  Detmuscle Member Username: Detmuscle Post Number: 1 Registered: 02-2008 |
Hi everyone! First time poster, long time lurker here. Recently, I picked up the album "The Doors: Live In Detroit". This concert was at Cobo Arena and it took place on May 8th, 1970. Since many of you have lived in or around Detroit forever, I was just wondering if any of you might have attended this concert. Since Im only in my 20's it was way before my time. | ||
Gazhekwe Member Username: Gazhekwe Post Number: 1448 Registered: 08-2007 |
I was around then, but I didn't go. Some of my friends did. They were deafened for days, but that was the norm then. | ||
Detx Member Username: Detx Post Number: 90 Registered: 07-2007 |
This concert is legendary. I wasn't even a thought when it happened, but it's reputation as being one of their best shows is well documented. | ||
Detmuscle Member Username: Detmuscle Post Number: 2 Registered: 02-2008 |
Yeah my favorite part was hearing that strict union regulations required the show to end by midnight but Morrison continued the show an hour past the curfew. | ||
Harsensis Member Username: Harsensis Post Number: 326 Registered: 07-2005 |
I thought this was about the doors to enter into Cobo. I would have been one at that time, but it would have been cool to be there. I love the Doors. I did go to the Swatch Watch Fresh Festival there when Rap was first starting up. All of the early rappers were there like Run DMC Curtis Blow and Nucleus. | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 92 Registered: 08-2007 |
I saw The Doors at Cobo but it was in May '68. The show was supported by the James Cotton Blues Band and the Crazy World of Arthur Brown. It was a phenomenal show but it's not the show you're talking about. I've heard great things about it and I believe there is a recording of the show available through Rhino Handmade. | ||
Jokerman Member Username: Jokerman Post Number: 124 Registered: 07-2005 |
I saw the Doors at Cobo, but I didn't know that there was an album of it. Was this the same show that also featured The James Cotton Blues Band, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, and the Jagged Edge? | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 94 Registered: 08-2007 |
Jman, Check out this link http://www.rhinohandmade.com/b rowse/ProductLink.lasso?Number =7902 It's the available recording of the 1970 show. Sounds like it was a great show. I didn't get into the Cobo show until James Cotton was playing and didn't know that the Jagged Edge had also played. I made the mistake of telling my Mom I was going to a concert that night and she made me change out of my blue jeans and into my dress slacks. She was thinking it was a different kind of concert than what it was. | ||
Jokerman Member Username: Jokerman Post Number: 126 Registered: 07-2005 |
Dannyv: Thanks for the info. Our messages must have crossed in hyperspace because your answer wasn't there when I sent my question. | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 95 Registered: 08-2007 |
No problem. I could tell by the time signature that was the case. It's too bad there isn't some sort of notification of a response or reply to a post. If there is, I've missed it somehow. I recall Morrison giving the audience a choice of what encore they wanted to hear, Unknown Soldier or When The Music's Over, at the '68 show. | ||
Summertime1 Member Username: Summertime1 Post Number: 36 Registered: 01-2008 |
I remember that concert, but i did not attend. That was the only time the "doors played n Detroit that i know of. After Jim passed on the remaining members were called"The Butts" band i have the album. I am sure they played at the Eastown. They are now called "riders n the storm" they play at DTE recently. Ray Manzarekhas written books about the Doors. He will never get over Jim'death!! Val Kilmer looked exactly like him in the movie "The Doors" it was a great time to be young te late 1960's and early 1970's geri in SCS | ||
Mallory Member Username: Mallory Post Number: 234 Registered: 05-2006 |
There was only one good thing about the Kilmer movie. OK, well, two things. | ||
Leob Member Username: Leob Post Number: 118 Registered: 10-2005 |
Here is the poster/handbill from May 11  | ||
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm Post Number: 1597 Registered: 02-2005 |
Detmuscle, I saw the Doors at Cobo Arena in May 1968. Crazy Arthur Brown opened (flaming head and all) and I think Jagged Edge was also on the bill (things are a bit foggy). | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 97 Registered: 08-2007 |
I did a search on the Doors tour history last night. I ran across a French language Doors fansite. Their tour history included dates at a U of M auditorium in late '67, the May '68 Cobo date and a date in March '69 at the Olympia. No date was listed for the '70 concert at Cobo. I recall in Iggy's I Need More autobio of him mentioning seeing the Doors in Ann Arbor at a frat party. Maybe that's the U-M date. | ||
Flyingj Member Username: Flyingj Post Number: 88 Registered: 08-2006 |
Dannyv, sounds likely-a lot of bands would clean up off the books by playing frat parties under the table for a lark, cash & co-ed's long after they're "big", I was talking about this w/a friend who saw "The Hooters" play a USC frat party while they were still on the charts-but then there's another guy whose dad saw The Doors out here before they broke when they played his high school dance(fifty cents @ the, uh, door) | ||
Detmuscle Member Username: Detmuscle Post Number: 3 Registered: 02-2008 |
