The one to get if you want the Doors live on one cd. The previous Philadelphia disc shows the Doors could stray from professionalism depending on Morrison's blood alcohol level. Detroit is as good as pittsburgh, but this Pittsburgh show is more concise and the performance strong too, it is overall my favorite Live Doors available. Robbie Kreiger plays well, the band is tight and Morrison is lucid. As usual Bruce Botnick gets what stands up as very good recorded live sound for the time.

Like some of the released live works of the Doors in the past decade, this show more than others pushes the argument again for the survival of Jim Morrison. When the studio releases in 1971,or so, "Absolutely Live" and claims Jim was drunk most the time etc., they had to splice shows...etc as the official story and 30 years later there are a dozen shows to come that are not incoherent or uneven, one wonders. This was a hot show, my beautiful friend, with 3 unreleased songs and the fullest display of Morrison's range from blues, rock to Sinatra vocal touches. Manzarek's and Krieger's support throughout was inventive, jazzy and extraordinary. What made this special is the surprising counter taunts by Morrison when the audience tires of the artsy "When the music's over" interlude and Jim breaks the trance with two or three bird calls straight out of Martin Denny's "Quiet Village," that no reviewer had yet identified. The seamless segueing into and out of formal song structure was amazing. New levels of improvisation, here. No 4 chord wonders, absolutely surprising 40 years on.

Another tape witness of the captivating crudeness of The Doors....In this night Jim seems to be in another thing but he takes us again to the center of the madness, of the folly, of the beauty....great sound, nice booklet...Another good excuse for not to leave this trip that the doors propose us in spite of the time..listen it....

I've heard a couple of officially-released live Doors performances that are pretty good: the two unedited performances The Doors live in Detroit and The Doors live in Philadelphia. The new set recorded in Pittsburgh is not on par with the others. The sound quality is fine but (and I think you'll notice this in even the first song), Jim seems to be on autopilot. He is doing everything right, but just not expending any more energy than he has to. The band seems to mirror his lack of energy. I'll be honest and say I didn't finish listening to the show. After the first few numbers I was worn out.

For those of you looking for better live Doors shows:

1. The Detroit show was, I believe, the longest show they ever played. They seem to be enjoying themselves and the energy is good throughout.

2. The show in Philadelphia has a couple of unusual selections, pretty good energy, and the way "Wake Up" leads into "Light My Fire" makes it one of my favorite Doors moments ever.

I enjoyed listening to history in the making. Very good concert. The only thing negative about the CD was that at the end of the recording it sounds like a defect. I don't know if the "clicking" is suppose to be there. The first time I heard it, it was annoying. Now, I'm getting use to it. All in all, listening to this concert made me feel like I was in the audience.