"July 9, Jim Morrison and The Doors made their first appearance in Dallas. The show was enough to convince this reviewer that no other pop group can come near them.

I say "Jim Morrison and The Doors" because Morrison’s personality totally dominated the performance as it may soon dominate the new rock scene. His dynamic fluctuations from hot to cold, his gyrations, kept his audience flowing with him, and the enthusiastic applause was a testimony to his staying power." The concert started off with an energetic "Soul Kitchen" fuelled by Robbie’s excellent guitar riff whilst improvising halfway through the song, including Jim’s recital of a "child’s prayer in the middle of the night".

Jim then started to croon away during the introduction of "Back Door Man", in a way that he knows best; slow, steady and driven strongly by Ray, Robbie and John. Densmore’s drumming is loud yet forceful during "Five To One", but above all his drumming appropriately accentuates Jim’s lyrics, by musically complementing the images that Jim conjures up during this song. Jim then ripped right into "Break On Through" and was later well received by the audience as he had begun "Crystal Ship".

John Marken commented on the groups’ talents as well as Jim’s;

"Although Morrison dominated the show, it is not fair to say that the other members were not great also. They were, especially drummer John Densmore. And Ray Manzarek’s organ, closer to jazz than rock, gave out some of the most original sounds ever heard in Dallas. Robby Krieger’s guitar also came through in marvellous fashion."

Perhaps what makes this particular concert different to other Doors performances is the fairly unique way that The Doors had combined "Hello I Love You" straight after "Texas Radio & The Big Beat". This was repeated at Kongreshalle in Frankfurt, W. Germany on September 14, 1968. (A similar arrangement was also successfully accomplished during the groups’ appearance on Television-Byen in Gladsaxe, Denmark on September 18, 1968 when "Love Me Two Times" was cleverly combined with "Texas Radio & The Big Beat" - almost as if The Doors had purposefully calculated the effect that this unique combination would have on their listeners !)

The Doors went on with an old blues song, "Money", which flowed straight on after a playing an above average version of "Moonlight Drive".

Despite an annoying creeping background sound during "When The Music’s Over", Jim gave a fairly good show on this song and when he finished, he asked the audience:

"Hey, what do you guys wanna hear ?"

The audience didn’t seem to come to some sort of universal agreement, so Jim made the decision for them and started off with "Wake Up" followed by "Light My Fire".

During "Light My Fire" Jim had jumped down into the pit located in front of the stage and held out his microphone to the audience. At one point in the concert (most likely the musical improvisation of "Light My Fire"), Jim turned his back to the police and put his hands up on the stage as if the police were going to frisk him. Then he whirled around and held out a cigarette which he was smoking and tempted the policeman to try it. Finally Jim climbed back on stage.

Whilst Jim was singing the last verse of "Light My Fire", he yelled out to someone in the audience "good catch !" and quickly resumed his singing without missing his cue for the next line. The timing of this monologue with the audience during "Light My Fire" was "right on" - and the same can be definitely said about the whole performance.