My mom Lesley is in this documentary at 5:28 wearing a red bandana. She was 16 years old. She passed away 16 years ago. So nice to see her young and happy!
70 year old guy here…. I remember hitchhiking to Monterey from L.A. for festival, and yeah I was 14, but nobody cared and it was all great fun. And man, I had a great time. 😏😏😏. Unfortunately, the 60s came to close and so did the age of innocence.
I am.also a 68 year old guy who still gets goosebumps and teary eyed every time I see anything related to this outstanding music festival. My wife got this for my 60th birthday. I will cherish it till the end of time. Whenever that is.
Hmm, I went to that concert as it was my last for a while since I'd been drafted to report in Oct. The 15th in fact. I was 18 and am now 75. So you were 11 at Monterrey? There were a lot of little kids, some crying as kids do in loud scary places, but you're still crying now?
Here is My Monterey Pop story: For high school graduation me and my bud Carl got to go to the Monterey Pop Festival. So we get there and get our hotel room and we're walking around the grounds looking at all the booths and stuff and all of a sudden I hear this killer guitar playing coming out of a little room that they had setup to demonstrate musical equipment. I said "Carl listen to that! we need to check that out." So we go up to the door and open up the door and walk in and there's this black guy sitting on a stool trying out a Guild guitar but he is playing it backwards, (left handed) and all the sudden he just stops playing and started just looking at the guitar. So to try to get him to play some more I said "Hey Man that sounded really good!" He looked up and said "Yeah thanks man"..and then just put the Guild down and walked off. Well Sunday night after watching The Who tear it up, the announcer says " and now the Jimi Hendrix Experience" and out comes the black guy that we had seen sitting on the stool. I was about 60 ft in front of the stage directly in front of Jimi I got to watch the whole show and He was incredible. I did find myself in the Monterey Film out in front of The stage where I remembered. It was cool.
I am 25 years old, I am from Russia, but when I watch a video from Monterey, i feel a light sadness. I feel this atmosphere of friendship, this freedom of souls. This is amazing. In those years, in our country, much was banned or under strict control (perhaps sometimes it was even good), and the festivals were completely different. Although we also knew how to have fun, and people respected and appreciated each other. But still, the 60s in America will always be very close to me, just because of Monterey and Woodstock, all that. What a pity that the atmosphere of love did not spread between our countries. P.S.Sorry for the translation inaccuracies🌼
It's tough since this same generation grew up in the Cold War. Life takes on an existential tone when you're doing nuclear bomb drills weekly & wondering if you'll live to see your 21st Birthday. It was nothing personal, we seldom even SAW actual Russians, only a wall. It's easy to fill in the "blanks" with fears & nonsense. That never happened....maybe THIS year instead, eh? At least kids won't have to be afraid for decades on end of evaporating in WWIII.
@@LeTrashPanda Life often takes on an existential tone, we now have another battle with Ukraine, the United States is again on the side of Ukraine, which means there is nothing to talk about peace. We are still afraid and think about the length of our life. I do not understand why the governments of your country and our country have been turning the residents against each other for so long, while almost everyone wants only freedom and world peace. But I do not think that the threat of WWIII will become a reality, because then all that remains is to wait for a nuclear explosion, and our planet will become just a memory. It should not be. So we can only watch and hope. And pray. Sorry if I misunderstood your comment.
@@wildflowerchilds9997 I totally agree and understand, I for one am still in high school and I'm so scared for this and what could be possible in a third world war. We've been learning about WWII in my history class and it's horrifying to think of so many people, both civilians and those fighting, being killed only for the reasons of greed and the desire for power. Truly terrible.
@@thisjimmybuilds We are led by people who pursue only their own goals. It's always been that way. Protests, power of music, flowers in a guns - all this has not affected our governments. I think this is one of the reasons why many people start hoping for God.
i believe this time will come again...it may not be identical musically but the togetherness and the unconditional love will return and the darkness will have nothing to feed on but itself...i too watch this with tears in my eyes and think why can't it be like this now...but the energy on the planet is changing, the vibration of the planet is rising, and the age of Aquarius will make it happen. So do not give up on your dream of seeing this in your life. I have been to Russia several times and i know there are as many beautiful peaceful nature-loving souls in your country as there are in any country
It is what we all strove for but collectively we never got there - individually some of us succeed. I never thought it was a collective trip. It was a path of transcendence kind of like Dante's Divine comedy.
Love? Peace? Funny as I remember, it was anything but peaceful. There were riots, murders, overdoses. The 60's except for music, was a complete waste of a decade...
@@mikewheeler3994 How can a decade that instagated so much change be a waste. Along with riots we had civil rights legislation, with rampant pollution Nixon signed Clean Air and Clean water Acts and anyone that lived in the '60',s can tell you , the air and water at least look much cleaner. The vibe of that show changed peoples lives ( ok, credit to Osley too !) Woman's rights! ( I remember my Mom telling me she would need a man to co sign to open a checking account ). Yeah some ugly shit happened but many people rose up and basically said " We're not taking it anymore" and things eventually changed,!
Im 70 and i mostly just dreamed about Haight/ Ashbury . The dead. The Byrds. Buffalo Springfeild,Quicksilver, Sky Saxon and the Seeds. The Hook, Hendrix,Joplin,Ten Years After. I could go on. I didnt make it to Woodstock, Didnt make it to Monterey but as a lost 14 year old kid i got myself to some awesome festivals. There is a defining rationalizing fact when someone says guess you had to be there. God Bless the 60s.
📛☹️Unfortunately, the children of the pop festival attendees are now trying to usher in a 21st century Soviet Union, except on a global scale, inevitably to be run by the Chinese communist party... Most of the true liberals who showed up at this festival were smart enough to NOT want America to become part of a totalitarian communist system. But they made a mistake in not adequately educating the next generations in the evils of communism! So now we are quite literally on the brink of it.... ☹️👎
Damn, I missed the party. I was in Vietnam, what a drag. But a lot of that music came there too. The national anthem of Vietnam at that time was ''We gotta get out of this place'' by the Animals.
@@treecounting Thank you both for your service. Wrath was turned on you military guys for no reason. Hell, YOU didn't start that war, you just stepped up and laid it on the line. The brotherhood of them what has been shot at. We won't forget you.
