10 Hard Rock Bands That Insulted Their Own Fans
4. Jim Morrison - The Doors
The Doors' beginnings in the mid '60s were full of great potential. With the band's eponymous debut and the equally deranged Strange Days, they were on the road to becoming kings of the hard rock world with their mix of psychedelic chaos. Once the band stopped in Florida though, everything started to change.
With Jim Morrison drinking heavily at this point in the band's career, the show seemed to show the greatest psychedelic band on their last legs. Instead of the captivating poetic presence he had become known for, Morrison is pretty irritable throughout most of the band's performance.
When the audience gets restless when the band doesn't tear into "Light My Fire," Morrison proceeds to go off on the crowd, calling them a bunch of slaves cowering to the power of authority. After going through a public roast of his fans, Morrison asks what they want before nearly exposing himself onstage.
Once everything was settled, Morrison was faced with a fine for indecent exposure and didn't go on another tour with the band up until his death in the early 70's. Fans may have felt dejected at this point, but Ray Manzarak said it best when he pointed out that Morrison's artistic self dying that night in Florida.