On 5 July 1968 The Doors took to the stage of the Hollywood Bowl for a concert that has since passed into legend. They had been honing their live performances over the previous 2 years and were on absolute peak form.

On 5 July 1968 The Doors took to the stage of the Hollywood Bowl for a concert that has since passed into legend. The Doors were performing on the back of their 3rd album release "Waiting For The Sun" and the US N. single "Hello, I Love You".

Live at the Hollywood Bowl is the third official live album by the American rock band the Doors, released in May 1987 on Elektra Records. The concert was recorded on July 5, 1968, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Doors' hometown. The 1987 LP release of this album is the Doors' shortest official release, at just 22 minutes and 19 seconds. A VHS video of the concert was also released, containing 14 songs.

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From Morrison’s primal scream and the explosive drum fill that kickstarts When the Music’s Over, they play to the back of the Bowl, and in turn get the back of the Bowl to lean in a little on the more introspective, tempered passages of Light My Fire and The End that appear toward the latter part of the set. Although the Doors built on the drama that was inherent in the music of the Beatles and the Stones, neither of those acts could match their unequivocal gift for portraying mystery and intrigue on record, or for that matter, in a live context.

The first release of this album is The Doors' shortest official release, clocking in at twenty-two minutes and eighteen seconds. 1 Track listing CD. 1987 version. 2012 version ("Live at the Bowl '68"). 2 Track listing video.

A concert depicting the performance of the Doors at the Hollywood Bool in 1968. A concert depicting the performance of the Doors at the Hollywood Bool in 1968.

The Doors supplied plenty of post-Independence Day fireworks on July 5, 1968 when the legendary quartet played the Hollywood Bowl, a concert that is considered to be the band’s finest on film. For the first time, the film from the historic performance has been painstakingly restored using the original camera negatives and the audio has been remixed and mastered from original multi-tracks by the group’s engineer Bruce Botnick

A concert video that captures legendary rock ’n’ roll band The Doors at the height of the group’s powers. The legendary rock group, The Doors, were at their musical peak when this concert footage was taken. Filmed live at the Hollywood Bowl in the summer of 1968, Jim Morrison and the band perform an extended version of Light My Fire, plus ten of their other most love songs, taking a standing room only audience on an aural journey of mystical worlds and psychedelic experiences. Running time: 1:11:00.