The Doors - Perception Boxset

For years, the recording industry has asked fans to purchase the same music from the 1960s and '70s over and over again, via remasterings, repackagings, and, of course, reformattings. The Doors' box Perception (get it?), cleverly packaged as... a door, does hold some astonishing music, but the thing itself is a weird hybrid beast with multiple formats for every release. Each of the group's six albums has not only been re-remastered (this time by the remaining band members plus original engineer Bruce Botnick as the "40th anniversary mix"), but loaded up with a bevy of previously unreleased bonus tracks. But that's not it--for each album, there's a companion DVD, which includes a whole new 5.1 surround sound mix with more tracks, as well as the usual DVD extras, i.e., photo galleries, lyrics, and videos. That makes 12 discs, much of it essentially redundant. If you're cool with that, you're in for a treat. From the spookier, unissued version of "Indian Summer" to the entirely new tune "Push Push" and some super-rad footage of the band rehearsing L.A. Woman, it's easy to fall in love with this swirling, highly sexualized, and often brilliant band all over again. --Mike McGonigal


Product Description

6CD/6DVD Boxed set celebrating the 40th anniversary of this legendary band: All their Jim Morrison-Era studio albums reissued in deluxe 2-disc editions with rare & previously unreleased bonus material, 5.1 mixes, bonus video content, and more!

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Remastering and reissuing back catalog in a box set is all the rage now. Queen, Talking Heads, the Beatles, etc. The Queen box sounds pretty good. Talking Heads even better in 5.1 dual disc format. DD will not play reliably in some machines. The stereo redbook sides of some of my TH box skip or will not play but the 5.1 DVD/DVDA sides play fine in my Marantz universal disc players. The Doors Music Company went all out. They did both. You get cd's and dvd/dvda's of each of the 6 studio albums, remasterd stereo cd's and remastered 2ch, 5.1 and 5.1DTS on the DVD's. Listen to the first disc without reading any of the enclosed booklet. Does it sound a little different, funny, better, worse? I won't give it away. You have to listen and then read. I found the vocal 's buried in the mix on the first disc using the dvd dts layer. I punched up the center channel 2 to 4 db and got the vocals even with the front channels. Not much going on in the rears on the first disc for some reason but by the time you get to the 3rd and 4th discs, there is plenty going on in the rear speakers.

Overall the sound, excepting the first disc for some reason and really only on Break on Thru, the first track, is exceptional. The SS mixes are very nicely done again except for the first disc for some reason. I love the remastered box sets. I am a lazy music collector/lover at heart and the record companies are making it so easy for me to buy their back catalog all over again and again, about every ten years and it just keeps getting better. 5 stars overall, 4 for the content (some of this stuff to me is just drivel while the rest is pure genius, the outakes and videos really do nothing for me but some folks will go ga ga over it and buy just for that, cool but there is a reason these things were outakes), 5 stars for sonics. Well done Bruce and Paul.

[Amazon User]


Features:

• 6CD / 6DVD-Audio box set
• 40th Anniversary Mixes included
• Each title housed in Digipak packaging
• New producer's notes by Bruche Botnick
• New liner notes by prominent music writers
• Original album artwork
• 24 Rare & Previously unreleased bonus tracks
• Bonus extras
DVD-Audios features
• 5.1 Advanced Resolution Surround
• Advanced Resolution Stereo
• Dolby Digital Surround and DTS 5.1
• 12 Live Video Clips
• Bonus Videos
• Photo Gallery
• Lyrics
• Discography

Selections:

CD 1 - The Doors (1967)
1. Break On Through (To The Other Side)
2. Soul Kitchen
3. The Crystal Ship
4. Twentieth Century Fox
5. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
6. Light My Fire
7. Back Door Man
8. I Looked At You
9. End Of The Night
10. Take It As It Comes
11. The End
Bonus Tracks:
12. Moonlight Drive (Version 1)
13. Moonlight Drive (Version 2)
14. Indian Summer (8/19/66 Vocal)