@Tom Riviere, I missed it too, I was 13 in Chicago. My future husband was in VietNam with you...and what happened there took him from me almost 18 yrs ago. At least some ppl piped the tunes to those of you in country. I hope you have been able to keep the great music of that time with you and that you're still groovin' today. This vid has a lil unseen footage, but not much. I'm writing this specifically to thank you for your service and let you know that all of you are thought about and prayed for every day. God bless, love and peace
That was such a wonderful time. That concert was what united all the youth and made them realize they were more than a bunch of kids . They were a society of people with new ideas, new music, a new culture in the world. This made them think of what they could do to change things . I'm so glad that I was part of that time, even though that makes me an old person, at 75, but happy that I lived thru it all . Hell, everybody has to get old and we all must die, but who else has had that time to remember and be proud of ?
This concert though before my time seems perfect and the end of an era. The sixties started out with so much hope, but with the best politicians and leaders being killed off with the worst replacing them what's gonna happen? I would have loved to be here,but not Woodstock. Way Way Way too many stoned and hungry people with huge endless traffic jams and not nearly enough bathroom facilities
I’m very sure Hendrix appreciated Otis as much as Otis appreciated him. That was what was so great about those times. Otis as well as all the Blues greats used to play in England and look at what inspired musicians of England did with it. It’s fantastic. They would all hang out. It’s funny how they say Hendrix from England, he was American. Hendrix was that kid that wanted to play the Blues and R&B in America. It didn’t work out that way so he went to England to make it. When he came back to America he got famous here as well. Otis inspired so many musicians from all over. Look at The Stones doing some of his tunes.
Snap, loved that album ,BEEN A JIM I FAN since I was 14, purple haze did the trick. Saw him at the IOWF 1970, loved to have seen Otis 2 ,but never had the chance, one of my treasure albums.
That was a great album, great marketing and a great way to introduce Otis and Jimi's fans to each other. And to a lot of other people. I still have mine.
There was a certain innocence in those days. And a brotherhood that doesn't seem to exist anymore. You'd see a guy walking down the street with long hair and a peace symbol sewn onto his jacket, or a chick with bellbottoms and a loose, flowery shirt, and you knew they were a part of your family. I'm glad I got to experience those days. And, I miss them.
Too young to have been there but used to go to Woodstock informal reunions of fans in the 1980s. We spent two or three days sleeping in cars, tents, and freezing in Chesterfield, MA. Bon fires, drugs, drink, free love. If anyone had a bit of food or a bottle they shared it with everyone. I got glimpses of the 1960s even though I was born in 69.
It was a special concert in that it was the first concert of its kind. Woodstock may never have happened if not for the success of Monterey Pop. My buddy and me tried hitching from Vancouver but never made it to Monterey in time. We had a great summer in San Francisco though.
@@prunesquallor3444 The music of that era is some of the best ever. In the 1980s I was playing my Doors, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Hendrix, and Cream albums just to name a few. The best concert I ever saw was Stevie Ray Vaughn in 1988. Saw Nugent, Bad Company, David Bowie, Edger Winter, and my 2nd favorite front man David Lee Roth to name a few. Most of my friends love 80s music and I can't stand it with few exceptions.
I've thought about that a lot, I was only 12 so I couldn't go but I knew Pennebaker was shooting and anxiously awwaaited the film. Otis Redding was a head-exploding discovery.
@@jiordanfisher6076 They talked to her while she was wiping down bleachers. My son came home from high school where the history teacher showed that clip because she was local. His friend said, “I bet your dad knows her." Too funny when I explained how I knew her.
@Blake R I was the same age. I still live in the same small town and I remember the movie didn't come around til I was about 17 and everybody in the theatre was young and fucked up on something - the good ol' days
Was there when I was 10 years old. Very hip parents, took our whole family to Monterey and to the festival. I still have the concert poster and the program from the show. Will never forget burning incense for Jimi and my mom just saying “no thank you,” when people were passing joints to her. I never knew it at the time, but was blown away by Jimi or Janis, was incredible. My folks were really in to the Mamas And the Papas, as well as Otis Redding. Just so cool, will never forget it. Was a time before today, once in a lifetime experience. The Association? The Who? Hendrix? Janis? Are you serious??? And you are so right Michelle Phillips, it was the end of the innocent, the end of peaceful listening.
gosh thank for sharing all that our parents were cool and took my at 14 to Woodstock for "the music & art festival " we stay Thursday& Friday untill The Rain... not aware if this yet the document will live on.. history was music ... I. so sad about the tragic deaths... so glad utube let's us share our music generation ... What an event to re-live
You are so lucky to have such cool parents. Mine were the opposite! Here in the UK in the 70s I had to lie about everywhere I went. I never got into any trouble, had a successful career, family and marriage. But those wild times in the 70s at parties, festivals and concerts, especially the London scene, will forever live in my memories -- I hope!
I was in the USAF at Vandenberg AFB in 1967, trying to keep my ass out of Vietnam. Some of my friends went to Monterey for the festival and said that it was "mind blowing". We are all old men know, but still love this music.
@@guitarman6742 my brother as Well. He was there from 66 to 68 in the Seabees. Lost him 7 years ago this coming August but I know he is resting in peace when he's not yelling at me in my dreams 😇😇
"Some Seem To Look At The 60's Were A Very Crucial Time Period in Our Lives in Which The Vietnam War Was A Very Crucial Time-Period Because Many Families in America Also Had Family Members & Friends Whom Had Family Serving At The Time Yet Respected One Another As A Whole & Were Concerned at The Time, But Realized As We Watched Knew Some How It Was A Peaceful Transformation in Life Years Later & Understood & Respected, But Not Until Years Later!" I Was Only 10 Years Old At The Time & Now Understand it Was a Crucial Time in Our Nation's History!" "Now We Are Going Through Another Crucial Time Starting From The War In Iraq, Afghanistan, And Political Conflicts Today, & Threats of War Constantly For What Seems Be More Politically Motivated Today Than it Was Back Then!" "The Recent Riot in Which Was Politically Motivated For Their Own Self Serving Advantage & Interest Rather Than For Strategic Advancements Around The World!"
