Light My Fire [cut] - The Doors Live At The Center Coliseum, Seattle, WA. June 5,1970 video free download

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Light My Fire (© The Doors 1967)

Live At The Center Coliseum

Seattle, WA.

Fri. June 5,1970

This Seattle performance is undoubtedly one of the most difficult and regretable shows of the 1970 tour. For unknown reasons, there are obvious hostilities between the audience and The Doors from the moment the band takes the stage. After the icy reception, Morrison seems withdrawn and remote throughout the show.

The Doors' last appearance in Seattle (at the 1969 Pop Festival) had not gone well and may have contributed to the fact that only one-third of the aveilable

seats in 15,000-seats Coliseum have been sold. There are long pauses between songs that last up to nine minutes, and the catcalls from the audience grow more intense after each song. During the lull after a weary opening version of Back Door Man, Jim observes there's "Lot's of troubles [equipment] here tonight", then recites the poem "Adolf Hitler Is Still Alive" as if he were filling the time. He follows rythmically with "Lot's of trouble, lot's of blues. Whole lot of nothing and nothing to lose, alright!". People in the audince continually shout "Remember Miami !" and call out requests for Jim to take his clothes off, until the band breaks into Roadhouse Blues. The song gets off to a good start and sonds like it might resuscitate the show, but Morrison just doesn't seem to have his heart in it.

Tonight's version of When The Music's Over is particilary dreadful. Morrison appers to be lost in another world, proccupied and depressed. During the central passage he keeps making ludicrous noises into the mike and then begins passing his mike in front of his monitors, effecting a long series of howling ear-piercing feedback that essentially butchers the song. Afterward he apologies saying, "Thank you for your patience. It takes a few songs to get warmed up; you know what I'mtalking about ?" As the band prepares for the People Get Ready jam, Jim continoues to converse with the audience. At one point he claims: "You know, I haven't been to Seattle in about two years; And good riddance they say [reffering to this crowd]". The audience corrects his, recalling last year's Pop Festival, and he asks: "What it a year ago?" As he remembers that other unfortunate performance, he quotes the Latin phrase, "Tempus fugit [Time Flies], right?" with a distinctly obscene mispronunciation on "fugit". Jim then seeks to infuse some humor into the situation with, "Well, you know, driving into Seattle from the airport...Seattle reminds you of a late 1930s version of twenty years in the future. You know what I mean?" Some do and break into laughter, but the wry reflection seems to go over many

people's heads. The show begins to improve with Someday Soon, an unrealeased song about the inevitably of death that is in retrospect ominously appropriate.

During their finale of "The End", the power is abruptly cut off and the house lights turned on. The Doors began at 10:20 pm and were to have been done by midnight. At 12:05, the concert is abruptly terminated and one of the stagehands leads Morrison offstage.

Albert King's performance goes quiete well, feauturing powerful versions of Born Under A Bad Sign and Oh,Pretty Woman. The contrast between the two bands make The Doors appear to be well past their prime to Seattle audience.

Venue Address: 305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA. 98109

Capacity: 15,000 seats

Promotion: West Coast Promotions-Linnell/Branker

Also performing: Albert King

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