Missing Links.nfo
The Doors - Missing Links
Note: just 1 big mp3, 160kBits/s
Tracklist:
1.Whiskey, Mystics And Men #1
2.The Soft Parade Intro #1
3.The Soft Parade Intro #2
4.Whiskey, Mystics And Men #2
5.Love Me Tender
6.Rock Is Dead #1
7.Me And The Devil Blues
8.Rock Is Dead #2
9.Queen Of The Magazines
10.Pipeline (instrumental)
11.Rock Is Dead #3
12.Rock Me Baby
13.Mystery Train
14.Rock Is Dead #4
Sources: 1=Elektra Recorders Studios, Los Angeles. Unpublished
final studio version, which never got on the album The Soft
Parade, date unknown, probably early 1969; 2-3=Elektra Recorders
Studios, Los Angeles. Studio Session for the album The Soft Parade,
date unknown, probably early 1969; 4-14=Elektra Recorders Studio,
Los Angeles, February 25th, 1969. Studio Session for The Soft Parade.
This CD is a MUST for everyone who is interested in The Doors. I really
do not know how I could live without a recording of this session, which
I consider as the very missing link between Waiting For The Sun, The
Soft Parade and Morrison Hotel. You know there was the bootleg LP Rock
Is Dead (Tangie Town Records) and there was the bootleg Orange County
Suite (Document Records DR 019), which were absolutely fantastic at the
time of their release, but now there is Missing Links. Unfortunately the
soundquality is not as good as the latter ones, but Missing Links
contains the COMPLETE Rock Is Dead session, and one will be wondering
how perfectly Paul Rothchild cut the session down to what became the
well-known Rock Is Dead (and Orange County Suite) bootleg, and how all
the cut-outs sound like. He even put parts of the session together, which
were not intended being put together (but they fit!). If you own one of
the previous bootlegs, it's like a puzzle finding out what was cut out.
A very new experience, even for me. Finally released after about two years
of waiting for it I still get a thrill listening to Queen Of The Magazines
(I still don't know who wrote the song; it sounds a bit like Love In Vain
by Robert Johnson, to which Jim Morrison improvises some of his own lyrics;
to tell you the truth: I got tears in my eyes when I first heard it a
couple of years ago and it is still very very touching me). Robert
Johnson's Me And The Devil Blues (with some spontaneous Morrison
improvisations) still is a perfect moody blues song. Jim's rap about
his parents at the beginning of the session gets a totally new meaning
compared to what was published on previous bootlegs. I wonder why the
bootlegger didn't cut out the short break in (what he called) Rock Is
Dead #2 (if you put this disc on tape for your car stereo try to cut the
break off, it's easy!). There is another break in Rock Me Baby, which
would have been easy to cut off the disc, but -unfortunately- it's on your
CD as well. On the Missing Links version I have the disc index stops after
track 10, so my CD player doesn't count track 11-14, but you shouldn't
worry: It seems the bootlegger just forgot to put a disc memory on the
following tracks, so track 10 really is track 10-14. On the first preview
tape I got of this session (which never came out on bootleg) there were no
breaks at all, and there was some additional poetry, but no Whiskey, Mystics
And Men #1. I enjoy the liner notes for this CD, they even mention what Jim
told Jerry Hopkins during the well known interview for Rolling Stone about
this session: "We needed another song for The Soft Parade. We were racking
our brains trying to think what song. We were in the studio and so we started
throwing out all those old songs. Blues trips. Rock Classics. Finally we just
started playing and we played for about an hour, and we went through the whole
history of rock music - starting with blues, going through rock and roll, surf
music, latin, the whole thing. I call it `Rock Is Dead'. I doubt if anybody'll
ever hear it." Jim was wrong. Rock Is Dead was one of the hottest bootlegs in
town (once a discjockey from L.A. told his audience), but now there is Missing
Links, even hotter. Well written linernotes, by the way. One of the hottest
bootleg CDs in town ever!
Absolutely recommended.
@ 1998 Rainer Moddemann, The Doors Quarterly Magazine.
http://come.to/doors4ly
Tracklist:
1.Whiskey, Mystics and Men #1 2:31
2.Petition The Lord With Prayer #1 1:01
3.Whiskey, Mystics and Men / Petition
The Lord With Prayer #2 0:25
4.Whiskey, Mystics and Men #2 3:25
5.Love Me Tender 1:55
6.Rock Is Dead #1 10:59
7.Woman Is A Devil 6:20
8.Rock Is Dead #2 12:38
9.Queen Of The Magazines 4:05
10.Pipeline 1:12
11.Rock Is Dead #3 / Rock Me 6:35
12.Mystery Train 4:31
13.Rock Is Dead #4 11:27
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Total : 67:04
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