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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064689/
Commemorating the 45th Anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival
The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. Monterey was the first widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival, attracting an estimated 55,000 total attendees with up to 90,000 people present at the event's peak at midnight on Sunday.
The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large scale public performance of Janis Joplin, and the introduction of Otis Redding to a large, predominantly white audience.
The Monterey Pop Festival embodied the themes of California as a focal point for the counterculture and is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" in 1967. Monterey became the template for future music festivals, notably the Woodstock Festival two years later.
With his characteristic vérité style, filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker captured it all, immortalizing moments that have become legend.
A number of the performances at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival are recorded, along with the audience reaction, and a few glimpses of behind-the-scenes activity. There's a wide variety of acts - pop artists and rock groups, English talent and jazz groups, and Otis Redding's soul act. This is the film where Janis Joplin blasted onto the scene, where the Who destroyed their instruments, and Hendrix burned and smashed his guitar.
The Monterey Pop Festival is quite a show. Keith Moon breaks and tosses scores of drumsticks, Janis Joplin receives a tumultuous reception from the crowd, and Jimi Hendrix does weird showoff feedback with his guitar as if he were performing magic brought back from another planet. Ravi Shankar's slowly building number sculpts the crowd for a finale that captures a transcendent moment in time, forever.
Performers and songs featured in the film, in order of appearance:
1. Scott McKenzie—"San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"*
2. The Mamas & The Papas—"Creeque Alley"* and "California Dreamin'"
3. Canned Heat—"Rollin' and Tumblin'"
4. Simon & Garfunkel—"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)"
5. Hugh Masekela—"Bajabula Bonke (The Healing Song)"
6. Jefferson Airplane—"High Flyin' Bird" and "Today"
7. Big Brother & The Holding Company—"Ball 'n' Chain"
8. Eric Burdon & The Animals—"Paint It, Black"
9. The Who—"My Generation"
10. Country Joe & The Fish—"Section 43"
11. Otis Redding—"Shake" and "I've Been Loving You Too Long"
12. The Jimi Hendrix Experience—"Wild Thing"
13. The Mamas & The Papas—"Got a Feelin'"
14. Ravi Shankar—"Raga Bhimpalasi" (actually "Dhun (Dadra and Fast Teental")
*Studio version, played over film footage of pre-concert activity.
The order of performances in the film was rearranged from the order of appearance at the festival. Additionally many artists who appeared at the festival were not included in the original cut of the film.
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Media Info:
Running Time: 1h19′21”
video: 512×384, 744kbps, 23.976fps, divx6
audio: mpeg layer3, 128kbps cbr, 48000Hz, stereo
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