Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Johnny Winter - 1968-03-07 - New York City, NY (SBD/FLAC)

(Soundboard FLAC)

The Scene Club,

"Woke Up This Morning and Found Myself Dead"
Red Lightning/Stony Plain - RLCD 0068

Lineage: 
Silver CD > EAC > WAV > FLAC (8)

Jimi Hendrix...Guitar, vocals
Jim Morrison..."Vocals", Harmonica
Johnny Winter...Guitar
Randy Hobbs...Bass
Randy Z...Drums on 1st half
Buddy Miles...Drums on 2nd half

01 Red House (J. Hendrix)
02 Wake Up This Morning And You Find Yourself Dead (J. Hendrix)
03 Bleeding Heart (E. James)
04 Morrison's Lament > (Copyright Control)
05 Tomorrow Never Knows > (J. Lennon/P. McCartney)
06 Uranus Rock (J. Hendrix)
07 Outside Woman Blues > (Reynolds)
08 Sunshine of Your Love (Bruce, Brown, Clapton)

Time: 53:28

Mono and Stereo versions and full artwork included.

Notes by the uploader
I bought this disc back when A & B Sound still existed.  They happened to carry a few select bootlegs on occasion.  I remember thinking, "Wow, this is going to be amazing," and payed something like $19.99 for it.  This recording has been available on many bootleg LP's for many years.  Aside from the Red Lightning releases, most of the LP's only had a few songs.  There was a picture disc version as well, but as cool as they are, picture discs aren't the same sound quality as black vinyl.  This is the most complete recording available, and the quality is pretty good!

The harmonica player is listed as Jim Morrison, but even though the harpist isn't that good, I think Morrison was considerably worse at harmonica, so it may not be him.  Jim Morrison was evidently just at the club and is quite drunk, coming onto the stage during the track called "Morrison's Lament" and staying basically for the rest of the recording.  He starts "singing" into a recording mic, and Hendrix instructs him to use a different mic.  Apparently Janis Joplin was in the crowd this night too, and Morrison spilled a drink on her lap, getting a slap in the face in return.  There is some confusion as to who the drummer really was, and also a bit of debate as to whether Johnny Winter was actually there.  Johnny Winter's manager at the time, Steve Paul, owned the club and in my opinion, no one else sounded quite like Johnny at the time.  However Johnny Winter claims he wasn't on the stage that night and never performed with Jim Morrison, but he was also a major drug addict at the time, maybe he forgot?  It does sound like Buddy Miles so I wouldn't doubt that it's him, possibly for the entire recording and not just half like the liner notes claim.  

So this is far from a supergroup.  More of a jam session that got ruined by one drunken Jim Morrison.  But it is very interesting to listen to, and there's some great moments.  Hendrix was supposedly the one operating the recording gear, how this got to the hands of a bootleg company, who knows.  

Jim Morrison - The Lost Paris Tapes (STU/FLAC)

(Studio FLAC)

01. Session Start (0:16)
02. In That Year... [False Start] (1:02)
03. In That Year... (3:00)
04. Bird Of Prey (1:55)
05. Tape Noon (2:22)
06. Whiskey, Mystics And Men (3:38)
07. Orange County Suite (5:34)
08. All Hail The American Night (5:57)
09. The American Night (0:34)
10. The Holy Sha (0:37)
11. Hitler Poem (0:44)
12. Can We Resolve The Past (1:55)
13. Always A Playground Instructor (1:32)
14. There's A Belief... (0:25)
15. Indian, Indian... (0:18)
16. Woman In The Window (2:40)
17. She's Selling News... (1:11)
18. Science Of Night (0:24)
19. Tales Of The American Night (0:36)
20. Now Listen To This (0:46)
21. Babylon Fading (0:39)
22. Thank You, O Lord (0:35)

JOMO & THE SMOOTHIES TAPE:
23. Warm Up & Tuning (4:30)
24. "Starting Now!" (1:14)
25. Orange County Suite (8:41)

DECEMBER 8, 1970 POETRY SESSION:
26. Graveyard Poem (0:50)
27. The Politics Of Ecstacy (0:10)

FEAST OF FRIENDS:
28. Earth, Air, Fire, Water (0:53)

HWY:
29. Dawn's Highway (3:57)
30. Phone Booth (2:29)

A Pdf file of Morrison's notebook, The Paris Journal
3 text files by the original uploader (ffp, Info, and Works cited.txt)

I am adding:
Cover and Tray scans
A transcript of the Jomo And The Smoothies recording (Wordfile)
1 text file (The Lost Paris Tapes.txt)
&
A 17:18 min recording of the "Celebration Of The Lizard" piece in MP3 format because regardless of the format this one is simply Awesome!

The Lost Paris Tapes:

In 1995, the original tapes were bought by a German fan for $10,000.

On 11th March 1971, Jim Morrison arrived in Paris. In Mid June, during his usual walks he found a recording studio on the streets of St. Germain des Pres. He returned on 16th June to listen to a reel to reel of the March 1969 LA Poetry Session. Stepping out for drinks he met 2 American guitarists at the Cafe de Flore, bought them a drink and invited them back to the studio. He's supposed to have told the engineer they were his own band "Jomo And The Smoothies" and paid for an hour of recording.

The warm up, tuning and a very weird version of "Orange County Suite" was recorded on tape. After cutting the tape they left the studio and went seperate ways. Jim wanted to go for more drinks but didn't wanna carry the bag around and risk losing it so he decided to pay his friend Phillipe who lived around the corner a visit.

They shared a few drinks and copied some poetry tapes on cassette. When Jim left he carried the two cassettes but forgot original two reels. One was the poetry tape - the master copy from Elektra Records' archives, and the master of the recording he and the musicians had just made as Jomo And The Smoothies. Phillipe seems to have run after him to return the bag but as Jim was already going down in the lift, he's supposed to have asked Phillipe to keep it till he'd collect it later.

Jim Morrison died 2 weeks later. The bag that was left with Phillipe consisted in addition to the two reels, his Paris Journal, Private photos, and 2 newspaper articles. The bag remained in Phillipe's cupboard till he attend Morrison's 50th Birthday Celebrations in Paris in 1993.