Greatest soul singer ever. I said this back in 1967 when I played all his records the night he died, and I still say it. R.I.P. Otis. Rod, Dorset, England.
I’m a 70 year old hippie and I feel sorry for the young missing out on the amazing music that I grew up with. Went to quite a few concerts over the years. I saw Bad Company for $7.50! People could afford to go see live music all the time. 👵🏼☮️❤️🌻
@@transparent6748 that’s true, but that’s part of why the music was so great. Those bands were into making music and some of the best music came from people tripping. Not everybody made it thru, and that’s sad, but they gave us so much of themselves. They were really genius musicians.
@@sharonpate5481 yes I agree Sharon,,don’t get me wrong coz I love many of those bands/albums from back then and aware it’s nearly impossible to make such great music without drugs involved..floyd-Hendrix-grateful dead etc
I didn’t miss out Sharon. I’m a 69 year old hippie and it was NOT lies. It was a time of purity. Yes, there was drug use and some did not make it. Do anything to excess and there are consequences. Did you drop acid back then? With your friends on the right night LSD was magic. Would have loved to do some Monterey Purple. Rumor has it Hendrix dropped two tabs! Grace has the same birthday as me. October 30th. I saw Foghat, Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer for 7 dollars, I’m so fond of those years and feel so fortunate that I lived and experienced that period. If I knew you back in the summer of 67, I don’t care where we were living, I would have bought you and me tickets and taken us to the festival. I’ll say goodbye now. Let me leave you with with thoughts of peace and love☮️💕
Monterey was the Mother that gave birth to subsequent festivals of this nature. 55 Years ago.... already. And to me it still feels like yesterday. I remember lying on my own, on the floor in the lounge of our home, parents thankfully out & about. Volume turned up loud, listening to Jefferson Airplane belting out, 'Somebody to Love'.... Yes, those 7 singles did their job. It was all too beautiful ! 🥰 Oh yeah & Mama Cass's expression (gobsmacked was born there) watching Janis - Priceless. Music overflowed like our hearts did. It was a time to be 'reborn' & we were, it was the first day of a new life, for the rest of our lives. 😍❣💫 The caterpillar became a butterfly, which became a rainbow with multicoloured wings and soared. 'Scuse me, I've just kissed an angel way up high. And then there was the downside that followed a few years later... the innocence was stolen and it would never be the same again ..... but as with life, something new was born....
That's a strong point. Everybody talks about Hendrix and rightly so,but you don't hear any group sing like The Mama's And The Papa's, or have songs like The Byrds anymore do you?
@@nrich5127 Yup. Simon & Garfunkel beat the hell out of anyone today. Likewise with Jefferson Airplane, Doors,Byrds,The Beatles,Stones,Who,Kinks, Mama's And The Papa's,Dylan,Beach Boys,Love,Buffalo Springfield,Crosby,Stills, And Nash.Zeppelin,Hendrix,Cream.KinksOtis,James brown,Pickett etc.
Just finished my Junior year of High School in Victorville Calif. Hitchhiked with 3 friends to Monterey for the Festival You could do that in those days. Had the best time of my life.
@@billstapleton1084 That music has stood the test of time and I will forever be a music lover. My husband doesn't have that passion and it's so sad because he see's me loving it so much and he wishes he had what I do with music. He does enjoy some songs and I make his playlist for him, but he just doesn't long for it like we do. I don't go one day without it.
David Crosby on Janis Joplin.... "She put that festival in her pocket and walked off with it". Watching Mama Cass in awe of Janis at the end of her performance at 17:33, "Wow". That's all she wrote.
-* sigh *- And yet, a lifetime later, those of us from the Bay Area who are "of a certain age" still wonder if it might all have gone better if the rest of the world hadn't "discovered" Janis at Monterey and she had stayed with the band instead of being seduced by Grossman's "stick with me baby, I'll make you a star" rap.
They fit in because they were out there doing there thing! So many hard rock bands have covered "Never My Love", it's a trippy song with some great hooks. It's pretty cool that McCartney was involved; he really believed in Hendrix.
I didn't know the Monterey Pop concert even happened. I worked so damn hard I didn't know Woodstock took place in 1969 until I returned to my high school after working the entire summer. When I came home from work, I was so tired after taking a shower I could hardly stay awake to eat. I later realized I could not relate to these people in the slightest as I lived in a different world.
@newjerseybt, I was working my ass off in and out of school, college and a high stress carreer as a critical care nurse, all while being ill myself. But ...I didn't miss out on any of that music and danced my ass off, if only in my laundry room. All that music from then to now has created the backdrop tapestry to my life. Too bad that hard reality stole so much from you. My health still tries to rob me of way too much, but the music feeds my soul. Not only that, I pray good too. Blessings, peace and love
@@roxannetoth5026 Another Hungarian with the same last name. The "t" in bt. I did end up well-off for all of my hard work if that really means anything at this point. Just like you I am in poor health but improving after a bout with C-ovid and other maladies that are slowly improving. My wife got very sick after getting her C-ovid shot this January and passed away unexpectedly. I am devastated.
