The Doors - 1969-09-13 - Toronto, Canada (HQ Aud)

The Doors

1969-09-13

Toronto Rock & Roll Festival

Varsity Stadium

Toronto,Canada

HQ Audience Recording

320 kbps

Artwork Included

01. When The Music's Over

02. Break On Through

03. Back Door Man

04. The Crystal Ship

05. Poetry (Wake up!)

06. Light My Fire

07. The End

The Doors - 1969-09-13 - Toronto, Canada (HQ Aud)

The Doors were inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 1993, along with Cream, Etta James, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Ruth Brown, Van Morrison and Sly & the Family Stone. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam not only made the induction speech, but also joined the surviving members of the band to handle lead vocals on a raucous version of Roadhouse Blues.

Now, sometimes in writing these posts, it takes me a while to come up with an interesting story line related to the concert or the band in question. Other times, however, I get really lucky and the post almost writes itself. This is one of those lucky times! The Doors performance at the Toronto Rock & Roll Festival on September 13, 1969, 46 years ago today, has so many story lines associated with it that I may not have enough room or time to write about them all. First off, The Doors, who closed the festival, went on stage at about 2 am, and were the only band that refused to be filmed for a documentary called Sweet Toronto. Second, this was the same festival where John Lennon and The Plastic One Band played a set, with Eric Clapton on guitar. Yoko was so unpopular at the time that her performance was met with a hail of boo's! The subsequent album that Lennon released, called Live Peace in Toronto 1969, was the first live album released by any Beatle, either as a group or separately. Finally, this performance by The Doors was for years incorrectly listed as being from Mexico. In fact, if you look below, you'll not only find the correct artwork showing this concert taking place in Toronto, but also artwork billing this performance as Mexican Caravan. This HQ Audience recording sounds great and is definitely worth having in your collection, regardless of whether it took place north or south of the US border!