New CD of The Doors Live in Concert and More Coming in 2008

Press release
Source: Rhino Records

Rhino and Bright Midnight Archives deliver another spectacular live performance from The Doors' final tour with THE DOORS LIVE IN PITTSBURGH 1970. This single disc serves as a fitting bookend to the three-disc Live In Boston collection released last year featuring shows from the same tour. PITTSBURGH 1970 captures the quartet tightly focused and intent on taking the audience on an epic musical journey. THE DOORS LIVE IN PITTSBURGH 1970 is available March 4 at all retail outlets and at www.thedoors.com and www.rhino.com for a suggested list price $18.98, or online from all digital outlets for $11.99.

Recorded May 2, 1970 at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena, the album includes more than an hour of fire and energy from singer Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger. Always eager to take a chance onstage or otherwise, Morrison experiments with the musical dialogue during a 22-plus-minute version of "When The Music's Over," leading the band into bits of songs that they'd never played live. Along with gems like "Five To One" and "Break On Through," the group also performed covers of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads Blues" and the band's signature cover of Howlin' Wolf's "Back Door Man." Before closing with an extended take on "Light My Fire," Manzarek took the microphone with backup by Morrison for "Close To You."

LIVE IN PITTSBURGH 1970 is mixed and mastered by engineer Bruce Botnick, who recorded several shows from The Doors' 1970 tour on multitrack tape for the Absolutely Live album. The concert would have been released sooner if it were not for two missing sections from the 8-track masters. The dialogue section that comes before "Close To You" has been replaced using the live 2-track stereo tapes and titled here as Tonight You're In For A Special Treat. The other missing section was of the first 16 bars of music from the beginning of Manzarek's solo on "Light My Fire." Instead of allowing the missing music to prevent the release of this show, the band decided to insert the missing music from one of the other 1970 concerts.

The new year includes two more releases from The Doors. Vinyl collectors will get a special treat with the release of THE DOORS VINYL BOX on March 4. The set features the original stereo mixes of all six studio albums on 180-gram virgin vinyl in replicas of their original vinyl releases. The set also contains a second copy of the band's self-titled debut album in mono. This boxed set will be limited to 12,500 individually numbered copies and offered in a deluxe box covered in faux lizard skin. The set will be available at all physical retail outlets as well as www.rhino.com and www.thedoors.com for a suggested price of $149.98.

Also coming in early 2008 is THE FUTURE STARTS HERE: THE ESSENTIAL DOORS HITS. The only single-disc collection of hits from The Doors, the album offers a fine introduction to the songs that made the band a legend. The album will be available as a disc or download on January 29 for $11.98 and $9.99 respectively.

THE FUTURE STARTS HERE features brand-new mixes from the original multitrack tapes, created by The Doors and original engineer/producer Bruce Botnick to celebrate the band's 40th anniversary. Using the latest technology and equipment available today, the new mixes include parts recorded during the original recording sessions but left out of the initial releases. The new mixes also restore vocal and instrumental parts, intros, background vocals, and other snippets as originally recorded but never heard outside the original recording sessions until now.

THE DOORS LIVE IN PITTSBURGH 1970
Track Listing

1. "Back Door Man"
2. "Love Hides"
3. "Five To One"
4. "Roadhouse Blues"
5. "Mystery Train"
6. "Away In India"
7. "Crossroads Blues"
8. "Universal Mind"
9. "Someday Soon"
10. "When The Music's Over"
11. "Break On Through"
12. "Push Push"
13. The Soft Parade Vamp
14. Tonight You're In For A Special Treat
15. "Close To You"
16. "Light My Fire"

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