DVD:
Entire Album in 5.1 DTS encoded Surround Sound, 5.1 Dolby Digital and new Advanced
Resolution stereo mixes
Video Content:
1. Break On Through (To The Other Side) (Music Video)
2. The End (Soundstage Performance, Toronto, 1967)






CD 2 - Strange Days (1967)
1. Strange Days
2. You’re Lost Little Girl
3. Love Me Two Times
4. Unhappy Girl
5. Horse Latitudes
6. Moonlight Drive
7. People Are Strange
8. My Eyes Have Seen You
9. I Can’t See Your Face In My Mind
10. When The Music’s Over
Bonus Tracks:
11. People Are Strange (False Starts & Dialogue)
12. Love Me Two Times (Take 3)

DVD
Entire album in 5.1 DTS encoded Surround Sound, 5.1 Dolby Digital and new Advanced Resolution stereo mixes
Video Content:
1. Love Me Two Times (Live In Europe, 1968)
2. When The Music’s Over (Live In Europe, 1968)

CD 3 - Waiting For The Sun (1968)
1. Hello, I Love You
2. Love Street
3. Not To Touch The Earth
4. Summer’s Almost Gone
5. Wintertime Love
6. The Unknown Soldier
7. Spanish Caravan
8. My Wild Love
9. We Could Be So Good Together
10. Yes, The River Knows
11. Five To One
Bonus Tracks:
12. Albinoni’s Adagio In G Minor
13. Not To Touch The Earth (Dialogue)
14. Not To Touch The Earth (Take 1)
15. Not To Touch The Earth (Take 2)
16. Celebration Of The Lizard (An Experiment/work In Progress)

DVD
Entire Album in 5.1 DTS encoded Surround Sound, 5.1 Dolby Digital and new Advanced Resolution stereo mixes
Video Content:
1. Spanish Caravan (Live at the Hollywood Bowl, 1968)
2. The Unknown Soldier (Soundstage Performance, Denmark, 1968)

CD 4 - The Soft Parade (1969)
1. Tell All The People
2. Touch Me
3. Shaman’s Blues
4. Do It
5. Easy Ride
6. Wild Child
7. Runnin’ Blue
8. Wishful Sinful
9. The Soft Parade
Bonus Tracks:
10. Who Scared You
11. Whiskey, Mystics And Men (Version 1)
12. Whiskey, Mystics And Men (Version 2)
13. Push Push
14. Touch Me (Dialogue)
15. Touch Me (Take 3)

DVD
Entire Album in 5.1 DTS encoded Surround Sound, 5.1 Dolby Digital and new Advanced Resolution stereo mixes
Video Content:
1. The Soft Parade (Soundstage Performance, New York, 1969)
2. Tell All The People (Soundstage Performance, New York, 1969)

CD 5 - Morrison Hotel (1970)
Hardrock Cafe
1. Roadhouse Blues
2. Waiting For The Sun
3. You Make Me Real
4. Peace Frog
5. Blue Sunday
6. Ship Of Fools
Morrison Hotel
7. Land Ho!
8. The Spy
9. Queen Of The Highway
10. Indian Summer
11. Maggie M’gill
Bonus Tracks:
12. Talking Blues
13. Roadhouse Blues (11/4/69, Takes 1-3)
14. Roadhouse Blues (11/4/69, Take 6)
15. Carol (11/4/69)
16. Roadhouse Blues (11/5/69, Take 1)
17. Money Beats Soul (11/5/69)
18. Roadhouse Blues (11/5/69, Takes 13-15)
19. Peace Frog (False Starts & Dialogue)
20. The Spy (Version 2)
21. Queen Of The Highway (Jazz Version)

DVD
Entire album in 5.1 DTS encoded Surround Sound, 5.1 Dolby Digital and new Advanced Resolution stereo mixes
Video Content:
1. Roadhouse Blues (Music Video)
2. Wild Child (Music Video)

