Absolutely Live (The Doors album)

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Absolutely Live

Live album by The Doors
Released	July 1970
Recorded	August 1969–May 1970
Genre	Psychedelic Rock
Length	1.2 hours
Label	Elektra
Producer(s)	Paul A. Rothchild
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The Doors chronology
Morrison Hotel (1970)	Absolutely Live (1970)	L.A. Woman (1971)

Absolutely Live is the first live album released by American rock band The Doors in 1970 (see 1970 in music).Many shows were recorded during the 1970 tour to create the "Absolutely Live" Album. The Doors producer, Paul Rothchild, painstakingly edited the album from many different shows to create one cohesive concert, the perfect Doors show. In fact many of the songs were pieced together from various performances. For example the best part of a song from the Detroit show may have been spliced together with another part of the same song from the Boston show. Again trying to create the perfect concert. When it comes to Identifying which song came from which show, it becomes very difficult. Rothchild has said "I couldn't get complete takes of a lot of songs, so sometimes I'd cut from Detroit to Philadelphia in midsong. There must be 2,000 edits on that album".^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Track listing

"House Announcer" – 2:40
"Who Do You Love?" (McDaniel) – 6:02
"Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)" (Brecht, Weill) – 1:51
"Back Door Man" (Dixon) – 2:22
"Love Hides" (The Doors) – 1:48
"Five to One" (The Doors) – 4:34
"Build Me a Woman" (The Doors) – 3:33
"When the Music's Over" (The Doors) – 16:16
"Close to You" (Dixon) – 4:04
"Universal Mind" (The Doors) – 4:54
"Petition the Lord with Prayer" (The Doors) – 0:52
"Dead Cats, Dead Rats" (The Doors) – 1:57
"Break on Through (To the Other Side) No. 2" (The Doors) - 4:40
"Lions in the Street" (The Doors) – 1:14
"Wake Up" (The Doors) – 1:21
"A Little Game" (The Doors) – 1:12
"The Hill Dwellers" (The Doors) – 2:35
"Not to Touch the Earth" (The Doors) – 4:14
"Names of the Kingdom" (The Doors) – 1:29
"The Palace of Exile" (The Doors) – 2:20
"Soul Kitchen" (The Doors) – 7:15

[edit] Personnel

Jim Morrison - vocals
Ray Manzarek - lead vocals on "Close To You", backup vocals, organ, keyboard bass
Robby Krieger - guitar
John Densmore - drums

Discography
v • d • e The Doors
Jim Morrison \| Ray Manzarek \| Robby Krieger \| John Densmore
Albums : The Doors \| Strange Days \| Waiting for the Sun \| The Soft Parade \| Morrison Hotel \| L.A. Woman \| Other Voices \| Full Circle \| An American Prayer: Jim Morrison
Live albums: Absolutely Live \| Alive, She Cried \| Live at the Hollywood Bowl \| In Concert \| Live in Hollywood
Compilation Albums: Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine \| 13 \| The Best Of The Doors (2 CDs) \| The Doors Greatest Hits \| The Best Of The Doors \| Legacy: The Absolute Best