Live in Philadelphia '70

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Live in Philadelphia '70
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Live album by
ReleasedNovember 29, 2005
RecordedMay 1, 1970
Venue The Spectrum Arena, Philadelphia
Genre
Length103:45
Label
Producer Bruce Botnick
The Doors chronology
Live in Hollywood
(2002)
Live in Philadelphia '70
(2005)
Live in Boston
(2007)
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Live in Philadelphia '70 is a double live album recorded by American rock band the Doors in 1970. The performance took place in The Spectrum. This is part of previously unreleased material of the Bright Midnight Archives collection of live albums by the Doors.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks written by the Doors except where noted.

Disc one

  1. "Announcer 'Sit Down'" − 5:20
  2. "Tuning" − 1:25
  3. "Roadhouse Blues" (Jim Morrison) − 4:40
  4. "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" (Morrison) − 5:12
  5. "Back Door Man/Love Hides" (Willie Dixon, Chester Burnett/Morrison) − 6:51
  6. "Ship of Fools" (Morrison) − 6:55
  7. "Universal Mind" (Morrison) − 4:31
  8. "When the Music's Over" − 14:27
  9. "Mystery Train (Junior Parker)/Away in India" − 13:21
  10. "Wake Up!" (Morrison) − 1:46
  11. "Light My Fire" (Krieger, Morrison) − 11:46

Disc two

  1. "The Concert Continues" − 0:46
  2. "Maggie M'Gill" (Morrison) − 5:49
  3. "Roadhouse Blues" (Reprise) (Morrison) − 2:39
  4. "Been Down So Long / Rock Me Baby" (Morrison) (B.B. King) − 9:31
  5. "The Music Capital of the World, Philadelphia" − 0:29
  6. "Carol" (Chuck Berry) − 1:48
  7. "Soul Kitchen" (Morrison) − 6:15

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