CD 6 - L.A. Woman (1971)
1. The Changeling
2. Love Her Madly
3. Been Down So Long
4. Cars Hiss By My Window
5. L.A. Woman
6. L’america
7. Hyacinth House
8. Crawling King Snake
9. The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
10. Riders On The Storm
Bonus Tracks:
11. Orange County Suite
12. (You Need Meat) Don’t Go No Further

DVD
Entire Album in 5.1 DTS encoded Surround Sound, 5.1 Dolby Digital and new Advanced Resolution stereo mixes
Video Content:
1. The Changeling (Music Video)
2. Crawling King Snake (Footage from The Doors rehearsal space filmed for Australian TV, 1971)

Steppenwolf - For Ladies Only (1971)[EAC-FLAC]

By
Tathy


The title track of For Ladies Only is a classic slice of Steppenwolf's brand of hard rock: gritty chord guitar from Blues Image refugee Kent Henry (Steppenwolf went through as many or more guitarist changes as the Guess Who), elegant piano from Goldy McJohn, even jazz flavors on a nine-minute-plus track as blatantly sexist as the album gatefold. The graphic photo of a huge penis car alongside the Hollywood walk of fame tucked inside the cardboard is completely juvenile, while the back of the LP features the boys all reading books, from The Sensuous Woman to Snow White & the Seven Dwarves -- interesting imagery that doesn't complement the music as much as the artists might have thought it did at the time. The Jerry Edmonton/Goldy McJohn composition "I'm Asking" has a heavy "Jumpin' Jack Flash" riff that's all sludged out and a weak non-John Kay vocal -- like, why bother? Kay's snarling voice was as much a part of the sound as the heavy keys, and without it the otherwise fine performance and production are just totally eradicated; it's a song that would've worked better as an instrumental. Ditto for Jerry Edmonton's "Jaded Strumpet," which is also in desperate need of Kay's authoritative tone, which is refreshingly surreal on the singer's co-write with George Biondo that is "Sparkle Eyes."
In retrospect, For Ladies Only remains a neat artifact of a band who might've been called on to create too much too soon. Three Mars Bonfire compositions brighten up the proceedings, including "Tenderness" and the excellent "Ride With Me," perhaps the most memorable tune of the ten, all culled from that ever-flowing fountain that was Mars Bonfire's Faster Than the Speed of Life LP. Interesting that on the vinyl four songs grace side one, while side two has six titles, from two to four and a half minutes in length. The songwriting is shared pretty equally, the bandmembers co-writing in different combinations. Bonfire's brother, Jerry Edmonton; singer John Kay; and keyboardist Goldy McJohn all write or contribute to three titles each with two for the newer members, bassist George Biondo and guitarist Kent Henry.
A very democratic brew, which is interesting but for the most part doesn't have the punch of the title track or the nugget from the Mars Bonfire solo disc, "Ride With Me." The original Sparrow guitarist's presence casts a good shadow and remains as essential to this crew as the lead singer and keyboard player. Why they didn't keep Bonfire on from day one of their journey is the mystery. This 1971 Dunhill release produced by Richard Podolor for Steppenwolf Productions, Inc. makes that point loud and clear, though the Kent Henry/Goldy McJohn instrumental "Black Pit" does tend to sound like Blues Image-meets-Steppenwolf, and proves the point made earlier. If John Kay wasn't in the mood to sing, the material works better with no voice at all. His absence from three of the ten tracks is perhaps an indication that he had his sights set on a solo career. Kent Henry and George Biondo moved on with the singer for his 1972 outing Forgotten Songs & Unsung Heroes.

