The Doors’ Complete Live Recordings Coming To Streaming Services
Igniting a year-long 60th-anniversary celebration, The Doors will unveil their iconic Bright Midnight Archives live recordings on digital streaming platforms for the very first time throughout 2025. These concerts previously only existed physically on limited-edition LPs and CDs.
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This live recordings series illustrates The Doors’ evolution and transformative impact on both music and culture. Tracing their global journey from tiny clubs to arenas, it scrapbooks the band’s storied four-year run on the road as they closed out the 60s.
Upcoming releases in this series include Live In Boston, 1970, on April 4, recorded at the Boston Arena on April 10, 1970, and includes both performances. Live In Philadelphia ’70, recorded at The Spectrum on May 1, 1970, and Live In Pittsburgh, 1970, recorded at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena on May 2, 1970.
Then, on 2 May, Live In Detroit, 1970, recorded May 8, 1970, at the Cobo Arena, one of the longest Doors shows ever caught on tape on May 8; Live In Vancouver, 1970, recorded at the Pacific Coliseum on June 6, 1970, and features a guest appearance by blues legend Albert King on June 6; Live In Bakersfield, California, August 21, 1970, on August 21.
Live at Konserthuset, Stockholm, September 20, 1968, is coming on September 19. The set contains both the early and late shows from the band’s appearance at the renowned concert hall in Stockholm, immortalizing the climactic conclusion of their only European tour. The concerts are among the tour’s best, featuring rare live performances of classic original songs “Love Street” and “You’re Lost Little Girl” and a cover of “Mack The Knife”. Each release has been remastered by The Doors’ longtime engineer/mixer Bruce Botnick.
For starters, the Doors’ live recordings series commences with Live At The Matrix, 1967: a recording which bottles the musicians’ primal intensity and psychedelic panache. The Doors were a few months away from stardom in March 1967 when they played five sparsely attended shows at a small club in San Francisco called The Matrix. These uninhibited performances would have been fleeting if not for Peter Abram, who co-owned the pizza parlor-turned-nightclub with Jefferson Airplane founder Marty Balin. An avid archivist, Abram regularly taped concerts at The Matrix and his recordings of The Doors, made from 7-11 March 1967, spawned one of the band’s most storied bootlegs. Complete and original recordings sourced from the first-generation seven-inch reels.
The Doors kicked off their 60th anniversary last year with The Doors 1967-1971 release: a 6-LP box set part of Rhino’s acclaimed High Fidelity audiophile vinyl series, featuring all six of the band’s original studio albums. Limited to 3,000 individually numbered copies, the collection quickly sold out.
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