The Doors, Elvin Bishop Group, Lonnie Mack - Cow Palace, San Francisco, July 1969

The Doors released their fourth album, The Soft Parade, in July 1969 and has just played 2 successful shows at the Aquarius Theatre in LA where they recorded the album, “Absolutely Live.” This followed a string of 24 cancelled shows in the Spring due to Morrison’s warrant for an arrest on profanity and indecent exposure charges following the Miami concert in March. Their Cow Palace show sold out at around 16,000 fans. Opening up for the Doors were Elvin Bishop (former guitarist in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band) and Indiana blues rock icon Lonnie Mack. Mack, who had a major hit in 1963 with a blistering instrumental version of “Memphis,” was enjoying his first of several high profile comebacks of his career having recently been signed to Door’s label, Elektra records, and released the first of three albums for them. The artwork, “market-the-performers”, is by Randy Tuten