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52 years ago today, the Monterey Pop Festival ended. The Jimi Hendrix Experience was there.
Hat tip, This Day in Rock:
1967 – THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE MAKES ITS DEBUT…
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Jimi Hendrix
1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its debut performance at the Monterey (Calif.) Pop Festival. The Hendrix album “Electric Ladyland,” released in 1968, tops Chart Toppers’s pop album chart for two weeks.
Posted on 12:00 AM by ADMIN
Jimi Hendrix
1967 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its debut performance at the Monterey (Calif.) Pop Festival. The Hendrix album “Electric Ladyland,” released in 1968, tops Chart Toppers’s pop album chart for two weeks.
Monterey Pop Festival
Genre: Rock, pop and folk, including blues rock, folk rock, hard rock and psychedelic rock styles.
Dates: June 16–18, 1967
Location(s): Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, California
Years active: 1967
Founded by: Lou Adler, John Phillips, Alan Pariser
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. 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 to a mass American audience.
The Monterey Pop Festival embodied the theme 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; the first rock festival had been held just one week earlier at Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, the KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival. Because Monterey was widely promoted and heavily attended, featured historic performances, and was the subject of a popular theatrical documentary film, it became an inspiration and a template for future music festivals, including the Woodstock Festival two years later. Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner said, "Monterey was the nexus - it sprang from what the Beatles began, and from it sprang what followed."
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Performers
Further information: Monterey Pop Festival set list
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Sunday, June 18
(afternoon)
• Ravi Shankar
(evening)
• The Blues Project
• Big Brother and the Holding Company
• The Group With No Name
• Buffalo Springfield
• The Who
• Grateful Dead
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Genre: Rock, pop and folk, including blues rock, folk rock, hard rock and psychedelic rock styles.
Dates: June 16–18, 1967
Location(s): Monterey County Fairgrounds, Monterey, California
Years active: 1967
Founded by: Lou Adler, John Phillips, Alan Pariser
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. 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 to a mass American audience.
The Monterey Pop Festival embodied the theme 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; the first rock festival had been held just one week earlier at Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, the KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival. Because Monterey was widely promoted and heavily attended, featured historic performances, and was the subject of a popular theatrical documentary film, it became an inspiration and a template for future music festivals, including the Woodstock Festival two years later. Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner said, "Monterey was the nexus - it sprang from what the Beatles began, and from it sprang what followed."
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Performers
Further information: Monterey Pop Festival set list
....
Sunday, June 18
(afternoon)
• Ravi Shankar
(evening)
• The Blues Project
• Big Brother and the Holding Company
• The Group With No Name
• Buffalo Springfield
• The Who
• Grateful Dead
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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History
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... The group came to prominence in the US after the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, one of the first major rock music festivals.[9] The band's performance ended with Hendrix famously setting his psychedelically painted Fender Stratocaster on fire. After the festival they toured with the Monkees, but left the tour two weeks later, reportedly due to lack of audience response.
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History
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... The group came to prominence in the US after the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, one of the first major rock music festivals.[9] The band's performance ended with Hendrix famously setting his psychedelically painted Fender Stratocaster on fire. After the festival they toured with the Monkees, but left the tour two weeks later, reportedly due to lack of audience response.
