Ghosts
Poe holds a séance
Case in point is the 11-minute version of “Light My Fire” from the Spectrum in Philadelphia, which opens the disc. Mojo sounds like he’d rather take a faceful of mace than sing it again, but the rest of the band is still squeezing fresh juice from their first big hit. Much better are the renditions of “Touch Me” (sounding very different without the horns and strings) and “The Crystal Ship,” performed with full-tilt intensity at Hollywood’s Aquarius Theater, and a really fucking scary version of “The End” from Detroit’s Cobo Arena. Much worse (but also much funnier) are the dullard blues of “Been Down So Long” and “Bellowing,” an appropriately named snippet of Jim delivering such shamanic benedictions as “Oooh darling, yea-ah, have a gooood time,” presumably while fiddling suggestively with his belt buckle. It’s all worth hearing, of course, but I’m probably gonna file it away and wait for the release of the full Aquarius show. Jim would have wanted it that way, man. (Dan Epstein)
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