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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 20, 2005 20:36:26 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 21, 2005 14:49:40 GMT
 A poster for the second half of this tour shows how muddled The Doors Final Tour was. Some dates never happened and some not on that date.
The last show was scheduled for Santa Monica Civic but was changed to The Bowl as support slot to Frank ZappaAugust 18th 1972. Dillon Stadium Hartford CT.Another open air event with The Doors sharing a bill with The Kinks and headlined by The Beach Boys.
A downpour halts the concert for an hour and The Doors finish an excellent concert with a superb set that goes on until 1.30AM## a poster at the bottom claims the Doors only play 4 songs and their set ended late afternoon but this is contradicted by the ticket which says 7pm.    12-8-1972   19-8-1972 Hartford Courant CT August 19th 1972. Palace Concert Theater, Providence, Rhode Island.  August 20th 1972. DAR Constitution Hall, Washington DC.For whatever reason neither The Doors or Dr John have good shows tonight. The Doors opening songs are apparently so rough that a number of people actually head for the exit. Flo and Edie steal the show. August 21st 1972. The Schaefer Music Festival - Wellman Memorial Rink Central Park, NY The Doors' final appearance in New York, the city that had so passionately embraced them from the start, is met by an exceptionally enthusiastic audience. It is a polished show that clearly evidences the strong influence that jazz is having on the direction of the band. After opening with a smooth "Tightrope Ride," the band continues with an effective version of "In the Eye of the Sun," which prominently features the increasing subtlety of Krieger's slide guitar. During "Verdillac," they are joined by Charles Lloyd,and they do a lengthly version of the song. Toward the conclusion of the performance, the Doors do an expansive "Ships with Sails," which has evolved into a jazz-flavored piece featuring extended percussion and flute segments. The feeling of the song is appreciably different from previous versions, even though the structure is essentially the same. Even the succeeding "Light My Fire" now features a sax instrumental following Manzarek'straditional one on keyboard. After the instrumental, Manzarek comes in a little late on the verses, and the crowd,which had actually been clapping in time during the passage jumps right in with the lyrics and continues to sing along with the band through the conclusion. There is an unmistakable fondness for the band in the air tonight. To wrap up the show, Charles Lloyd joins the band again for their grand finale of "Close to You." Variety reports: "[The] original members of the Doors led the revised combo through a stirring set at the Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park last Monday, one of the summer season's best Gotham concerts. Charles Lloyd, a top jazz musician, joined on tenor on 'Verdillac,' as he does on disk, and flute on 'Ships with Sails.' The rousing encore was their oldie 'Light MyFire.' Manzarek's strong organ playing and vocals did justice to his composition, which had been associated with Jim Morrison, the Doors' late vocal star. Krieger was solid on lead guitar, as was Densmore on drums."
Krib, Variety, Aug. 30, 1972
The Doors On TheRoad    Set list from bootleg # probably incompleteTightrope Ride
In The Eye Of The Sun
The Mosquito
Love Me Two Times
Verdilac
I'm Horny, I'm Stoned
Ships With Sails
Light My Fire
Close To You  The Schaefer Music Festival Summer 1972 Programme August 23rd 1972. Ritz Staten Island, New York   August 24th 1972. Norfolk City Hall VermontProbably this concert never took place.August 25th 1972. Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, Georgia.CANCELLED
The Atlanta city officials again insist on cancelling this performance (as they had done in March citing the band as a riot-causing act) despite the fact that Jim Morrison is dead.
When it is explained to them that drastic changes have been made to the band they repeatedly refer back to articles detailing Morrison's legal difficulties.
All attempts to provide them with factual information proves fruitless.
August 25th 1972. The Dick Cavett Show" ABC 56th Street Theatre - New York.
