THE DOORS
Friday September 20, 1968
Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden
- First European tour (September 5, 1968 - September 20, 1968) -
Early Show
Five To One
Love Street
Love Me Two Times
When The Music's Over
A Little Game
The Hill Dwellers
Light My Fire
The Unknown Soldier
Late Show
1. Five To One 6:24
2. Mack The Knife 1:36
3. Alabama Song 1:32
4. Back Door Man 4:30
5. You're Lost Little Girl 3:26
6. Love Me Two Times 3:46
7. When The Music's Over 14:02
8. Wild Child 2:36
9. Money 4:14
10. Wake Up! 1:47
11. Light My Fire 11:53
12. Turn Out The Lights 1:42
13. The End 15:00
Total running time: 1:12:25
SOURCE
Soundboard Recording Pre-FM
Lineage: MASTER > CDR > WAV > Flac Frontend > Flac (Level 8 - SBE aligned)
Uploaded by Porsche on July 3, 2008 to Trader's Den.
"Versions previously posted of the Stockholm shows are all sourced from radio broadcasts (Radiothuset radio station), as are all other circulating versions. This version is the pre-radio broadcast, original soundboard source taken from the master tape. Better sound quality than has ever been heard for this show and completely uncirculated.
This is a purported "master clone" source for the Stockholm Late Show soundboard recording. Quality is miles above any previous bootleg source. Unlike those versions, this is definitely pre-FM. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there aren't a few snags. While I believe this likely came from a master clone source, it's been toyed with by someone who didn't know what they were doing. This show is drenched in noise reduction -- something that's never needed on a master clone. So please don't accuse me of doing this to this show because it's on the original copy I have. Whoever got ahold of this tape before me thought they knew what they were doing and in addition to using noise reduction, messed with the dynamics. The result is a show that sounds thinner and tinnier than it should, most notably during the quieter parts. But don't let this dissuade you. The show still sounds dynamite. However, it did need some work:
The original tape ran about 10% too slow. I'm not joking. The songs dripped like molasses. I fixed the speed and also swapped the channels to put Robby's guitar on the right and Ray's organ/bass on the left. Then came the clicks/pops and level changes throughout the show. There were hundreds, and these were painstakingly removed and smoothed over as much as possible. Though it took a lot of time, it's worth it just for "The End" alone which sounds terrific. There was also a loud digital audio anomaly during "The End" that was seamlessly removed. Another major glitch occured at about the 7:40 mark during "When The Music's Over" that totally eliminated one of John's drum fills. Using a sample of John's drums from another portion in the song, I was able to restore the missing drum strike. (Just call me Bruce Botnick, Jr.)
This is the best sounding Doors show you're likely to hear for a long time to come. Only the Hollywood Bowl and Isle Of Wight recordings sound similar. This is The Doors performing the last day of the summer of 1968. Smack in the middle of their prime. Play this one loud, kids. And remember to have a beer for Jim." Porsche
NOTES
THE DOORS' FIRST EUROPEAN TOUR ITINEARY
September 5, 1968 - September 20, 1968
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Thu. Sept. 5th BBC-1 TV "Top of The Pops," London, England (with Canned Heat)
Fri. Sept. 6th The Roundhouse, London, England (Early & Late Show with Jefferson Airplane)
Sat. Sept. 7th The Roundhouse, London, England (Early & Late Show with Jefferson Airplane)
Fri. Sept. 13th ZDF-TV "4-3-2-1 Hot & Sweet," Römerberg Square, Frankfurt, West Germany
Sat. Sept. 14th Kongresshalle, Frankfurt, West Germany (Early & Late Show with Canned Heat)
Sun. Sept. 15th Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Early & Late Show with Jefferson Airplane)
Tue. Sept. 17th Falkoner Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark (Early & Late Show with Savoy Brown)
Wed. Sept. 18th Television-Byen, Gladsaxe, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fri. Sept. 20th Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden (Early & Late Show with Jefferson Airplane)
Excpert taken from Stephen Davis' book "Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend," 2004, p.284-286;
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"The Doors' European tour ended on Friday, September 20, 1968, in Stockholm, Sweden. The Airplane, Terry Reid, and the Savoy Brown opened. The Doors show featured the rarely performed "Love Street," plus "Wake Up!" and "The Hill Dwellers" from "Celebration." The second set featured "The Ballad Of Mack The Knife" as a prelude to "Alabama Song." Both show were taped for later broadcast on Sweden's main pop station, Radiohuset.
Many Doors fans feel these final Scandinavian concerts were the last true Doors shows, with a bardic singer in full command of his powers, a potent icon of desire, an agent of change in the original, leather-clad package, still looking like a romantic lord and basically playing it straight. Soon Jim Morrison would force changes that made sure the Doors would never be the same again.
