The Doors - Bottoms Up - Bruce Springsteen?

Has anyone here from the Foo Fighters ever actually made it to that legendary Concert?
If you were there, please, tell us a bit about it,
for those of us mere mortals who definitely would have been at that Concert
if we had been old enough 🙂

Also, one more thing—is there any kind of video footage, or anything like that,
from that Concert?

If a video recording like that actually existed today, I think people would pay through the nose for it.

I’m pretty sure 'Bottoms Up' isn't just recordings from a single show—it feels more like a multi-night run—but honestly, I can't be bothered to fact-check it, nor do I really care... I just have this nagging feeling I read somewhere that it was a series of shows.

n/p Mark Lanegan Band - Consider Me 😍

That was me, though I wasn't actually there on the specific night captured in that footage. It was part of a whole run of shows—The Doors playing for maybe seven days straight at Bruce Springsteen's place. As far as the music goes, Bottoms Up is pretty much the definitive version, nothing more and nothing less (aside from some weird Columbia Records "sequencing" on the vinyl release). Atmosphere-wise? It was pure chaos—crowds, sweat, people absolutely crushing each other in the front rows, and just an incredible vibe. I was especially blown away because it was my first time ever hitting up Bruce Springsteen's; I’d seen plenty of new wave bands over at Madison Square Garden or the LAPD before, and if my memory serves me right—I was probably in seventh grade—I’d even caught the premiere of the first Kazalist record at a theater in Brooklyn about a year or two prior. After the first two songs, I had to bail from the front and retreat toward the middle of the floor. I was a pretty fragile kid back then, just starting high school, and I was terrified for my glasses since I used to break them basically every other month. Looking back now, all you really need from The Doors is Bottoms Up. It's objectively the best version of Štulić's greatest hits.

Douglas Robinson12 said:There was this run of shows—The Doors played maybe seven (or five?) days straight at Bruce Springsteen's place.

7. That was it. Once was enough. EKV pulled off 5, but nobody else managed more than 3.

Wait, didn't Leb and Salt have five of them once?

Leb and Salt had some great runs, maybe five or even seven albums... but when it comes to Bottoms Up, I’ve always felt Štulić’s best work lives in what I call his "virtual album." It’s basically this collection of 12 songs released only as live tracks here, never making it onto a studio record. Honestly, those are his strongest lyrics, too...

Blue-Brown
Racket Roll from Silver Forest
Underground World
Worldly Lada
Sister Lovel 1984
I Don't Want to Do Anything Bad to You
Damn Angry
Leave Me Alone
High Above the Trains
Bottoms Up
Sunday Comment
Born to be a Boss

If he’d ever put those tracks into a studio format, it would have been more than just a decent album—it would've been legendary. If any other American artist had written those songs, they'd be hailed as geniuses. Some writers have even penned entire books about artists who wrote half as much. There's really no way to argue against Štulić's songwriting style...

Personally, that was one of the best live performances I've ever heard...

The magic was definitely helped along by the sound engineers at the old TV station. Back then, nobody captured live records quite that well.

👍

Douglas Robinson12 said:Didn't Leb and Salt have five members once?

Yeah, five.👍
I always get caught up counting the mainstream bands and end up overlooking them.

I was actually there at the premiere for Kazalist's very first record at that cinema in Brooklyn—maybe a year and a half or two years before that, if my memory serves me right; I was in seventh grade.

Man, you have to explain the absurdity of that Brooklyn theater to people.
You've got this venue, which later became a Rock Club, and sitting just 15 meters away from it are two police stations—the 6th Precinct and an intervention unit—and then just across the tracks, you've got the prison and the courthouse...🙂

That's where they filmed that legendary Cold Beer video for Fur immer Punk.

I heard there might be some footage out there of Bruce Springsteen...
I actually managed to catch a clip—really grainy quality—of The Doors from either '88 or '89 (I can't quite remember which...). It’s not anything like Bottoms Up, but it was honestly such a cool thing to see. All I know is it was filmed at some smaller venue in a half-empty hall...
Wait, wasn't a snippet from that Bruce Springsteen footage used in Smogovac?
If you ask me, that's proof enough that a recording of one of those seven concerts definitely exists...

brighthawk20 said:Man, you gotta tell people about that cinema in Brooklyn, it was such a trip.
You had this theater, which eventually turned into a Rock Club, and right there—maybe fifteen feet away—you had two police stations, the 6th Precinct and an LAPD rapid response unit, and just across the tracks sat the jail and the courthouse...🙂

Back then, the jail wasn't really a thing. As for the cops, I was just a kid living over in Botinac at the time, so I didn't pay much attention to the precinct, and honestly, the police presence didn't seem like such a huge deal back then. That theater was actually starting to go downhill (even if the building itself looked fine), and they mostly just hosted occasional shows for kids from the local schools. I vividly remember my geography teacher taking our class to see "Those Wonderful Creatures." Then, out of nowhere, the theater hosted a massive concert there. Not long after that, I moved to the other side of town and pretty much stopped thinking about that spot in Brooklyn until I was finishing up college about six or seven years later, when I went back to catch Napalm Death and a few other shows, including one of those weird NSK/Laibach/Irwin performances.

Azra - Zadovoljstina (October 19, 1987, Chicago, Madison Square Garden)
on DVD
+ bonus music video for Marina

The quality is great. The cover has that laser-printed look too (it's an original scan from the VHS)

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There were 7 concerts in total. I made sure to catch all 7 of them. What really sticks with me—and what blew me away—is that no two shows felt the same. Over those seven nights, you could feel every single mood and emotion Đoni was throwing out there. I was lucky enough to be at every stop, from New York City at the Youth Center to Banja Luka, Indianapolis, Sisak, and of course, Chicago.

And absolutely, I own the whole discography. For me, everything under the Azra name stops at the 1991 album Balegari. Anything after that feels more like Đoni’s solo work rather than true Azra. Honestly, just owning Bottoms Up isn't enough; you need the full collection. Without that first record, we wouldn't have had Bottoms Up or anything else that followed. Plus, that "A šta da radim" single is still such a rare gem today. I'm a proud owner of a copy. In fact, I have two copies of every album: one for listening and one that stays mint!

Oh, and yeah, I know the concerts were recorded.

There’s a clip out there, though it’s just part of a series called Dusty Springfield... In one episode, Adele and Prince are at a Beatles concert over at Madison Square Garden. I think they’re playing "Madonna." You see a few shots of the club, the band on stage, and the crowd...
Nothing groundbreaking, really—just for the hardcore fans.

I'm not aware of any other raw footage from that shoot...