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Mastered By Doug Sax - 4.0 Quad & Stereo - Hybrid SACD Plays On All CD Players

Mastered by Doug Sax and overseen by Bruce Botnick, The Doors producer/engineer.

Analogue Productions presents all six of the Doors studio titles on Hybrid multi-channel SACD, all cut from the original analog masters by Doug Stax and original engineer Bruce Botnick!

Sax and the Doors producer/engineer Bruce Botnick have gone through a meticulous setup to guarantee a positively stunning reissue series. These masters were recorded on all-tube equipment, and the tape machine used for the transfer of these releases is also a tube machine, as is the cutting system.

Released in 1970 in the wake of Jim Morrison’s infamous indecency bust, the Doors next-to-last album Morrison Hotelfound the band reinventing themselves as one of the greatest bar bands around with a thrilling bluesy, no-frills approach and harder edged sound. The album shot up to #4 on the charts on the strength of the now classics "Waiting For The Sun," "Roadhouse Blues" "Peace Frog" and "Ship Of Fools."

The surround sound program on the Doors SACDs comes from the original 96K, 24-bit files mixed and mastered by Bruce Botnick for the DVD Audio Doors/Perception release. Those mixes were made from the original one-inch, eight track, 15 i.p.s. analog master tapes. For the SACDs, the mixes were then up-sampled without filters to DSD using the Weiss Saracon format converter and authored by Gus Skinas at the Super Audio Center.

Rolling Stone proclaimed that Morrison Hotel opens "with a powerful blast of raw funk called ‘Roadhouse Blues’. It features jagged barrelhouse piano, fierce guitar, and one of the most convincing raunchy vocals Jim Morrison has ever recorded."

In short, the harsh brilliance of "Roadhouse Blues" was its angry hard rock manner, brought to fore in brooding fashion with a chillingly true Morrison lyric: "I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer/The future’s uncertain and the end is always near."

Making it one of The Doors’ best-ever tracks, "Roadhouse Blues" was joined as praise-worthy in Rolling Stones’ review by the buoyant catchiness of another Morrison Hotel single, "Land Ho." "A chanty that sets you rocking and swaying on first listen and never fails to bring a smile every time it’s repeated."

Analogue Productions and Quality Record Pressings are proud to announce that six studio LP titles — The Doors, Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun, Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel and L.A. Woman — are featured on 200-gram vinyl, pressed at 45 rpm. All six titles are also available on Hybrid Multichannel SACD! All were cut from the original analog masters by Doug Sax, with the exception of The Doors, which was made from the best tape copy.

This is no time to wallow in the mire. The Doors are on Analogue Productions

• Stereo/Multi-channel SACD
• This Hybrid SACD is playable on ALL CD Players!

Musicians:
Jim Morrison, vocals
Ray Manzarek, organ, piano, bass
Robby Krieger, guitar
John Densmore, drums

The Doors Morrison Hotel Track Listing:

1.  Roadhouse Blues
2.  Waiting For The Sun
3.  You Make Me Real
4.  Peace Frog
5.  Blue Sunday
6.  Ship Of Fools
7.  Land Ho!
8.  The Spy
9.  Queen Of The Highway
10. Indian Summer
11. Maggie M'Gill