Doors - The Soft Parade (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (3CD/1LP)

Deluxe expanded three CD + 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The core of this collection is comprised of more than a dozen unreleased songs. Among the highlights are stripped down "Doors Only" versions of five tracks where the horns and strings have been removed ("Tell All The People," "Touch Me," "Wishful Sinful," "Runnin' Blue," and "Who Scared You.") The set also features three of those stripped-back versions with new guitar parts added by Robby Krieger ("Touch Me," "Wishful Sinful," and "Runnin' Blue). The collection also uncovers three songs from studio rehearsals - with Ray Manzarek (AKA Screamin' Ray Daniels) on vocals - that include an early version of "Roadhouse Blues," a song that would be released the following year on Morrison Hotel. These three songs include newly recorded bass parts by Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots, who joined Krieger and John Densmore at a tribute concert for Manzarek in 2016, three years after the organist died of cancer. Manzarek's take on "Roadhouse Blues" is available now on all digital download and streaming services. A trio of studio outtakes collected on the set's final disc feature the much-bootlegged, hour-long jam, "Rock Is Dead," which appears here in it's entire, surviving form for the first time ever. The track finds The Doors riffing through the entire history of rock 'n' roll, from early delta blues through surf music, ending with the death of rock.