The Doors flew back to London on their way home. Jim settled into placid domesticity with Pamela in an expensive furnished flat (and remained there at the Belgravia Hotel through October 20th) overlooking the private gardens of Eaton Square. They invited Ray and Dorothy Manzarek to breakfast, and Ray was pleased to see Jim at ease for once, cooking bacon and eggs for them, squeezing juice, and making tea. He wrote later that it was the most adult thing he'd ever seen Jim and Pam do. "They invited us over for breakfast. It was the most adult thing I ever saw Jim and Pam do. I was so proud of them. They were a couple. A man, and a woman, a unit, making breakfast for their friends. Bacon, fried eggs, toast with imported strawberry jam from Poland, and French roast coffee. They seemed quite at home and quite happy. It was the calmest and happiest I'd seen Jim since his "nervous breakdown" (Light My Fire p.298-299). On September 23, probably at the invitation of George Harrison, Jim visited the Beatles at EMI's Abbey Road studio, where they were recording the The White Album. Some Beatles experts claim that Jim can be heard singing backing vocals on archival outtakes of "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," but his name does not appear on the seemingly meticulous studio production logs for that date. On October 4, Jim and Pamela watched the independent ITV network's broadcast of Granada's documentary, The Doors Are Open. This was a ten-song digest from the last Roundhouse show (on September 6th), intervowen with material from the London press conference and an interview with Jim. the producers also spliced in footage from antiwar demonstrations and from Vietnam, using the Doors' performance as a template for reportingpolitical dissent and generational revolt. Jim said later that he didn't think much of the film, but that the British filmmakers had made the best of what they had to work with. Jim walked for miles throughout London. Notebook notations mark the names of places he visited: Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, the bookstores in Charing Cross Road, Mayfair, Spitalfields, the bright lights of Leicester Square. He stopped to listen to a young violinist in a rag hat playing in front of the Royal Court Theater in SloaneSquare. Jim and Pam ate roast beef and Yorkshire pudding at Simpson's, and went to the movies: Rosemary's Baby, The Trip, Blow Up, Weekend."
Excpert taken from The Village Voice Interview with Jim Morrison by Howard Smith - November 1969
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"Howard Smith: Are audiences the same everywhere?
Jim Morrison: Nope, they're not. They're not the same. In London, they're very, very hip over there and in Frankfurt I noticed that they were quite rude. The people in Stockholm were nice, Mexico City, well, you know, rather boisterous, you know, they drink a lot, and really, you know, yell and everything. We're gonna try and go to Japan for that expo thing to play there and we're gonna go to Australia and ... I like traveling around, you know. That's the best part of this business, this ... you know, you get to change your locale a lot."
Master Soundboard Recording (Pre-FM) > CDR
"Versions previously posted of the Stockholm shows are all sourced from radio broadcasts (Radiothuset radio station), as are all other circulating versions. This version is the pre-radio broadcast, original soundboard source taken from the master tape. Better sound quality than has ever been heard for this show and completely uncirculated.
This is a purported "master clone" source for the Stockholm Late Show soundboard recording. Quality is miles above any previous bootleg source. Unlike those versions, this is definitely pre-FM. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean there aren't a few snags. While I believe this likely came from a master clone source, it's been toyed with by someone who didn't know what they were doing. This show is drenched in noise reduction -- something that's never needed on a master clone. So please don't accuse me of doing this to this show because it's on the original copy I have. Whoever got ahold of this tape before me thought they knew what they were doing and in addition to using noise reduction, messed with the dynamics. The result is a show that sounds thinner and tinnier than it should, most notably during the quieter parts. But don't let this dissuade you. The show still sounds dynamite. However, it did need some work:
The original tape ran about 10% too slow. I'm not joking. The songs dripped like molasses. I fixed the speed and also swapped the channels to put Robby's guitar on the right and Ray's organ/bass on the left. Then came the clicks/pops and level changes throughout the show. There were hundreds, and these were painstakingly removed and smoothed over as much as possible. Though it took a lot of time, it's worth it just for "The End" alone which sounds terrific. There was also a loud digital audio anomaly during "The End" that was seamlessly removed. Another major glitch occured at about the 7:40 mark during "When The Music's Over" that totally eliminated one of John's drum fills. Using a sample of John's drums from another portion in the song, I was able to restore the missing drum strike. (Just call me Bruce Botnick, Jr.)
