Absolutely Live (The Doors album)

Absolutely Live
Live album by The Doors
Released	July 1970
Recorded	July 1969–May 1970
Genre	Psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues-rock
Length	77:00
Label	Elektra
Producer	Paul A. Rothchild
The Doors chronology
Morrison Hotel (1970) Absolutely Live (1970) 13 (1970)
CD Reissue cover

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Source	Rating
Allmusic
Robert Christgau	(B)
Rolling Stone

Absolutely Live is the first live album released by American rock band The Doors in July 1970. Many shows were recorded during the 1970 tour to create the "Absolutely Live" album. The Doors producer, and long time collaborator Paul Rothchild painstakingly edited the album from many different shows to create one cohesive concert. For example, the best part of a song from the Detroit show may have been spliced together with another part of the same song from the Boston show, again trying to create "the ultimate concert". It can become very difficult to identify what parts are from what shows. Rothchild has said "I couldn't get complete takes of a lot of songs, so sometimes I'd cut from Detroit to Philadelphia in midsong. There must be 2,000 edits on that album".^{[citation needed]}

Absolutely Live and 1983's Alive, She Cried were both repackaged and released as a two-disc set in 1991 entitled In Concert. Absolutely Live was subsequently issued by itself as a one-CD set by Elektra in 1996, with all tracks in their original sequence, but with a new artwork, different from the original LP.

Track listing

Side one

1. "House Announcer" – 2:40
2. "Who Do You Love?" (McDaniel) – 6:02
3. "Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" (Brecht, Weill) – 1:51
4. "Back Door Man" (Dixon) – 2:22
5. "Love Hides" (Jim Morrison) – 1:48
6. "Five to One" (The Doors) – 4:34

Side two

7. "Build Me a Woman" (Jim Morrison) – 3:33
8. "When the Music's Over" (The Doors) – 16:16

Side three

9. "Close to You" (Dixon) – 4:04
10. "Universal Mind" (The Doors) – 4:54
11. "Petition the Lord with Prayer" (The Doors) – 0:52
12. "Dead Cats, Dead Rats" (The Doors) – 1:57
13. "Break On Through (to the Other Side) No. 2" (The Doors) – 4:41

Side four

14. "Celebration of the Lizard" – 14:25
    • "Lions in the Street" (The Doors) – 1:14
    • "Wake Up" (The Doors) – 1:21
    • "A Little Game" (The Doors) – 1:12
    • "The Hill Dwellers" (The Doors) – 2:35
    • "Not to Touch the Earth" (The Doors) – 4:14
    • "Names of the Kingdom" (The Doors) – 1:29
    • "The Palace of Exile" (The Doors) – 2:20
15. "Soul Kitchen" (The Doors) – 7:15

Personnel

• Jim Morrison – vocals
• Ray Manzarek – lead vocals on "Close To You", backup vocals, organ, Keyboard bass
• Robby Krieger – guitar
• John Densmore – drums