– The Who's "My Generation" became a symbol of rock destruction after their 1967 Monterey Pop Festival set, where Keith Moon detonated his drum kit and Pete Townshend smashed his guitar.
– Cream transformed Robert Johnson's blues song "Crossroads" into a rock classic through Eric Clapton's guitar work at a live performance at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom.
– Jimi Hendrix so thoroughly reinvented Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" in his live 1960s performances that the song became more closely associated with Hendrix than Dylan.