THE DOORS VERY RARE 1968 "GOLD" ELEKTRA WAITING FOR THE SUN JIM MORRISON

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.  RARE 1968 "GOLD" ELEKTRA

THE DOORS ~ WAITING FOR THE SUN ~ JIM MORRISON

Includes the original GOLD Elektra inner sleeve ...1968 FIRST PRESSING VINYL IN UNI-PACK GATEFOLD

ON THE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER GOLD ELEKTRA LABEL

USA - GOLD ELEKTRA - EKS 74024

MATRIX EKS-74024A-SON

Waiting for the Sun is the third studio album by the American rock band The Doors, recorded from February to May 1968 and released in July 1968. It became the band's first and only No. 1 album, spawning their second US number one single, "Hello, I Love You". It also became the band's first hit album in the UK, where it peaked at No. 16 on the chart. The album also peaked at #1 in France.

The recording of Waiting for the Sun was, by all accounts, troubled. For one, the band had plundered Morrison's original songbook, a collection of lyrics and ideas, for their first two albums. Consequently, after months of touring, interviews, and television appearances, they had little new material. To compensate, the band struggled mightily to record a longer piece called "The Celebration of the Lizard," a collection of song fragments stitched together by Morrison's often surreal poetry. Frustrated by their lack of progress, the band and producer Paul A. Rothchild abandoned the recording. The group would revisit it later in its full-length form on their 1970 album Absolutely Live. Rothchild's growing perfectionism was also becoming an issue for the band; each song on the album required at least twenty takes and "The Unknown Soldier", recorded in two parts, took 130 takes. Most troubling of all, however, was Morrison's drinking, which was nearing epic proportions. In a 1994 interview with Guitar World, guitarist Robby Krieger was asked what memories he had of making the album and he replied:

A lot of horrible ones. Jim was being taken advantage of by all these various hangers-on. He would bring them into the studio and Rothchild would go crazy - all these drunken assholes...Jim would drink with anybody because we wouldn't drink with him...I never drank with him because I don't like to drink to excess and he loved to go until he couldn't see. I knew what was coming and hated to see it, so I would usually be gone by that point. John and Ray felt the same way.

In the June 1999 issue of Guitar World, keyboardist Ray Manzarek expressed a similar view of Morrison: "Not that he hadn't been drinking before, but it was now taken to a whole new level. This was no longer a young man's drinking; it was a full-grown man's drinking." The album marked Manzarek's transition from a Vox Continental to Gibson G-101, the organ he is best known for playing live. The brighter sound of the Vox does appear on a few songs, most notably "We Could Be So Good Together."

Waiting for the Sun was released on July 3, 1968. The album has sold over 9 million copies. The US monophonic pressing, though only a fold down of the stereo mix to mono, is one of the rarest pop/rock LPs and has been sought after by collectors for years. A studio run-through of "Celebration of the Lizard" (subtitled "An Experiment/Work in Progress") and two early takes of "Not to Touch the Earth" were included as bonus tracks on the 40th anniversary expanded edition release of this album.

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The Doors ?– Waiting for the Sun                                                 

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 The original photo/lyrics are on the Elektra inner sleeve

Track listing

All songs written and composed by The Doors (Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore). 

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