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Monterey Pop is a 1968 American concert film by D. A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey International Pop Festival of 1967. Among Pennebaker's several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles .
The Monterey International Pop Festival was a three-day music festival held June 16 to 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. [1] The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, the Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and the introduction of Otis Redding to a mass ...
This is a list of the performers at the Monterey Pop Festival, held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. [1]There were five separate shows during the three-day festival (one on Friday night, two on Saturday and two on Sunday), with each performance approximately four hours in duration.
At the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967, Faryar led a band dubbed the "Group With No Name." [ 1 ] Later that year, he collaborated with Mort Garson and synthesizer virtuoso Paul Beaver , [ 1 ] providing the narration for the album The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds , a pioneering psychedelic LP on Elektra Records . [ 2 ]
Edward Hoh (October 16, 1944 – November 7, 2015) was an American rock drummer who was active in the 1960s. Although primarily a studio session and touring drummer, Hoh exhibited a degree of originality and showmanship that set him apart and several of his contributions have been singled out for acknowledgment by music critics.
"Monterey" is a 1967 song by Eric Burdon & The Animals. The music and lyrics were composed by the group's members, Eric Burdon , John Weider , Vic Briggs , Danny McCulloch , and Barry Jenkins . The song provides an oral account of the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival , at which the Animals performed.
At Monterey Pop, Hendrix performed in front of an estimated 25,000-90,000 people. [ citation needed ] At the end of the song ‘Wild thing’--which appears on this recording-- [ 13 ] Hendrix lit his guitar on fire, smashed it 7 times, and threw its remains into the crowd.
In June 1967 Gibson attended the first ever Monterey International Pop Festival with Lou Adler, where she was an invited member of the press. [50] Over this three-day period in sunny Monterey, California , she photographed nearly every act on the bill, and her photographs of celebrities such as Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin , Jefferson Airplane ...