Finally, The Doors took the stage. As well as having used 32 amplifiers to loudly project their sound on the audience, the group had employed a string sextet and a brass section, as they had intended to play some of their new material which was to appear on their following fourth album, "The Soft Parade" almost seven months later.

The crowd seemed to wait in anticipation and the chatter continued. The group then came on stage and Densmore rolled a few hits on his drum kit.

"All right, All right, All right, All right, All right, All right, All right, All right, More, More, More, More, Yeah ! " Morrison repeated over and over again. Jim was hyped up and ready for his hometown audience.

"Ladies and gentlemen, presenting something new for you, The Doors", the announcer introduced the group.

The Doors started off the show with "Tell All The People" that received a strong applause and was then followed by "Love Me Two Times". At the end of "Love Me Two Times" some one in the crowd yelled out:

"Light My Fire ! ",

"Light it yourself !", another audience member wisely replied.

The group played one of their new songs, "Who Scared You", which incidentally never appeared on the album, "The Soft Parade" and was later released in 1972 on Elektra’s double album compilation, "Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine".

For most part of the show, Morrison was fairly calm and relaxed but didn’t move around too much, similarly to his performance at the Hollywood Bowl. The audience was still yelling out for "Light My Fire" as well as other songs such as "Break On Through", after Robbie had finished playing some beautiful guitar work on "Spanish Caravan". The group decided to play a well known song, "Crystal Ship" before moving onto another new song, "Wild Child". At the end of "Wild Child" the audience still insisted for the group to play more of their popular songs such as "The End", "Unknown Soldier" and "Celebration Of The Lizard". The Doors just wanted to play some of their new songs and continued to do so by performing "Touch Me", probably one of the earliest performances of this song as it made it’s debut appearance at this show. By the end of 1968, The Doors had earned a reputation for inciting riots and some elements of the audience were coming more for the "religious experience" rather than to listen to the group’s new songs. One of the audience members yelled out at the end of "Touch Me":

"Do something ! ", waiting for Morrison to perform some kind of spectacular act, something he hadn’t done before.

Finally, The Doors played "Light My Fire", hoping this would’ve quenched the audiences thirst as 18,000 screaming teenagers were yelling for this song for almost half an hour - but some weren’t satisfied and still wanted a "replay" of "Light My Fire". At the end of "Light My Fire", Morrison spoke to the audience:

"Hey man, cut out that shit, come on", Morrison seemed a bit peeved.

"Come on", he then half pleaded with the audience.

"Yeah, we’re going to have a whole lot of time so everybody can ..er .. grab each other and nobody will be without one, right ?", Morrison jokingly added as he tried to get the audience to calm down a bit. The crowd seemed to have enjoyed Morrison’s joke but things started to get a little more serious as Jim then went on to say:

"Hey listen, listen you can’t.....listen. I can’t do the chorus for you if you move around, I don’t think everyone can hear everything", Jim told his audience but nobody wanted to listen to Jim. Jim continued his dialogue with the audience.

"Hey, what are you guys doing here ?" "Hey, what do you want ? You want some music ? Is that what you want ?"

"Hey listen, hey listen, we can play music"

"Yeah, we can do that !"

"What do you really want ?"

"Hey we can play music, we can play music all night !"

"But that’s not what you really want is it ?"

"Yeah, you want something more, you want something different !"

"You want something you haven’t seen before, right ?!"

In retrospect, Morrison’s dialogue could be looked back as being an "introduction" to the rap he would later gave in March of the following year to his Miami audience - almost as if this was a sign of what was going to happen in Miami.

Jim then performed a thirteen minute version of "Celebration Of The Lizard" combined with two lines from "The WASP" but this song may have fallen upon deaf ears, as the audience was somewhat disappointed and unappreciative of Jim’s poetry. Chris Bunch of Open City, noted the crowd’s disappointment with Jim’s poetic recital;

"Morrison decided at the very end to do his "Celebration of the Lizard," a 21-minute theatre piece. The downers in the audience didn’t dig him being THAT freaky, with electronic backs and Ferlinghetti-like poetry. So, the comments started: "Bring back Sweetwater."

"Bring back Jerry Lee."

"Five minutes from the end of the piece, Morrison stopped, turned around, and the group walked off stage."

Unlike some of the audience who preferred to hear The Doors play "Light My Fire" and other popular hits, Anne Moore of World Countdown had expressed her appreciation towards Jim’s theatrical-poetic recital;

"So the critics and mercurial fans would like to do just that to the Doors. (In once popular usage, nailing his hyde to the barn door !) They say they are through with the Doors and Morrisons antics. They look no further that what they have been conditioned to look for. What they missed and misunderstood was one of the finest theatrical compositions ever written called "Celebration of the Lizard". All this trouble for giving something new to an unwilling audience. . . . (I wonder what secret Jim Morrison has ?!)"

None the less, the audience did applaud and the announcer spoke in a disappointed voice, sounding less than half as enthusiastic then when he first introduced the group on stage:

"Let’s have it for The Doors"

After the show their was a party, but the atmosphere was described as being "gloomy" and "funeral like". Apparently Jim’s brother, Andy, was in town and had attended the party. When the party had ended Jim, Andy and Pam were playing kick the can in the car park at the L.A. Forum!