On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the beginning of the Summer of Love, the Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey featured career-making performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis ...
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the beginning of the Summer of Love, the Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey featured career-making performances by Jimi...
The Monterey International Pop Festival, June 16-18, 1967, was the melting pot that merged rock ‘n’ roll, pop, psychedelic music, folk, and elements of rhythm & blues, country blues, country/western, jazz, and even world music, into what we now call rock. Monterey Pop, the film by ...
In honor of the festival’s 50th anniversary, Lou Adler has organized a celebration June 16-18 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, with a lineup juxtaposing ’60s acts with contemporary artists likeFather John Misty,Regina SpektorandKurt Vile. Here, many of the original weekend’s principals r...
the Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade's spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey featured career-making performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few of the performers in a wildly diverse lineup...
David Crosby (l.) of the Byrds and Richie Furay of Buffalo Springfield at the Monterey Pop Festival The Byrds:Monterey proved to be the beginning of the end for David Crosby’s involvement in the L.A. band. Tensions between the guitarist/singer and other members were already heating up whe...
The result of this partnership was the birth of the Monterey Pop Festival – although by the time the concerts were staged, neither Pariser or Shapiro were still in charge of the very event that they had conceived. In January of 1967, having raised roughly $50,000 in startup funds, P...
Fairgrounds, with a lineup juxtaposing ’60s acts with contemporary artists likeFather John Misty,Regina SpektorandKurt Vile. Here, many of the original weekend’s principals recall who played, what drugs they took and why they still consider Monterey Pop the greatest rock festival of all time....
The result of this partnership was the birth of the Monterey Pop Festival – although by the time the concerts were staged, neither Pariser or Shapiro were still in charge of the very event that they had conceived. In January of 1967, having raised roughly $50,000 in startup funds, Pa...