PANDORA'S BOX - 06/xx/1966

West Hollywood, CA - U.S.A.

Venue Address: 8118 Sunset Blvd. - West Hollywood, CA 
Promotion: Jimmy O'Neill
Event: In Concert

Also Performing:
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Setlist:
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Recordings / Film:
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Photographers:
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Reviews / Info:
-The Doors may have given multiple performances at this venue during this time period.
-Approx. 100 in attendance.
-Robby Krieger recalls performing at this venue.
-Jon Keliehor of the Daily Flash attends one of these performances. (See Below)
-This venue would become the center of the Sunset Strip Riots in November 1966.

"I was visiting Los Angeles with Daily Flash and had time to kill, so I simply went to see them play one night just prior to their leap into stardom.

I was staying at the Tropicana Motor Hotel. Over breakfast I met John Densmore. I had no idea who he was but we managed to develop a decent conversation that was followed by an invitation to pop across the road to see the rehearsal studio. John put me on the guest list later that night at Pandora's to see them perform. That's it. Not much of a story, but they were excellent... playing a set of controlled but strong music pieces... I could sense an academic/philosophic mind at work behind their ideas. The club was small. The group were situated on the floor level with the audience, and everyone in the club was standing as close as possible to the group. Maybe there were a little less than 100 people. It was intimate. The night reminded me of the first gigs of the Daily Flash, where the people who came to see us, both new fans and friends needed us to raise the bar for what a performance could be, somehow turn the night into magic."

Jon Keliehor
Glasgow, SCT
Copyright © 2020 Jon Keliehor

A Special Thanks to Jon Keliehor for providing his review of the show to MildEquator.com!

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