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February 17th - 2026

After one whole year since our last official update, we're extremely pleased to bring the latest & greatest to our fans here at MildEquator.com! Today marks our 16th year online, and with many new items to see, we hope these are always worth the wait! This time around we're proud to feature a fantastic new Showcase item, hundreds of new concert items, stories, and much more! And of course we always have new YouTube additions from ourselves, and this time, some of our good friends!

First up from one of our longtime and regular contributors, JackGotLucky, our latest Showcase item documents a unique encounter with The Doors at a renowned Tucson hotel in 1968! We'd like to congratulate and also give our utmost thanks to Tommy for his acquisition, and for bestowing us the pleasure of featuring this new one on the site! And speaking of Showcase features, we'd like to give a very special thanks to UK auction house Ewbank's Auctions for allowing us to feature many new and unseen letters written between Leon Barnard and The Doors manager Bill Siddons in 1968! Head over to our previous feature The Doors Press Agent to have a look! And for those of you reading this, Leon says Hello!

At long last, we now have confirmation of The Doors booking at the famed Unicorn Coffee House in Boston in 1967! While the scheduled engagement for July of that year was originally cancelled, no memorabilia or documentation has previously been known to exist. After nearly 60 years, we finally have the proof! MildEquator.com would like to give a huge thanks to our friend, and new contributor, Tyler Supczak, for acquiring and contributing this long lost record of what would have been The Doors first ever performances in Boston!

While scrolling through, our viewers may notice a YouTube video from another channel belonging to our friend Reed Barrickman. Reed is currently making very valuable use of new technologies to improve existing media by The Doors, and we are extremely impressed by his re-working of The Doors original 1965 demo acetate from mono into stereo! While copies of the acetate have been available to fans for many years, no stereo version has ever existed or been created in the past, and this is one you don't want to miss! We'd also like to thank Reed for his discovery of a concert attendee and his ticket stub for The Doors May 6th, 1967 performance at the Valley Music Theatre in Woodland Hills, California! Previously this known but unconfirmed date was thought to have been May 7th, however an existing diary kept by a young woman in 1967 pointed to May 6th, and the final discovery of the ticket stub and first-hand account by Reed is the icing on the cake! See the ticket stub below or head over to the Valley Music Theatre concert info page for more information about this one!

Along with our own contributions from newspapers all over the world, we've always considered ourselves lucky for a devoted assistance to making new discoveries from our longtime contributor Alfred Ruppert! This time we're pleased to tell you about Alfred's discovery that there was at one time, without a doubt, a tape recording of The Doors performance at the University Of Denver in 1970! As always, we greatly appreciate, and want to give Alfred a huge thanks for some of the coolest items we have featured on the site! See below for many of those new ones, and always be sure to watch out for Alfred's discoveries both here and in our discussion group, because you never know what it's going to be, and it's always something great! Thanks Alfred!

While many biographers and documentarians of Jim Morrison recount the day when the news of the death of Jim Morrison was announced to the world, most histories refer to the public announcement made by The Doors manager Bill Siddons on television on July 9th, 1971. For this update, we want to highlight the original statement made by Elektra Records founder Jac Holzman in Cash Box magazine on July 17th, 1971. See below for that article, and be sure to check out the original typed statement by Bill Siddons while you're scrolling through.

We want to take a moment to thank the team currently working at https://www.ronnieharan.com/ for their tireless efforts in documenting and bringing to light some unique items from The Doors early history, including very rare and original 1966 photos of The Doors performing at the Whisky A Go Go, original concert contracts, intimate photos taken by and of Jim Morrison, and likely much more! We'd also like to give a thank you directly to Ronnie for giving fans of The Doors an opportunity to look inside the massive vault of the band's very first booking agent! Head over to Ronnie's site for the full story and all of Ronnie's incredible items and history!

Lastly, we're extremely pleased to tell our viewers about our new friendship with Alan Brackett, founding member of the Peanut Butter Conspiracy! With Alan's help, we're able to work through and correct various concert dates and details, and we certainly couldn't conclude this update without telling our viewers about Alan's magnificently honest and self-published paperback book (featuring a chapter on Jim Morrison) - Almost Famous - Journey To The Summer Of Love! Amazon is the official place to get this one, and be sure you do, because this is a memoir on the 60's you don't want to miss!

Thank you once again to all our viewers and contributors for their patience, and for going along with us on this ride of the last 16 years! We do plan to continue until the wheels come off, so be sure to stop by often as you just never know when the latest update may be here!

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REED BARRICKMAN'S RE-WORKING OF THE DOORS 1965 DEMO IN STEREO!