Year: 1971
Country: USA
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Running Time: 45:35 min

BAND:
* John Kay - lead vocals, guitar, harmonica
* George Biondo - bass, vocals
* Goldy McJohn - keyboards, vocals
* Kent Henry - guitar, vocals
* Jerry Edmonton - drums, vocals

TRACKS:

01. FOR LADIES ONLY - 9:17
(J. Edmonton - K. Henry - J. kay - G. McJohn)
02. I'M ASKING - 4:28
(J. Edmonton - G. McJohn)
03. SHACKLES AND CHAINS - 5:00
(J. Kay)
04. TENDERNESS - 4:55
(M. Bonfire)
05. THE NIGHT TIME'S FOR YOU - 2:58
(M. Bonfire - M. Cavett)
06. JADED STRUMPET - 4:44
(J. Edmonton)
07. SPARKLE EYES - 4:33
(J. Kay - G. Biondo)
08. BLACK PIT - 3:50
(K. Henry - G. McJohn)
09. RIDE WITH ME - 3:24
(M. Bonfire)
10. IN HOPES OF A GARDEN - 2:10
(G. Biondo)

Third World War-Third World War1 & 2(1972)[EAC-FLAC]

By
st00st2


Terry Stamp and Jim Avery hold the distinction of forming Third World War probably the UK's first, for real, “aggro” band.
Formed in London at the turn of the 70s, Third World War released 2 proto-punk albums (Fly Records and Track Records) in the very early 70s. Third World War featured an aggression unheard of at that time. With Terry Stamp’s explosive vocals, lyrics, chopper guitar style and Jim Avery’s West London, hardnut, two fisted, riff and chord approach proved unbeatable, (even thirty years on). Their socio-political agenda and proto-punk guitar style prefigured the emergence of UK “working-class” punk bands by some 5 years. Terry Stamp also recorded an album titled “Fatsticks” for A&M Records in 1975, moving to Los Angeles shortly afterwards.


Third World War-Third World War

1. Rolling Home
2. Why Did You Go
3. Falling Song, The
4. Young Man
5. Billy and His Piano Without
6. Maiden Voyage
7. New York Mining Disaster 1941
8. Picture Sliding Down the Wall
9. Billy and His Piano Without
10. Vaggsang
11. As It Was in the First Place
12. Maiden Voyage, Long Version
13. See the Sun in My Eyes
14. Resurrection Shuffle
15. Can You Get It


Third World War-Third World War 2

1. Yobo
2. Urban Rock
3. Coshing Old Lady Blues
4. Rat Crawl
5. Id Rather Cut Cane For Castro
6. Factory Canteen News
7. Hammersmith Guerrilla

Bangor Flying Circus-Bangor Flying Circus(1969)[EAC-FLAC]

By st00st2

Bangor Flying Circus was a proto-prog trio of the late '60s consisting of singers David Wolinski, Alan de Carlo, and Michael Tegza. Their self-titled album made the charts for a couple of weeks at the end of 1969.
David "Hawk" Wolinski (bass, keyboards, vocals), Alan De Carlo (guitar, vocals), Michael Tegza (drums, percussion).
This album contains some the hottest and most tasteful jazz-rock guitar solos I've ever heard. The writing and arranging is excellent. The band really cooks on everything. Their smoking arrangement of "Norwegian Wood" has some awesome drum fills.



Tracklisting:
01.Violent Man
02.Come To People
03.Ode To Sadness
04.Concerto For Clouds
05.Change In Our Lives
06.Someday I'll Find
07.Mama Don't You Know (That Your Daughter's Acting Mighty Strange)
08.In The Woods
09.Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Bangor Flying Circus:
*David "Hawk" Wolinski (bass, keyboards, vocals)
*Alan De Carlo (guitar, vocals)
*Michael Tegza (drums, percussion)

Country Joe and The Fish & friends-Live! Fillmore West 1969(1994 Vanguard Rem.)[EAC-FLAC]

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This is one of the farewell performances of Country Joe and the Fish (and coincidentally is the same show that featured the American debut of Led Zeppelin), and as a result go out with a real bang!. The highlight of this album is undoubtedly the 38 min "Donovan's Reef Jam" featuring special guests Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, and Steve Miller. Though this is enough for any Deadhead, the rest of the album is superb.