@newjerseybt, thx for your kind response. Are you really a 'Toth'? That is my married name and yes, Hungarian. I am proud to have been with my awesome gypsy, lol husband and wore the Hungarian proudly, as I'm of all eastern european descent anyway. Unlike you, working my ass off just got me by...our life was marred by illnesses and death. The Hungarian husband, Rick has been gone 18 yrs from a horrid illness contracted in VietNam. A very decorated Navy man, but a broken one, later a sick one. I'm writing to you to offer my sympathy on the death of your wife. I hope you have ppl who can help you with this loss. I never wanted help after he died, I just wanted him. But, as.life went on, help came anyway, and as God was walking my path with me, I took the help. Right now, I'm hanging by a thread and blessed to be with a second husband for last six yrs. I was born sick, got sicker from the nurse gig, no fault of mine. So, second husband has quite a load with me. And after 45 yrs of Hep b and c ( job), I have been offered a cure...hopefully! to start in 6 weeks. Hell, been thru so many battles, but gotta try some more...it will be hell to go thru and recover from...but it's ruined the last 4 yrs of our life. I'm so sorry about the damn covid, and do hope you get better. I'm an older, experienced nurse and patient, so I can tell you that viruses are a bitch. I had mine 42 yrs before it took hold...no cure then, but antivirals have advanced. I'm afraid, but have gotta try, esp bc the ppl responsible for my illness are paying for the meds, which are ridiculously expensive. Also, have to get second vovid vax in a few days...got stuck between a rock and a hard place with that. I sincerely hope your grief subsides over time and that you do feel better also. I'm long-winded here bc you opened up that door to my lovely past, which wasn't easy At All. Worth it? Oh yeah. As a young woman, and an older woman, I always let love guide me, not money. So, both husbands and me both worked like hell, but neither was well off. I hope being financially ok helps you cope. Even tho we all worked our asses off, it's still a struggle. I'm comfortable, in a lovely place and have a husband who loves me. I only see my other family when we travel back to doctors every 3 months, but at least I have one. I have also found that over time, all my friends have trailed off completely, so I hope you do better there. Thx for your communication...I'm writing to you from the sickbed, making me way too long-winded. You really did open that 'Toth' door, so while I want to help you feel better, I'm rambling. Do take solace in faith, hope, love and music. Take care of your health, money doesn't buy that. Music has gotten me thru all my life..but sometimes I gotta watch what I listen to due to my emotional state. But, it does help a lot. Maybe a concert when things start opening up? I wish you sympathy, love, peace and blessings .Remember, All Things Must Pass... those that are gone are in a better place and hopefully we meet again.
i smiled at the 'it was over' section of this piece. we saw the change coming and simply moved out to the woods and kept the light alive. our children are happy and carefree as we were then. our grandchildren are learning that smile. i am getting old, but i still feel that carefree spirit that was spawned into me back then. life became simple forever. love you, mean it!
@@3peckeredgoat735 It was great, if you were a woman, but the Draft was haunting my generation...and do not forget about the Civil Rights clashes, and the shocking deaths of good leaders.
I had a friend that was our cook at a fishing lodge in Alaska that grew up near San Francisco during the 60's. Him and his Brother went to ALL the local concerts during the late 60's. Could you imagine seeing the Doors, Janis Joplin, The Animals, Jefferson Airplane and Jimmy Hendricks and the likes LIVE in a small club when you were a teen-ager .
Thank you, from all of us who lived our young lives in that generation. So many wonderful people are no longer here but the ones that lived it all remember the heroes, the leaders, the lovers, and the singers.
The hippie generation had it right. Peace and Love. For real. No greed. No intimidation. Carefree. Sharing. A real brotherhood. AND,.....the greatest music ever.
Michelle is very brave to let us feel her emotions and we felt the same Michelle, we felt the same. That means we are kind, compassionate people. Beauty and love cruelly taken away is horrible; it must be replaced by more love and beauty and the strong knowledge that in the long run, beauty and love will always win.
I was born in 1972, but I know that America only once in more than 200 yrs, one generation truly "woke" up to smell the roses and what counts in life, and it was in the 60s...it only happened once. Now it's business as usual, most of American society has their head in the ground or up their @$$
The impact of this film cannot be denied. It introduced the counter-culture, California sound (both San Francisco and Los Angeles), Memphis soul, and British influence to the world. Perhaps the greatest musical documentary ever made.
Agreed, i'd go with #2 the Isle of Wight concert with 600,000 people. The Who, The Moody Blues, The Doors and others at the top of their games in that one 1970.
Check out the book Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon by Dave McGowan. There is much more to the Laurel Canyon Music Scene. John Phillips was CIA for starters....
@@cjay2 I'm just the messenger. And anyone into rock music needs to check this out. As a music fan I'm glad I did, it's an interesting theory. I learned that Morrisons' Dad was the admiral involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident for starters. Interesting that one Morrison escalates the war into full conflict and the other tops the " opposition" of the war. WHEW! What are the odds of that?! And Jim's out there saying his Dad is dead- doesn't mention his Dad helped to START the Vietnam War ! Nope. Nada. Never. And Jim ' died' the day his Dad's ship was de- commissioned. You may not find that of interest but I do. The late Dave McGowan can be heard here on YT interviewed about this. It's a MINDBLOWER.
My girlfriend knew Jimi Hendrix. We both worked at the Monterey Tribal Stompin the late 70's, a Chet helms production. It was an anniversary celebration of Monterey Pop. An "X" marks the spot on the Monterey stage where Jimi lit up his Stratocaster. At Midnight on Friday we both arranged lit candles around the "X" and said some prayers, trying to summon the spirit of Jimi. The stadium itself is surrounded on the upper levels by dozens of pennants encircling the area. The air was stone still all night- not a whisper of breeze. All of a sudden the pennants began to flutter in a strong wind that came out of nowhere. Each flag opened up and waved ONE AT A TIME in PERFECT SYMMETRICAL ORDER. All in a row ONE AT A TIME! Soon every pennant was snapping proudly all around the stadium. The timing was too perfect- it was Midnight! We both knew Hendrix was there in spirit. Then the breeze disappeared and the flags all furled. TRUE STORY!
I was 18 in 1967 and read about the music festival in a music magazine I subscribed to. The article quoted the lyrics to The Association song, Enter The Young. The article also included a seating chart for people to purchase tickets. Unfortunately, living in Illinois and working to save up for starting college in the fall, I never considered attending the festival. But so grateful I was at an age to remember it so well.
I can second that emotion. Born in '69 to a couple of twenty-year olds and right away was more into their culture than cartoons, G.I. Joes and going outside to play. Used to watch Monterey Pop in the middle of the night whenever it would occasionally air on TV. Can remember seeing it as early as the late 70s. There were always a few kids like us in every class, right Neil? heheh. Half the kids didn't know ANYTHING that had happened before them; and then there were the kids that were hip and in the know, and would talk about, whatever, The Beatles or Dylan in gym class or on the back of the bus, or in the lunch room. Monterey is the festival I would have wanted to been at, not Woodstock, for a whole host of reasons.
