Before there was Woodstock, there was Monterey International Pop Festival. A groundbreaking moment in music history, the festival took over the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California, in ...
When Hendrix met Monkeemania, the result was a surreal, strangely touching culture clash – and the essence of 1967's ...
When American music festivals are bandied about, Woodstock scores most of the attention. However, the Monterey Pop Festival laid down the template 55 years ago. “Monterey was the nexus,” Rolling Stone ...
MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL..AND A MOMENT ON STAGE THAT HAPPENED NEARLY 60 YEARS AGO.... DAN SHEEHAN, ORGANIZER 00;13;02 - "ANYTIME YOU TELL AN ARTIST THAT HAS NEVER PLAYED ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Jimi Hendrix's breakthrough performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, when he transfixed the American rock cognoscenti with a set that climaxed with the immolation of ...
MONTEREY — It begins to sound like the plot of one of those absurdly gargantuan Hollywood musicals. They are sitting around John Phillips’s living room in the highest holiest Hollywood, when suddenly ...
Forty years ago this week, at the dawn of what would become known as the Summer of Love, a musical experiment unfolded in Monterey, Calif. The Monterey International Pop Festival, which preceded ...
In the 21st century, destination music festivals seem like a dime a dozen. But just 50 years ago, there was only one: the Monterey International Pop Festival, which featured more than 30 artists and ...