THE DOORS - HONOLULU Convention Centre 1970 - Big O

THE DOORS
Honolulu 1970 [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Honolulu Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii; April 18, 1970. Very good audience recording.*

theultimatebootlegexperience:

Supposedly taped by engineer Bruce Botnick for personal purposes.

“There are two versions circulating of this show, made from the same tape but through different transfers. The “Doors Collector Magazine” source, which is originated from the master is the most complete and has all the songs, but still comes with missing a couple of things. The other, 2nd generation copy floating around, is less complete than the DCM copy but the sound is slightly better, not that bassy. Though it cuts up Mystery Train and ‘The End’ but leaves ‘When The Music’s Over’ intact - the DCM copy fades out and in again in the silent part “What have they done to the earth…” and repeats the missing part (probably made during the copy of the tape due to a tape flip).” - christophe

Excperts taken from Stephen Davis’ book on Jim Morrison p370-371:

“In April 1970, the Doors went back out on the road in three-day weekend bursts. “We could tell his energy was giving out,” Ray said later in a radio interview. “He was really depleting his energy with alcohol” but they all needed cash - Densmore had bought a house, and Themis was bleeding Jim dry. Some of the shows were ragged, a few were desperate. “The first night would be OK,” Ray said. “The second night he was drinking during the show. By Sunday night he was mostly hanging on the mike, trying to stay upright…”

Next weekend: Honolulu Convention Center, April 18. Someone brought “da kine” backstage, “Maui Wowie,” the most potent marijuana known to man. The Doors played for two hours in an inspired ganja trance. Jim stopped “Roadhouse Blues” because he didn’t like the lighting. He started singing “Love hides in the strangest places,” a riff that he kept performing that year.

After the jam “People Get Ready/Mystery Train/Away In India/Cross Roads/People Get Ready,” Jim launched into “Baby, Please Don’t Go.” The encore of this stoned soul picnic was “The End,” interrupted for a poetry reading: “Stop The Car/Ensenada/Coda Queen.” The audience cheered for 10 minutes after the band left the stage, but there was no encore. Two days later Jim was acquitted of assault charges when the Continental Airlines stewardess testified that she had made a mistake in identifying him as the man who had harrassed her.”

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Track 01. Back Door Man 5:58
Track 02. Five To One 5:20
03. Roadhouse Blues - Omitted *
Track 04. Break On Through 3:51
Track 05. When The Music’s Over 14:37
06. Peach Frog - Omitted *
Track 07. The Crystal Ship 2:50
08. Mystery Train - Omitted *
Track 09. Love Me Two Times 5:40
Track 10. Rock Me (cuts) 3:52
11. Wake Up/Light My Fire - Omitted *
Track 12. The End 18:33
[61 mins]

* Released on the legendary Boot Yer Butt (Rhino) compilation.

* about what you expect from old school DOORS bootlegs this is pretty poor, muffled and boomy with poor balance - a year later Jim would be dead in Paris of an accidental  heroin overdose combined with alcohol (consensus would have us believe he took some of Pam Courson''s stash of China White heroin presuming it was cocaine and having a bath to rouse himself died in the bathtub for Pam to find him in the morning)

For completeists only

Jim Morrison by Gloria Stavers (look at those eyes - they're awful large those pupils Jim what had you been doing?!)

Jim Morrison by Gloria Stavers