THE DOORS TO RELEASE FULL VINTAGE SET OF CONCERTS

The official entity titled the Doors have signed a deal with Bright Cove records to release all the concerts that comprised the concert compilation album, Absolutely Live, in their entirety. The original live album was released over thirty five years ago.

The latest release, The Doors Live In Philadelphia ’70, is a signal of albums to come. Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek said the band plans to release all eight of the performances.

“We had recorded about a half dozen cities, maybe 8 cities for Absolutely Live. And we had done them multi-track, but we never released the entire concert. We took a piece from here and a piece from there, and somewhere else, New York City, from Philadelphia, da-did, dadit, dadit, and put it all together for Absolutely Live, back in the day when Jim was still with us. What we’re doing now is taking each one of those concerts and releasing the entire concert. It’s a document of the times.”

Ray Manzarek and bandmate Robby Krieger recently changed the name of their Ian Astbury fronted band titled, Doors Of the 21st Century, to Riders On The Storm.

Meanwhile, rrapper Snoop Dogg teamed up with Krieger and Manzarek for a new version of The Doors’ “Riders on the Storm” for the lead track on EA’s Need for Speed Underground 2 videogame. The soundtrack features accents by Snoop and hit stores two weeks ago.