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The Scene Club, New York 1967
"We're MUCH better in person. Our record album is only a map of our work. I'd like to play in a club where we could be with the people. Maybe we wouldn't even play. It would be great to sit down and talk with the audience, get rid of all the separate tables and have one big table."
Jim Morrison at Steve Pauls Scene Club New York 1967
September 24th 1967
San Francisco Chronicle
"Yes, people become familiar with us through the album, but it's when they see us that it all happens. Our music short-circuits the conscious mind and allows the subconscious to flow free."
Ray Manzarek at Steve Pauls Scene Club New York 1967
Monday June 12 - Thursday 15 1967
Steve Paul's Scene
New York City New York
In 1967, The Doors played for three weeks at The Scene, becoming the biggest draw in the history of the club.
The Doors begin a three week stand in New York's hottest club where everybody comes out to see their shows. This is the band's first engagement here and will play one other in October. The Doors come to The Scene and blow audiences away with a furious pace and extremely loud dark heavy sound that is very uncharacteristic for the times. It is interesting to note that it is The Doors dark heavy sound that rules The Summer of Love in a time where peace, love and flower power is supposedly the norm.
Jimi Hendrix checks out The Doors on Wedneday June 14th on his way to the Monterey Pop Festival.
Tiny Tim opens for the band.
The Doors stay in The Great Northern Hotel on 57th Street.
"A concert promoter laughed as he told the story of Morrison madly swinging the microphone at an audience at the Scene in New York. 'Tiny Tim is scared stiff. Morrison just missed his head.' Asher Dann, former Doors manager, tried to stop Morrison, resulting in a bloody fist fight on stage."
(Hank Zavellos, "The Doors," Happening Magazine #5, Summer 1967)
"The first album was like number ninety, and that was about all it was gonna be, and then came 'Light My Fire' and it went whee up to number one!...It happened so fast that we were still playing The Scene when the song hit the Top Ten. We could have been playing giant places and here we were stuck at The Scene making twenty bucks a night."
Robby Krieger
Sunday October 1 1967 - Thursday October 5 1967
Steve Paul's Scene
New York City New York
(2nd and final series, first was in June 1967)
This is the second and final series of Doors shows at the Scene, the first being in June.
These were to be the final set of shows the Doors would play at the smaller clubs like the Scene, the Whiskey, or Ondine's.
Their rise in popularity is rapidly moving them into larger venues. Within six months, the Doors will help open the Filmore East, and by early 1969 they will be one of the first rock groups to play the cavernous Madison Square Garden.
Backstage at the Scene, the Doors give a brief interview describing their views on performing live:
Jim Morrison: "We're MUCH better in person. Our record album is only a map of our work."
Ray Manzarek: "Yes, people become familiar with us through the album, but it's when they see us that it all happens. Our music short-circuits the conscious mind and allows the subconscious to flow free."
Jim Morrison: "I'd like to play in a club where we could be with other people. Maybe we wouldn't even play. It would be great to sit down and talk with the audience, get rid of all the separate tables and have one big table."
"The Doors On The Road" by Greg Shaw
"We're MUCH better in person. Our record album is only a map of our work. I'd like to play in a club where we could be with the people. Maybe we wouldn't even play. It would be great to sit down and talk with the audience, get rid of all the separate tables and have one big table."
Jim Morrison at Steve Pauls Scene Club New York 1967
September 24th 1967
San Francisco Chronicle
"Yes, people become familiar with us through the album, but it's when they see us that it all happens. Our music short-circuits the conscious mind and allows the subconscious to flow free."
Ray Manzarek at Steve Pauls Scene Club New York 1967
Monday June 12 - Thursday 15 1967
Steve Paul's Scene
New York City New York
In 1967, The Doors played for three weeks at The Scene, becoming the biggest draw in the history of the club.
The Doors begin a three week stand in New York's hottest club where everybody comes out to see their shows. This is the band's first engagement here and will play one other in October. The Doors come to The Scene and blow audiences away with a furious pace and extremely loud dark heavy sound that is very uncharacteristic for the times. It is interesting to note that it is The Doors dark heavy sound that rules The Summer of Love in a time where peace, love and flower power is supposedly the norm.
Jimi Hendrix checks out The Doors on Wedneday June 14th on his way to the Monterey Pop Festival.
Tiny Tim opens for the band.
The Doors stay in The Great Northern Hotel on 57th Street.
"A concert promoter laughed as he told the story of Morrison madly swinging the microphone at an audience at the Scene in New York. 'Tiny Tim is scared stiff. Morrison just missed his head.' Asher Dann, former Doors manager, tried to stop Morrison, resulting in a bloody fist fight on stage."
(Hank Zavellos, "The Doors," Happening Magazine #5, Summer 1967)
"The first album was like number ninety, and that was about all it was gonna be, and then came 'Light My Fire' and it went whee up to number one!...It happened so fast that we were still playing The Scene when the song hit the Top Ten. We could have been playing giant places and here we were stuck at The Scene making twenty bucks a night."
Robby Krieger
Sunday October 1 1967 - Thursday October 5 1967
Steve Paul's Scene
New York City New York
(2nd and final series, first was in June 1967)
This is the second and final series of Doors shows at the Scene, the first being in June.
These were to be the final set of shows the Doors would play at the smaller clubs like the Scene, the Whiskey, or Ondine's.
Their rise in popularity is rapidly moving them into larger venues. Within six months, the Doors will help open the Filmore East, and by early 1969 they will be one of the first rock groups to play the cavernous Madison Square Garden.
Backstage at the Scene, the Doors give a brief interview describing their views on performing live:
Jim Morrison: "We're MUCH better in person. Our record album is only a map of our work."
Ray Manzarek: "Yes, people become familiar with us through the album, but it's when they see us that it all happens. Our music short-circuits the conscious mind and allows the subconscious to flow free."
Jim Morrison: "I'd like to play in a club where we could be with other people. Maybe we wouldn't even play. It would be great to sit down and talk with the audience, get rid of all the separate tables and have one big table."
"The Doors On The Road" by Greg Shaw