playlist: www.youtube.com THE DOORS Friday September 20, 1968 Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden - First European tour (September 5, 1968 - September 20, 1968) - "The Doors' European tour ended on Friday, September 20, 1968, in Stockholm, Sweden. The Airplane, Terry Reid, and the Savoy Brown opened. The Doors show featured the rarely performed "Love Street," plus "Wake Up!" and "The Hill Dwellers" from "Celebration." The second set featured "The Ballad Of Mack The Knife" as a prelude to "Alabama Song." Both show were taped for later broadcast on Sweden's main pop station, Radiohuset. Many Doors fans feel these final Scandinavian concerts were the last true Doors shows, with a bardic singer in full command of his powers, a potent icon of desire, an agent of change in the original, leather-clad package, still looking like a romantic lord and basically playing it straight. Soon Jim Morrison would force changes that made sure the Doors would never be the same again. The Doors flew ! back to London on their way home. Jim settled into placid domesticity with Pamela in an expensive furnished flat (and remained there at the Belgravia Hotel through October 20th) overlooking the private gardens of Eaton Square. They invited Ray and Dorothy Manzarek to breakfast, and Ray was pleased to see Jim at ease for once, cooking bacon and eggs for them, squeezing juice, and making tea. He wrote later that it was the most adult thing he'd ever seen Jim and Pam do. "They invited us over for ...
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