Monterey Pop Music Festival
Which Rock Festival do you think impacted music and politics in the late 60′s?
Monterey Pop Festival – Woodstock – and why?
Maybe I should say influenced instead of impact.
So many outstanding answers, it’s gonna be real tough to pick a Best Answer. All are best answers as far as I’m concerned.
Altamont
It absolutely shattered the Peace and Love image of the 60′s once and for all and foreshadowed the image of a darker decade…The 70′s.
Have You ever heard the Stones performance from Altamont it’s bone chilling. Especially “Sympathy For The Devil” and “Under My Thumb”
Monterey Pop Festival 1967 – Part 1
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Festival Express $12.74 After Woodstock and Altamont there was the Festival Express in 1970. A five day journey by train from Toronto to Winnepeg to Calagary. Performances by Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Band, Buddy Guy and more. Mint condition 2 disc set. (Region 1 US & Canada)… |
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The Complete Monterey Pop Festival (The Criterion Collection) $42.95 This three-disc collection opens with documentarian D.A. Pennebaker’s chronicle of the Monterey International Pop Festival, which featured classic stage turns by such psychedelic-era icons as Big Brother and The Holding Company, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and The Papas, Otis Redding, The Who and, in its U.S. debut, The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Disc two offers a double bill of “Jimi Plays Monter… |
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Jimi Hendrix (Deluxe Edition) $9.85 If any artist deserved a hagiography it was Jimi Hendrix, and Joe Boyd’s 1973 “authorized” tribute adequately sanctifies the legend. Perversely for a documentary, it achieves this simply through well-chosen concert footage rather than through the insights of the various talking heads. Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, and Germaine Greer are all wheeled out to wax lyrical ab… |
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Monterey Pop [VHS] $9.60 A special message from Lou Adler, an original promoter/producer for the Monterey International Pop Festival: It was the first major Rock ân’ Roll Festival. No prerequisiteâ¦no precedents. We had no idea what to expect. The question of would people come was answered by mid-week prior to the start of the festival. They came and kept on coming. A major surprise was the extent of mains… |
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Indifference (Monterey International Pop Festival, 1967) $0.99 18751465~~~~Indifference (Monterey International Pop Festival, 1967)~~~~USCWY1000009~~ |
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Introduction (Monterey International Pop Festival, 1967) $0.99 18751465~~~~Introduction (Monterey International Pop Festival, 1967)~~~~USCWY1000008~~ |