The Doors were a few months away from stardom in March 1967 when they played five sparsely attended shows at a small club in San Francisco called The Matrix. At long last, all known Matrix recordings, sourced entirely from Peter Abram’s original master recordings, will be released on September 8 and are available today for pre-order. These are the complete and original recordings from the first-generation 7” reels. 

“We were on the lip of great success, and we didn’t know it.” –John Densmore

Bootlegs of The Matrix shows have circulated among fans for years and were popular despite the poor audio quality of most copies. The sound began improving in 1997 when the first two songs from The Matrix shows were officially released on The Doors: Box Set. Even more performances followed in 2008 on LIVE AT THE MATRIX 1967; regrettably, it was discovered soon after that all the recordings were sourced from third-generation tapes, not the originals.