New Live Music From The Doors

"The latest release from Rhino and Bright Midnight Archives is a spectacular live performance from May 2, 1970 at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. The new single disc The Doors Live In Pittsburgh 1970 captures singer Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger tightly focused and intent on taking the audience on an epic musical journey.

Recorded during The Doors' final tour, Live In Pittsburgh 1970 includes more than an hour of fire and energy from the quartet. Always eager to take a chance onstage or otherwise, Morrison experiments with the musical dialogue during a 22-plus-minute version of “When The Music's Over,” leading the band into bits of songs that they'd never played live.

Along with gems like “Five To One” and “Break On Through,” the group also performed covers of Robert Johnson's “Crossroads Blues” and the band's signature take on Howlin' Wolf's “Back Door Man.” Before closing with an extended version of “Light My Fire,” Manzarek took the microphone with backup by Morrison for “Close To You.”

Live In Pittsburgh 1970 is mixed and mastered by engineer Bruce Botnick, who recorded several shows from The Doors' 1970 tour on multitrack tape for the Absolutely Live album.

The concert would have been released sooner were it not for two missing portions of the 8-track masters. The dialogue section that comes before “Close To You” has been replaced using the live 2-track stereo tapes and titled here as Tonight You're In For A Special Treat. The other section missing was the first 16 bars of music from the beginning of Manzarek's solo on “Light My Fire.” Instead of allowing these tape gaps to prevent the release of this show, the band decided to insert the missing music from one of the other 1970 concerts."

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