After Jim had excessively taken a whole load of drugs, he then took the liberty and decided to come on stage during Jefferson Airplane’s first set and "Sufi" dance to "Plastic Fantastic Lover", when he collapsed and admitted to Wilhelmina Gasthaus hospital. Paul Ackett, concert organiser, wisely decided to let The Doors announce for themselves what their next plan of action was.

The three remaining Doors members decided to go ahead and play without Jim, thus leaving Ray to sing every song as well as play keyboards and bass. Deep Purple’s organist, Jon Lord, had seen the show that night and he said that:

"It was the best show The Doors did here. They were tighter than ever before."

Herman Stok of Dutch newspaper, Het Parool (one of the most well known and highest regarded musical journalists at the time) commented on the group’s first set:

"So the audience got a performance with three instead of four Doors. The choice of tracks was very hard due to the fact that Morrison had dropped out. The lacking of vocals was compensated in an instrumental way. The drummer of the Doors, John Densmore, proved to be much better than his Jefferson Airplane colleague Spencer Dryden. Remarkable was the very good dynamics in their music. The vocals - when available - were audible and the volume of the other instruments was adjusted accordingly. In spite of their hesitation, they tried Light my Fire, Hello I love you and Unknown Soldier and were rewarded by the applause of the audience."

"Summary of this unique concert: Jefferson Airplane could not hold the attention of the audience due to their lack of interest and inspiration. Possibly a gimmick of this group: we were not amused. The Doors were handicapped, but really showed off. Thanks to their better musical skills and the fact they had tried to give the audience as much as they could."

Journalist J.D for a local newspaper, Volkskrant, found the performance to be somewhat below standard:

"The three remaining accompanying musicians couldn't help that without the great show of Morrison the attention was focused on their limited capabilities. Keyboard player Ray Manzarek sang a little and did a few funny announcements. He saved the day, but it didn't sound very impressive. Beside their most recent hits ("Unknown soldier" and "Hello I love you", which was completely taken from the Kinks) they played songs from their first album. Probably, because Manzarek knew those lyrics best. A somewhat poor performance, although these three musicians were not to blame."

A. Huizer of Algemeen Handelsblad took a rather cynical view on the group’s performance and unfair critique, given the unexpected circumstances surrounding the group.

"It all began with a disappointment. Jim Morrison, largely responsible for the American success of this Southern Californian underground group, had been admitted to the hospital. Nobody told us why. Keyboard player Ray Manzarek tried to stretch their performance by doing an act like our stand up comedian Toon Hermans, which either proves how modern our great comedian is or how old fashioned the Doors are.

Manzarek musical and vocal performance were mediocre, professional, but lacked every inspiration. Drummer John Densmore was even worse. With an admirable stamina he managed to bang the same rhythm over and over again.

The only one that managed to manifest himself was guitar player Robbie Krieger, who was well supported by the technician.

The Doors showed a great sense of humor when they sang: "What do we want in the world. We got all the women, the drugs and a pickup, a car and a bike, but we still want..." And whatever they wanted, we couldn't hear it in the fifth row. But without Jim Morrison, they didn't combine musically very well."

The group had received both excellent and poor reviews. According to one audience member, Ton Maas, who attended the second set in Amsterdam that night, didn’t seem to impressed:

"Although they were doing better than we all feared (Manzarek singing, as you know), they probably made less of a deep or lasting impression. As I remember there were actually two separate performances at the same venue on the same day - both double bills (with Jefferson Airplane). I attended the second performance and therefore missed the little (drunken?) dance Morrison did during the Airplane's first set. In retrospect I would say that it wasn't a very memorable performance. I was very disappointed by the pretentious stage behaviour of the Airplane (especially Grace Slick) and the Doors too certainly didn't live up to my expectations, although they were certainly more sympathetic to the audience. I saw a *lot* of concerts in those days (still do BTW, also since I'm a reviewer) and compared to Zappa, Beefheart, the Grateful Dead, Tim Hardin, Country Joe & the Fish, Richie Havens and Leonard Cohen this one didn't stand out."

According to Riordan & Prochnicky (1991), Vince Treanor (The Doors Equipment Manger), had noticed that after Jim had read the media’s excellent reviews, he started to take full command of the group and his on-stage behaviour had radically changed as well as his music.