(Tuesday, March 21, 1967) — During a three-week residency at The Ondine in New York City, The Doors performed “Break On Through” today for their New York television debut on Clay Cole’s Diskotek, which would air Apr. 1, 1967, at 6:00 p.m. EST on WPIX Channel 11.
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(Friday, March 10, 1967, 9:30 p.m.-2:00 a.m. PST) — The Doors performed another three sets tonight at The Matrix nightclub in San Francisco. Continue reading The Doors perform at The Matrix in San Francisco 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 10 1967)
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(Thursday, March 9, 1967, 9:30 p.m.-2:00 a.m. PST) — The Doors performed another three sets tonight at The Matrix nightclub in San Francisco (only a partial recording of “The End” survived). Continue reading The Doors perform at The Matrix in San Francisco 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 9 1967)
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(Tuesday, March 7, 1967, 9:30 p.m.-2:00 a.m. PST) — In one of the earliest live recordings of the band known to exist, The Doors performed three sets tonight at The Matrix nightclub in San Francisco. Continue reading The Doors perform at The Matrix in San Francisco 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 7 1967)
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(Monday, March 6, 1967) — In what is believed to be the earliest television appearance by The Doors to survive, the band mimed to their first single “Break On Through (To the Other Side)” today at KTLA-TV studios for the show She-Bang, a local Los Angeles teen music show similar in format to American Bandstand and Hullabaloo and hosted by Casey Kasem.
(Saturday, February 18, 1967, 5:30 p.m. PST) — The Doors appeared tonight on Boss City, a program on Los Angeles television station KHJ-TV hosted by DJ Sam Riddle, most likely performing the band’s first single “Break On Through” in what was probably The Doors’ very first television appearance.
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(Wednesday, February 8, 1967, 3:00-6:00 p.m. PST) — The American rock band The Doors began recording their second studio album Strange Days today at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, California, tracking “My Eyes Have Seen You.” Continue reading The Doors begin recording second studio album 50 years ago this hour #OTD #OnThisDay (Feb 8 1967)
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(Wednesday, January 4, 1967) — The Doors, the self-titled debut album by the American rock band the Doors featuring their breakthrough hit “Light My Fire” and the lengthy song “The End” with its Oedipal spoken word section, was released today along with their debut single “Break On Through (To the Other Side)”/”End of the Night.” Continue reading The Doors release debut album, single 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 4 1967)
(Saturday, July 3, 1971, 1 a.m., Paris; 7 p.m. in New York on July 2) — With 4 hours to live, singer Jim Morrison, front man for the rock group The Doors, takes heroin with his girlfriend Pamela Courson in their apartment and watch home movies.
(Friday, July 2, 1971, 6 p.m., Paris) — With 11 hours to live, singer Jim Morrison, front man for the rock group The Doors, goes out again with old friend Alan Ronay for one last drink and then meets up with girlfriend Pamela Courson to see the 1947 Robert Mitchum film “Pursued.”
