{"id":588111,"date":"2026-09-02T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588111\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:28:10","slug":"the-doors-1970-live-recordings-surface-on-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588111\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doors’ 1970 Live Recordings Surface on New Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Doors<\/a> will release a new live album later this year.<\/p>\n

The band’s two surviving members, guitarist Robby Krieger<\/a> and drummer John Densmore<\/a>, supervised the upcoming Unbound and Dangerous with the band’s longtime engineer and mixer Bruce Botnick.<\/p>\n

You can hear “When the Music’s Over” from the new set below.<\/p>\n

Listen to\u00a0the Doors’ ‘When the Music’s Over (Live, 1970)’<\/p>\n

The set will be released on Oct. 23, and features concert performances culled from the Doors’ 1970 Roadhouse Blues tour.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0The Top 100 Rock Songs of All Time<\/a><\/p>\n

The 16-track album will be available<\/a> on CD and as a 2-LP set on translucent red vinyl.<\/p>\n

\"doorsRhinodoors unbound and dangerous package<\/p>\n

Unbound and Dangerous will also be available digitally from all DSPs and as a Blu-ray with Botnick’s new Dolby Atmos and high-resolution stereo (192\/24) mixes.<\/p>\n

What’s on the Doors’ ‘Unbound and Dangerous’<\/p>\n

The upcoming Unbound and Dangerous\u00a0collects tracks from the Doors’\u00a01970 Roadhouse Blues tour, which began shortly after the release of the band’s fifth album,\u00a0Morrison Hotel<\/a>, in February.<\/p>\n

Densmore and Krieger, along with the band’s keyboardist Ray Manzarek<\/a> (who died in 2013) and singer Jim Morrison<\/a> (who died in 1971), recorded several shows on the tour, resulting in the Top 10 concert LP, Absolutely Live, in July 1970.<\/p>\n

Most of the songs on\u00a0Unbound and Dangerous were recorded during stops in New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Detroit.<\/p>\n

One song, “Soul Kitchen,” comes from a 1969 performance at Hollywood’s Aquarius Theatre. (In addition to Absolutely Live, recordings from the tour have appeared on other live albums over the decades.)<\/p>\n

You can see the track listing for the Doors’ Unbound and Dangerous below.<\/p>\n

What Do the Surviving Doors Have to Say About the Band’s New Live Album?<\/p>\n

“I knew Jim was ‘dangerous’ from the beginning,” Densmore noted in a press release announcing the album. “Talented and dangerous.”<\/p>\n

“He seemed to want to challenge everything. Then there were his words. That’s what seduced me … those words were about freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom to be free. He wanted to free us all. What a gift. This live album captures that wild spirit.”<\/p>\n

“I’m not sure why the Doors were considered dangerous,” added Krieger. “It was the ’60s, man, anything goes, and we didn’t really think of Jim as being dangerous.<\/p>\n

“Once the Kennedys were gone and Vietnam was happening, that was the danger, not the Doors. The closest we came to being dangerous was in Miami or in Cleveland when the audience went crazy.”<\/p>\n

“Dangerous equates to excitement,” said Botnick. “The fans came in the thousands to Doors concerts looking for danger and excitement. Jim was always reading the room and knew how far to push the envelope … there was always, ‘Will he do something really dangerous?'”<\/p>\n

The Doors, ‘Unbound and Dangerous’ Track Listing<\/p>\n

Introduction
\u201cDead Cats, Dead Rats\u201d
\u201cBreak On Through (To The Other Side)\u201d
\u201cWhen The Music\u2019s Over\u201d
\u201cRoadhouse Blues\u201d
\u201cAlabama Song (Whisky Bar)\u201d
\u201cBack Door Man\u201d
\u201cFive To One\u201d
\u201cBuild Me A Woman\u201d
\u201cPetition The Lawd\u201d
\u201cLight My Fire\u201d
\u201cCrawling King Snake\u201d
\u201cSoul Kitchen\u201d
\u201cBring Out Your Dead\u201d
\u201cThe End\u201d
\u201cThank You And Good Night\u201d<\/p>\n

From Their Debut to ‘An American Prayer,’ Every Doors Album Ranked<\/p>\n

The Doors did more in a short period of time than almost any other classic rock band.<\/p>\n

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