The Doors - 1970-06-05 - Seattle, WA (SBD)

The Doors:
1970-06-05
Seattle Center
Seattle, WA
Soundboard recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included

01. Intro
02. Roadhouse Blues
03. Someday Soon (omitted - officially released)
04. Mystery Train
05. Break On Through
06. Five To One
07. Backdoor Man
08. The End
09. When The Music's Over

The Doors - 1970-06-05 - Seattle, WA (SBD)

The may have been from Los Angeles and not San Francisco, but The Doors were an integral part of 1967 and the Summer Of Love.  They released their self titled debut album early that year, and by the time summer rolled around, it had reached #2 on the Billboard charts, blocked from the top spot by the one of the most famous album in rock history (more on that disc later this month!). The single Light My Fire would climb all the way to #1. In September, the band released their 2nd album, Strange Days, which went to #3 on the Billboard charts. While the album didn’t yield a single as successful as Light My Fire, both People Are Strange and Love Me Two Times made it into the Billboard Top 25. That same month, on September 17, The Doors gave a memorable performance of Light My Fire on The Ed Sullivan Show. Before the show, network executives asked that the word “higher” be removed in favor of "better', to avoid any suggestion of drug use. While the group initially agreed, once the band hit the stage, Jim Morrison, in classic 1960s example of the counter-culture defying the establishment, left the original lyric in place. A furious Ed Sullivan canceled another six appearances that had been planned, banning The Doors from the show forever. This soundboard captures The Doors live in Seattle 3 years later, on June 5, 1970, 47 years ago today.