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Friday, February 07, 2014

Monterey Pop Festival

Monterey Pop is a 1968 American concert film by D. A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey International Pop Festival of 1967. Among Pennebaker's several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles. The painter Brice Marden has an "assistant camera" credit. Titles for the film were by the illustrator Tomi Ungerer. Featured performers include Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Hugh Masekela, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, the Mamas & the Papas, the Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, whose namesake set his guitar on fire, broke it on the stage, then threw the neck of his guitar in the crowd at the end of "Wild Thing".

Scott McKenzie – "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)"*

The Mamas & the Papas – "Creeque Alley"* and "California Dreamin'"

Canned Heat – "Rollin' and Tumblin'"

Simon & Garfunkel – "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)"

Hugh Masekela – "Bajabula Bonke (The Healing Song)"

Jefferson Airplane – "High Flying Bird" and "Today"

Big Brother and the Holding Company – "Ball and Chain"

Eric Burdon & the Animals – "Paint It Black"

The Who – "My Generation"

Country Joe and the Fish – "Section 43"

Otis Redding (backed by Booker T. & the M.G.'s) – "Shake" and "I've Been Loving You Too Long"

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – "Wild Thing"

The Mamas & the Papas – "Got a Feelin'"

Ravi Shankar – "Dhun" ("Dadra and Fast Teental") (mistitled as "Raga Bhimpalasi")

* - Studio version, played over film footage of pre-concert activity.

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