THE DOORS
''WEIRD SCENES INSIDE THE GOLD MINE, DISC ONE''
MAY 19 2014
99:12
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DISC ONE
1 Break on Through 2:25
2 Strange Days 3:05
3 Shaman's Blues (Jim Morrison) 4:45
4 Love Street 3:06
5 Peace Frog/Blue Sunday (Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger) 5:00
6 The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) 4:12
7 End of the Night 2:49
8 Love Her Madly 3:18
9 Spanish Caravan 2:58
10 Ship of Fools (Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger) 3:06
11 The Spy (Jim Morrison) 4:15
12 The End 11:35
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DISC TWO
1 Take It as It Comes 2:13
2 Running Blue (Robby Krieger) 2:27
3 L.A. Woman 7:49
4 Five to One 4:22
5 Who Scared You 3:51 ("Wishful Sinful" single B-side)
6 (You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further (Willie Dixon) 3:37 ("Love Her Madly" single B-side)
7 Riders on the Storm 7:14
8 Maggie M'Gill (Jim Morrison, The Doors) 4:25
9 Horse Latitudes 1:30
10 When the Music's Over 11:00
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Jim Morrison – vocals
Robby Krieger – guitar
Ray Manzarek – piano, organ, marimba, bass, vocals on "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further"
John Densmore – drums
Additional Personnel:
Doug Lubahn – bass
Harvey Brooks – bass
Jerry Scheff – bass
Ray Neapolitan – bass
Larry Vinegar – acoustic bass on side one 9
Paul Harris – orchestral arrangements
Curtis Amy – saxophone
George Bohanon – trombone
Champ Webb – english horn
Jesse McReynolds – mandolin
James Buchanan – fiddle
Reinol Andindo – conga
Marc Benno – rhythm guitar on disc two 3
Lonnie Mack – acoustic bass on disc two 8
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ABOUT THE ALBUM/WIKIPEDIA
Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine was The Doors' second compilation album (following 13) and first to be released after the death of Jim Morrison. The album's title is a lyric from the song "The End". The album will be released on compact disc for the first time on 20 May 2014 (exactly one year after keyboardist Ray Manzarek died).The album was certified Gold by the RIAA. The album cover was designed by Bill Hoffman, with inside band shots by Joel Brodsky.
Two of the songs on the compilation, "Who Scared You" and "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further," were originally released as B-sides to 1969's "Wishful Sinful" and 1971's "Love Her Madly," respectively. They were not included on albums until "Who Scared You" appeared in the The Doors: Box Set in 1997 and "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further" appeared in the 2006 Perception box set.
The version of "Who Scared You" that was released on the The Doors: Box Set is an edited version, as part of the last verse is omitted. The full length song was released in 1999 on Essential Rarities and later on the 2006 remastered release of The Soft Parade as a bonus track.
The album was reissued for the first time in over 40 years by Rhino Records on special amber colored vinyl as part of Record Store Day on 19 April, 2014. The album will appear as a double CD for the first time on 20 May, 2014.
All tracks written by Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore, except as indicated.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Richie Unterberger
The Doors, one of the most influential and controversial rock bands of the 1960s, were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by UCLA film students Ray Manzarek, keyboards, and Jim Morrison, vocals; with drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. The group never added a bass player, and their sound was dominated by Manzarek's electric organ work and Morrison's deep, sonorous voice, with which he sang and intoned his highly poetic lyrics. The group signed to Elektra Records in 1966 and released its first album, The Doors, featuring the hit "Light My Fire," in 1967.
Like "Light My Fire," the debut album was a massive hit, and endures as one of the most exciting, groundbreaking recordings of the psychedelic era. Blending blues, classical, Eastern music, and pop into sinister but beguiling melodies, the band sounded like no other. With his rich, chilling vocals and somber poetic visions, Morrison explored the depths of the darkest and most thrilling aspects of the psychedelic experience. Their first effort was so stellar, in fact, that The Doors were hard-pressed to match it, and although their next few albums contained a wealth of first-rate material, the group also began running up against the limitations of their recklessly disturbing visions. By their third album, they had exhausted their initial reservoir of compositions, and some of the tracks they hurriedly devised to meet public demand were clearly inferior to, and imitative of, their best early work.
