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The Doors - San Houston Coliseum 7-10-68 (1968)

Track listing:
  1. Break On Through 4:31
  2. Back Door Man 2:43
  3. Once I Had A Friend 0:45
  4. Can The Wind Have It All 1:44
  5. We Tried So Hard, Maybe We Tried Too Hard 0:33
  6. Fall Down Now, Strange Gods Are Coming 2:02
  7. Back Door Man 1:22
  8. When The Music's Over 5:14
  9. Confusion 0:47
  10. Winter Photograph 0:37
  11. Talking Waiting Smoking 0:19
  12. Feel Warm Days And Faces Come Again 0:36
  13. When The Music's Over 7:49
  14. Texas Radio And The Big Beat (Spoken Intro) 1:17
  15. Hello I Love You 2:48
  16. Little Red Rooster 6:07
  17. Who Do You Love 2:32
  18. The Crystal Ship 2:50
  19. Wake Up! 1:52
  20. Light My Fire (Fades Out) 2:56
  21. Back Door Man (670304 Avalon Ballroom San Francisco Ca) 7:04
  22. Moonlight Drive (670304 Avalon Ballroom San Francisco Ca) 5:39

Notes

Houston, Texas 7-10-68
Mono Audience Recording

tracks 21-22:
The Avalon Ballroom,
S.F.,California 3/4/67
Soundboard Recording (Speed Corrected)

Back Door Man - with a harmonica solo from Jim
Moonlight Drive

The filler is one of the earliest known live doors recordings, the exact date and location is still
unconfirmed at this time! (also on the bill this night: Country Joe and the Fish and Sparrow (pre-Steppenwolf)


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from Stephen Davis book recent book p.267:
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In Houston, on July 10th, 1968, he performed spontaneous verse compositions in the middle of "Back Door Man" using the routines "Can the wind have it all?" and "We tried ot so hard maybe we tried it too hard."
Poetic interjenctions in "When the Music's Over" included "Winter Photography" and "Count The Dead and Wait Till Morning," material culled from his recent notebooks. Delving into RMB to alleviate his boredom with the much requested "Crystal Ship" and "Light My Fire," Jim launched the band into Little Red Rooster" and "Who Do You Love?"

Working the police again, Jim tried to get the kids rush the stage. The cops responded lining the stage, blocking the band from the crowd's view.

Jim yelled out ""If you all aren't gonna come up here, I guess I'll have to try to get through 'em....This is your last chance!" The cops pulled up even tighter, surronding the band, and the show was over.


Another book "The Doors On The Road" by Greg Shaw has this to say:
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This outstanding performance by the band includes a wealth of unique improvisational poetry by Jim Morrison fueled by an intense, almost furious, instrumentation by the band. Robby Krieger brings the opening of "Break On Through" to a dramatic Conclusion by means of some gusty, guttural vocals, which evolve into a long stream of consciousness. "Once I Had A Friend" is punctuated effortfully paraphrasing of his standard "Softer" narration, ending with "what do you know about my baby?" He returns to the "Soft" routine after "Fall Down Now, Strange Gods Are Coming" until he comically whispers "Touch Me" and the crowd breaks into applause, which leads back into "Back Door Man." Krieger opens "When The Music's Over" with some formidable guitar work, and Morrison again drifts into a sequence of poetic improvisations. At the end of the "We Want The World..." stanza, the auditorium drifts into an elongated dead-silence until Morrison erupts into "Now!" and propels the song to it's conclusion. They continue with excellent versions of "Little Red Rooster" (complete with barks and howls by Jim at the appropriate moments) and "Who Do You Love" which is kicked off by an extended percussion prelude. By the time they reach their finale of "Light My Fire," the crowd is exceptionally rowdy.