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Editorial Notes (not my review) inside the Goldmine
THE DOORS
Additional Information Weird Scenes inside the Goldmine
Notes 2014
2X vinyl LP reissue of the long out-of-print first post-Morrison 1972
compilation. The 22 songs that appear on this collection provide a
wide-ranging introduction to the music recorded between 1967-71 by the
original quartet, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and Jim
Morrison. The band's longtime engineer Bruce Botnick remastered the
music heard on this reissue, which takes it's title from a lyric in 'The
End.' Two songs on this compilation, "Who Scared You" & "(You Need
Meat) Don't Go No Further," were originally only available as single
b-sides & considered rarities when this album was first released.
They have since been available on later Doors reissues.
A very interesting double LP retrospective two years after Jim Morrison's version of the Doors had officially closed. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine contained the first album release of two B-sides, Willie Dixon's "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further," sung by Ray Manzarek, originally on the flip side of the 1971 45 "Love Her Madly," and the beautiful "Who Scared You," "Wishful Sinful"'s flip with Jim Morrison on vocals from a session in 1969. Both are worthwhile additions not found on their first "greatest hits" collection, 13. This compilation is a strange amalgam of their music, the LP title taken from a line in the song "The End," which concludes side two. Five of the 22 songs are from the L.A. Woman sessions, including the title track of that album and the full length "Riders on the Storm," both clocking in at seven-plus minutes. With "The End" and "When the Music's Over" at 11:35 and 11:00 respectively, that's 38 minutes and 38 seconds between four titles, more than a third of the 99-plus minutes of music on this collection. Nothing from Absolutely Live is included, and surprisingly, the classic "Waiting for the Sun" is not here, though that Morrison Hotel number would fit the mood perfectly. "Love Street," the flip of "Hello I Love You," is here, but pertinent singles like "Wishful Sinful" or "Do It" and its flip, "Runnin' Blue," from The Soft Parade, are all missing in action. The cover art pastiche by Bill Hoffman is worth the price of admission if you already have all this material, while the inside gatefold picture looks like an outtake from the first album. Bruce Harris' liner notes are truly the '60s merging with the '70s; he calls Jim Morrison "merely the index of our possibilities" and states that Morrison didn't want to be an idol "because he believed all idols were hollow." The essay is all the more silly when you realize it isn't tongue-in-cheek in the way Lou Reed's incoherent ramblings inside Metal Machine Music are more enjoyable than the disc. Harris seems to actually believe what he pontificates. But the music is awesome, so put it on and read the Metal Machine Music scribblings instead. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine is a work of art in the first order, the way the Beatles #1 album is wonderfully redundant, and it should see the light of day again. This time they could add "Tree Trunk," the flip of the "Get Up and Dance" 45 RPM from 1972's Full Circle album.
by Joe Viglione
All Music Guide
1.1 Break on Through 1.2 Strange Days 1.3 Shaman's Blues 1.4 Love Street
1.5 Peace Frog/Blue Sunday 1.6 The Wasp (Texas Radio ; the Big Beat)
1.7 End of the Night 1.8 Love Her Madly 1.9 Spanish Caravan 1.10 Ship of
Fools 1.11 The Spy 1.12 The End 1.13 Take It As It Comes 1.14 Running
Blue 1.15 La Woman 1.16 Five to One 1.17 Who Scared You 1.18 (You Need
Meat) Don't Go No Further 1.19 Riders on the Storm 1.20 Maggie McGill
1.21 Horse Latitudes 1.22 When the Music's Over  https://newdoorstalk.proboards.com/thread/607 | \\ | ||||||||||||||||
Spot on. It's the Doors album that took the longest to hit the digital world, I still have the original vinyl (inherited from my cool uncle) and has been kept safe for decades. Now I need to go get the remastered version. Thanks for the write up, I look forward to reading the liner notes, no matter how silly.
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