Live in Boston is a three-disk live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by The Doors

The Doors

The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger...

. It was recorded on April 10, 1970, as part of the Absolutely Live tour. Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison

James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American musician, singer, and poet, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors...

 seemed to be intoxicated during the entire show, and he was drinking heavily throughout the performance.

"Robby, Ray, and John stepped up to the plate to carry Jim until he sobered up for a bit. For the most part they're smokin', and through Jim's booze induced haze, he lets out a couple jewels that are truly memorable." - Bruce Botnick

Bruce Botnick

Bruce Botnick is an American audio engineer and record producer, best known for his work with The Doors, and with Love. He engineered Love's first two albums, and co-produced their third album, Forever Changes, with the band's singer-songwriter, Arthur Lee.In November 1970, he took over production...

This is part of previously unreleased material of the Bright Midnight Archives collection of live albums by The Doors.

Disc 1

• 1st show, 7 pm

1. "Start" - (0:07)
2. "All Right, All Right, All Right" - (0:10)
3. "Roadhouse Moan" - (1:33)
4. "Roadhouse Blues
   Roadhouse Blues
   "Roadhouse Blues" is a blues-rock song written and recorded by the American rock band The Doors. The song, which appeared on the B-side of "You Make Me Real", was first released as a single from the album Morrison Hotel in March 1970 and peaked at #50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100...
   
   " - (4:56)
5. "Ship of Fools
   Ship of Fools
   The ship of fools is an allegory that has long been a fixture in Western literature and art. The allegory depicts a vessel populated by human inhabitants who are deranged, frivolous, or oblivious, passengers aboard a ship without a pilot, and seemingly ignorant of their own direction...
   
   " (6:27)
6. "Alabama Song
   Alabama Song
   The "Alabama Song" was originally published in Bertolt Brecht's Hauspostille . It was set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 "Songspiel" Mahagonny and used again in Weill's and Brecht's 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny...
   
    (Whisky Bar)" (2:02)
7. "Back Door Man
   Back Door Man
   "Back Door Man" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1961. It was released by Chess Records as the B-side to Wolf's "Wang Dang Doodle"...
   
   " (2:16)
8. "Five To One
   Five To One
   "Five to One" is a song by The Doors, from their 1968 album Waiting for the Sun.-Origin:"Five to one" is rumored to be the approximate ratio of whites to blacks, old to young, or non-pot smokers to pot smokers in the US in 1967, depending on whom you ask. A further urban legend has it as the ratio...
   
   " (9:09)
9. "When the Music's Over
   When the Music's Over
   "When the Music's Over" is a song by American rock band The Doors, featured on their 1967 album Strange Days. The song, at almost eleven minutes long, is their third longest recorded song, behind "The End", at 11:42, and "Celebration of the Lizard", at 17:01...
   
   " (14:45)
10. "Rock Me
    Rock Me
    "Rock Me" was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, performed by Riva, representing Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the first and only time that this country would win the Contest...
    
    " (7:14)
11. "Mystery Train" (7:18)
12. "Away In India" (1:54)
13. "Crossroads" (5:15)
14. "Prelude to Wake Up!" (0:48)
15. "Wake Up!" (1:33)
16. "Light My Fire
    Light My Fire
    "Light My Fire" is a song by The Doors which was recorded in August 1966 and released the first week of January 1967 on the Doors' debut album. Released as a single in April, it spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and one week on the Cash Box Top 100, nearly a year after...
    
    " (12:32)

Disc 2

• 2nd show, 10 pm

1. "Start" (1:22)
2. "Break on Through (To the Other Side)
   Break on Through (To the Other Side)
   "Break on Through " is a song by The Doors from their debut album, The Doors. It was the first single released by the band and was unsuccessful compared to later hits, reaching only #126 in the United States...
   
   " (8:12)
3. "I Believe In Democracy" (0:33)
4. "When The Music's Over
   When the Music's Over
   "When the Music's Over" is a song by American rock band The Doors, featured on their 1967 album Strange Days. The song, at almost eleven minutes long, is their third longest recorded song, behind "The End", at 11:42, and "Celebration of the Lizard", at 17:01...
   
   " (14:19)
5. "Roadhouse Blues
   Roadhouse Blues
   "Roadhouse Blues" is a blues-rock song written and recorded by the American rock band The Doors. The song, which appeared on the B-side of "You Make Me Real", was first released as a single from the album Morrison Hotel in March 1970 and peaked at #50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100...
   
   " (5:53)
6. "The Spy
   The Spy
   The Spy can refer to *The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, an 1821 novel by James Fenimore Cooper*The Spy, a 1914 film adaptation of the Cooper novel by director Otis Turner*The Spy, a 2010 novel by Clive Cussler...
   
