One of the most legendary live recordings from The Doors is finally coming out in its most definitive form.

Live At The Matrix 1967: The Original Masters, due September 8, is the last word on the group's pivotal dates at the San Francisco club The Matrix - among the earliest concert recordings of the group. The 3CD or 5LP/7" box set will include, for the first time, all of club owner Peter Abram's surviving original master tapes of the performances, remastered by the band's longtime engineer Bruce Botnick.

The Doors' instantly recognizable stage presence can be felt on these performances, only months after the release of their self-titled debut and predating the breakthrough single release of that album's "Light My Fire" (which would feature in their controversial national television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show that fall). In addition to the lauded songs from The Doors - among them "Break On Through (to the Other Side)," "The Crystal Ship" and the epic "The End" - singer Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore were already integrating into their set songs that would be recorded on that year's follow-up Strange Days, including "People Are Strange," "Moonlight Drive" and "When the Music's Over."

Abram knew he had something special with the Matrix recordings he captured, but it would be decades before anyone heard any of them officially. After years of bootlegs, two tracks made it onto a 1997 career-spanning box set. A decade later, to mark the 40th anniversary of the shows, a 2CD set offered many of the Matrix performances for the first time - but fans and critics debated the quality of the sources used (and ultimately discovered that the set was created from third-generation copies of the original tapes). Restoration was finally underway a decade after that, with 15 tracks selected for a pair of Record Store Day exclusive LPs released in 2017 and 2018. Now, all 37 performances completely fill a gap in the story of one of the most defining bands of their era.

Rhino's supplied track listing reflected the vinyl release, in which "Bags' Groove" is included on a separate single-sided 7". The CD should put everything in chronological order. The label also indicated the set will be limited to 14,000 numbered copies on vinyl and 21,000 on CD. Your pre-order links are below.

Live At The Matrix 1967: The Original Masters (Elektra/Rhino, 2023)

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
5LP/7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

* previously unreleased
** first time released from original master tapes

Disc 1: March 7, 1967 - First (1-7) and Second (8-14) Sets

1. Bags' Groove *
2. Back Door Man
3. My Eyes Have Seen You *
4. Soul Kitchen
5. All Blues (Instrumental) *
6. Get Out of My Life Woman **
7. When the Music's Over *
8. Close to You **
9. Crawling King Snake **
10. I Can't See Your Face in My Mind
11. People Are Strange
12. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
13. The Crystal Ship
14. Twentieth Century Fox

Disc 2: March 7, 1967 - Second Set continued (1-3) and Third Set (4-7); March 8 or 9, 1967 (8); March 10, 1967 - First Set (9-14)

1. Moonlight Drive
2. Summer's Almost Gone *
3. Unhappy Girl
4. Woman is a Devil/Rock Me Baby **
5. Break On Through (to the Other Side) **
6. Light My Fire
7. The End
8. The End (Partial)/Let's Feed Ice Cream to the Rats
9. My Eyes Have Seen You
10. Soul Kitchen **
11. I Can't See Your Face In My Mind **
12. People Are Strange **
13. When the Music's Over

Disc 3: March 10, 1967 - First Set continued (1-2). Second Set (3-7) and Third Set (8-10)

1. Money **
2. Who Do You Love **
3. Moonlight Drive *
4. Summer's Almost Gone
5. I'm a King Bee **
6. Gloria **
7. Break On Through (to the Other Side) *
8. Summertime (Instrumental) **
9. Back Door Man **
10. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) *

Disc 1, Track 13 and Disc 2, Track 11 released on The Doors Box Set - Elektra/Rhino 62123, 1997
Disc 1, Tracks 1, 3, 6, 8-9 and 12-14; Disc 2, Tracks 4-7 and 9-13; and Disc 3, Tracks 1-2, 4-6 and 8-9 released as Live At The Matrix '67 - Bright Midnight/Rhino R2 516205, 2008
Disc 1, Tracks 2, 4 and 12-14 and Disc 2, Tracks 6-7 released as Live At The Matrix - March 7, 1967 - Bright Midnight/Rhino R1 559094, 2017
Disc 1, Tracks 10-11; Disc 2, Tracks 1, 3, 8-9 and 13 and Disc 3, Track 4 released as Let's Feed Ice Cream to the Rats: Live At The Matrix Part 2 - March 7 & 10, 1967 - Bright Midnight/Rhino R1 563063, 2018