@@straypigs yep on the back of the bus. Not the front of the bus and not the middle of the bus. My seat was straight back behind the driver the last seat right hand corner window seat
@@tolfan4438 :) Very cool, Tolan, ha! "Not the middle of the bus" Ha! Straight back, behind the driver. I sat there too! I used to drum on the seat with my drumsticks, the other kids would watch me try and sustain a drum-roll for the entire ride, lol. We were all like a rock 'n' roll Peanuts! Trouble was: we were all spread out, right? Would have been great if we could have all gone to one big school! Now THAT would have been a prom!!! :D PS: Talking 60s (or 50s, 40s, etc) with Social Studies teachers (or any teacher) was always great, too. If I hadn't done my homework, I would often try and get the teacher off topic by asking a question about some 60's topic. Wasn't like I was disinterested in the answer! :D
I’m 68 and our generation was for the first time in history realizing that what we were being told about war etc. by the elites (hidden behind the scenes) was not right. So the music brought us all together.
The crazy thing about this era, is that it ran parallel with the horrific, ugliness of the Viet Nam war. So much peace and love in one place and complete and total hell in another.
Yeah Bro, we may never see 'em like again. Not that today's musician are lacking anything, but the years gone by, the creativity, the originality, we may never see again in this age of synthetic and mechanical sound that pass for music.
I had just moved to Monterey from San Francisco and was actually playing golf at a little 9 hole course on the edge of the fairgrounds. I could hear everything that was being played for fee and had seen Big Brother, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & the Fish, and other bands performing in San Francisco. It's amazing how many of these people were dead within 10 years of this event. But such was the culture of the time. Within a year or so, Haight-Ashbury had become so violent and dangerous that most of the "real" flower children moved on south to isolated communes on the coast. By the time I left California in 1969, the days of peace and love in San Francisco were just a memory.
Sixty-eight year old guy here. Heart breaking to see Michelle cry at that loss. It was a wonderful time and fading to a close in the early seventies. We enjoyed some of it in Free Camp in Jasper Alberta, and our hitch hiking episodes across Canada. I never witnessed anything bad. Adopting draft-dodgers, the guy who picked us up in Thunder Bay, calmly talking down a cop who pulled his van over... scared out of our wits. helped us feel part of a bigger scene, loving vibe.
Wkattenbach newsflash drugs and whores have been around since the dawn of society. Music too. Nothing new here. India is the lord of whores. :p You don't really know history. It's all very repetitive. Natives and other ancient tribal people have long been whores that get high on drugs.
What would you have done except in joyed it? There's wicked spirits in our country people have given theresleves over to them the lists of the flesh and the eyes money became there God doing things that were against nature nature will teach you a cat doesn't belong with a dog neither a bird with a fish but they are doing things today as they did Before the Flood mixing DNA men with men leaving the women burned in their lust one toward another which is inconvenient also the women the same if they did they brought the flood on goodnight history teach anything they are God unto themselves and they are going to reap the reward before our Lord comes back two-thirds of the people are going to be dead from war from famine from the plagues all because they turned away from the Creator that made them I speak the truth by the spirit of truth we are the last generation all that was written will be fulfilled two asteroids I going to hit the Earth one in the ocean and one on land it is written in the Book of Revelations one third of all fish in the ocean will die one third of the ships will be destroyed one third of humanity will die the tsunamis we'll hit the East and the West Coast the water will go in land 200 mile people will be killed by the debris and many will drowned by the tidal wave move away from the oceans at least 300 miles to be safe when do meteorites fall there will be nowhere safe but Underground for they will each weighed 100 lb that hitting your house it will go through your house into the dirt underneath it and leave a crater wherever they hit you better not be in his path still people would not repent but cursed God for the plague they had taken the mark of the beast and their DNA was changed and now there is no hope for them for whosoever receiveth the mark and worship is the image of the Beast will never get forgiveness you are lost for eternity those that will not take the mark nor worship the image will be killed but they will rule and reign with the Lord for a thousand years on the Earth this is the truth I pray it gets into your spirit and you take heed unto yourself
How great to have Janis footage from this show . Never been a singer like her again . There was a woman singing soul , blues & R n B and giving it 100% .
I was in the basement of Sherman & Clay music store on June 1967 in downtown SF, trying out instruments and jamming with my cousin and another friend, like I frequently did back then. In walks this dude... all colors and feathers and beads. He walks calmly over to a wall of Fenders, grabs a Stratocaster and tries it, then walks over to the counter to pay. No case. Just the axe. Our jaws dropped when we realized it was Jimi. That was shortly before the MPF weekend ... I forget the exact day. Long time back. It was 54 years ago but I’ll never forget that meeting. True story. Then he casually walks out, but looks over at our surprised faces, smiles, then winks, and he’s gone. Our jaws were on the ground, literally. I’m not sure, but I’ve always thought that Strat he bought was the same guitar he burned at Monterey. I hitchhiked down to Monterey that weekend, and couldn’t get in because it was full. But I heard him play it from outside. It was a truly magical time. I was lucky enough to see Hendrix live 3 times, including when he played the old Fillmore to a packed house, right after Monterey. But that day in SF in the store will never leave my memory. Good times for sure.👍🏼✌️
Being in SF, I had seen many of those acts at either Fillmore, or when I worked the band door at the Avalon. Moby Grape is infrequently mentioned, probably because they were short lived, and didn’t have hits like the JA, Janis and some others. But they were one of, if not the best SF bands at that time, imho. 3 guitars and incredible harmonies. If you weren’t around back then to see it all, you missed a great time in rock music that fostered in most of the music for decades after. Lots of good bands since. But it was cutting edge back then. Peace*
@@cybolton302 yup. Thats what I’ve always thought. But I doubt either of us know absolutely for sure. We just kinda have a gut feeling. So for aging purposes we can call it THAT Strat. I’m good with that. 😉 🤟🏼
This was the twenties of my life and although I never attended the festivals, I have been forever influenced by the love and talent that flowed from the era that is lost in today's music and society.
@@tomquinn607 Music today is garbage bro, I say 60s-80s, the 90s had some new stuff I liked like STP, Alice and chains, Nirvana Chili peppers to name a few then things really started to get boring, now it's all techno digital crap, stuff that's machines not people except a singer that's nothing like decades past
@@m42037 don't give up looking for great modern bands because there are a dime a dozen. A few modern psych rock bands that I feel could've played at Monterey Pop/Woodstock are Kikagaku Moyo, Tibetan Miracle Seeds and Kundalini Genie.
