Ask any Baby Boomer to name a music festival and the response you get will probably be "Woodstock." But before Woodstock there was the Monterey International Pop Festival, held 44 years ago this weekend, June 16-18, 1967 in Monterey, California.
The list of performers reads like a Who's Who of 60's music. The Byrds, The Who, The Grateful Dead, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, Johnny Rivers, Simon & Garfunkel, Canned Heat, the Mamas & the Papas, The Association, Country Joe & the Fish, and Buffalo Springfield (yes, that's Peter Tork doing the intro) :
Monterey was also an American coming out party of sorts for one Johnny Allen Hendrix:
Ticket prices ranged from $3.00 to $6.50 for each of the five sessions during the weekend. How about paying three bucks or even $6.50 to see this lineup on Sunday night?
Big Brother & the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin)
Buffalo Springfield
The Who
The Grateful Dead
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Mamas & the Papas
I'd call that the bargain of a lifetime.
The list of performers reads like a Who's Who of 60's music. The Byrds, The Who, The Grateful Dead, Eric Burdon & the Animals, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, Johnny Rivers, Simon & Garfunkel, Canned Heat, the Mamas & the Papas, The Association, Country Joe & the Fish, and Buffalo Springfield (yes, that's Peter Tork doing the intro) :
Monterey was also an American coming out party of sorts for one Johnny Allen Hendrix:
Ticket prices ranged from $3.00 to $6.50 for each of the five sessions during the weekend. How about paying three bucks or even $6.50 to see this lineup on Sunday night?
Big Brother & the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin)
Buffalo Springfield
The Who
The Grateful Dead
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Mamas & the Papas
I'd call that the bargain of a lifetime.
yeah, I hear u loud and clear... :O)
And ZZ Top used to play at parties for Lamar and Lee High Schools before they became famous.
Monterey Pop Festival - we will never see the likes of that kind of talent again! I miss those days (well, some of those days)!
yup, early 70's
That was during the "geographical rock group names" period.....
Chicago, Miami Sound Machine, Kansas, Boston, Louisiana Hound Dogs, Manhattan Transit Company, John Denver.
Musta been in the 70's 'cuz I had a '71 Camaro.
but you know I gotta do you one better, huh... :O)
I hung out in the same small town bar as the group Kansas BEFORE they hit the national scene...how long ago was that?
now that's somethin'
My cousins went to school in Pt Arthur with Janis Joplin. Aomost met her once but had an ear infection.
I think it was the tuna.
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Get it?
Monterey, Cannery Row. Tuna.
Well, I though it was funny.
The remarkable thing about that festival was how many of the performers did not survive long.