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Re: The Doors - Perception CD+DVD-Audio Box
I don't understand what this package is.
DVD-A...these are CD's, right? They'll play in my CD player?
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is anybody else disappointed in the DVD content of this package? The fact that they've left off many great TV appearances, such as Light My Fire from The Jonathan Winters Show and People Are Strange (the complete set) from Ed Sullivan?
Plus, on YouTube, I saw a short interview with Jim Morrison in 1970 about his thoughts on his trial. Morrison looked great - short beard. Its archival footage such as this that I'm wishing to get on DVD, and they just won't release it!
Maybe Soundstage Performances II will come out in 2007.
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Back to Perceptions - is the sound quality of the songs better, worse, or the exact same as what was on the Complete Set that was released a year or two ago? I'm looking for the Ultimate Light My Fire sound quality.
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Very good to know that I can now utterly ignore this particular release, as I have no inclanation of upgrading any home theater equipment just to satisfy one artist with an un-dead icon as a frontman.
I love the doors to death - but this will not do. No, this will never do. I want the highest quality CD's that can be - and they're out there for old bands, I've heard em, I've seen em! One-Hit wonder bands have gotten better treatment than the doors ever did (unless the Complete Box Set is that great, but I think it could be better). I want the best, but not the next best technology in order to hear it.
In short, give me the best with what I got, as I know it can be delivered. If Paul Revere and the Raiders can sound superior, then so can the doors.
Plus, release the unreleased, already, will'ya?! We've only had to wait 40 years!
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I think your right Travis. I would have to check, but I'm pretty sure that Botnick comments in the liner notes of the first album that it's the first time it sounds right on CD.
I'm very pleased with the set. The DVD-V 2 channel and DTS both sound fantastic on these discs.
As Far as the viseo content, they're special features, not the main course.
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My friend Steve Guttenberg (audio reviewer, not actor) raved about this box set tonight and he's very selective. Just moved to the top of the list.
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is anybody else disappointed in the DVD content of this package?
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Some of it, haven't viewed it all yet.
The Soft Parade DVD could have better labeling. It list the videos as "Tell All The People" and "TSP". Actually, one of those is a 9+ minute medley that includes "Whiskey Bar" and "Back Door Man". It's a terrific soundstage performance without all the "cops throwing hippies off the stage" crap.
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I downloaded from Amazon what is called "2007 Remix Albums," not so much "Perception," but I assume they're the same?
well, here's one opinion I have since listening to the 2007 remix of the album Waiting For The Sun, specifically the second track - Love Street, which is a type of Doors song you listen to in private because, if any of today's hip-hop crew heard you listening to Love Street, they'd think you as having teh gay. Anyway, somebody is now whistling along to Jim Morrison's "LA LA-LA-LA LALALALA LA-LA-LA LALALALA" at the end.
...who gave that jerk, whomever it is, permission to add his whistling to Jim's gay little moment?
on the same token, Summer's Almost Gone was amazing! The remixes truly have both good and bad elements.
On The Doors album, Light My Fire is now "sped" up to its proper speed (which is faster), and at first it sounded like someone playing with the speed of a record player...it sounded fake at first. But upon second listen, it sounded phoemonenal! the version we all know and love clocked in over seven minutes. This new version (which is really what they intended all along) clocks in around 6:56 or something. But now you can actually hear and appreciate John Densmore's drumming!
There's a [to me] brand new intro to The Soft Parade song, a little melody of Jim reciting something, very nice. Was this excluded in the past for a reason?
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I might pay $65 to get you to change that avatar!
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I bought it for about that much. The packaging is neat but a bit much, but I think worth it.
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They were such a great band.
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