"Everybody, deko (?), will you welcome, The Doors ! "

The crowd cheered as The Doors opened up with "Roadhouse Blues". Robbie played a fantastic lead break during the middle of the "Roadhouse Blues", which was then followed by their standard medley; "Alabama Song/Back Door Man/Five To One". Oddly though, this particular performance of their medley tends to be fairly mediocre and at times pretty weak - as Morrison seems to be lacking that gutsy blues energy, which he would normally deliver with a grunt, a yell and a kick-ass scream; perhaps he was still hung over from the previous night’s concert in Seattle.

Second from right, Albert King playing lead on his Gibson "Flying V" guitar.

The Doors were still experiencing technical difficulties, as they had in the previous night at Seattle; Ray’s keyboard sounded a little off during "When The Music’s Over", a piercing sound which makes this track at times a little annoying to listen to. Jim then asked the crowd for a cigarette and went on to complain about a humming sound coming from the air conditioner. The Doors whipped right into another one of their earlier songs, "Love Me Two Times".

After completing "Love Me Two Times" , Jim asked the audience.

"Are you ready ? "

"Yeah !", the crowd replied.

"Ah, we’re gonna play some blues for ya ! ", Jim said excitingly.

"All right ! ", the audience screamed back.

One of the guitarist, either Robbie or Albert, played a few bluesy licks on their guitar as a warm up.

"You know the blues is about the only original art form America’s created in 200 years, you know that ?"; said Morrison in a ‘matter of fact’ tone.

"You know, there are only two indigenous musical forms native to the United States....one is the blues, which came from Africa, and the other is um..country, mountain music which came from er Scotland and Ireland and Europe and all of that, the ballad form..and the two ran along in parallel tracks and they got together with Rock’n’Roll"; Jim then briefly paused and resumed;

"Right now we’re gonna do some blues." Albert King jammed along with The Doors on "Little Red Rooster", "Money", "Rock Me Baby" and "Who Do You Love", respectively.

At the end of the four blues numbers, Jim started off with "Petition The Lord With Prayer" and dived straight into "Light My Fire", which was kind of unusual for The Doors since they would normally play "Wake Up" before getting into "Light My Fire". Jim doesn’t seem to give a 100% effort on this song and the musical improvisation sounds a little sloppy, not as tight as it has known to be. With the exception of a rather poor audience recording of the San Diego Sports Arena concert on August 22, 1970, this is the only other recorded performance that includes a rare medley of, "Light My Fire" fused together with "Fever", "Summertime" and "St James Infirmary" - and perhaps for this reason the song survived through an almost ever lasting 18 minute performance.

The concert finished off with "The End", where Jim chose to blend in his poetic works, "Across The Sea" and "Enseneda". Overall, this concert was one of the highlights of the 1970 tour and the crowds cheering applause strongly confirmed it. This concert was broadcasted on the Westwood One Radio and Vince Treanor, The Doors Equipment Manager, was responsible for the original soundboard recording of this show. Unlike the chopped up 90 minute showed that aired on Westwood One Radio, this is the complete 100 minute Vancouver concert has been recently available in it’s entirety. The sound quality is excellent!