SHOWCASE FEATURE: THE DOORS AT THE AZTEC INN

Contributed By: JackGotLucky

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UNICORN COFFEE HOUSE - JULY 1967

Following their performances at Steve Paul's The Scene in June of 1967, The Doors are scheduled to perform at the now iconic Unicorn Coffee House in Boston from July 4th to 16th. For unknown reasons, The Doors do not take up residence at the venue, but instead return home to Los Angeles and embark on a series of sold out performances throughout California in what later becomes known as the summer of love. MildEquator.com is proud to feature the first officially known ad for the cancelled Unicorn Coffee House performances, with thanks to our new contributor and friend, Tyler Supczak!

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LOST CONCERT RECORDING: DENVER 1970

A student newspaper known as the Colorado Daily runs advertisements from April 14th-17th offering copies of a tape recording of The Doors performance at the University of Denver on April 12th, 1970. Other classifieds from the same taper are known from this newspaper and include offerings of tapes from bands like Led Zeppelin who perform at the Denver Coliseum on March 25th. At the present date, no known copies of this tape recording of The Doors are known to have surfaced or survived.

STEVE BLINDER RECALLS THE DOORS AT DARBY PARK - 1967

"I was 11 years old living in Inglewood, in a tiny house on 119th Street, that my dad bought for $11,000. It was a couple of miles from Darby Park. My mom had signed me up to join a group of young teens & preteens called the "White Cap Club", which she thought would expose me to more things & people than my one-dimensional life of baseball games at Hollypark Little League.

Little did she know that one of those sanctioned activities by the club - back in May of 1967 - was a "dance" at Darby Park. I don't recall there being more than a hundred or two hundred people there, so the place was far from crowded. There were no seats at all in the small room, so, once the lights dimmed and the band started up - it was easy for me walk up and stand a few feet in front of the stage, where my innocent mind became promptly blown by one of the very first live performances of Jim Morrison & The Doors. Thank you mom!"

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THE PERSUADERS OPEN THE DOORS IN ANNAPOLIS - 1967

"As the lead singer/rhythm guitar player of The Persuaders, I (Scott Babbitt) can attest that literally everything in the reporting is factual. I hadn't thought about this stuff in quite a while. After all, it did happen a long time ago -- in a galaxy far, far away.

We had an ongoing professional relationship with Frank Ferreri (Ron Rondo), DJ and Program Manager at WYRE radio station in Annapolis, MD. WYRE was the promoter for frequent shows at the Annapolis National Guard Armory in the 1966-1968 period. Frank was a key individual in these promotions in terms of interfacing with and managing the talent for these shows. As a result of our relationship (and, I'm assuming we were apparently popular enough to draw a crowd...) we were the opening act for a number WYRE-promoted shows acts booked at the Armory. During the 1966-1969 period, we opened for: The Yardbirds (Jeff Beck period), Neil Diamond, The Doors (you know about that one...), Gary Puckett and The Union Gap, The Buckinghams, Tommy Roe, The Kingsmen, and The Ohio Express. We also did a local TV show with Franki Valli and The Four Seasons, but that's another story.

My recollection of that night is that Jim Morrison acted strangely from the get-go and became increasingly "unstable" as the event wore on. Ray Manzarek was a complete gentleman and "ran interference" around Morrison. Don't remember the other band members. Now, hindsight being 20/20, including "Light My Fire" in our opening setlist was perhaps not the brightest decision we ever made, but it was not intended maliciously. Morrison, however, went absolutely BALLISTIC. I recall Manzarek physically restraining him from striking our lead guitar player, Jerry Polk.

Unfortunately, I have no photos or recordings of The Doors show. We shared what served as a "dressing room" with The Doors. That's where we briefly had a pre-show meeting with Ferreri and The Doors. Morrison was uncommunicative with everyone, including his band members. As I alluded to before, Ray Manzarek was the opposite from that, and was friendly and engaging. We returned to the dressing room after we finished our opening set, and that's when the altercation with Morrison occurred. I'm a little fuzzy on the details after that, but it HAS been 58 years..."

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BILL SIDDONS STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF JIM MORRISON

Read On Television & Radio: July 9th, 1971

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JAC HOLZMAN STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF JIM MORRISON

Published: Cash Box - July 17th, 1971

Jim Morrison was an artist of stellar magnitude who was able to retain a bemused and detached perspective on his aura, his art, and his stardom. His exciting qualities as a performer and writer are universally known to the fascinated public for whom Jim was always news.

Jim admired those people who stretched their lives to the fullest, who lived out on the edge of experience. He possessed special insight into people, their lives, and into the dark corners of human existence.

But beyond his public image, he was a friend to many, and those of us at Elektra who worked with him and The Doors so closely over the past five years will remember him as one of the kindest and most thoughtful people we have known.

He is already missed.

Jac Holzman - Cash Box, July 17th, 1971