Let's discuss the doors releases in 2024. Let's hope primary wave have big plans for the doors in 2024. I can say now people plans are a foot for Seattle 1970 to be released on vinyl and CD probably in April or November 2024.
Vinyl is happening with Vince tapes, including a Vancouver sample bit on the Paris Blues RSD, and the Aquarius RSD remix. Seems like more proof that the BMA tapes were lost in a hard drive crash like the Springsteen Rising tour tapes. Only the CDs and the original tapes may exist now. Jampol refused to answer this on the old forum when I asked him more than once. They could do a few things. Copenhagen x 2, Fillmore East multi with issues, All the BMA vinyl done with a remix and rebuild more LAW demos, there's a bunch of Doors studio stuff like Celebration of the Lizard that have never been on vinyl, instrumental album RSD, just Jim poetry audio on lp, New Orleans, Stockholm, early studio outtakes or comp of all the live tv appearances or unmolested IOW.
The Aquarius material was well recorded but is crying out for a 2024 reissue with speed / pitch correction. All of the Aquarius releases have speed / pitch errors throughout due to a flaw the the 3m location 8-track tape recorder used in 1969. I also started a new thread on if Plangent Processes could correct the speed / pitch errors with The Doors 1969 Aquarius recordings. Click here and join the fun: Can Plangent Processes "fix" The Doors' 1969 Aquarius concerts?
Pick 12 favourite doors sons and release them without Jim. Some are on YouTube when they fiddled with the Perception surround mixes in audio editing software. I REALLY like a couple of the musical backing tracks on American Prayer and wish I could hear them without Jim. They could release Jim poetry in the same RSD so nobody feels slightly.
Oh like band favourites the sequel. For sure I've found some really cool fan mixes on YouTube. Tons of fun to be had there I would like to hear the American prayer sessions though
Someday Soon from Seattle, as presented on Essential Rarities/Box set, has long been a favorite recording. And every recording released on there that was re-released subsequently has sounded better. I'm sure the source recording is only so good but I'll love to hear it in the best possible quality.
The options are limited moving forward. There were rumors that there was a bonus disc of outtakes from Strange Days from the aborted box set, but that seemed more like speculation. Not sure of Seattle 1970 will ever receive a complete release. Some additional AL concert recordings could see some vinyl reissues. It is unclear if the band has access to the Stockholm masters, and they probably do not. There are still some Copenhagen performances, but that is a pretty low-fidelity recording. Overall, there will probably not be many exciting archival/RSD releases in the upcoming years.
I'm hoping for a full CD of just alternate takes of "The Peking King and the New York Queen" so music historians and fans alike can trace the evolution of this legendary song from first take to the iconic finished master.
Botnick talks about how some of the Bright Midnight Archives concert masters he produced in the early 2000s could not be retrieved from dead hard drives. That's why Botnick re-transferred the Aquarius early show in 2016 and remixed it for the 2016 Record Store Day vinyl-only limited edition release. And it sounds so much better than the old 2000-era mixes. If fans are lucky, Botnick will re-transfer, "Plangent-ize" and remix some of those early 2000s Bright Midnight Archive CDs. They will sound so much better...
