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The Doors L.A. Woman 2LP 45rpm 180g Vinyl Doug Sax Bruce Botnick Analogue Productions QRP 2012 USA

Artist: The Doors
Title: L.A. Woman
Catalog Number: EKS-75011 / APP 75011-45
Label: Elektra
Reissued by: Analogue Productions
Barcode: 753088501173
Original release year: 1971
Reissue year: 2012
Number of discs: 2
Revolutions per minute: 45 rpm
Disc size: 12"
Vinyl Weight Grade: 180gr
Limited Edition: Yes
Total Item Weight: 688gr
Pressing country: USA
For Market Release in: USA
Added to catalog on: May 14, 2017
Collection: Analogue Productions The Doors 45
Vinyl Gourmet Audiophile TOP 100: Yes
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Analogue Productions and Quality Record Pressings are proud to present The Doors reissue series, the six studio albums featured on Deluxe Gatefold Covers with 2LP 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl, cut at 45rpm. Analog mastering by Doug Sax and overseen by Bruce Botnick, The Doors legendary producer/engineer, these great albums never sounded this good before, glorious full analog sound!

 

 

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rated 364/500
TAS Super LP List - The Absolut Sound

Featured in Vinyl Gourmet Audiophile TOP 100

 

  • Limited Edition
  • 2LP 45rpm 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl
  • Pressed at Quality Record Pressings, USA
  • Mastered by Doug Sax Using All-Tube System
  • Cut from the Original Analog Master Tapes
  • Overseen by The Doors engineer Bruce Botnick
  • Deluxe Gatefold Cover

 

 

Analogue Productions and Quality Record Pressings are proud to announce that these six studio LP titles — The Doors, Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun, Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel and L.A. Woman — are featured on 180-gram vinyl, pressed at 45 rpm. All were cut from the original analog masters by Doug Sax, with the exception of The Doors, which was made from the best analog tape copy.


A truly authentic reissue project, the masters were recorded on tube equipment, and the tape machine used for the transfer of these releases is a tube machine, as is the cutting system. Tubes baby! This is no time to wallow in the mire. The Doors are on Analogue Productions!


Technical notes about the recording process by The Doors producer/engineer Bruce Botnick:


"Throughout the record history of the Doors, the goal between Paul Rothchild and myself was to be invisible, as the Doors were the songwriters and performers. Our duty was to capture them in the recorded medium without bringing attention to ourselves. Of course, the Doors were very successful, and Paul and I did receive some acclaim, which we did appreciate.


"If you listen to all the Doors albums, no attempt was made to create sounds that weren't generated by the Doors, except for the Moog Synthesizer on Strange Days, although that was played live in the mix by Jim, but that's another story. The equipment used was very basic, mostly tube consoles and microphones. Telefunken U47, Sony C37A, Shure 56. The echo used was from real acoustic echo chambers and EMT plate reverb units. In those days, we didn't have plug-ins or anything beyond an analogue eight-track machine. All the studios that we used, except for Elektra West, had three Altec Lansing 604E loudspeakers, as that was the standard in the industry, three-track. On EKS-74007, The Doors, we used four-track Ampex recorders and on the subsequent albums, 3M 56 eight-tracks. Dolby noise reduction units were used on two albums, Waiting For The Sun and The Soft Parade. Everything was analogue, digital was just a word. We didn't use fuzz tone or other units like that but created the sounds organically, i.e. the massive dual guitar solo on "When The Music's Over," which was created by feeding the output of one microphone preamp into another and adjusting the level to create the distortion. The tubes were glowing and lit up the control room.


"When mastering for the 45-RPM vinyl release, we were successfully able to bake the original master tapes and play them to cut the lacquer masters." - Bruce Botnick, July 2012

 

 

The title track from this, the last Doors album recorded with Jim Morrison, who died shortly after it was released, has, said one reviewer, “maybe the best Chuck Berry riffs since the Stones.” And that’s not even mentioning “Love Her Madly,” which became one of the highest charting hits for The Doors.


“Love Her Madly,” was written by Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger, who is said to have penned the song about the numerous times his girlfriend threatened to leave him. The song peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and reached No. 3 in Canada. L.A. Woman was still high on the charts when, like in the lyric “actor out on loan” of its closing track — the celebrated “Riders on the Storm,” Jim Morrison died in a Paris bathtub in the summer of 1971.


Via such tracks as “The Changeling,” “Crawling King Snake,” and the frothy, rollicking title track, the collection leaned heavily toward the Blues — in particular, Morrison’s boastful “Lizard King” brand of it. All-in-all, Rolling Stone proclaimed L.A. Woman, “The Doors’ greatest album, including their first,” and “A landmark worthy of dancing in the streets.”


"Jim Morrison said that the Doors wanted to "get back to what we did originally: just be very primitive in our approach, very relaxed." Recorded in their rehearsal room with Morrison's mike set up in the bathroom, this was a bluesier, confident Doors, including "Love Her Madly" and "Riders on the Storm." Morrison died soon after." - Rolling Stone

 

 

Musicians:

 

Jim Morrison, vocals
Robby Krieger, guitar
Ray Manzarek, piano, organ
John Densmore, drums
Jerry Scheff, bass
Marc Benno, rhythm guitar


Track Listing:

 

LP 1 Side A
01. The Changeling
02. Love Her Madly
03. Been Down So Long


LP 1 Side B
04. Cars Hiss By My Window
05. L.A. Woman


LP 2 Side C
06. L’America
07. Hyacinth House
08. Crawling King Snake


LP 2 Side D
09. The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)
10. Riders On The Storm

 

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