Should you watch Monterey Pop?
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Monterey Pop
Documentary · 1968
Featuring performances by popular artists of the 1960s, this concert film highlights the music of the 1967 California festival. Although not all musicians who performed at the Monterey Pop Festival are on film, some of the notable acts include the Mamas and the Papas, Simon & Garfunkel, Jefferson Airplane, the Who, Otis Redding, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hendrix's post-performance antics -- lighting a guitar on fire, breaking it and tossing a part into the audience -- are captured.
The sides of Monterey Pop
- The 1967 Monterey Pop Festival
- Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire
- Otis Redding, The Who and Janis Joplin on stage
Monterey Pop is good for you if…
- you want to hear Otis Redding and Jefferson Airplane live.
- you like being dropped into the summer of 1967.
- you can't look away from Hendrix on stage.
Monterey Pop is bad for you if…
- you find grainy 1960s footage dated.
- you want to get to know the musicians. The film shows the songs and the crowd, with no interviews.
About: the sixties · rock · the crowd
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