Same for me 11yrs old. I mostly remember the rock bands of the 70s: David Bowie, KISS, Mott the Hoople, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, T-Rex. I did like The Beatles, Doors, Hendrix, J Joplin, even though I missed out seeing them live.
I’ve stood on that stage…great vibe. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting quite a few musicians who played there that weekend. That was a pivotal moment in music history, setting the stage for Woodstock, two years later..
This documentary was done exceptionally well. Should be a blueprint for others to follow. On a related note, Mitch Mitchell, The Experience's drummer, doesn't get enough credit for how good he was.
Wow. Fifty years later and I still get goosebumps when I hear Janice sing that song. She shouldn't have been talked into leaving the band. They complimented her voice so well.
I am Irish and never knew " My generation" by "The Who" was about Irish emigrants to London. All has changed now, as Ireland is a wealthy 1st World country and now we welcome people from all over the World . But still how cool.
@@jasperyirl I didn't know it for a long time myself. I learned about it from a reaction channel called Soul Train Bro. He has a fantastic channel and goes into the stories behind the songs. It's really cool. I hope to visit Ireland one day btw.
I liked the Mama's and the Papa's, they were a great band ,the only thing is ,it was a shame stick together for another five years or a pit more. Just like Fleetwood Mac, Mama's and Papa's had conflicts too in their band.
Hunter Thomson, "Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era-the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . ."
As an English teenager I saw this movie SO many times at late night cinema screenings in the late ‘60’s & it never failed to completely blow me away! I think Monterey was the original & best music festival of the era… it caught the zeitgeist perfectly, before the ‘love & peace’ flower power dream inevitably faded & died. On an American road trip holiday a few years ago I visited the Monterey County Fairgrounds which hosted the festival & was both amazed & thrilled to see it hadn’t really changed at all over the decades. I climbed onto the stage to take some photos of the relatively small ‘arena’ area where the audience sat & my spine tingled as I remembered all those rock, pop & soul legends who stood & performed on the very same spot where I was now standing!
now 90 years old, Clive Davis was involved and wish he was interviewed more in this. He had so much influence on performers' success in the next 50-60 years
The best thing about the internet is that you can watch and listen to things from the 40 or 60 yrs ago when there weren't so many pansies and clueless whiny people. Things they would never show on tv today. When it comes to entertainment I live in a bubble of my own making by watching RUclips and never watching news or socal media .
The wheels of commerce drove consumerism to astronomically higher levels of more, more, more and the Fat Cats in Wall Street got so bloated they sent all our jobs off shore, inflation staggered our debt load, the Politicians continued lying their asses off and continued to send our sons and daughters to endless wars dropping trillions of dollars and bombs and breeding the terrorism of today, back to our shores, the Gatekeepers must be stopped they now manipulate us with technology every stroke of your keyboard , every conversation on your phone, emails, text, social media, facial recognition logged and data stored, welcome to the New World Order. Oh God how I miss the 60's and 70's, way more Love and way less hate.
@@Cincinnatus1869 Good for you in your bubble! When your country is completely taken over, you'll be oblivious to it, until youre removed from your home and imprisoned or worse. Good work!
I love this festival more than Woodstock because Janis, Jimmy, Grace and Jefferson Air Airplane, The Mamas and the Papas, Ottis, The Who, Grateful Dead, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, etc., and "...be sure to wear some flowers in your hair if you're going to San Francisco..."
Yes, but Woodstock had Santana, with arguably the greatest live performance of *ANY* band anywhere with *Soul Sacrifice* . Was *ANYTHING* better than them at Monterrey?
The Association opened the show... then Moby Grape. Dick Smothers introduced them. What's funny is, I played with Jerry Miller (from Moby Grape) in the mid-80s. He's from Tacoma, and I played with him on 6th Ave. small bar. Read a book about Zeppelin, and Robert Plant mentioned Jerry Miller. "Hey, Jerry, this guy mentions your name !" All of a sudden I realized... "It's YOU !" Jerry said, "Yeah, that's why I hired you. You didn't know who I was." THEN, get this... Jerry and Stephen Stills both auditioned for The Monkees in '66! Didn't make it, but in mid-80s CSN was playing Tacoma Dome... and Stephen Stills showed up at the small bar. I got to play the harmonics on guitar for "For What It's Worth". Then we all got to go backstage, etc. So fun.
Rowena LLOYD, I miss Jimi sooo much , he would be playing blues with his friend Eric Clapton if he was living. The Monterey Pop Festival is were Jimi made his huge mark in the U.S.
@@rowenalloyd7760 Rowena LLOYD,I grew up listening to it.It was great but.... that means i'm quit a bit older then you.Actually the 60s music was so iconic ,it was being played a lot still when you were in school.
@@brenthammond9679 That song was on the actual film of the concert "Monterey Pop". For some reason, it's not on here. You should be able to find it if you search for it on RUclips quite easily.
@@xtc1957 they got tired of sharing a bathroom with 30 people. They also found out a little hard work and life can get quite comfortable. Imagine that, here in America. Far out man
I grew up in the sixties, graduated from high school in 1964 and graduated from college in 1968. When I look back on those years I feel there was so much violence that nothing could justify calling those years the flower generation. Numerous assassinations, numerous riots in major cities, numerous demonstrations against the war in Vietnam, numerous closures of colleges because of riotin and a feeling of despair and hopelessness was prevalent.
You are 100% right! I was there and although the idea of peace and love were a great idea, the fact is... It was a horrible time for sooo many families losing there son and daughter in the war...." Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans"
I grew up then too and you’re right, much of the sixties was very dark but the yang to that yin was offsettingly good. The music , movies and pop cult use was amazing at the same time. And we sent a man to the moon! Still was a good time to grow up in my opinion
Wouldn't pay what LiveNation monopoly charges NOW for concerts where you can't even bring water - plus get your face recorded with "facial recognition" tech and a chip bracelet with all your info on it as a ticket. It's convenient but creepy and fascist.
