About Absolutely Live
Jim Morrison
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Q: Some people have said that it is a shock, the live album. I don't
Think so, personally. But then I saw part of it recorded
At the Aquarius and it was very good and I enjoyed it
But maybe we could just go through the album itself and
Just do a quick rundown of how and where and things like
That, and what they meant to you at the time of writing
FZ: Let's see. The live album was condensed from about, oh, twenty-
Four hours of taped concerts that we did over approximately a
Year's period of time, starting with the Aquarius Theatre in
August 1969. And we thought we might have one that night. We did
Two sets and we thought we had one then. When we listened to it
In the studio, we found out that it didn't really add up to a very
Good album. It was a good evening, but on tape it didn't sound
That good. So we recorded seven or eight other concerts and then
Listened to all of it and cut it down. And I think that it is a
Fairly true document of what the band sounds like on a fairly good
Night. It's not the best that we can do and it's certainly not the
Worst. I think it's a true document of an above-average evening
I like that long one, "The Celebration,"
I think it's. Q: "Celebration of the Lizard."
FZ: Yeah, it's not a great version of that piece, but
I'm glad we went ahead and put it out because I doubt
If we would have ever done it on a record otherwise
Q: Why is that?
FZ: Well, it's a couple of years old and if we had done it...
Well, we tried to do it at the time we were doing "Waiting for
The Sun" and it just didn't seem to make it in the studio. And
So we used one piece out of it, "Not to Touch the Earth," and
If we hadn't have put it on a live album, I think we would have
Just shelved it forever. So I'm glad even in the imperfect form
That it exists, I think it's better than if we'd never done it