Recorded live on January 9, 10 and 11, 1969 during what was billed as a farewell performances by Country Joe And The Fish.


Track listing

1 Introduction - 6.15

Rock and Soul Music (McDonald / Melton / Barthol / Hirsh / Cohen)
Love (McDonald / Melton / Barthol / Cohen / Gunning / Barrata)

2 Here I Go Again (McDonald) - 4.42

3 It's So Nice to Have Your Love (McDonald) - 6.31

4 Flying High (McDonald) - 12.36

5 Doctor of Electricity (Melton) - 9.11

6 Donovan's Reef Jam - 38.17

Donovan's Reef (McDonald)
Flying High (McDonald)
Masked Marauder (McDonald)
Bass strings (McDonald)
Miller Riff (Miller)
Flying High (McDonald)

Musicians

* Joe McDonald - guitar, vocals
* Barry Melton - guitar
* David Cohen - guitar, keyboards?
* Chicken Hirsh - drums
* Jack Casady - bass
* David Getz - drums, keyboards? (Track 2 only)

Plus guests on track 6;

* Jerry Garcia - guitar
* Mickey Hart - drums
* Jorma Kaukonen - guitar
* Steve Miller - harp, guitar

Pacific Gas & Electric-Live 'N' Kicking At Lexington(1970)(2007 WOU Rem.)[EAC-FLAC]

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Previously unreleased jams from the legendary Pacific Gas & Electric -- material that was originally intended as an album on Columbia in the early 70s, but which is only now finally seeing the light of day! Given the live setting, the style here is even more open-ended and jamming than the group's studio work -- a raw and raunchy mix of rock and soul elements, performed live at the Federal Drug Rehabilitation Center in Lexington -- with a sound so heavy, we've gotta imagine a few folks there ended up having trouble kicking the habit! Some of the best tracks here are really long numbers -- and titles include "Old Slop In A", "32 20 Blues", "Jelly Jelly", "Motor City Is Burning", "Elvira", and "Next Time You See Me".


1. Old Stop In A
2. Are You Ready?
3. Next Time You See MeElvira
4. 32-20 Blues
5. One More River To Cross
6. Motor City Is Burning
7. Jelly Jelly


Charlie Allen-Vocals
Brent Block-Guitar
Frank Petricca-Bass
Ken Utterback-Lead Guitar
Ron Woods-Drums

Jefferson Airplane-Feed Your Head(1996)[FLAC]

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This recording is a compilation of excerpts from Monterey Pop, Bless Its Pointed Little Head, Surrealistic Pillow, and Takes Off. Only the last cut has not been released on a mainstream recording. A more accurate subtitle might be "Mostly Live and Previously Released '66-'68".

Songs and their sources are listed below. Titles are listed as they appear on the jacket; actual titles should be obvious.



Other Side of Life, She Has Funny Cars, High Flyin' Bird, Today -- Monterey Pop

Somebody to Love, Plastic Fantastic Lover, 3/5 of a Mile in Ten Seconds, It's No Secret -- Bless Its Pointed Little Head

White Rabbit, My Best Friend -- Surrealistic Pillow

Don't Slip Away -- Jefferson Airplane Takes Off

This is My Life and I Like it -- I don't know the source of this. It's a clean recording of either a performance or rehearsal. I'd judge it to be late 1965/early 1966.



Trakc List

1. Other Side of Life 6:53
2. Somebody to Love 3:56
3. Plastic Fantastic Lover 3:46
4. White Rabbit 2:33
5. 3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds 4:42
6. She Has Funny Cars 3:22
7. High Flyin' Bird 4:00
8. It's No Secret 3:29
9. Today 3:08
10. My Best Friend 3:03
11. Don't Slip Away 2:33
12. This is My Life and I Like It


Personnel

Grace Slik, Marty Balin-Vocal
Jorma Kaukonen-Lead Guitar-
Jack Casady-Bass Guitar
Spencer Dryden-Drums
Paul Kantner-Rhythm Guitar