10 Rock Bands That Got Banned For Stupid Reasons

Rock music has never been the easiest of genres for the mainstream public to digest. Hell, as far back as the '50s, there were many uptight adults questioning the effect that this type of music actually has on your sanity. Gross assumptions aside, there are a few times when those preconceived notions of rock music get a little too ridiculous.

Across every single subgenre of rock music, there have been people more than willing to put a stop to these long-haired lowlifes with guitars. Though you could see why they might have concerns, the idea of actually banning these artists for nothing more than delivering their art starts to get a little questionable after a while. Then again, these people forget the one great thing about rock and roll. The more parents hate, the more their children are going to want to check it out.

No matter how hard they might have tried, each of these artists have found their way to the other side without having to compromise any of their artistic visions. They may have been pushing the boundaries of what was okay at the time, but when you look back on it, the objectors start to look more and more out of touch as the years go by.

At the start of the psychedelic rock scene, The Doors had a bit of a different trip going on. Far from their peace and love counterparts in San Francisco, the poetry of Jim Morrison was about something much more powerful, as he spoke about the elements, death, and love as if they were the exact same thing. Though Light My Fire may have lit up the charts, it all came to a halt once they went on the Ed Sullivan Show.

Being the first place the Beatles performed on American soil, Sullivan's show was known to be primarily tame and family friendly. On the other hand, the Door's show and use of the line "girl we couldn't get much higher" didn't sit well with the producers, who instructed them to amend the line before showtime. While many acts had heard this kind of thing before, Morrison had other plans.

Clad in his signature jacket and leather pants, Morrison did change a single word from the original, much to the horror of the rest of the producers. Keep in mind this was a time where making allusions to smoking pot was treated about as well as someone saying "F*ck" on a family show. After being told they would never perform on the show again, Morrison's smug "well, we only wanted to do it once anyway" etched the Doors into the middle of rock and roll notoriety.