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Monterey Pop
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Jimi Plays Monterey
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Shake! Otis at Monterey
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Monterey Pop
On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade's spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey would launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few among a wildly diverse cast including Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, Hugh Masekela, and the extraordinary Ravi Shankar. With his characteristic verite style, D. A. Pennebaker got it all, immortalizing moments that have become legend: Pete Townshend destroying his guitar, Jimi Hendrix burning his. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this timeless document of a landmark event.
Jimi Plays Monterey & Shake! Otis at Monterey
Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding arrived at California's Monterey International Pop Festival virtually unknown. Returning stateside from London, where he had moved to launch his musical career, Hendrix exploded onstage, flooring an unsuspecting audience with his maniacal six-string pyrotechnics. Redding, a venerable star of Memphis's Stax record label, seduced the "love crowd" in one of his best--and last-- shows. Jimi Plays Monterey and Shake! Otis at Monterey, acclaimed documentarian D. A. Pennebaker's Monterey Pop companion pieces, feature the entire sets by these legendary musicians, performances that have entered rock-and-roll mythology.
Monterey Pop: The Outtake Performances
In June 1967, an estimated 200,000 people converged upon the northern California coast for one reason: a weekend of "music, love, and flowers." Over three glorious days, 32 acts--spanning continents and genres--made their music known. But the constraints of filmmaking prevented director D.A. Pennebaker from including many remarkable performances. These rare outtakes, captured by Pennebaker's crew, offer another look at the weekend that ushered in a new era of music.
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- Audio commentary by Festival producer Lou Adler and D.A. Pennebaker
- Audio commentary by music critic and historian Charles Shaar Murray
- Two hours of performances not included in Monterey Pop, from the Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Blues Project, the Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, the Electric Flag, Jefferson Airplane, Al Kooper, the Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simon and Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, and the Who
- Video interview with Lou Adler and D.A. Pennebaker from 2002
- Theatrical trailer for Jimi Plays Monterey
- Audio interviews with festival producer John Phillips, festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby
- Video excerpt of Pete Townshend discussing Jimi Hendrix
- Photo-essay by photographer Elaine Mayes
- Two audio commentaries by music critic and historian Peter Guralnick: the first on Otis Redding's Monterey performance, song by song, and on Redding before and after Monterey
- Original theatrical trailer
- Interview with Phil Walden, Redding's manager
- Radio spots
- Monterey Pop Festival scrapbook