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. Monterey was the first widely-promoted and heavily-attended rock festival, attracting an estimated 55000 total attendees with to 90000 people present at the event’s peak at midnight on Sunday.
It was notable as hosting the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix and The Who, as well as the first major public performances of Janis Joplin and Otis Redding.
The Monterey Pop Festival embodied the themes of California as a focal point for the counterculture and is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the “Summer of Love” in 1967.
It also became the template for future music festivals, notably the Woodstock Festival two years later. Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California, USA, in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists.
It was launched by two blues enthusiasts, Alan Wilson and Bob Hite, who took the name from Tommy Johnson’s 1928 “Canned Heat Blues”, a song about an alcoholic who had desperately turned to drinking Sterno, generically called “canned heat”.
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The Monterey Jazz Festival is pleased to announce Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour: a nationwide, thirty-four date, six-week tour of the MJF/52 All-Stars.
Traveling through thirty-two cities in seventeen states, the band features the nine-time Grammy-nominated and NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron on piano; Grammy-nominated violinist Regina Carter; Grammy-winning guitarist Russell Malone; eight-time Grammy-nominated vocalist Kurt Elling; bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa, and Grammy-nominated drummer Johnathan Blake.
The East Coast run will visit eleven states starting on February 5, 2010 at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, and will finish on February 28 at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. The second leg of the tour begins on the West Coast in Bellingham, Washington on April 14, 2010, and continues with an additional fourteen dates in six states, ending in Detroit, Michigan, on May 1, 2010.
See www.montereyjazzfestival.org for details and ticket information. (c) 2009 Monterey Jazz Festival. Filmed 9/18/09 on the Monterey Jazz Festival’s Jimmy Lyons Arena Stage.
Janis Joplin was definitely the star performer at the Monterey International Pop Festival, the three-day event staged in 1967. Mama Cass agreed with that, and you can hear it in her commentary.
This is a stunning DVD boxed set which includes an outtakes disc, which is good, but unfortunately mostly features Tiny Tim, but does include Janis Joplin.
DISC ONE: “Monterey Pop” is a high-definition digitaltransfer, supervised by D.A. Pennebaker.
This is a new 5.1 mix by the legendary recording engineer Eddie Kramer, in Dolby Digital and DTS.
The Audio commentary is by Festival producer Lou Adler and D.A. Pennebaker and there is a new video interview with Lou Adler and D.A. Pennebaker. Also some great audio interviews with Festival producer John Phillips, Festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby. There is a photo essay by Elaine Mayes.
