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The Doors - The Night On Fire (1968)

Track listing:
  1. Intro 0:21
  2. Break On Through 4:20
  3. Alabama Song - Backdoor Man 6:40
  4. When The Music's Over 14:02
  5. Texas Radio & The Big Beat 2:24
  6. Hello, I Love You 3:19
  7. Light My Fire 9:57
  8. The Unknown Soldier 4:44

Notes

Kongreßhalle
Frankfurt

Tangie Town Records

NOTES
An excpert taken from Stephen Davis' book on Jim Morrison (2004) p. 282:

The Doors brainstormed through Europe, beginning on September 13. That afternoon the Doors taped a segment outdoors in Frankfurt for ZDF-TV's pop show 4-3-2-1 Hot und Sweet, miming "Hello, I Love You" and "Light My Fire." The next night, September 14, they played two rowdy shows at Frankfurt's Kongresshalle, with their friends Canned Heat opening. Several thousand American soldiers in the audience cheered lustily for "The Unknown Soldier." The German kids irritated the band by sitting quietly during the show. Jim tried to provoke them by threatening to impale the front rows with his mike stand but he couldn't get any reaction. They ended the show faster than usual and, according to Densmore, only received polite applause. Jim perked up later when the young promoters gave him a beautiful German girl named Francesca to spend the night with, and they all went out to an Israeli-owned nightclub called Das Kinky.

The Doors flew to Amsterdam the following day. A flight attendant asked Jim for his autograph; he wrote a poem for her on an airsickness bag. O Stewardess/Observe most carefully/Someday you may pour wine/for the tired man.

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"Lippmann, Rau & SBA" were the promoters of this event and Canned Heat was billed along with The Doors at Kongreshalle. Apparently the Frankfurt audience did not seem to respond to The Doors performance. Jim tried to get the audience's attention by pretending to throw the mike stand at them and even made obscene gestures - but all his efforts were in vain. In an interview with Hank Zevallos of Poppin magazine in the following year, Jim looked back and commented on the European Tour; "The Germans were really boorish, but, other than that, the audiences were really great". According to music reviewer Fred Ritzel, for a Frankfurt newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he concluded that the group's music was "nothing more than a mediocre beat, played mediocrity, mediocre text which had been already countlessly repeated by others" and "The melody, the rhythm and the harmony was restricted to ordinary music". The only praise that The Doors received from Fred Ritzel was that the group's musical technical standard was very professional and more perfect compared to Canned Heat.