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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 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.
Advertisement for a US concert by Shankar and Rakha, held four months after Monterey. Ravi Shankar's appearance at the Monterey International Pop Festival marked a highpoint in the popularity of Indian classical music in the West, [3] during a period when rock groups such as the Beatles, the Byrds and the Rolling Stones had increasingly adopted aspects of the genre in their work. [4]
"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.
Monterey Festival may refer to: Monterey Jazz Festival , an annual jazz festival in Monterey, California Monterey International Pop Festival , a 1967 music festival in Monterey
The record includes "Sky Pilot", an anti-war song of the Vietnam War era, and "Monterey", the band's tribute to the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.Reviewer Bruce Eder of AllMusic describes the song "All Is One" as "unique in the history of pop music as a psychedelic piece, mixing bagpipes, sitar, oboes, horns, flutes, and a fairly idiotic lyric, all within the framework of a piece that picks up ...