This is the second of these titles. A 21-Track 2-CD Set of the complete show mixed and mastered from the original multitracks stored in The Doors Archive and presented unedited and in its entirety just as you would have heard it if you were sitting front row center.

An Excerpt From Danny Sugerman's Notes:

If you like The Doors now, and never saw them live, I'm here to tell you about the word on the street back in the late 1960s. It was "If you think their albums are good, you've got to see these guys live". The same integrity they captured so well as recording artists was always present, except that in concert, you never knew what Jim Morrison was going to do. The Doors were performance rock like no one ever before or since. Morrison's charisma and power came pouring off the stage, entranced, like the rest of us by the Doors music. Morrison appeared possessed, or, it was even whispered, insane... Everyone in the audience believed The Doors nailed it at The Aquarius. No more concert recordings would be necessary. But upon listening to the playbacks producer Paul Rothchild thought they could do better. Cautiously, more concert dates were booked to be recorded. These additional concerts, preserved on one-inch 8-track master tapes, will all be released in their entirety on Bright Midnight Records. Because The Aquarius Theatre started the process, Bright Midnight picks up here.

It is my opinion that on a good night Morrison was the rock & roll equivalent of the brilliant and crazed Russian ballet dancer, Nijinsky. He was literally possessed by a force he could somehow tap into once the band started playing and the spotlight hit him. Words like mesmerizing, hypnotic, horrifying, ecstatic, otherworldly all apply here.

And it was reputation, and of course the hit singles, several of which are contained here, that inevitably led to the bigger auditoriums. Bill Graham once told the band "You can't share shit in those barns" in an attempt to keep them at the smaller-sized Fillmore. But with Jim giving each performance everything he had, and because the demand for tickets was so high, it simply made more sense to do what so many other bands had done, and that was to graduate from the Fillmore Auditoriums to larger halls and play one show instead of six.

Live albums had become a big money maker about this period and rather than force out their upcoming studio material, The Doors consented to Elektra Records' request to record the band on tape in concert. It seemed a natural, The Doors, one of the best concert performers of their era, captured on tape.