Instead The Doors head for New York and appear on the Dick Cavatt show recording an early evening spot that featured 'The Mosquito' and 'Good Rockin' which is shown later that night.August 27th 1972. County Music Hall, Memphis, Tennessee.This is surprisingly the bands only visit to TennesseeSeptember 1st 1972. Majestic Theater, Dallas, Texas. 1-9-1972 Dallas Morning News TX September 2nd 1972 New Orleans City Auditorium, Louisiana.September 3rd 1972 Michigan Palace, Detroit, Michigan.  1-9-1972 Detroit Free Press MI   September 10th 1972: Santa Monica Civic Los Angeles California. Tickets were printed but the concert would relocate to The Hollywood BowlSeptember 10th 1972: The Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles California.Sadly the bands swansong is rather anticlimactic playing second fiddle to Frank Zappa's debut of his latest album.
Originally planned for Santa Monica Civic the band instead go for a support slot to a larger audience at The Hollywood Bowl, a venue they could not hope to fill anymore.
A recording exists and from the tape we can hear it is a lively affair with some nice music and vocals from Ray.
In the end though it is rather an afterthought for such a fine band.
## This was not meant to be the final Doors gig but circumstances made it that when the band came to England to recruit a singer.
Melody Maker announced Howard Werth of Audience was to be the new singer but then Dorothy was ill and Ray said that nobody could replace Morrison and The Doors were done.
Ironic that 30 years later anybody could replace him from a Morrison wannabee from The Cult to some Croatian bloke who could not even remember the words to a full on tribute band singer.
The band entered with a seismic shock and went out with a small fart.
Damn shame.
I've searched magazine and newspaper archives and found nothing written about The Doors last gig that isn't about Frank Zappa.
Without his site there would be hardly a mention.
And to be brutally frank (no pun intended) it was barely mentioned in California newspapers.  Intro Tightrope Ride In The Eye Of The Sun The Mosquito Band Introductions Love Me Two Times The Piano Bird Verdilac / I'm Horny, I'm Stoned Ships With Sails Light My Fire "Thank You, Jim"  18-8-1972 LA Free Press Zappa poster from a month before concert does not have The Doors on the bill so presumably they were still looking at playing Santa Monica. The Doors were augmented by Jack Conrad on bass guitar and Bobby Ray on rhythm guitar with Ron Starr on saxophones.
The Doors performance tonight is tight and well paced with a driving gutsy blues sound that fuels the entire evening. Manzarek is in high spirits and mischievously introduces Robby Krieger as 'The divine the sexy Robby Krieger' before the band do their 'Mosquito' number. Krieger responds with some tasteful guitar work.
Flute player Charles Lloyd, who performed on the Full Circle album, joined the band for Johns 'Piano Bird' and stays with them for the remainder of the set.
While introducing 'Light My Fire' Manzarek delivers what in retrospect could be considered a eulogy for the band......
"When we first started out there were four of us and one of the guys is missing now. I don't know whether you know that or not. But he met with a little unfortunate accident and he's not here right now. But he'll be back. He'll be back next time we play the Bowl! And we're going to try and do this whether or not he's just hanging around digging it. We're going to do this one for our own Jimbo! Okay Jim get ready! I know you're out there somewhere man so get ready for it cause here it comes!"
The Doors proceed through their finale with gusto and at the conclusion Ray loudly exclaims their farewells with 'Thank you very much, thank you Jim. We'll see you'
Taken from Doors On the Road  1-9-1972 Progress-Bulletin Pomona, Calif  29-8-1972  4-9-1972 The Daily Report Ontario-Upland CA    7-9-1972 Valley News Perris CA Sunday, September 10, 1972, following the 7:30 p.m. EDT scheduled start time for opening act Tim Buckley but before headliner Frank Zappa — 26 months and one week after lead singer Jim Morrison was found dead in a bathtub in Paris, the surviving members of the American rock group The Doors — keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore — performed tonight at the Hollywood Bowl in the Hollywood Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California
Jazz musician Charles Lloyd joined The Doors on stage for “The Piano Bird” and remained there for the rest of the show for five songs.
While introducing the final number, “Light My Fire,” Manzarek delivered what in retrospect could be considered a eulogy for the band:
“When we first started out there were four of us and one of the guys is missing now. I don’t know whether you know that or not. But he met with a little unfortunate accident and he’s not here right now. But he’ll be back. He’ll be back next time we play the Bowl! And we’re going to try and do this whether or not he’s just hanging around digging it. We’re going to do this one for our own Jimbo! Okay, Jim get ready! I know you’re out there somewhere man so get ready for it cause here it comes!”
