10 Most Iconic Moments At Live Rock Shows
4. Jim Morrison Firing Up The Crowd In Philadelphia 1968
Jim Morrison was known for getting his crowds riled up, he infamously (and allegedly) exposed himself to a crowd in Florida in 1969. He was just a man who thrived on chaos and the first half of this clip shows Morrison as a conductor of mayhem, at a Philadelphia gig in 1968.
A man who fronted a band, named for the Aldous Huxley book The Doors of Perception, Morrison had one thing in mind with this performance, challenging the social consciousness of the world he lived in - by exploiting the fevered excitement of those fans who felt the tantalising allure of breaking through to the other side.
Screaming audience members inadvertently throwing themselves at a stage, for no other reason than a band representing something they had never come into contact with, is what rock music was all about in the '60s and '70s.
There are few moments that encapsulate a time or place in history like this. The period when music was what made the human consciousness shift.
Hunter S Thompson summed it up perfectly in Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, when he wrote "There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning - victory over the forces of Old and Evil. - on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave..."
Morrison and The Doors helped facilitate that sentiment.