Venue Address: 181 White St. - Danbury, CT 
Promotion: Fall Weekend Committee of WCSC
Event: Fall Weekend

Also Performing:
The Newfield Patch Band

Setlist:
(Principal's Announcement)
      -"Our Guests Have Arrived..."
      -"No Smoking Please..."
      -"Sit In Your Seats..."
Introduction (Tom Baker)
Moonlight Drive
      -Horse Latitudes
Money
Break On Through
      -Don't Fight It
Back Door Man
      -I've Got The Right
People Are Strange
The Crystal Ship
Wake Up!
Light My Fire
The End
      -Names of the Kingdom
      -Who Scared You
      -You Won't Get Cold
(Principal's Applause)
      -"Thank You..."

Recordings / Film:
Stage Recording

Photographers:
Cohn (Danbury News-Times)
Robert Coviello (The Echo/Yearbook)
Joe Sia
Unidentified

Reviews / Info:
-This performance is put on by the Western Connecticut State College for their annual 'Wesconn Weekend'.
-This venue is located in the auditorium of the former Danbury High School located at WCSC.
-The new Danbury High School opens in September 1964 on Clapboard Ridge Rd.
-This venue becomes the Ives Concert Hall in 1969, located in the White Hall on the WCSC campus.
-8:15pm scheduled start time.
-Approx. 2,000 in attendance at this 1,200 seat venue.
-A 15-minute intermission is announced following The Newfield Patch Band.
-The audience is warned to stay in their seats or risk being removed from the venue.
-Fall Weekend Princess candidates are introduced during the intermission.
-Actor Tom Baker introduces The Doors onstage at 9:00pm and The Doors play until 10:00pm.
-Jim Morrison beats a microphone stand into the stage floor during the climax of The End.
-This performance features early lyrics from Who Scared You and The Celebration Of The Lizard.
-A recording of this performance is made through the schools microphones set up at the front of the stage.
-This venue is currently known as the Ives Concert Hall located in the White Hall on the WCSU campus.
-Marks and dents left in the stage by Jim Morrison's microphone stand are still present in the Ives Concert Hall stage.

"I was there. I sat in the front row and was showered with wood chips and splinters when Jim broke the microphone stand and started chipping at the floor on the stage. I remember brushing them off my skirt and they also got stuck in my hair. We had to wear skirts in public buildings and schools at the time."

Diane Belford
Danbury, CT
Copyright © 2024 Diane Belford

A Special Thanks to Diane Belford for providing her story of the incident to MildEquator.com!

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YEARBOOK PHOTO:

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ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER/YEARBOOK PHOTO:

Contributed By: Western CT State University Archives

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REVIEW:

Newspaper: The Echo
Author: Unknown
Publish Date: October 13th - 1967
Copyright © The Echo

Contributed By: Western CT State University Archives

REVIEW:

Newspaper: The News-Times
Author: Kevin N. Barry
Publish Date: October 12th - 1967
Copyright © Kevin N. Barry

Contributed By: Western CT State University Archives

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