This is the best sounding Doors show you're likely to hear for a long time to come. Only the Hollywood Bowl and Isle Of Wight recordings sound similar. This is The Doors performing the last day of the summer of 1968. Smack in the middle of their prime. Play this one loud, kids. And remember to have a beer for Jim." Porsche
NOTES
THE DOORS' FIRST EUROPEAN TOUR ITINEARY
September 5, 1968 - September 20, 1968
----------------------------------------
Thu. Sept. 5th BBC-1 TV "Top of The Pops," London, England (with Canned Heat)
Fri. Sept. 6th The Roundhouse, London, England (Early & Late Show with Jefferson Airplane)
Sat. Sept. 7th The Roundhouse, London, England (Early & Late Show with Jefferson Airplane)
Fri. Sept. 13th ZDF-TV "4-3-2-1 Hot & Sweet," Römerberg Square, Frankfurt, West Germany
Sat. Sept. 14th Kongresshalle, Frankfurt, West Germany (Early & Late Show with Canned Heat)
Sun. Sept. 15th Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Early & Late Show with Jefferson Airplane)
Tue. Sept. 17th Falkoner Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark (Early & Late Show with Savoy Brown)
Wed. Sept. 18th Television-Byen, Gladsaxe, Copenhagen, Denmark
Fri. Sept. 20th Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden (Early & Late Show with Jefferson Airplane)
Excpert taken from Stephen Davis' book "Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend," 2004, p.284-286;
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The Doors' European tour ended on Friday, September 20, 1968, in Stockholm, Sweden. The Airplane, Terry Reid, and the Savoy Brown opened. The Doors show featured the rarely performed "Love Street," plus "Wake Up!" and "The Hill Dwellers" from "Celebration." The second set featured "The Ballad Of Mack The Knife" as a prelude to "Alabama Song." Both show were taped for later broadcast on Sweden's main pop station, Radiohuset.
Many Doors fans feel these final Scandinavian concerts were the last true Doors shows, with a bardic singer in full command of his powers, a potent icon of desire, an agent of change in the original, leather-clad package, still looking like a romantic lord and basically playing it straight. Soon Jim Morrison would force changes that made sure the Doors would never be the same again.
The Doors flew back to London on their way home. Jim settled into placid domesticity with Pamela in an expensive furnished flat (and remained there at the Belgravia Hotel through October 20th) overlooking the private gardens of Eaton Square. They invited Ray and Dorothy Manzarek to breakfast, and Ray was pleased to see Jim at ease for once, cooking bacon and eggs for them, squeezing juice, and making tea. He wrote later that it was the most adult thing he'd ever seen Jim and Pam do. "They invited us over for breakfast. It was the most adult thing I ever saw Jim and Pam do. I was so proud of them. They were a couple. A man, and a woman, a unit, making breakfast for their friends. Bacon, fried eggs, toast with imported strawberry jam from Poland, and French roast coffee. They seemed quite at home and quite happy. It was the calmest and happiest I'd seen Jim since his "nervous breakdown" (Light My Fire p.298-299). On September 23, probably at the invitation of George Harrison, Jim visited the Beatles at EMI's Abbey Road studio, where they were recording the The White Album. Some Beatles experts claim that Jim can be heard singing backing vocals on archival outtakes of "Happiness Is a Warm Gun," but his name does not appear on the seemingly meticulous studio production logs for that date. On October 4, Jim and Pamela watched the independent ITV network's broadcast of Granada's documentary, The Doors Are Open. This was a ten-song digest from the last Roundhouse show (on September 6th), intervowen with material from the London press conference and an interview with Jim. the producers also spliced in footage from antiwar demonstrations and from Vietnam, using the Doors' performance as a template for reportingpolitical dissent and generational revolt. Jim said later that he didn't think much of the film, but that the British filmmakers had made the best of what they had to work with. Jim walked for miles throughout London. Notebook notations mark the names of places he visited: Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, the Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, the bookstores in Charing Cross Road, Mayfair, Spitalfields, the bright lights of Leicester Square. He stopped to listen to a young violinist in a rag hat playing in front of the Royal Court Theater in SloaneSquare. Jim and Pam ate roast beef and Yorkshire pudding at Simpson's, and went to the movies: Rosemary's Baby, The Trip, Blow Up, Weekend."
Excpert taken from The Village Voice Interview with Jim Morrison by Howard Smith - November 1969
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Howard Smith: Are audiences the same everywhere?
Jim Morrison: Nope, they're not. They're not the same. In London, they're very, very hip over there and in Frankfurt I noticed that they were quite rude. The people in Stockholm were nice, Mexico City, well, you know, rather boisterous, you know, they drink a lot, and really, you know, yell and everything. We're gonna try and go to Japan for that expo thing to play there and we're gonna go to Australia and ... I like traveling around, you know. That's the best part of this business, this ... you know, you get to change your locale a lot."