The Doors - 1967-06-10 - Marin County, CA (Video SBD)

The Doors

1967-06-10
fantasy Fair & magic Miuntain Muisc Festival

Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre

Mount Tamalpais

Marin County, CA

Video Soundboard

320 kbps

No Artwork

01. When the Music's  Over (Missing)

02. Break On Through (to the Other Side)

03. Soul Kitchen (Missing)

04. Light My Fire (Missing)

The Doors - 1967-06-10 - Marin County, CA (Video 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 albuma in rock history (see our earlier Paul McCartney post if you're not sure what album!)! 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.  Earlier in the year, The Doors played the first US Rock festival, just a week prior to Monterey Pop. The 2 day Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival, which bad hosted about 40,000 fans, took place on June 10 a d 11 and in addition to The Doors, featured Jrfferson Airplane, The Grassroots, Canned heat, The Byrds, The 5th Domension and Steve Miller, just to name a few. Unlike Monterey Pop, which was professionally recorded and filmed, very little audio or video can be found of the Fantasy Faoir festiva; This audio of Break On Through, ripped from a short video clipo from the The Door's performance on day 1 of the festival, on June 10, 1967, 55 years ago today, is all that can be found of their 4 song set.