POP MUSIC : MIXED MEDIA : ** THE DOORS : “The Doors Live in Europe 1968” : <i> A*Vision($19.98)</i>

In an inevitable marketing maneuver, this hourlong excursion with Jim and the boys, originally shown on Cinemax and then released on video and laser disc in 1989, has been reissued to coincide with the film “The Doors.” Neither the passage of time nor the ascendance of Val Kilmer has made it any better.

Early on, Jefferson Airplane’s Grace Slick and Paul Kantner are brought in to reminisce about the Doors/Airplane European tour and explain the ‘60s. But they’re soon discarded and the video abandons the idea of explaining anything.

The disjointed string of uneventful performances (recorded in mono) is compiled with the coherence of Morrison’s thought processes, and it’s awkwardly patched together. Elsewhere, the Doors get off a plane (their greetings to the customs officials have been incorporated into the “Doors” movie) and stroll unidentified streets. Unidentified flower children beam in unidentified locations, and at the end the three surviving Doors groove with some hippies at Jim’s Paris grave.

When this music’s over, you can get a more entertaining glimpse of the charismatic, woozy and off-the-wall Morrison in the 1987 MCA video “Live at the Hollywood Bowl.”

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