The Doors - Live at the Aquarius Theatre: The First Performance
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Music CD Cover Artist: The Doors Brand: DOORS Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2004-05-11 Music Label: Rhino Records Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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Free Music Notes for Live at the Aquarius Theatre: The First Performance Album
Free Music Review: Is Everybody In?
Hit: 4 Stars
The Doors had been through quite a year that was known as 1969. The stories about the band were becoming bigger than the band itself and their record company sensing that the end was near recorded these shows at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood, Ca. (two on Saturday 19th March and an encore show on Monday the 21st) for the upcoming "Absolutely Live" album. Almost five months after the night at Dinner Key Auditorium in Miami, Fl. were everything went wrong, these gigs in Los Angeles are known as the shows that pulled the group back from the brink.
Jim, in full beard and dressed as a train engineer puffing on a cigar and playing the anti-rock star behind dark glasses and a few pound heavier that he was a few months ago. Ray, John and Robby were ready and after a short intro that big pounding beat begins and it's a musicial circus of sound: "Back Door Man" "Break On Through" "Soul Kitchen" "When The Music's Over" "Who Do You Love" ending with a really long "Light My Fire" and the complete and always surrealistic: "Celebration of the Lizard" that was used on the "Absolutely Live" double LP of 1970.
The audience is wild and worked up to a fever pitch but the band stays in control and focused and Jim was in a good mood and right here at the Aquarius Theater, became the bluesman that he had always wanted to be. This set and the second performance are the proof that The Doors were four musicians that when working together as a complete band delivered a show that was as good as any show could be. This set is the warm-up for the next show that night, and it's a great begining.
Four Stars!