Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 21, 2023 10:17:44 GMT
A very strange double bill for The Doors saw Jim's return to his Alexandria VA roots for the one and only time.
Obviously the band had meant to play these shows on the same night as the poster clearly states that.
The band were riding high in the charts with LMF at #1 and the album at #5.
It peaked at #2 and never made #1 as the poster states.
Alexandria was where Jim began to explore his talents as a poet.
He famously read his new poem Horse Latitudes to an audience for the first time at the Beat café Coffee 'n' Confusion just across the river in DC's K street.
Annapolis National Guard Armory MD August 18th 1967
Very little known about the Annapolis gig other than Morrison had pissed off the rest of band to such an extent that they refused to travel to Virginia with him.
So a good start for his homecoming gig already.
Alexandria Roller Rink Arena VA August 18th 1967
Boundary Stones
Maryland History website.
# No it wasn't. Not even close.
There are numerous examples where the band played 2 different venues the same evening/night.
"A psychedelic panorama of sight and sound, as 4,000 teenagers watched and walked around… most stood and listened, few were dancing… the scene resembled DuPont Circle, transplanted… as the “flower children” made the scene… bright with flowered dresses, feather boas, floppy hats, peacock feather earrings, mini-dressed girls with straight, shining hair, looking as if they were ready for bed, wearing baby-doll gowns….
Feminine costumes paled in contrast to those worn by their brothers who wore necklaces of sea shells and Indians beads….
Many carried their shoes… their feet becoming blacker and blacker, as the evening wore on… whether it is better to see, or to be seen, that is the question."
The Clinton Star-Leader MD
Obviously the band had meant to play these shows on the same night as the poster clearly states that.
The band were riding high in the charts with LMF at #1 and the album at #5.
It peaked at #2 and never made #1 as the poster states.
Alexandria was where Jim began to explore his talents as a poet.
He famously read his new poem Horse Latitudes to an audience for the first time at the Beat café Coffee 'n' Confusion just across the river in DC's K street.
Annapolis National Guard Armory MD August 18th 1967
Very little known about the Annapolis gig other than Morrison had pissed off the rest of band to such an extent that they refused to travel to Virginia with him.
So a good start for his homecoming gig already.
Alexandria Roller Rink Arena VA August 18th 1967
Boundary Stones
Maryland History website.
# No it wasn't. Not even close.
There are numerous examples where the band played 2 different venues the same evening/night.
"A psychedelic panorama of sight and sound, as 4,000 teenagers watched and walked around… most stood and listened, few were dancing… the scene resembled DuPont Circle, transplanted… as the “flower children” made the scene… bright with flowered dresses, feather boas, floppy hats, peacock feather earrings, mini-dressed girls with straight, shining hair, looking as if they were ready for bed, wearing baby-doll gowns….
Feminine costumes paled in contrast to those worn by their brothers who wore necklaces of sea shells and Indians beads….
Many carried their shoes… their feet becoming blacker and blacker, as the evening wore on… whether it is better to see, or to be seen, that is the question."
The Clinton Star-Leader MD
