‘Lights up, Morrison, center stage, unleashed a horse scream and followed with a new song, "Road House Blues", a loping song, almost good-timey. He stood there and sang it, no leaping or prancing. His left hand over his left ear, right hand grasping the microphone - the Morrison stance. No leather, no beard, medium hair.’ (Sims, Judith. "Long Beach Open Doors Concert". Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1970.)
The group’s next number, "Alabama Song/Back Door Man/Five To One" medley, had the audience clapping along to "Five To One" with Ray singing back up vocals ("Get together, one more time") and Robbie playing some long extended guitar leads.
"Ship Of Fools", a standard number for most Doors concerts in 1970, soon followed - one female audience member had yelled out for "Touch Me", but unfortunately Jim did not take her request. "When The Music’s Over" brought the crowd together as they all clapped along.
Jim had added some of his own improvised lyrics to "When The Music’s Over":
now baby come on home
you been out playing all day long
now won't you come on home
yea you got your television working now
we got books to read, we got
things to write, we got
card games, it's
out of sight, all right
Okay
we got
cars
we got
boats, we got some airplanes, baby got
shoes on our feet, we got
buildings, we got
friends to meet, we got
sidewalks, we got
restaurants, we got
honky tonks, hon hon honky tonks
hon hon hon honky tonks, yea right
What more do we need?
all right
What more do we want?
all right
With all that you'd think we'd be satisfied
all right
The red light means stop
and the green light says you better go now baby
Come on home
We want the world and we want it
now, chau chau chau
You know I had a friend
At least I thought I did
I took that man into my house
Gave him food from my table . . . . .
Let him drive my car
all over town
Now here he is messing round with my wife
yea
Judith Sims, writer for the Los Angeles Free Press, noted that The Doors also played "Crystal Ship" and the final song for this concert was "The End" - many more songs were performed but sadly these didn’t make their way onto the audience recording.
Jim’s monologue prior to "The Spy" is hard to hear, but it sounds as if he had said:
"Oh, we’re going to do something (?) slow and sweet. Come on, let’s get into this one."
This is the only live recording of "The Spy" and possibly the first live performance of this song ever done. The audience clearly liked this new song as they had strongly clapped along with it.
Jim screamed his lungs out on the next song, "Break On Through" after which he engaged into a humorous dialogue with his audience:
"Oh, oh ... I smell, I smell a peculiar odour. I hope (?) knows who smokes around here ? This could be very risky. Is there any left, that’s all I want to know ?"
Laughter rang out from the audience. Jim continued;
"Actually, I haven’t been here for the last four or five hundred (?) years .... [in audible] ....... I need something to kind of cheer me up".
"Peace Frog" followed next - but unfortunately "Peace Frog was cut off towards the end and the introduction of "Blue Sunday" (which normally flows straight after "Peace Frog") was also slightly cut off.
As usual, the crowd was yelling out for their favourite requests with "Light My Fire" winning in the end. Jim took a more mellow approach and gently spoke the opening lines of "Petition The Lord With Prayer" before playing "Light My Fire". Robbie played an extended guitar solo during "Light My Fire" and the group had also included a few verses of "Summertime" and "Fever".
As an encore, the group played "Soul Kitchen" with Morrison trying to play the harmonica. At the end of "Soul Kitchen", Jim spoke to his audience however parts of his monologue are unclear, thus hard to hear:
"Hey listen, now wait a minute wait a
minute. ......it’s not my fault man, what do you wanna hear ?"
Some one in the audience had yelled out:
"Get it on !"
Jim replied to the heckler:
"Hey listen, listen, hey, hey ! Anybody have to go home early tonight ?"
"All right let’s have some fun, all right? "
Jim and the trio got straight back into their music, as they played "Love Me Two Times", "Maggie M’Gill" (with Jim trying to play harmonica again).
Jim’s closing dialogue on this recording was;
"Be, be quite just a second, I wanna ask you, ah if there’s anything in particular .... if there’s anything in particular, that anyone would like to hear ?"
Naturally, the crowd roared for their own requests. Jim continued:
"Hey wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Now one at a time !"
"Love Street"; yelled out one audience member.
After the concert, a press party was held in the bowels of the arena - this was fairly open and allowed members of the group to circulate amongst the people with minimal restrictions.