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KALEIDOSCOPE - 04/11/1968

HOLLYWOOD, CA - U.S.A.

Venue Address: 6230 Sunset Blvd. - Hollywood, CA
Promotion: John Hartman/Skip Taylor/Gary Essert/KRLA
Event: Super Ball at the Kaleidoscope/Easter Special

Also Performing:

Confirmed Performers:
Canned Heat
Pacific Gas & Electric
The Committee
The Collectors
Bo Diddley
Love

All Dates (Poster):
Canned Heat
Evergreen Blue Shoes
The Travel Agency

April 11th with The Doors (Handbill #1):
Canned Heat
The Byrds
Love
Pacific Gas & Electric
Taj Mahal
United States Of America

April 11th with The Doors (Handbill #2):
Canned Heat
Taj Mahal
United States Of America
Pacific Gas & Electric
Bo Diddley
Love

April 11th with The Doors (Newspaper Ad):
Traffic
Canned Heat
Kaleidoscope
Holy Modal Rounders

Setlist:
When The Music's Over
The Celebration Of The Lizard
(Incomplete)

Recordings / Film:
16mm Amateur/Audience Film

Photographers:
Chuck Boyd
Unidentified

Reviews / Info:
-This is the only confirmed performance by The Doors at the Kaleidoscope in 1968.
-This is a benefit show for the KPPC Strike Fund.
-This is part of a combined four day event known as Easter Special with The Doors performing on the last day.
-This event takes place two weeks after the grand opening of the Kaleidoscope.
-The fourth day of this event is known as Super Ball.
-Handbills for April 11th feature The Doors.
-Posters for this overall four day event do not feature The Doors.
-Promotional artwork by Dick Dahlgren (Poster)
-This venue is previously known as the Hullabaloo and becomes the Aquarius Theater later in 1968.
-Proprietor Gary Essert is a former colleague of Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison at UCLA.
-50 employees of KMPX-FM and KPPC have been on strike since March 18th, including disc jockey Tom Donahue.
-San Francisco hosts a series of benefits for KMPX including shows at the Avalon Ballroom and Winterland.
-KPPC's studio is housed in the Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
-The first benefit show for KPPC takes place at this venue on March 23rd and does not feature The Doors.
-This is a second benefit show for striking employees of KPPC Radio.
-7:00pm scheduled start time.
-Lights By Omega's Eye.
-The Doors give the earliest known live performance of The Celebration Of The Lizard at this event.
-KPPC's studio is moved to the newly opened Cinematheque 16 in late April.
-Picket lines continue into May.
-A theatre in San Francisco hosts a showing of films to benefit the KMPX-KPPC strikers in mid-May.
-The KMPX-KPPC strike is resolved by the end of May.

16MM FOOTAGE

Info:

This 16mm film was shot in color at the Kaleidoscope in 1968 by photographer Chuck Boyd during the Superball At The Kaleidoscope event, and does not feature audio. Although relatively dark, the film is steady and easy to watch. Photographs taken by Chuck Boyd also exist from this event.

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STRIKE ARTICLE:

Newspaper: San Bernardino County Sun
Author: Unknown
Publish Date: March 19th - 1968
Copyright © San Bernardino County Sun
KPPC Strike 1968 - Article