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KRNT THEATER - 09/27/1967

DES MOINES, IA - U.S.A.

Venue Address: 10th & Pleasant - Des Moines, IA
Promotion: Interstate Productions/Steve Gold/KIOA
Event: In Concert

Also Performing:
Pete Klint Quintet
The Quarry

Setlist:
House Announcer (Peter McLane)
Break On Through
People Are Strange
(Incomplete)

Recordings / Film:
Unavailable

Photographers:
Jim Thompson (Amateur)

Reviews / Info:
-Jim Morrison attends a party for Cheetah Magazine in New York the night before.
-A box office statement indicates that 566 tickets are sold for this show.
-Seating capacity for this venue is 4,000.
-Low ticket sales are due to poor promotion of the event.
-Posters for this show are not printed.
-This is the first of what was to be a set of concerts put on monthly by the KRNT Theater.
-8:00pm scheduled start time.
-Lights By Flower Power & Light Co.
-Ushers at this show are allowed to take a seat for the performance.
-Jim Morrison is disappointed with the low turnout in the audience.
-Due to poor attendance, Jim Morrison turns a stagelight around on the audience in order to 'see' them.
-The Doors do not return to Des Moines.
-This venue is demolished in 1986, and stacks of unsold tickets as well as a box office statement are recovered from the venue by Tom Lester.