The Doors proceed through their finale with gusto and at the conclusion, Ray loudly exclaimed their farewells with ‘Thank you very much, thank you, Jim. We’ll see you.”
The Doors continued to record throughout 1973 as a trio, but after two albums it seemed they had exhausted the possibilities of a band without a commanding lead singer.
Manzarek had hoped to reconstitute the group with Iggy Pop, whose avowed chief influence was Morrison, but plans fell through."  17-2-1972 Los Angeles Times. CA.  Autographed Univox Amp poster |
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Post by jimbo on Jan 27, 2005 18:54:27 GMT
do recordings exist of the post-morrison tours? What about their performance of The mosquito on tv?
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Post by darkstar on Jan 27, 2005 19:12:48 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 27, 2005 19:59:35 GMT
I have a couple of good ones and I have heard a few others.....not bad shows really..... the Balboa stadium is a good gig and features Mosquito. The Cavet Show is knocking around somewhere but don't think I have seen it...  |
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Post by stuart on May 18, 2006 14:16:51 GMT
Alex Mate, I got a post morrison cd from my mate it's from july 21 1972 at the aragon ballroom, chicago,Il, i have heard VERY little post morrison stuff, i love this gig, great songs like"In The Eye Of Sun" and a roaring version Of "I'm Horny, I'm Stoned" great gig imo  . |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Apr 14, 2011 11:45:27 GMT
 Early Poster for the final Doors tour.... NB# Interesting as before the tour actually began several dates were rearranged or cancelled altogether. Michigan Palace, Detroit was on the 3rd not 4th September with the Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival appearance replacing that date on the 4th. The Doors show there was eventually cancelled as the festival descends into chaos. |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Nov 19, 2011 10:55:24 GMT
 This photo on the cover of this keyboard song book is of a great deal of interest. It shows Ray's set up from the Mark II Doors era and is really interesting as the band have a sax player present. This means it must be the 1972 Full Circle tour as the sax player must be Charles Lloyd who joined them from time to time on flute and sax. The band incorporated a sax solo into LMF on the few times he appeared. The Schaefer Music Festival was one of those occasions and this photo is probably from there as if you look at the pix of that gig Ray and Robby are wearing the same clothes. |
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Post by Richard on Apr 25, 2020 21:36:01 GMT
I was backstage at the Aug. 18, 1972 concert at Dilon Stadium in Hartford as a guest of the promoters. I remember holding an umbrella onstage as the Beach Boys performed and the Doors were disappointed as there was only time for 3 or 4 songs for them. This concert ended later in afternoon with their last song, not in the wee hours of the morning.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Aug 1, 2023 12:09:23 GMT
As part of the last tour The Doors headline a couple of what would be today known as 'one day festivals'.
This shows the power the bands name still has in the States as even without Jim they are a big draw at major one-day events.
One such event is the Eire Soda Pop Festival which was to be a disaster.September 4th 1972, Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival, Bull Island in the Wabash River, Carmi, Illinois. Doors appearance cancelled  Although the festival does occur it is reportedly a farce due to the difficulties the overwhelmed promoters have to endure when threats of injunctions disrupt their plans at Chandler Raceway park and a final festival site could not be secured until Friday.
The promoters expect 75,000 people but the crowd is estimated at 275,000 but they have no facilities for such a crowd let alone the 75K they expected.
By Monday after 3 days of chilling rain and a lack of food 3 people have died and half starved fans have killed a cow but have no means of cutting it up or cooking it.
This convinces most of the audience they have had enough and they begin pouring out of the festival site.
On the final day aggrieved audience members burn the stage, topple the lighting towers and participate in various acts of destruction.
The Doors never appeared on the Monday evening concert nor did The Faces, Fleetwood Mac, or Nazareth. The Allman Brothers and John Mayall did perform.
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