On The Soft Parade, the group experimented with brass sections, with mixed results. Accused (without much merit) by much of the rock underground as pop sellouts, the group charged back hard with the final two albums they recorded with Morrison, on which they drew upon stone-cold blues for much of their inspiration, especially on 1971's L.A. Woman.
From the start, The Doors' focus was the charismatic Morrison, who proved increasingly unstable over the group's brief career. In 1969, Morrison was arrested for indecent exposure during a concert in Miami, an incident that nearly derailed the band. Nevertheless, The Doors managed to turn out a series of successful albums and singles through 1971, when, upon the completion of L.A. Woman, Morrison decamped for Paris. He died there, apparently of a drug overdose. The three surviving Doors tried to carry on without him, but ultimately disbanded. Yet The Doors' music and Morrison's legend continued to fascinate succeeding generations of rock fans: in the mid-'80s, Morrison was as big a star as he'd been in the mid-'60s, and Elektra has sold numerous quantities of The Doors' original albums plus reissues and releases of live material over the years, while publishers have flooded bookstores with Doors and Morrison biographies. In 1991, director Oliver Stone made The Doors, a feature film about the group starring Val Kilmer as Morrison.
The remaining three members of The Doors -- Manzarek, Densmore, and Krieger -- were involved in various musical activities in the decades following Morrison's death but never saw successes approaching the levels of the original Doors. After the turn of the millennium, Manzarek and Krieger performed live under the name Doors of the 21st Century with singer Ian Astbury of the Cult handling vocals; a legal battle ensued when Densmore filed suit against his former bandmates over use of the Doors name. Ray Manzarek died in May 2013 in Rosenheim, Germany after battling bile duct cancer; he was 74 years old.
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''WEIRD SCENES INSIDE THE GOLD MINE, DISC ONE''
MAY 19 2014
99:12
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DISC ONE
1 Break on Through 2:25
2 Strange Days 3:05
3 Shaman's Blues (Jim Morrison) 4:45
4 Love Street 3:06
5 Peace Frog/Blue Sunday (Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger) 5:00
6 The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) 4:12
7 End of the Night 2:49
8 Love Her Madly 3:18
9 Spanish Caravan 2:58
10 Ship of Fools (Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger) 3:06
11 The Spy (Jim Morrison) 4:15
12 The End 11:35
*****
DISC TWO
1 Take It as It Comes 2:13
2 Running Blue (Robby Krieger) 2:27
3 L.A. Woman 7:49
4 Five to One 4:22
5 Who Scared You 3:51 ("Wishful Sinful" single B-side)
6 (You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further (Willie Dixon) 3:37 ("Love Her Madly" single B-side)
7 Riders on the Storm 7:14
8 Maggie M'Gill (Jim Morrison, The Doors) 4:25
9 Horse Latitudes 1:30
10 When the Music's Over 11:00
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Jim Morrison – vocals
Robby Krieger – guitar
Ray Manzarek – piano, organ, marimba, bass, vocals on "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further"
John Densmore – drums
Additional Personnel:
Doug Lubahn – bass
Harvey Brooks – bass
Jerry Scheff – bass
Ray Neapolitan – bass
Larry Vinegar – acoustic bass on side one 9
Paul Harris – orchestral arrangements
Curtis Amy – saxophone
George Bohanon – trombone
Champ Webb – english horn
Jesse McReynolds – mandolin
James Buchanan – fiddle
Reinol Andindo – conga
Marc Benno – rhythm guitar on disc two 3
Lonnie Mack – acoustic bass on disc two 8
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ABOUT THE ALBUM/WIKIPEDIA
Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine was The Doors' second compilation album (following 13) and first to be released after the death of Jim Morrison. The album's title is a lyric from the song "The End". The album will be released on compact disc for the first time on 20 May 2014 (exactly one year after keyboardist Ray Manzarek died).The album was certified Gold by the RIAA. The album cover was designed by Bill Hoffman, with inside band shots by Joel Brodsky.
