V.A. - The Monterey International Pop Festival 1967 (1992)

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. Crowd estimates for the festival have ranged from 25,000-90,000 people, who congregated in and around the festival grounds. The fairgrounds’ enclosed performance arena, where the music took place, had an approved festival capacity of 7,000, but it was estimated that 8,500 jammed into it for Saturday night’s show, with many extra attendees standing around the sides of the arena. Festival-goers who wanted to see the musical performances were required to have either an 'all-festival' ticket or a separate ticket for each of the five scheduled concert events they wanted to attend in the arena: Friday night, Saturday afternoon and night, and Sunday afternoon and night. Ticket prices varied by seating area, and ranged from $3 to $6.50 ($22-47, adjusted for inflation). The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and the introduction of Otis Redding.

A sumptuous, four-CD box set with all the deluxe trimmings celebrating the grandaddy of all outdoor rock concerts. With legendary performances by Otis Redding, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Byrds, and Paul Butterfield all taken from the mobile-unit multi-track masters (not to mention an album-sized booklet that'll knock your eyes out), this box evokes a sound and an era the way few (if any) retrospectives of like material ever do. Important music from a turning point in rock's history. The Monterey International Pop Festival, which preceded Woodstock by two years, brought together a diverse group of big-name acts including the Mamas and the Papas and Jefferson Airplane as well as some then-unknown performers, notably Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. The 1967 event was organized by Lou Adler and the late John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas and it was caught on film by documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker. Adler and singer Michelle Phillips look back at the event. "Some of the greatest performances of all time happened at Monterey," Adler tells Renee Montagne. Michelle Phillips, a member of the Mamas and the Papas, remembers how Hendrix amazed the crowd - and fellow artists - with his jaw-dropping performance, playing his guitar on his back, behind his back, lying down and setting the instrument on fire. "I had never seen anything like it," Phillips says. "And I didn't understand that it was kind of theater. I was used to people singing and harmonizing and taking care of their instruments. It was shocking for me to see this kind of behavior on stage." The festival also exposed soul great Otis Redding to a new, primarily white audience, whom he called "the love crowd," Phillips says. "A whole new audience opened up to him," she says. Redding was killed in a plane crash just months after that performance. A few, short years later, Hendrix and Joplin died within weeks of each other. Their performances at the Monterey Festival have become part of music legend.

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DISC 1 - Volume One
01. Festival Introduction (John Phillips)
02. Along Comes Mary (The Association)
03. Windy (The Association)
04. Love Is a Hurtin' Thing (Lou Rawls)
05. Dead End Street (Lou Rawls)
06. Tobacco Road (Lou Rawls)
07. San Franciscan Nights (Eric Burdon & The Animals)
08. Hey Gyp (Eric Burdon & The Animals)
09. Rollin' and Tumblin' (Canned Heat)
10. Dust My Broom (Canned Heat)
11. Bullfrog Blues (Canned Heat)
12. Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine (Country Joe & The Fish)
13. Down on Me (Big Brother & The Holding Company)
14. Combination of the Two (Big Brother & The Holding Company)
15. Harry (Big Brother & The Holding Company)
16. Road Block (Big Brother & The Holding Company)
17. Ball and Chain (Big Brother & The Holding Company)

DISC 2 - Volume Two
01. Look Over Yonders Wall (The Butterfield Blues Band)
02. Mystery Train (The Butterfield Blues Band)
03. Born in Chicago (The Butterfield Blues Band)
04. Double Trouble (The Butterfield Blues Band)
05. Mary Ann (The Butterfield Blues Band)
06. Mercury Blues (Steve Miller Band)
07. Groovin' Is Easy (The Electric Flag)
08. Wine (The Electric Flag)
09. Bajabula Bonke (Healing Song) (Hugh Masakela)
10. Renaissance Fair (The Byrds)
11. Have You Seen Her Face (The Byrds)
12. Hey Joe (Where You Gonna Go) (The Byrds)
13. He Was a Friend of Mine (The Byrds)
14. Lady Friend (The Byrds)
15. Chimes of Freedom (The Byrds)
16. So You Want to Be a Rock 'N' Roll Star (The Byrds)
17. Dhun: Fast Teental (Excerpt) (Ravi Shankar)
18. Wake Me, Shake Me (The Blues Project)

DISC 3 - Volume Three
01. Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)
02. The Other Side of This Life (Jefferson Airplane)
03. White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
04. High Flyin' Bird (Jefferson Airplane)
05. She Has Funny Cars (Jefferson Airplane)
06. Booker-Loo (Booker T. & The MG's)
07. Hip Hug-Her (Booker T. & The MG's)
08. Philly Dog (Booker T. & The MG's with The Mar-Keys)
09. Shake (Otis Redding)
10. Respect (Otis Redding)
11. I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) (Otis Redding)
12. Satisfaction (Otis Redding)
13. Try a Little Tenderness (Otis Redding)
14. Substitute (The Who)
15. Summertime Blues (The Who)
16. Pictures of Lily (The Who)
17. A Quick One While He's Away (The Who)
18. Happy Jack (The Who)
19. My Generation (The Who)

DISC 4 - Volume Four
01. Killing Floor (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
02. Like A Rolling Stone (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
03. Rock Me Baby (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
04. Foxey Lady (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
05. Can You See Me (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
06. Hey Joe (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
07. Purple Haze (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
08. The Wind Cries Mary (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
09. Wild Thing (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
10. Straight Shooter (The Mamas & The Papas)
11. Got a Feelin' (The Mamas & The Papas)
12. California Dreamin' (The Mamas & The Papas)
13. I Call Your Name (The Mamas & The Papas)
14. Monday, Monday (The Mamas & The Papas)
15. San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (Scott McKenzie)
16. Dancing in the Street (The Mamas & The Papas)