Post by darkstar3 on Feb 8, 2011 19:10:56 GMT
Bridgeport Post
August 2 1968
The Doors Sing To 5,000 Here
By Charles S Gardner
The Doors, a four man rock group whose, “Hello I Love You,” is currently the number one popular song, entertained 5,000 people in Kennedy Stadium last night, singing among other songs, “Light My Fire,” which gained the groups popularity.
Preceded by the five man Graffiti, a recording group with ABC, the Doors, led by baby faced Jim Morrison, shouted and shrieked their numbers in the portable band shell, behind an arsenal of amplifiers.
Having produced three best selling albums on the Elektra label, the Doors, who derive their name from Blake’s Doors of Perception, sing original songs, that owe their style to last year’s West Coast acid rock.
Audience Is Young.
The audience was young, with a predominance of the long haired, scruffy variety, which made a colorful show for a summer’s evening.
Jim Morrison, spiritual leader of the group, attired from head to toe in leather, sang his poetry, much of which is vaguely mystical, some of which is love song, and more of which is special brand of revolutionary, anti-police, anti-older generation rock, in a variably couched in sensuality Morrison seems to exude.
The Doors clearly are speaking, to their peers and their language is not commutable to any others. Their music is harsh, and, with the exception of the almost rollicking organ, too aggressive. But then Morrison slinks across the stage, eyes shut, dazed and croons huskily, off key into the mike. The effect is startling. The audience, instead of screaming as in the early Beatles days is silent, focused on Morrison and listens to what he says.
Morrison performs with an economy of motion which scads his every act of strange significance. The effect is eerie; be, Morrison is evil and the world behind his closed eyelids is enticing yet forbidding. The Morrison mystique speaks as eloquently to his audience as he seems to threaten the police lining the stadium.
Morrison, the police, the green playing field, and the huge enthusiastic audience under the thunderstorm which did not appear, gave the entire performance a surrealistic touch which might not have been merited in daylight. Yet the sort of energy the Doors seem to command from their audiences cannot be excused with the usual platitudes. The 5,000 youths packed in the Kennedy Stadium responded almost too readily, to the image The Doors seem to portray in them. Rather than be accursed of stirring their audience, the Doors can only be applauded for touching something in them not available through more conventional means.
The Doors concluded their show with “Little Red Rooster,” and the “Unknown Soldier,” a desperately anti-war ballad climaxing with Morrison being thrown to the floor, in a burst of exploding electronic feedback. The whining rises, the audience rises to their feet, the Doors retreat out the back.
The Bridgeport Festival theatre will sponsor two more popular music shows this summer, produced by Ben Segal. On Aug. 26 Jimi Hendrix, and on Sept. 1 the Rascals, will perform in the Festival Tent Theatre.
END.
August 2 1968
The Doors Sing To 5,000 Here
By Charles S Gardner
The Doors, a four man rock group whose, “Hello I Love You,” is currently the number one popular song, entertained 5,000 people in Kennedy Stadium last night, singing among other songs, “Light My Fire,” which gained the groups popularity.
Preceded by the five man Graffiti, a recording group with ABC, the Doors, led by baby faced Jim Morrison, shouted and shrieked their numbers in the portable band shell, behind an arsenal of amplifiers.
Having produced three best selling albums on the Elektra label, the Doors, who derive their name from Blake’s Doors of Perception, sing original songs, that owe their style to last year’s West Coast acid rock.
Audience Is Young.
The audience was young, with a predominance of the long haired, scruffy variety, which made a colorful show for a summer’s evening.
Jim Morrison, spiritual leader of the group, attired from head to toe in leather, sang his poetry, much of which is vaguely mystical, some of which is love song, and more of which is special brand of revolutionary, anti-police, anti-older generation rock, in a variably couched in sensuality Morrison seems to exude.
The Doors clearly are speaking, to their peers and their language is not commutable to any others. Their music is harsh, and, with the exception of the almost rollicking organ, too aggressive. But then Morrison slinks across the stage, eyes shut, dazed and croons huskily, off key into the mike. The effect is startling. The audience, instead of screaming as in the early Beatles days is silent, focused on Morrison and listens to what he says.
Morrison performs with an economy of motion which scads his every act of strange significance. The effect is eerie; be, Morrison is evil and the world behind his closed eyelids is enticing yet forbidding. The Morrison mystique speaks as eloquently to his audience as he seems to threaten the police lining the stadium.
Morrison, the police, the green playing field, and the huge enthusiastic audience under the thunderstorm which did not appear, gave the entire performance a surrealistic touch which might not have been merited in daylight. Yet the sort of energy the Doors seem to command from their audiences cannot be excused with the usual platitudes. The 5,000 youths packed in the Kennedy Stadium responded almost too readily, to the image The Doors seem to portray in them. Rather than be accursed of stirring their audience, the Doors can only be applauded for touching something in them not available through more conventional means.
The Doors concluded their show with “Little Red Rooster,” and the “Unknown Soldier,” a desperately anti-war ballad climaxing with Morrison being thrown to the floor, in a burst of exploding electronic feedback. The whining rises, the audience rises to their feet, the Doors retreat out the back.
The Bridgeport Festival theatre will sponsor two more popular music shows this summer, produced by Ben Segal. On Aug. 26 Jimi Hendrix, and on Sept. 1 the Rascals, will perform in the Festival Tent Theatre.
END.