Two of the songs on the compilation, "Who Scared You" and "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further," were originally released as B-sides to 1969's "Wishful Sinful" and 1971's "Love Her Madly," respectively. They were not included on albums until "Who Scared You" appeared in the The Doors: Box Set in 1997 and "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further" appeared in the 2006 Perception box set.
The version of "Who Scared You" that was released on the The Doors: Box Set is an edited version, as part of the last verse is omitted. The full length song was released in 1999 on Essential Rarities and later on the 2006 remastered release of The Soft Parade as a bonus track.
The album was reissued for the first time in over 40 years by Rhino Records on special amber colored vinyl as part of Record Store Day on 19 April, 2014. The album will appear as a double CD for the first time on 20 May, 2014.
All tracks written by Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore, except as indicated.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Richie Unterberger
The Doors, one of the most influential and controversial rock bands of the 1960s, were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by UCLA film students Ray Manzarek, keyboards, and Jim Morrison, vocals; with drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. The group never added a bass player, and their sound was dominated by Manzarek's electric organ work and Morrison's deep, sonorous voice, with which he sang and intoned his highly poetic lyrics. The group signed to Elektra Records in 1966 and released its first album, The Doors, featuring the hit "Light My Fire," in 1967.
Like "Light My Fire," the debut album was a massive hit, and endures as one of the most exciting, groundbreaking recordings of the psychedelic era. Blending blues, classical, Eastern music, and pop into sinister but beguiling melodies, the band sounded like no other. With his rich, chilling vocals and somber poetic visions, Morrison explored the depths of the darkest and most thrilling aspects of the psychedelic experience. Their first effort was so stellar, in fact, that The Doors were hard-pressed to match it, and although their next few albums contained a wealth of first-rate material, the group also began running up against the limitations of their recklessly disturbing visions. By their third album, they had exhausted their initial reservoir of compositions, and some of the tracks they hurriedly devised to meet public demand were clearly inferior to, and imitative of, their best early work.
On The Soft Parade, the group experimented with brass sections, with mixed results. Accused (without much merit) by much of the rock underground as pop sellouts, the group charged back hard with the final two albums they recorded with Morrison, on which they drew upon stone-cold blues for much of their inspiration, especially on 1971's L.A. Woman.
From the start, The Doors' focus was the charismatic Morrison, who proved increasingly unstable over the group's brief career. In 1969, Morrison was arrested for indecent exposure during a concert in Miami, an incident that nearly derailed the band. Nevertheless, The Doors managed to turn out a series of successful albums and singles through 1971, when, upon the completion of L.A. Woman, Morrison decamped for Paris. He died there, apparently of a drug overdose. The three surviving Doors tried to carry on without him, but ultimately disbanded. Yet The Doors' music and Morrison's legend continued to fascinate succeeding generations of rock fans: in the mid-'80s, Morrison was as big a star as he'd been in the mid-'60s, and Elektra has sold numerous quantities of The Doors' original albums plus reissues and releases of live material over the years, while publishers have flooded bookstores with Doors and Morrison biographies. In 1991, director Oliver Stone made The Doors, a feature film about the group starring Val Kilmer as Morrison.
The remaining three members of The Doors -- Manzarek, Densmore, and Krieger -- were involved in various musical activities in the decades following Morrison's death but never saw successes approaching the levels of the original Doors. After the turn of the millennium, Manzarek and Krieger performed live under the name Doors of the 21st Century with singer Ian Astbury of the Cult handling vocals; a legal battle ensued when Densmore filed suit against his former bandmates over use of the Doors name. Ray Manzarek died in May 2013 in Rosenheim, Germany after battling bile duct cancer; he was 74 years old.
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