Welcome to the home page for Bright Midnight Archives, a label formed by The Doors Music Company intended to make available from The Doors' archives almost thirty hours of mostly live, unreleased material as well as some rare studio-recorded gems. Recently discovered when consolidating the band's audio and film works, which were scattered around the world in various record company storage facilities, this material completes the full archive of Doors' sound and film recordings which is now secured in West Hollywood, California. As a result, literally dozens of hours of never-before-released performance recordings have come to light.

The process actually began during the production of The Doors Box Set (1997) which included a disc, Live in New York, featuring the best of the material recorded by the band during four concerts at the Felt Forum in Madison Square Garden. In all, The Doors recorded approximately twelve concerts in seven cities, with some of these songs already having been released in 1970 on Absolutely Live. For almost three decades these concert recordings sat on the storage shelves unreviewed. After the overwhelmingly positive response to the Live in New York disc, keen Doors' fans pointed out that over a dozen concerts had been professionally recorded; they demanded to know what happened to those tracks.

Subsequently the three Doors, John Densmore, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek as well as Danny Sugerman, The Doors' manager, began the task of reviewing every live tape and came away impressed by what they heard. These concert recordings, while not altogether perfect by current commercial standards, successfully capture a wide range of exciting Doors music live-from the drunken over-the-top Boston concerts, to the intense, bluesy show in Detroit, to the stunning performances in Hollywood. What wasn't deemed commercial a quarter century ago now sounds like pristine history. The Doors on the road, having fun and stretching their live performance muscles in often exhilarating concerts, have been preserved. Our aim with Bright Midnight Archives is to make available all of these concerts, over thirty hours of live Doors music, 90 percent of which has never been heard before.

The new releases will be presented in their entirety and unedited, culled primarily from the tour that was recorded in 1969 to produce Absolutely Live. We have also procured additional concert tapes recorded directly from the sound board to be made available on Bright Midnight Archives. Our primary goal is to release the best sounding recording and the highest quality artwork at the lowest possible price. The Doors commitment to high standards and excellence will be in full effect. In addition to the above mentioned concert recordings, The Doors have procured a half-dozen more high quality sounding concerts which will also be made available.