Venue Address: 3400 W Arbor Vitae Street - Inglewood, CA
Promotion: Inglewood Recreation Department & Darby Park
Event: In Concert
Also Performing:
The Wild Ones
Setlist:
Break On Through
Light My Fire
(Incomplete)
Recordings / Film:
Unavailable
Photographers:
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Reviews / Info:
-A poster for this show is known to exist.
-Tickets for this show are $2.00
-The Doors are scheduled to perform from 8:30pm to 9:00pm.
-The Doors perform at the Earl Warren Showgrounds in Santa Barbara later this evening.
The stage at Darby Park was small. The room was a multi-purpose public recreation center, not a music venue, although they did use the room for High School dances with live bands. The stage was elevated about four feet. I remember this well as I was in the front pressed against it. (I've worked in television production for 47+ years, doing dozens of music shows, and this is a typical stage height in a small indoor venue. It allows for people to be up against the stage looking up and able to put their elbows on the stage). I also attended many dances at Darby Park. The room was set up the same for every band, much like a club.
Although the room had a better than average crowd, it was not packed as one might now assume there'd be to see The Doors. The local kids were regularly being exposed every other week to new hit bands getting radio airplay at the Darby Rec., the Hawthorn Rec., and at that time The Doors were a relatively new band to a lot of them. However, I do remember being excited that they were performing, but it definitely was not as formal as getting tickets for a rock event today. You bought the tickets at the door with no problem. This performance was primarily part of a series of dances, not concerts, with the emphasis being on dance.
I hadn't remembered that The Doors only played three songs that night. I know they did Light My Fire but not 100% sure of the other two. I'm almost certain they did Break On Through. One small quirky thing, and for some reason I have always remembered this: Morrison was not dressed in the manner as he is now portrayed. I remember him wearing an old white T-shirt with a glaring finger sized hole along the bottom on one side, which struck me funny at the time and burned into my memory. Seemed like he didn't make an effort to dress up like most of the bands I had seen locally. This was before it was hip to look like this - May 1967."
Tom Boles
Inglewood, CA
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A Special Thanks to Tom Boles for providing his review of the show to MildEquator.com!
"I am unsure of exactly when the event took place. Darby Park is in Inglewood, CA, near where I went to High School and I went to the show with some friends. We had heard of The Doors a little and knew they were becoming famous, we were surprised to see them play this little venue, which was a tiny stage in a recreation center at the park. They did three numbers and were gone. Usually only some bands from various high schools would play there. One group from my high school, The Crossfires, would later rename themselves The Turtles."
Dexter Crockett
Inglewood, CA
Copyright © 2018 Dexter Crockett
A Special Thanks to Dexter Crockett for providing his review of the concert to MildEquator.com!
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