The Doors

Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine

LTD ED RSD Record Store Day 2014
colored vinyl

Elektra Records R16001 2014 2X12" 33rpm (USA)

NUMBERED:  #0530/5500

For Record Store Day 2014, The Doors dug deep into the band’s legendary past to uncover WEIRD SCENES INSIDE THE GOLD MINE. Originally released in 1972 and long out-of-print, this gold-certified double album was the first compilation to be released after Jim Morrison’s death in 1971.

This WEIRD SCENES INSIDE THE GOLD MINE is a limited edition double-LP set. Beautiful and rare in equal measure, production of this translucent amber swirled vinyl set is limited to 5,500 numbered copies worldwide.

The 22 songs that appear on the collection provide a wide-ranging introduction to the music recorded between 1967-71 by the original quartet, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison. The band’s longtime engineer Bruce Botnick remastered the music heard on this reissue, which takes its title from a lyric in “The End.”

Mixing familiar cuts and deep tracks from six studio albums, WEIRD SCENES INSIDE THE GOLD MINE touches on everything from hits like “Break On Through” and “Love Her Madly” to unexpected delights like “The Spy” from Morrison Hotel and “Running Blue” from The Soft Parade.

Adding yet another dimension to the album’s track list is the inclusion of two stellar b-sides: “Who Scared You” which appeared in March 1969 as the flipside to “Wishful Sinful,” and a cover of Willie Dixon’s “(You Need Meat) Don’t Go No Further” which was paired with the smash “Love Her Madly” in 1971.

Tracklist
A1  Break On Through    Written-By – Doors  2:25
A2  Strange Days    Written-By – Doors  3:05
A3  Shaman's Blues    Written-By – Morrison  4:45
A4  Love Street    Written-By – Doors  3:06
A5  Peace Frog / Blue Sunday    Written-By – Morrison, Krieger  5:00
A6  The Wasp (Texas Radio & The Big Beat)    Producer – Bruce Botnick, Doors, The Written-By – Doors  4:12
A7  End Of The Night    Written-By – Doors  2:49
B1  Love Her Madly    Producer – Bruce Botnick, Doors, The Written-By – Doors  3:18
B2  Spanish Caravan    Written-By – Doors  2:58
B3  Ship Of Fools    Written-By – Morrison, Krieger  3:06
B4  The Spy    Written-By – Morrison  4:15
B5  The End    Written-By – Doors  11:35
C1  Take It As It Comes    Written-By – Doors  2:13
C2  Running Blue    Written-By – Krieger  2:27
C3  L.A. Woman    Producer – Bruce Botnick, Doors, The Written-By – Doors 7:49
C4  Five To One    Written-By – Doors  4:22
C5  Who Scared You    Written-By – Morrison, Krieger  3:51
C6  (You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further    Producer – Bruce Botnick, Doors, The Written-By – Willi Dixon  3:37
D1  Riders On The Storm    Producer – Bruce Botnick, Doors, The Written-By – Doors  7:14
D2  Maggie McGill    Written-By – Doors, Morrison  4:25
D3  Horse Latitudes    Written-By – Doors  1:30
D4  When The Music's Over    Written-By – Doors  11:00

    Manufactured By – Rhino Entertainment Company
    Copyright (c) – Elektra Records

    Art Direction – Robert L. Heimall
    Artwork By [Cover Art] – Bill Hoffman
    Engineer – Bruce Botnick
    Photography By – Joel Brodsky
    Producer – Paul A. Rothchild (tracks: A1 to A5, A7, B2 to B5, C1, C2, C4, C5, D2 to D4)

Exclusive release for Record Store Day, April 19, 2014.

Limited Edition 5,500 individually numbered copies

Reissue of the revered 1972 compilation on translucent amber swirl vinyl.

Condition:  2 color vinyl LPs in a gatefold picture sleeve NEW and SEALED.

A Note About Shipping To The U.S.
We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure.  The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing.  This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a doule LP by air to most places in the continental US for $16, a few bucks less for ground.
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