This does a great job of capturing the music, the musicians, and the spirit of the era. For those too young to remember, this is what the best year of the '60's was like. Innocent dreamers, and impractical to be sure, but what great music, and what a great vibe!
thatstheguy07 And yet the liberals in my day was trying to change the government in the 60s and 70s but Liberals today believe everything they say and the media. A total flip of intelligence and the quest to keep democracy.
@@ronniebishop2496 Liberals today have definitely lost the plot. I think the parties actually flipped. Used to be conservatives who were too uptight, had no sense of humour and were basically the establishment. That better sums up the left these days tho. The media is like the PR arm of the Democratic Party. All in cahoots. All full of shit.
@@thatstheguy07 anything’s better than having an illiterate, fascist like Trump who pathetically tried to turn the USA into a totalitarian nation. On the other hand Trump did help to expose the hidden barbaric hatred and hypocrisy of those who call themselves a “patriotic conservative”. His supporters are fake and robotic 🥳
Yes the Sixties were a beautiful time of brotherly love. Although I was just 9 yrs old in 67 , I remember those times as if it were yesterday. My first concert was Quicksilver when I was 13. My father didn’t want me to go, my mother said yes…… and the rest is history. During the Summer of Love i was in Santa Cruz, and some of my brother’s friends started smoking marijuana. I was present at some of the parties, and loved the vib of the music and the feeling of community. We all greeted each other as family, never mind skin color or economic condition. They were times of innocence and hope. Now there’s so much social trauma, distance and distrust in the air. It’s all very painful to witness. Yes, Joni, we do need to get back to the garden, Lo,!,
These were the times when America was at its best - the acknowledged popular culture leader of the world. The music, the movies, the poets and the authors, the peaceniks, even the politicians, and everybody was young and slim and good looking and hopeful. The world revolved around America. It will never be like that again.
Never forget that it's the generation that preceded the hippies that made them, the hippies rebelled against it but had in fact all the honesty, integrity but wanted to break away from it. They were in fact still it. That is why the hippies could not be recreated, they threw the baby away with the water by trying to distance themselves from their parent when in fact they were still the same.
@@wmmseo cell phones are pure social destruction. I knew it right from the beginning and hated Steve jobs profoundly for that fake product. Unfortunately i could not fight against the tide but still hold to my belief that smartphone are socially destructive and nefarious to humanity.
🇨🇦❤️I was 13 when the Monterey Festival took place but it had an enormous impact on my life and the lives of those around me. I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to look back at that time and remember the sights, sounds, and most importantly, the feelings from those days. It makes me smile when I think of how infrequently I wore shoes.
I felt it 2,000 miles away in Chicago at 12 yrs old. The older teens were playing the music and talking about it. I felt I was part of a movement just by hanging with them.
First of all-the human foot is ugly!...and the impact of those times faded into pop culture, just like most other events in society...the lesson here--keep your shoes on!
Omg yah I was born in 1960 but I claim this as the music of my generation!! Ty to who ever posted this. Love you the rest of my amazing life. I'm a 4 time cancer survivor & still a musician. Love this✌✌❤💋
That was a great year! This was my brother's era (mine was more GenX since I'm younger like you), but I grew up listening to ALL of it before, during, and after my bro's tours in Nam, he was drafted in 67. I was 4 when the Beatles first movie came out (64 or 65?) a bit ahead of my time. Blessings upon you, I wish you peace, wellness, & great music. 💜
in 1980 in oakland ,ca i saw the grateful dead,carlos santana,the beach boys,jefferson starship,joan biaz,and the eagles all in one concert in one night . the tickets were $8.50 as a benefit concert for the cambodian relief fund.
A couple of places in this film bought a tear to my eye but also gave me thoughts of a week with Jimi and the band in Folkestone at the first real gig.
@@krakaka8218 So I Left him sippin' his tea and I stood on my horse back and screamed without a rack,oh brother,why'd ja wanna burn your house down ( Jimi Hendrix- 68,from Electric Ladyland Album) play on tea 'er gee-tar,Man!!
This archive footage shows a spirit, a mutual respect and commonality that is so clearly missing from our society today. We have all been socially engineered, isolated and divided. It’s time for us all to come together again in the spirit of Monterey.
I'm afraid that social media has destroyed any chance for this kind of love and togetherness on a grand scale ever happening again. Unfortunately, the trolls have invaded our lives with their negativity, jealousy and hatred. I think a great many of us are doomed to sadly miss the 60s and 70s, and feel sorry for those who missed a wonderful time.
My mom Lesley is in this documentary at 5:28 wearing a red bandana. She was 16 years old. She passed away 16 years ago. So nice to see her young and happy!
Beautiful!💞💞💞
Wow - that must be so cool for you to see. Glad that you can see your Mom young and happy.
when I saw her before reading your post, I said holy buckets is she gorgeous!
BLESS YOUR HEART OUR SON/DAUGHTER.
W👌W that awesome 👍
68 year old man here and I can tell you life was so carefree and fun then. Brings a tear to my eye seeing what’s happening now. God help us.
Yes, same here, but we did live in those different times and got the memories to look back on. That's something at least.
I'm 19 and I'm eternally jealous. My heart hurts knowing I'll never be able to experience the magical and free spirited 60s :(
@@jiordanfisher6076 Even the 90's were super fun.
@@eugeneaxe AND the 2000s.
@@BmorePatriot naaa
70 year old guy here…. I remember hitchhiking to Monterey from L.A. for festival, and yeah I was 14, but nobody cared and it was all great fun. And man, I had a great time. 😏😏😏. Unfortunately, the 60s came to close and so did the age of innocence.
'a close'
Hendrix kicked the door wide open and put his guitar on full blast that day. He just killed it.
He also brought his own equipment.
We lucky red
Yea, pretty sure it was Brian Jones who introduced him.. he blew everyone away
54 years ago.
And folks are still listening to much of this music today.
Will be in another 50 years
not too many taking LSD
'Cause the music still stands.
Yes, until the day I die.
I will listen to the who till the day i die!
I am.also a 68 year old guy who still gets goosebumps and teary eyed every time I see anything related to this outstanding music festival. My wife got this for my 60th birthday. I will cherish it till the end of time. Whenever that is.
