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50th Anniversary Deluxe Numbered, Limited Edition 180g LP & 2CD Set!
Remastered Audio + 14 Unreleased Studio & Live Recordings!

The Doors released their third studio album, Waiting For The Sun, in July 1968. It was the band's third platinum album in less than two years, and the first to top the album chart. Since its debut, the album has sold millions of copies around the globe and contributed to the Doors' legendary canon, including the #1 smash, "Hello, I Love You".

To commemorate the 50th anniversary The Doors release WAITING FOR THE SUN: 50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION. This 2-CD/1-LP collection features a new version of the album's original stereo mix on both CD and 180-gram vinyl LP, which has been newly remastered from the original master tapes by Bruce Botnick, the Doors' longtime engineer/mixer. The set also includes a second disc of 14 completely unreleased tracks: nine recently discovered "rough mixes" from the album recording sessions and five live songs from a September 17, 1968 Copenhagen show.

While going through his archive, Bruce Botnick uncovered a cache of rough mixes from the sessions that hadn't been played in 50 years. Botnick says: "I prefer some of these rough mixes to the finals, as they represent all of the elements and additional background vocals, different sensibilities on balances, and some intangible roughness, all of which are quite attractive and refreshing."

When the Doors recorded Waiting For The Sun in 1968, they were among the first bands to use Dolby A301 noise reduction processors, which was cutting-edge recording tech at the time. Similarly, the most advanced sound recording innovations were used to make the anniversary edition of Waiting For The Sun. The CD in this set has been encoded with the MQA process (Master Quality Authenticated). This is fully compatible with standard CD players. When connected to an MQA enabled device it will play the same disc in hi-res 176kHz/24 bit.

MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) has offered to us music lovers a way to listen to our favorite tunes in a manner that was intended by the original recording artists, without the limitations of file sizes previously described. Using a manner of "folding" the music files like origami, MQA is able to take the original analog recording resolution, and deliver it in a smaller file. Once that file gets processed through an MQA encoder (more on that in a bit), it then "unfolds" the file back to its fullest and highest resolution, thus providing us with a very similar resolution to what was produced in the recording studio. Granted, your playback quality will ultimately be determined by the system you have, but at least you’re working with a file that should at least in theory, mimic that of the original recording.

Features:
• 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
• Housed in a Numbered, Limited Edition hardbound book
• 180g Vinyl LP & 2CD Set
• Original 1968 stereo mix remastered on CD and vinyl
• Remastered from the original master tapes by Bruce Botnick, the Doors' longtime engineer/mixer
• 14 never-before-released 1968 studio and live recordings
• CD - MQA encoded

Selections:
CD 1:
Original Stereo Mix Remastered
1. Hello, I Love You
2. Love Street
3. Not To Touch The Earth
4. Summer's Almost Gone
5. Wintertime Love
6. The Unknown Soldier
7. Spanish Caravan
8. My Wild Love
9. We Could Be So Good Together
10. Yes, The River Knows
11. Five To One
CD 2:
(All Previously Unreleased)
Rough Mixes
1. Hello, I Love You
2. Summer's Almost Gone
3. Yes, The River Knows
4. Spanish Caravan
5. Love Street
6. Wintertime Love
7. Not To Touch The Earth
8. Five To One
9. My Wild Love
Live In Copenhagen 9/17/68
10. The Wasp (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
11. Hello, I Love You
12. Back Door Man
13. Five To One
14. The Unknown Soldier

LP
Side One:
1. Hello, I Love You
2. Love Street
3. Not To Touch The Earth
4. Summer's Almost Gone
5. Wintertime Love
6. The Unknown Soldier
Side Two:
1. Spanish Caravan
2. My Wild Love
3. We Could Be So Good Together
4. Yes, The River Knows
5. Five To One