Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86277 in Music
• Released on: 2002-06-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Limited Edition, Live
• Original language: English

From Amazon.co.uk
Although the cover to Live In Hollywood shows a slim-line and cleanshaven Jim Morrison shoehorned into the tightest leather trousers legally available, the truth was, that by the time of these performances on Sunset Boulevard (July 21st 1969 to be precise), Mr Mojo had become a rambling bearbellied beardy whose taste for liquor and ladies--not to mention an on-stage propensity for stroaking goats and undoing his flies--was apparently getting in the way of what was being said into the microphone. Mindful that the tapes were rolling during these shows (The Doors' were preparing their Absolutely Live album, subsequently released in 1970 and long out-of-print), Morrison restrained himself from asking members of the crowd to "love my ass", although Ray Manzareks' vocal stretch on the underwhelming blues-by-numbers "Close To You " and an unexplained instrumental version of "Peace Frog" must have given the old miscreant an opportunity to nip out for a quick spot of depravity. In fact, these mixing-desk quality performances--part of a long series of unreleased live shows being personally vetted and released by the three surviving members of the band--find The Doors at the height of their self-discipline. Even if the live renditions never come close to the venomous dread of the original studio versions ("Break On Through", as ever, is the most glaring casualty) 13 hypnotic minutes of "Light My Fire", the apocalytical rock poetry of "When The Music's Over" and the undervalued blues-waltz of "Universal Mind" all show why The Doors' legend is in no danger of slamming shut in the faces of future rock generations. --Kevin Maidment

Chronique amazon.fr
Les bootlegs des Doors sont tellement nombreux à circuler sur le marché que Warner, en accord avec Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger et John Densmore, a décidé de sortir en CD les prestations réalisées par le groupe en 1969. Heureuse initiative puisque ce concert donné sur Sunset Boulevard le 21 juillet 1969, et enregistré au départ pour le futur Absolutely Live, est tout à fait conforme à la magie que la formation californienne a toujours su exprimer. Morrison, surtout, personnage shakespearien pris dans le tourbillon de la contre-culture rock, demeure fidèle à sa légende. Serviteur d'une poésie torturée, mais en même temps gardien des traditions du blues noir américain, il est – comme il le sera toujours – remarquable dans ses recréations, qu'il s'agisse de "Back Door Man" du maître Willie Dixon ou des œuvres maîtresses de la formation californienne, comme "When The Music's Over" et "Light My Fire", qui, en 13–minutes incandescentes, définit à lui seul ce que fut l'esthétique des Doors au sommet de leur art. --Philippe Margotin

Album Description
Subtitled - Highlights from the Aquarius Theatre Performances. Limited import edition previously available as an internet only release. 16 songs from one concert (eight of which are previously unreleased) hand-picked by the surviving Doors & culled from two shows at the Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood in July 1969. Highlights include, 'Back Door Man', 'Touch Me', 'Soul Kitchen' & 'Light My Fire'. 2002.