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Favorites such as "Break on Through," "Light My Fire," "Peace Frog" and "Five to One" are included, but the band also played top-shelf covers of Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love," just as menacing as the original, and a version of Them with Van Morrison's "Gloria" to which the singer took his namesake's song to an even more insinuatingly vulgar level. They also left their mark on several tunes from blues legends, including Jimmy Reed's apropos "Goin' to New York," for which the band was joined on stage by the Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian on harmonica and Crosby, Still and Nash drummer Dallas Taylor, and the Willie Dixon blues standard "Little Red Rooster," which really shows guitarist Robbie Krieger's idiosyncratic slide-guitar dexterity.
To close the second show on the first night, Morrison repeatedly called over the sound of ringing bells to "Bring out your dead!," referencing the "body snatchers" cry for the deceased during Europe's Black Death in the Middle Ages, before the band began another poetic opus, "The End," which features lyrics espousing about being "lost in a Roman wilderness of pain" and "weird scenes inside the gold mine." Drummer John Densmore accentuated Morrison's lyrical improvisations with drumstick exclamation points, while organist Ray Manzarek, who doubled as bassist playing a Fender Rhodes Piano Bass, provided the story arc to the songs, creating a dissonant mood with climax-building melodies. Even for casual fans, The Doors: Live in New York will provide an entirely new insight into a band that is still, if not more relevant 40 years after "the end."See the full content of this document
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The Doors: Live in New York
The Doors: Live in New York. (Rhino). Rhino Records continues their almost decade-long series of archival Doors concerts by releasing the most scintillating gem of the sonic quarry, so far. This corpulent six-CD, 55-song box set features four unab...
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