About JayDixon Expertise lyrics, instruments, vocal range
Experience Radio jock with 26 years commercial radio experience and radio station music director. Singer myself, poet and lyric writer. Former lead singer of a Doors tribute band. I own instruments, have the same vocal range as Jim had.
Education/Credentials Bachelor of Business - University of Queensland
Awards and Honors Holder of the CRA (Commercial Radio Australia) "25 Year Award" and a couple of other music and radio awards.
Question Hello my name is Kris and I have a Doors Bootleg Record but i dont know the name of it because it has no cover and it only has one vitial information on it and it says JAKAL 1956 A on one side of the record and on the second side says the same thing but with a B on the other side so PLEASE CAN YOU HELP ME OUT. THE DOORS BIGGEST FAN EVER
Answer Kris.
Bootleg copies are notoriously hard to identify because they are simply that, Bootleg (illegal) recordings and most times they had only a basic cover if that. Similar to a burnt copy of an album you might do at home on a CD, often you won’t bother with too much in the way of identification or going into detail of what tracks are even on it, so same for Bootlegs.
JAKAL 1956. To me that denotes some kind of record catalogue/Id number that the makers used.
It may also be an abbreviation for a location where the concert took place? JAK could be Jackson or Jacksonville? AL could be the state? In this example that could be Alabama.
I doubt these locations would have been big enough to warrant a concert there, but I’m just tossing the idea up there as a possibility.
A and B just means side A and Side B of course.
1956. Again this indicates to me that is a sort of catalogue number or part there of. Simply that The Doors were not even thought of in 1956 and Jim Morrison was 13 going on 14 years of age. The Doors started in 1966 and really started to take off in 1967.
Although Ray Manzarek was playing in a band in 1965 called Rick & The Ravens, John Densmore also later joined that band and I know they did a 6 track demo in September 65’ and this was later circulated widely on a Bootleg.
Without knowing or identifying the full list of Doors songs on your album I can’t even begin to give you a rough time frame of when it may have been recorded. They started live” gigs in 1966 playing at London Fog and later Whiskey a Go Go in LA, their last live” gig took place on December 12 1970 at The Warehouse in New Orleans. So there is a fair scope of concerts where your Bootleg may have come from.
My advice is jump on the net, find a Bootleg record dealer and there are quiet a few out there including Australia, give them a call or an email and they may be able to tell you.
Thanks for your question Kris and good luck with it buddy.