   " (5:43)
7. "Alabama Song
   Alabama Song
   The "Alabama Song" was originally published in Bertolt Brecht's Hauspostille . It was set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 "Songspiel" Mahagonny and used again in Weill's and Brecht's 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny...
   
    (Whisky Bar)" (1:40)
8. "Back Door Man
   Back Door Man
   "Back Door Man" is a blues song written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1961. It was released by Chess Records as the B-side to Wolf's "Wang Dang Doodle"...
   
   " (2:27)
9. "Five to One
   Five To One
   "Five to One" is a song by The Doors, from their 1968 album Waiting for the Sun.-Origin:"Five to one" is rumored to be the approximate ratio of whites to blacks, old to young, or non-pot smokers to pot smokers in the US in 1967, depending on whom you ask. A further urban legend has it as the ratio...
   
   " (7:06)
10. "Astrology Rap" (0:45)
11. "Build Me A Woman" (3:57)
12. "You Make Me Real" (3:26)
13. "Wait A Minute!" (0:44)
14. "Mystery Train
    Mystery Train
    "Mystery Train" is a song written by Junior Parker and Sam Phillips. It was first recorded in Phillip's Memphis Recording Service and Sun Records at 706 Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee in 1953. Raymond Hill plays tenor sax and Matt Murphy plays lead guitar with Bill Johnson on piano, Pat Hare on...
    
    " (7:52)
15. "Away In India" (2:52)
16. "Crossroads" (3:31)

Disc 3

• 2nd show, 10 pm (cont.)

1. "Band Intros" (0:35)
2. "Adolf Hitler" (0:23)
3. "Light My Fire
   Light My Fire
   "Light My Fire" is a song by The Doors which was recorded in August 1966 and released the first week of January 1967 on the Doors' debut album. Released as a single in April, it spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and one week on the Cash Box Top 100, nearly a year after...
   
   " (5:47)
4. "Fever" [Light My Fire Cont'd] (0:23)
5. "Summertime" [Light My Fire Cont'd] (7:29)
6. "St. James Infirmary Blues
   St. James Infirmary Blues
   "St. James Infirmary Blues" is based on an 18th century traditional English folk song of anonymous origin, though sometimes credited to the songwriter Joe Primrose . Louis Armstrong made it famous in his influential 1928 recording.-Authorship and history:"St...
   
   " [Light My Fire Cont'd] (0:46)
7. "Graveyard Poem" [Light My Fire Cont'd] (1:13)
8. "Light My Fire
   Light My Fire
   "Light My Fire" is a song by The Doors which was recorded in August 1966 and released the first week of January 1967 on the Doors' debut album. Released as a single in April, it spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and one week on the Cash Box Top 100, nearly a year after...
   
   " [Reprise] (2:11)
9. "More, More, More!" (0:19)
10. "Ladies & Gentlemen" (0:13)
11. "We Can't Instigate" (0:13)
12. "They Want More" (1:16)
13. "Been Down So Long" (6:13)
14. "Power Turned Off" (9:15)

Personnel

• Jim Morrison
  Jim Morrison
  James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was an American musician, singer, and poet, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors...
  
   - vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Ray Manzarek
  Ray Manzarek
  Raymond Daniel Manzarek, Jr., better known as Ray Manzarek , is an American musician, singer, producer, film director, writer, co-founder and keyboardist of The Doors from 1965 to 1973, Nite City from 1977–1978 and Manzarek-Krieger since 2001.Manzarek is listed #4 on Digital Dreamdoor's "100...
  
   - organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  , keyboard bass
  Keyboard bass
  The keyboard bass is the use of a low-pitched keyboard or pedal keyboard to substitute for the bass guitar or double bass in popular music.-1960s:The earliest keyboard bass instrument was the 1960 Fender Rhodes piano bass, pictured above...
  
  
• Robby Krieger
  Robby Krieger
  Robert Alan "Robby" Krieger is an American rock guitarist and songwriter. He was the guitarist in The Doors, and wrote some of the band's best known songs, including "Light My Fire," "Love Me Two Times," "Touch Me," and "Love Her Madly."...
  
   - electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  
• John Densmore
  John Densmore
  John Paul Densmore is an American musician and songwriter. He is best known as the drummer of the rock group The Doors.-Early life and The Doors:Born in Los Angeles, Densmore attended Santa Monica City College and Cal...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  

On "Been Down So Long" Robby Krieger played the bass guitar, and Ray Manzarek played the lead guitar.