Similarly, Riordan (1991) had also reported that Morrison had incited the crowd to riot and escaped through a backstage door as the crowd retaliated with police and eventually rushed to the stage smashing the group’s equipment. Apparently, one teenager had taken a swan dive off the balcony and miraculously landed on the floor uninjured.

Robb Baker, music reviewer for The Chicago Tribune, had witnessed The Doors performance at the Coliseum, however his account of the evening’s event seems to be somewhat more subdued than Riordan’s (1991) and Dylan’s (1990) account.

Infact, the following year when The Doors performed their first ever concert since the Miami incident, music reviewer Sally Simpson of The Chicago Tribune had noted that; "In Chicago at the Coliseum last year he almost started a riot", but there was no mention of a riot ever occuring.

"Always the actor, smoking, jumping, touching his toes, caressing the microphone, rolling on the floor, he manipulates his audience, taking the listeners where he wants - just so far and no farther. It’s frightening what he could have done during "Light My Fire", the closing number Saturday, had he chosen to.

What he did achieve was a standing ovation few people there will ever forget. The overflow crowd was suddenly on it’s feet and shouting, waving their arms in signals of kinship. [Yet it wasn’t Beatlemania or crowd hysteria: There was almost a quietness about it all, with participants somehow moving yet transfixed.

And Morrison, catlike, darting to the stage apron and back again, smiling as his assistants warded off male and female admirers, then, in the end, running from the stage.

Next, strangest of all, was the conclusion: an audience that didn’t rush towards the exits to be first to the parking lot, but returned to their seats and waited. There was a hush. They didn’t demand an encore; they hoped for one. And when it didn’t come, it was all right. Having paid an artist the highest compliment there is, they left."

The Doors opened the concert with "Soul Kitchen", Jim had a mixed in a recital of a child’s prayer in the night ("Now I lay me, down to sleep") with his ode to Otis Redding ("Poor Otis dead and gone"), similar to that which he performed at Winterland on December 26 in the previous year.

"Break On Through" and "Alabama Song/Back Door Man/Five To One" medley were the next numbers that followed. After Jim finished a fifteen minute version of "When The Music’s Over", he then asked the crowd:

" What would you guys want to hear ? "

"Light My Fire !", some one from the audience yelled.

"Hey come on, one at a time ! I can’t hear you, one at a time !" Morrison replied.

Some one else in the audience yelled out "Unknown Soldier" and the group went on to play "Crystal Ship". After playing "Crystal Ship", Jim told the audience to take their clothes off and roll around in the aisles. The Doors finished up with "Light My Fire" and won a standing ovation from their audience.

The organisers of the concert, Triangle Productions, were not well applauded for the concert’s organisation as one person sent in a letter to Chicagos’ underground newspaper, The Seed:

"Triangle Productions, I was one of the 3,000 people who decided that they wanted to interact with the Doors. You didn’t like 5,000 chairs upended -- too bad, book they shouldn’t be there in the first place."