The Doors East Coast Tour 1972

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The Doors East Coast Tour 1972


The Doors are pleased to embark on this brief predominantly college tour of the East Coast because ticket prices can be kept affordable and as Ray puts it 'College audiences are good because they are not going to scream and run up to the stage. Thye are really there for the music'




25 -12-1971
Cash Box December 25th 1971

During this time the Doors are recording their second album in the Hollywood A&M Recording Studio. Opting to produce the album themselves it will be the one and only time neither Paul Rothchild or Bruce Botnick have no involvement in a Doors album.

March 2nd 1972. C.W. Post College Dome Auditorium, Greenvale NY.

The Doors perform a moderately good set tonight complete with all the rough edges anticipated on the opening night of a tour and are hailed back for at least two encores.



9-3-1972
The Pioneer Student newspaper

Set List: from bootleg

Intro
Tightrope Ride
Variety Is The Spice Of Life
The Mosquito (Instrumental)
In The Eye Of The Sun
I'm Horny, I'm Stoned
Band Introductions
Love Me Two Times
Get Up And Dance
Ship With Sails
Good Rockin'
"You're All Invited"
Light My Fire
"Thank You Very Much"
Close To You

March 3rd 1972. Painters Mill Music Fair, Owings Mill, Maryland.


The Doors perform a tight set before a capacity audience opening with a raucous version of 'Tightrope Ride' with some strong lead vocals from Manzarek. Later as he introduces 'In The Eye Of The Sun' Ray drifts into a dreamy preamble: 'now its time for outer space. Time for that long trip back to where we all came from'. As the music begins he continues: 'getting back, back, back. Flying out. Flying out to the sun. Go to the sun.Out to the eye of the sun.'
'Ships w/ Sails' is the highlight of the evening. The band is obviously enthusiastic about the song and Krieger takes an inspired and melodious lead on guitar towards its conclusion.
Doors On The Road.


2-3-1972
The Baltimore Sun MD




6-2-1972
Baltimore Sun MD





6-3-1972
Baltimore Sun MD

Set List: from bootleg

Intro
Tightrope Ride
Variety Is The Spice Of Live
The Mosquito (Instrumental)
In The Eye Of The Sun
I'm Horny, I'm Stoned
Band Introductions
Love Me Two Times
Tuning / Ships With Sails
Good Rockin'
Light My Fire

[TheWallsScreamedPoetry]

March 4th 1972. College of William & Mary Hall, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Despite an audience comprised of a quantity of Badfinger fans some of whom shout affronts like 'Don't let The Doors on' tonights performance goes quite well. The band is solid and grabs the audience's attention with a riveting 'Ships w/ Sails'.










11-2-1972

25-2-1972
Williamsburg Flat Hat Student Paper VA





10-3-1972
Williamsburg Flat Hat Student Paper VA


March 5th County Auditorium,Charleston South Carolina.

March 8th University of South Carolina,Columbia South Carolina.



7-3-1972
The Columbia Record SC


March 9th 1972. Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, Georgia.
CANCELLED
This appearance in Atlanta is cancelled by the managers of the auditorium who cites The Doors as a 'riot-causing act' based on a communique from the International Auditorium and Arena Managers asserting that The Doors provoke trouble.



Interestingly enough it was also on this day in 1969 that the first fallout from Miami is felt when Major Hans Tansler cancels the Veterans Coliseum show in Jacksonville Florida and the Major of Tampa announces that The Doors will not be allowed to play there (they are NOT even scheduled to visit Tampa at that time) and declares that the majors of Floridas five biggest cities are in agreement and that they are in discussion as to how to prevent 'questionable' rock performers from ever appearing again in Florida......


The Doors return to a live stage in Florida for the first time since that fateful night in 1969 for a long weekend of three gigs in the state beginning on the Friday night in the Miami followed by the capital Tallahassee for a Saturday gig at Florida State University and finishing in Tampa on the Sunday evening for the last show of this brief tour.

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March 10th 1972. Pirates World, Dania, Miami, Florida.







This performance marks the return of the Doors to Miami an event that probably never would have occured if Jim were alive. Even with Jim gone there is still some apprehension but none of the media blitz that surrounded thier last appearance in Miami.
The crowd is unusually quiet before the band appears. As The Doors take the stage there is appreciative applause and the band goes right into thier first number the appropriately named 'Tightrope Ride'.
Circumstances demand that something be said about the return engagement of a band that created such a furore in this city exactly three years and ten days ago.
With more than a sprinkle of sly humour the band members at one point launch a quantity of hot-dog balloons into the audience suggesting thier shape be interpreted as phallic symbols. Then during 'Light My Fire' Manzarek brazenly thunders out an obscenity as if to declare: 'get a load of this Jim! Here we are back in Miami'.

This show is also the first FM live broadcast in Florida presented by radio station WBUS.


10-3-1972

12-3-1972
The Miami Herald FL


11-3-1972

12-3-1972
Fort Lauderdale News FL


16-3-1972
The Miami News FL
##It's just your imagination##

March 11th Tallahassee Sports Stadium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Miami, Florida.


9-3-1972
The Florida Flambeau Florida State U Newspaper



12-3-1972
Tallahassee-Democrat FL

March 12th 1972. Fort Homer Hesterly Armory. Tampa Florida.

The final show of the brief Doors east Coast tour is a lively one. They kick off with an enthusiastic 'Tightrope Ride' and an instrumental rendition of 'Mosquito' is one of the highlights of the performance featuring some exemplary leads from Manzarek and Krieger anchored solidly by Densmore's frenetic drumming.
'Ships w/ Sails' concludes the show and features some melodic keyboard work by Manzarek, breakneck percussion and fine vocal chorus.




10-3-1972

13-3-1972
St Petersburg Independent FL



10-3-1972

12-3-1972

13-3-1972
The Tampa Times




25-3-1972
Tampa Bay Tribune FL


14-3-1972
The Tampa Bay Times St Petersburg FL

Set List from bootleg (incomplete)

Intro
Tightrope Ride
In The Eye Of The Sun
I'm Horny, I'm Stoned
The Mosquito (Instrumental)
Band Introductions
Love Me Two Times
Ships With Sails

## The Doors are joined on stage by two members of the supporting act Badfinger for the last song!