The Doors’ 40th anniversary celebration reaches a fever pitch as Rhino celebrates one of rock’s most daring and influential bands with two Very Best Of collections as well as reissues of all of the band’s studio albums. Each release boasts brand new mixes supervised by The Doors and Bruce Botnick, the band’s original engineer and producer.
“We want our fans, both new and old, to hear what we discovered on listening to the actual multitrack recordings,” says keyboard player Ray Manzarek. “There are background vocals by Jim Morrison, piano parts of mine that weren’t used, and guitar stingers and solos by Robby Krieger that never made the original recordings that can now be heard for the first time. We used state-of-the-art techniques to bring these discs to the same sound quality we experienced in the studio when we initially recorded our songs. We invite all our fans to join us in this recreation of the legendary recording sessions of The Doors. And to be a part of our original conceptions.”
THE VERY BEST OF THE DOORS (double disc) cuts deeper into the band’s studio albums with 34 key songs including “Orange County Suite” “The W.A.S.P. (Texas Radio & The Big Beat),” “Five To One,” “When The Music’s Over,” “Whiskey, Mystics And Men,” plus the unedited version of “The End.”