The crowd sounded excited as Robbie tuned in his guitar. The announcer continued:

"If you’re ready to calm down, I will....." the announcer briefly paused and resumed while Ray tuned in his organ.

"All right now, I have a very special guest" the rest of the announcer’s speech is cut. Apparently Jim’s drinking buddy, Tom Baker, recited a poem prior to the beginning of the concert, but none of it was recorded - all that can be heard is Tom saying:

"The Doors, O.K ? "

The Doors then began with an interesting version of Moonlight Drive, where Robbie played a good deal of slide guitar during this version then he normally would in most other performances. The group then played a blues cover song, "Money". The group’s next song was "Break On Through" that was unfortunately cut off towards the end followed by an energetic "Back Door Man". The next song, "People Are Strange" is a fairly rare example of The Doors playing this song live. Listening to existing recordings, The Doors didn’t seem to play this song frequently as part of their set even though it had been played live on The Ed Sullivan Show and also in the 2nd sets on March 7 and March 10 at the Matrix Club earlier in the same year.

"The Crystal Ship", "Wake Up" and "Light My Fire" were played before The Doors finished of their concert with "The End". Just before The Doors start playing "The End", Jim asked the crowd:

"Do you want us to do any more ?", he then paused for a moment and continued:

"Are you sure you want ? Yeah, O.K.", Robbie tuned his guitar and began to play "The End".

Halfway through this version of "The End", Jim sang a part of "Enseneda" and also included some of the lines from "Who Scared You":

I see you’re riding, coming down the road, I see you’re riding, coming down the road. He’s got a burden, carrying a heavy load, One bag of silver and one sack of gold. So you won’t get cold, so you won’t grow old I’m gonna show you a place, Like to stay, So you won’t go away.

During the group’s rendition of "The End", Jim grabbed the microphone stand and started to smash it into the edge of the stage and broke the stand in half.

The recording finishes of with the announcer clapping whilst saying:

"Wonderful show ! Thank You !

The following day, principal P.J. Murnane had given a speech to his students telling them what a disgrace the performance had been.

The audience seemed to have a mixed reaction regarding their response to The Doors’ performance. One audience member at the time, Rob Ultsch of Brookfield remembered that:

"Everybody just kind of sat there, amazed, and went ‘WHOOOOOAAAA.’ "

However Kevin Barry, The News-Times music reviewer at the time remembers things quite differently:

"I think my (negative) review spoke for most of the audience."

The group received a rather negative and scathing review by Kevin N. Barry, who based his comments on very little knowledge or appreciation of the music, as he commented that; "The Doors swung in and swung out of the Danbury High School Auditorium last night and it’s good to know that the doors of D.H.S. also swing both ways."

An out of touch and misinformed (to say the least) Kevin N. Barry had also described "The End" as being "about a man ending an LSD trip" (which couldn’t be any further from the truth) and simply (and blindly) described the music and atmosphere as being "loud, had a fast beat and the psychedelic theme was emphasised even more by the lighting effect."

In defence to the Doors music and performance which had been greatly overlooked for it’s merits, Paul A. Gordon had written a letter to the editor explaining that Kevin N. Barry’s review;

‘was obviously out of touch with the performers, their music or the audience." and commented further that;

‘Describing the music as "loud" and with a "fast beat" tells nothing, nor does sprinkling of the ingroupy sounding catch-all "psychedelic". The skill of organist Ray Manzarek, who played both organ and bass, was ignored, as was the effective and distinctive bottle neck styling of guitarist Robby Krieger.’