22 Jul
My Most Memorable Musical Moments
by Jason Miller, West Chester, PA
1. Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival 1965
2. Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan show, where they only film him from the waist up.
3. Jimi Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival 1967, when he lit his guitar on fire fire then smashed it.
4. Jim Morrison is arrested onstage in New Haven CT, 1968.
5. Bob Marley is shot before the 1975 Smile Jamaica National Concert. He still goes on stage.
6. James Brown goes on stage the day after the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination, helping to prevent the tension filled state of MA from boiling over into riots.
7. Johnny Cash plays Folsom Prison, goes on to become one of the greatest selling live albums.