Venue Address: Amon Carter Sq. - Forth Worth, TX
Promotion: Richard Margulies & Irv Hechman/KFJZ
Event: Ft. Worth Teen Fair & Mardi Gras Festival
Also Performing:
The Livin' End
Festival Performers:
Phase V (Sept. 4th)
Jukunda's Prism (Sept. 4th)
The Box Tops (Sept. 1st & 2nd)
The Electric Prunes (Aug. 31st)
The Last Word (Aug. 30th)
The Seeds (Aug. 29th)
The Grass Roots (Aug. 28th)
Every Mothers' Son (Aug. 27th)
The Standells (Aug. 26th)
The McCoys (Aug. 26th)
Sonny & Cher (Unknown)
Setlist:
Light My Fire
(Incomplete)
Recordings / Film:
Unavailable
Photographers:
Tom Franklin
Unidentified (Amateur)
Reviews / Info:
-This is The Doors first of two nights at this festival.
-The Teen Fair & Mardi Gras Festival is originally scheduled to take place in Dallas.
-This 10-day festival takes place from Aug. 26th - Sept. 4th and includes many performers.
-Admission for any performance during the festival is $2.00
-Custom buttons reading drug related slogans are banned from sale during the festival.
-The Doors performance takes place in the Round Up Inn section of the Will Rogers complex.
-The Doors arrive late for their performance, likely due to travel from New Jersey.
-The Doors borrow equipment from another act, likely due to their equipment not having arrived.
-The Doors follow an extended set by The Livin' End.
-Photographers listed for these shows may have attended either of the Fort Worth performances.
-The Doors return to headline the festival on September 4th for closing night.
-While in Ft. Worth The Doors appear at a location radio station for an interview.
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Newspaper: Fort Worth Star-TelegramAuthor: Perry Stewart
Publish Date: September 6th - 1967
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