Monterey Pop Festival
The Monterey International Pop Festival music festival was planned by John Phillips ( The Mamas and the Papas ), music producer Lou Adler and publicist Derek Taylor . The Beatles and The Beach Boys also sat on the organizing committee . It was held from June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairground in California .
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The Monterey Pop Festival is the musical prelude to the so-called " hippie culture" ( Flower Power , Love and Peace Generation ). In total, between 50,000 and 90,000 people attended the festival. Bringing out a documentary about what was happening was Hollywood's concern from the start. In 1968 came DA Penne Bakers Strip Monterey Pop as "non-commercial" film of the organization The Foundation out.
Many of the most famous interpreters of pop music performed, including Jimi Hendrix , Otis Redding , The Who , Big Brother and the Holding Company (with their singer Janis Joplin ), Steve Miller Band , The Electric Flag , The Butterfield Blues Band , Canned Heat , Eric Burdon & The Animals , Jefferson Airplane and The Byrds . Ravi Shankar played classical Indian raga music on the sitar with his ensemble .
Some of the concerts were later published as live recordings on long-playing records (e.g. Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding and Ravi Shankar). The artistic director of the festival was Tom Wilkes .
The fact that pop musicians began to be more enthusiastic about the synthesizer can partly be traced back to the festival; Robert Moog had a demo booth there that attracted a lot of attention.
Cancellations for the festival
- Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys , who helped develop the concept for the concert, pulled the Beach Boys back at the last minute. The group should have ended the festival as the main attraction.
- The Beatles did not accept the invitation to play live and were subsequently dismissed from the organizing committee.
- Also, The Rolling Stones did not occur. Guitarist Brian Jones announced the appearance of Jimi Hendrix on stage.
- Dionne Warwick canceled the performance on the grounds that she already had other commitments.
- Neil Young stayed away from the festival, so he had to be replaced as guitarist and singer for the band Buffalo Springfield by David Crosby . Their appearance was announced by Peter Tork from The Monkees .
- The Kinks had agreed to participate, but did not get a visa from the USA because they were in dispute with the American musicians' union.
- Donovan could not get a visa to the United States because he violated the Narcotics Act in 1966.
- Cream canceled because their band manager had planned other appearances for the band's US debut.
Order of appearances
Friday June 16
- The Association
- The Paupers
- Lou Rawls
- Beverly
- Johnny Rivers
- Eric Burdon & The Animals
- Simon & Garfunkel
Saturday 17th June
- Canned heat
- Big Brother and the Holding Company
- Country Joe and the Fish
- Al Cooper
- The Butterfield Blues Band
- Quicksilver Messenger Service
- Steve Miller Band
- The Electric Flag
- Moby Grape
- Hugh Masekela
- The Byrds
- Laura Nyro
- Jefferson Airplane
- Booker T. & the MG's
- The Mar Keys
- Otis Redding
Sunday June 18th
- Ravi Shankar
- Blues Project
- Big Brother and the Holding Company
- The Group With No Name ( Cyrus Faryar )
- Buffalo Springfield
- The Who
- Grateful Dead
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Scott McKenzie
- The Mamas and the Papas
Effects
The appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival brought the breakthrough for some musicians, for Otis Redding also outside the soul scene , for Jimi Hendrix and The Who , who were already successful in England, now also in the USA, and for Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company , it was the breakthrough ever.
The festival itself was the first in a series of major (rock) festivals. A repetition in the following year failed despite persistent efforts by John Phillips due to the slow resistance of the city administration.
Eric Burdon & the New Animals later released the song Monterey on the album The Twain Shall Meet . In the text, Eric Burdon mentions some of the participating musicians and briefly imitates the respective musical style.
See also
- Woodstock Festival (1969)
- Isle of Wight Festival (1968-1970)
- Festival Express Train Tour (1970)
- List of major rock concerts and festivals
literature
- Nele Grubelnik: Rock festivals - tourist events of youth culture . Master's thesis, GRIN, Norderstedt 2008, pp. 46–48, ISBN 978-3-640-20503-5 .
- Wolfgang Tilgner : Open Air . Lied der Zeit, Berlin 1988, pp. 7–72, ISBN 3-7332-0038-1 .
- Lily Brett: Lola Bensky . Suhrkamp, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-46470-0
Web links
- Berthold Seliger: You were young and didn't need any money . Three hours of Indian toothless, absolute silence in the audience and please don't smoke: where was that something? At the mother of all pop festivals in 1967 in Monterey, California. It was the founding myth and high point for the hippies. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 14, 2017
Individual evidence
- ^ Murray, Charles Shaar: Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Post-War Pop , Faber and Faber, London 1989, ISBN 0-571-14936-7 .