"Recently their live concerts and particularly the Boston concert have been tired and worn out. They are sick of their own theatrical bits. They are aiming at a kind of ritual rock theatre but don’t seem to know how to do it. Perhaps there is too much to contend with."

The Doors were apparently running two hours late for their Boston gig and the management for the theatre were quite panicky at the thought of giving out refunds to a full house crowd. Meanwhile, in order to fill up the time, the audience sat through two local acts, Electric Organ and Turtles Cry, whom were most probably brought on in the last minute as they were not originally placed on the bill. Linda Ronstadt & The Stone Poneys had taken the stage and were somewhat better received than their preceding acts.

Eventually the group turned up (after Jim made a delayed entrance) with Jim wearing his legendary "Fillmore East" outfit (worn only five days later), including his pea coat, leather pants and a fisherman’s hat. For most part of the first set, Jim was aloof and played a parody of himself - as well as not taking the performance seriously, he mocked his audience by singing "Light My Fire" in a south Boston accent.

The second set went far better than the first set, as Carl Nagin further commented: "The second concert was considerably more engaging."

Either the tape speed on this recording has slightly slowed down, or Morrison’s performance was lethargic - either way, the audience strongly applauded after The Doors completed their opening song "When The Music’s Over", followed by "Back Door Man" mixed in with "Five To One".

After the group played "Break On Through", the group then performed two songs from their second album, "Love Me Two Times" and "You’re Lost Little Girl" - the latter of the two songs was combined with "Light My Fire" with the concert finishing of with a unique and undoubtedly superb version of "The End".

"Enough pernod had been chortled backstage. ‘The End’ was truly terrifying and was marred only by such improvised lyrics as:

Come with me
Across the sea
Eternally

Nagin. C. "PLEASE KEEP HANDS OFF THE DOORS". Avatar, March 29, 1968.

This version of "The End" opened up with some beautiful guitar work from Robbie, unfortunately it is slightly cut off at the start and some of this is missed. During "The End", Jim blended in three of his poem, "Across The Sea", "Enseneda" and "The Holy Shay" - the latter of the three seems to be a rare recital of Jim’s poetry during his live performances:

"My name is the Holy Shay
and I come to town this day
to tell my story to the judge
Judge, judge, judge, judge,
The man is not wanted here
Come to our house say the mandarino
Tell us why has he strayed so near
Why you run away and come back slow
In the middle of the sun
In the middle of the day
When even an idiot goes indoors
Meeting you at your parents' gate
We'll tell you what you have to do to survive"