The Doors were still working on arrangements and feeling out their moves when they played the Matrix Club in San Francisco for four nights in March, 1967- just two months after the release of their revolutionary self-titled debut album. These two seminal gigs were captured on tape but were previously unreleased until this new two disc set. 'Live at the Matrix' features over two hours of performances from the legendary band led by lead singer Jim Morrison.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0
Only took 40 years to release rubbish versions:
The reviews say it all here---this is not the 'official definitive' Doors release of the Matrix shows. In fact, as someone pointed out, the original shows were recorded by the club owner Peter Abram, though not for a live album (this was early in their time). Apparently, this release is not sourced from those tapes, which is the first problem. The other problem, as is painfully clear to anyone familiar with the bootleg releases of the four Matrix shows (over two separate days), the track listing on... more info
I think I know what they might have been thinking?:
The only thing I can think of is that new listeners/younger first timers hearing the Doors have an advantage over us old hard-liners.
I have owned The Matrix Tapes (2 Disc) on Swingin' Pig Records for about 18 years and have listened to it once maybe twice. The reason being is it is such a bad recording it is very difficult to take listening to even though I believe it is un-cut and un-edited. I purchased this recording of those nights and was surprised to be able to hear it, even though if these... more info
pass the buck:
for those that want, there is a 2cd boot in soundboard quality of 3/10/67 and 3/7/67 dates as listed. so if you have the desire, its out there. and to the management, do some homework for us, and get us the good,good.
Legal, Historical Release:
I can fully appreciate the frustration of the negative reviewers of this show, however, none of them offer their bootleg or collectors network sources of the 1st generation recording. For whatever reason, Rhino elected to release a less than first generation recording with the songs out of sequence. For right now, I am enjoying my legal, commercial release of a historic show that is better than decent quality.
