might be little mistakes and sloppy drum part of guitars here and there it doesn't matter. At the time it did, but 40 years later it doesn't matter."

    Having let go of their past fears of embarrassing mistakes, the Rock And Roll Hall of Famers are now releasing all four of those shows as part of a six-CD box set, 'Live in New York.' For Krieger, the collection brought back a lot of memories. "I go back and listen and I hear little things that I'd totally forgotten about," he says. "And it's kind of neat to go back to those shows because it all kinds of melts together after a while. 'Oh yeah, we played Felt Forum.' Each one is different. I'm sure you can tell the last show Jim [Morrison] is pretty wasted. It still works."

    We don't doubt it, especially if the final night sounds as good as this previously unreleased version of 'Break On Through (To the Other Side)' from night number two, January 17, 1970. In it, the band gets in touch with its jazzy side. "Our whole goal was to be spontaneous and play stuff differently from night to night and that was part of the fun of it," he says. "And that particular version of 'Break On Through (To the Other Side)' works more in a jazzy, bluesy feel. Jim kind of messed around with it in the middle there, not that he didn't always do that. But it's a particularly cool version I think."

    Listen to 'Break on Through (Live in New York)'
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    Katrynaat 8-27-2009

    F yes! Oh gosh I absolutely LOVE the Doors! :)

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    David Uebelhoer = UBat 8-27-2009

    It is astonishing to hear the LIZARD KING it brings back many memories of my experimental youth, Jim still sounds relivent today as he did in his prime. I hope he is still writing poetry, haha. long live the king

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    miguel ángel fernandez lageat 9-28-2009

    No cabe la menor duda que Morrison es una gran referencia dentro del movimiento experimental de los años 60;su sensualidad inherente,sus frases incisivas con cierto toque de cinismo nihilista. Es algo que marco y seguirá marcando a gran número de adolescentes de múltiples generaciones.Pero,también debemos tener en cuenta la esencia verdadera del Jin Morrison como ser humano. Esa persona que era expontanea, vividora del momento y untalento explotado por las multinacionales.Destruyeron a un ser con un espíritu y una bondad cercana a la de Jesus el Nazarero.Un saludo a todos los admiradores de un gran "rey lagarto" con alma de payaso; como el mismo se definió.

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    Summiteerat 8-28-2009

    I Can't wait to hear this! I Fucking Love the Doors! Best Band Ever!!!

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    youngat 8-28-2009

    jim morrison what a damn waste of good talent not one singer today has what he had they all try to hard, marty casey lovehammers is the rawest talent today and singer writer, prince in his.....day.

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    Pamelaat 8-28-2009

    Oh Boy! The Doors LIVE! The Felt Forum concerts were some of their best shows!

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    NOOCHMANat 8-28-2009

    I was 17 when I first heard the doors & I still love them. Doors fans pick up the book "No one gets out alive".

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    Jaynneat 8-29-2009

    Oh man. What talent - what a shame to become so addicted to "stuff" & end up bloated & broken. Hopefully its lessons to fans to stay straight. Will forever enjoy Jim's tunes.

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    Zachat 8-29-2009

    That's a kick ass version of Break on Through! Wow! Love to hear new music from the Doors, and can't wait to buy the Felt Forum Concert CD's.

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    mojorisin_577at 8-30-2009

    Absolutely AWESOME! Great mix by Bruce Botnick! Felt Forum Box set will be the best release in the Doors album history!

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    Monkeybuisnessat 9-01-2009

    Robby Krieger claims above that scattering songs from several concerts worked 40 years ago and that all the imperfections are acceptable today. Although he failed to mention that The Doors did exactly that for their 1997 box set. Four discs that Doors fans bought for around $20 a disk. After 10 years, that whole box set has been resold to their long time loyalists in an attempt to make money off those who support them. This kind of marketing is exactly what the doors (Morrison) were famous for opposing. The 1st disk of the box set "without a safety net" and the 3rd disk "the future ain't what it used to be" were combined into one CD "essential rarities" and sold with a bonus track "woman is a devil" for $13, right after the '97 box set sales started declining. The 4th CD was "band favorites" which is a list of 15 songs that box set buyers already had. The second CD "Live in New York" is the selection of Madison Square Garden songs that were jumbled together (opposing Kreiger's above comment) as a single concert, and now those same live songs, from the same venue, on the same dates, are being resold for an additional $80 to get the concert the way it should have been released in the '97 box set. I will buy these new NY concerts for $80 in November. Because these remaining band members continue to scam it's loyal supporters out of GREED, I will continue to build my collection off of imported material from ebay. Material that the Ray, Robbie, and John won't profit from. One last note: All you dedicated fans that bought the Matrix double album are suckers. I bought the whole box set (kiss the show version) containing all 4 sets off of ebay, and it sounds just as good. That double CD has half of the material available (2 sets of the 4 sets). The remaining doors will resell you the songs you already bought on the Matrix album when they release all four sets in another box set in the near future.

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    petra_bartat 9-16-2009

    the doors have every right to sel there music and i like paying for music to them becouse they are the ones who made that music with jim morrison fore the sake of music. i think the ones who make bootlegs are the ones who are greedy, that is my opinion but you have every right to think the oposit . thank you.

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    josieat 10-03-2009

    bitter, bitter

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    greatdaneat 10-20-2009

    I was a complete fan and worshipper of Morrison and the Doors. I think they are the best band ever. However, I don't begrudge the remaining three for marketing what they can of the band. After all, Morrison let them down by living a retarded life and dying way too soon. They lost their band when he died, and it wasn't their fault.

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    Monkeybuisnessat 10-20-2009

    They can't help that Mojo died too early, but what was stopping the remaining members from moving on to bigger and brighter things? They never did, so they swindle money from their loyalists by reselling the same doors material over and over. It's a scam against us. They are riding Jim's coat-tails 35 years after his death. I love the live albums but how can they break a group of live songs and sell them in a box set as rare material and then resell those same songs in a new live album in the near future? The remaining doors are scammers.

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    mojorisinat 9-11-2009

    there will never e another one like you ,jimbo rocks cant wait to see on the other side.

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    Paula DeMarta Mastroianniat 10-13-2009

    If you weren't around during the summer of 1967, when LIGHT MY FIRE was literally burning up the charts, you missed an incredible experience in time and space. I was on Cape Cod at the time. And, years later, Vermont-New Hampshire, riding home alone on a dark, stormy summer night, listening to "Riders on the Storm" on the radio, remains one of the most chilling, thrilling memories of that time. Jim Morrison will never "die." He simply broke on through to the other side, and remains there, watching us and smiling.....

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    Danat 11-17-2009

    Summer of '67, first car, first road trip, Pacific Coast Hiway, while listening to Light My Fire on the radio. Fantastic!!

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