I saw "The Doors of the 21st Century" a few summers back @ DTE. It was pretty decent considering only two of the original members were there. The lead singer from The Cure filled in as Morrison and did a fantastic job. | ||
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm Post Number: 1598 Registered: 02-2005 |
Flyingj, after their first Detroit concert at the Olympia (with an attendance of only 400-500), the Rolling Stones went to a Southfield High School graduation party. I think the Who also appeared at Southfield High on their first tour through. Detmuscle, this site also has info on Michigan Concerts: http://home.comcast.net/~lux20 01/assorted.html | ||
Transitrider Member Username: Transitrider Post Number: 43 Registered: 01-2007 |
Detmuscle, you mean Ian Astbury of The Cult, not to be confused with Robert Smith of The Cure. And yes, he did a great job, walking a fine line between 'channeling' Jim, (Astbury was influenced by Jim and also loved the Native American mythos) and just being himself, a good rock singer that did the songs well. Now, if Robert Smith were to fill in, that still might be an interesting fit: they could do a lot of the slower, sadder stuff really well, and maybe make the faster songs more New Wavy... | ||
Harpernottingham Member Username: Harpernottingham Post Number: 348 Registered: 04-2006 |
Detmuscle, you must mean the lead singer of the Cult, Ian Astbury, not the lead singer of the Cure, Robert Smith. That'd be funny to see, though. Funnier yet, imagine Morrisey singing "Love Me Two Times ... uo-hooooooh." Er, on second thought ... | ||
Detmuscle Member Username: Detmuscle Post Number: 4 Registered: 02-2008 |
Oops, my bad. Yes Transitrider, thats who I meant. | ||
Vic_doucette Member Username: Vic_doucette Post Number: 371 Registered: 10-2003 |
More on The Who at Southfield High: http://www.patstjohn.net/WSHJ. asp Note: I began a long and obscure radio career at the same little high school station a few years after Pat was there. | ||
Jokerman Member Username: Jokerman Post Number: 127 Registered: 07-2005 |
During the Doors concert at Cobo in 68, a girl climbed on the stage. The cops grabbed her. Morrison stopped the song and yelled at the cops,"Let that child go!" They did. | ||
Jokerman Member Username: Jokerman Post Number: 129 Registered: 07-2005 |
Leob: Thanks! I used to have that flyer. | ||
7_and_kelly_kid Member Username: 7_and_kelly_kid Post Number: 81 Registered: 12-2007 |
I remember Morrison getting on stage.....shouting out "HELLO DETROIT!.......HELLO CHICAGO!........HELLO SEATTLE!....all the while playing the guitar riff from 'Roadhouse blues........then breaking into the song and the whole place just going nuts. | ||
Philm Member Username: Philm Post Number: 44 Registered: 03-2005 |
Vic says: "More on The Who at Southfield High: http://www.patstjohn.net/WSHJ. asp Note: I began a long and obscure radio career at the same little high school station a few years after Pat was there." I worked there with Pat, late '67 till I graduated in '69. What memories. Phil | ||
Brenda Member Username: Brenda Post Number: 57 Registered: 02-2007 |
I attended that concert in my first year at Wayne State University. I was on the left side first tier of Cobo. I was in total awe of Jim Morrison's performance. I remember a girl getting up on the stage and hugging him before the bodyguards pulled her away. It was a concert that I will never forget. The music sounded just as good live as the "albums"...now I listen to them in my car on cd...still the best music for all generations! | ||
Brenda Member Username: Brenda Post Number: 58 Registered: 02-2007 |
Someone mentioned the 68 concert and a girl coming on the stage as it happened in 1970...um...maybe it is like the Obama fainting spells for publicity, lol.............one will never know will we? | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 1045 Registered: 03-2006 |
I have the book, "No one here gets out alive", which is a bio of Jim Morrison. Its been years since I read it, but it mentions the Doors playing at the UM homecoming dance. I dont know the year or the venue but it was in the book because John Densmore quit the band that night over Jim being late and drunk at the show. Obviously Densmore returned. I will try to find the book get my facts straight. | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 1046 Registered: 03-2006 |
Fri. Oct. 20, 1967: University of Michigan I.M. Building - Ann Arbor, MI - (Homecoming) This site has info on all their shows http://www.doorshistory.com/do ors1967.html | ||
Summertime1 Member Username: Summertime1 Post Number: 44 Registered: 01-2008 |
Kenp, i have that book also. I still have all my Doors records and posters. I have the 45 "Unknown soldier" the picture sleeve is very weird. memories stay with you as long as you live< | ||
Summertime1 Member Username: Summertime1 Post Number: 45 Registered: 01-2008 |
Leob, any of the posters or fliers from that era are worth thousands of dollars. Grande, Fillmore, 1967 memorbilia is the biggest year. check out Gary Grimshaws web site. It is great. He signed some of my posters at the "GRANDE 40 year show last year!! rock Lives on | ||
Summertime1 Member Username: Summertime1 Post Number: 46 Registered: 01-2008 |
Kenp, thanks for this web site. I have never seen some of the pictures of Jim before. My favorite album is The Doors, and Morrison Hotel | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 106 Registered: 08-2007 |
Summertime, While you're time tripping, take a gander at the work on this site. http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/ |
