When Jim Morrison died in a Paris apartment bathtub at the age of 27 on July 3, 1971, the remaining Doors decided to continue. After considering replacing the late Lizard King with a new singer, Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek decided to switch off on lead vocals. They would go on to release two more albums before breaking up in 1973. Both were constant denizens of dollar cut-out bins and neither album has ever been released on CD in America.

Almost immediately after Morrison’s untimely demise, they recorded Other Voices (get it?) during the summer of 1971, and that album saw release in October. Other Voices’ single was a number called “Tightrope Ride” sung by Manzarek. To support the record, the Jim-less Doors began performing live again with additional musicians, playing gigs during November in Lincoln, Nebraska, Carnegie Hall in New York and the Hollywood Palladium.
 

 
The following spring, they went into the studio again to record the jazzy sounding Full Circle which was released in August 1972. But before that album came out, beginning in May, they toured Europe joined by Jack Conrad on bass (he was on both albums) and rhythm guitarist Bobby Ray Henson. Here’s what little evidence exists of that outing, an appearance on Germany’s Beat-Club television show. Although it is 3/4 of The Doors, most of this sounds like a completely different group of musicians (variously they sound like Moby Grape, the Dead or a less funky Santana and the sole Morrison-era song is “Love Me Two Times.”) It’s not like it’s bad, but neither would anyone mistake it for being great. Still, I don’t want to slam the Doors, this set is an odd curio of the band’s career and not without its charm or interest.