67
Brought tears thru the whole thing.
Hmm, I went to that concert as it was my last for a while since I'd been drafted to report in Oct. The 15th in fact. I was 18 and am now 75. So you were 11 at Monterrey?
There were a lot of little kids, some crying as kids do in loud scary places, but you're still crying now?
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Yeah. I'm the same age. I gave up everything and work out almost every day. Not so much to look and feel good as much to forstall the inevitable!
Here is My Monterey Pop story:
For high school graduation me and my bud Carl got to go to the Monterey Pop Festival. So we get there and get our hotel room and we're walking around the grounds looking at all the booths and stuff and all of a sudden I hear this killer guitar playing coming out of a little room that they had setup to demonstrate musical equipment. I said "Carl listen to that! we need to check that out." So we go up to the door and open up the door and walk in and there's this black guy sitting on a stool trying out a Guild guitar but he is playing it backwards, (left handed) and all the sudden he just stops playing and started just looking at the guitar. So to try to get him to play some more I said "Hey Man that sounded really good!" He looked up and said "Yeah thanks man"..and then just put the Guild down and walked off. Well Sunday night after watching The Who tear it up, the announcer says " and now the Jimi Hendrix Experience" and out comes the black guy that we had seen sitting on the stool. I was about 60 ft in front of the stage directly in front of Jimi I got to watch the whole show and He was incredible. I did find myself in the Monterey Film out in front of The stage where I remembered. It was cool.
That's a cool story.
@@TJ-id6ee Thank You. It was wild.
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✌️ ☮️ 🕊 Kathleen
I am 25 years old, I am from Russia, but when I watch a video from Monterey, i feel a light sadness. I feel this atmosphere of friendship, this freedom of souls. This is amazing. In those years, in our country, much was banned or under strict control (perhaps sometimes it was even good), and the festivals were completely different. Although we also knew how to have fun, and people respected and appreciated each other. But still, the 60s in America will always be very close to me, just because of Monterey and Woodstock, all that. What a pity that the atmosphere of love did not spread between our countries.
P.S.Sorry for the translation inaccuracies🌼
It's tough since this same generation grew up in the Cold War. Life takes on an existential tone when you're doing nuclear bomb drills weekly & wondering if you'll live to see your 21st Birthday. It was nothing personal, we seldom even SAW actual Russians, only a wall. It's easy to fill in the "blanks" with fears & nonsense. That never happened....maybe THIS year instead, eh? At least kids won't have to be afraid for decades on end of evaporating in WWIII.
@@LeTrashPanda Life often takes on an existential tone, we now have another battle with Ukraine, the United States is again on the side of Ukraine, which means there is nothing to talk about peace. We are still afraid and think about the length of our life. I do not understand why the governments of your country and our country have been turning the residents against each other for so long, while almost everyone wants only freedom and world peace. But I do not think that the threat of WWIII will become a reality, because then all that remains is to wait for a nuclear explosion, and our planet will become just a memory. It should not be. So we can only watch and hope. And pray. Sorry if I misunderstood your comment.
@@wildflowerchilds9997 I totally agree and understand, I for one am still in high school and I'm so scared for this and what could be possible in a third world war. We've been learning about WWII in my history class and it's horrifying to think of so many people, both civilians and those fighting, being killed only for the reasons of greed and the desire for power. Truly terrible.
@@thisjimmybuilds We are led by people who pursue only their own goals. It's always been that way. Protests, power of music, flowers in a guns - all this has not affected our governments. I think this is one of the reasons why many people start hoping for God.
i believe this time will come again...it may not be identical musically but the togetherness and the unconditional love will return and the darkness will have nothing to feed on but itself...i too watch this with tears in my eyes and think why can't it be like this now...but the energy on the planet is changing, the vibration of the planet is rising, and the age of Aquarius will make it happen. So do not give up on your dream of seeing this in your life. I have been to Russia several times and i know there are as many beautiful peaceful nature-loving souls in your country as there are in any country
Will always love Cass’s awestruck reaction to Janis
Absolutely, Mama was always the Lady of the House.
It’s great !
Minute time?
@@bille77 15:40
Mama Cass was much better than Janis. Janis couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.
There has never been ANYTHING like the 60's. The CULTURE, The LOVE, The PEACE, The UNITY, And the MUSIC, MAN.....THE MUSIC.....It was GLORIOUS.
It is what we all strove for but collectively we never got there - individually some of us succeed. I never thought it was a collective trip. It was a path of transcendence kind of like Dante's Divine comedy.
Love? Peace? Funny as I remember, it was anything but peaceful. There were riots, murders, overdoses. The 60's except for music, was a complete waste of a decade...
@@mikewheeler3994 agreed just rich kid druggies pretending they acheied something . Losers
@@mikewheeler3994 How can a decade that instagated so much change be a waste. Along with riots we had civil rights legislation, with rampant pollution Nixon signed Clean Air and Clean water Acts and anyone that lived in the '60',s can tell you , the air and water at least look much cleaner. The vibe of that show changed peoples lives ( ok, credit to Osley too !) Woman's rights! ( I remember my Mom telling me she would need a man to co sign to open a checking account ). Yeah some ugly shit happened but many people rose up and basically said " We're not taking it anymore" and things eventually changed,!
@@kimkleiner8456 Not a well reasoned comment on the part of @Mike Wheeler.
What a great time to be young. 17 years old in 1967 peace -- out
Im 70 and i mostly just dreamed about Haight/ Ashbury . The dead. The Byrds. Buffalo Springfeild,Quicksilver, Sky Saxon and the Seeds. The Hook, Hendrix,Joplin,Ten Years After. I could go on. I didnt make it to Woodstock, Didnt make it to Monterey but as a lost 14 year old kid i got myself to some awesome festivals. There is a defining rationalizing fact when someone says guess you had to be there. God Bless the 60s.
WE could sure use some of this spirit of the 60,s now😢😔
We need more respect for each other. Without respect we will never trust each other.
By the way, Sammy was in my graduating class at Fohi in CA
📛☹️Unfortunately, the children of the pop festival attendees are now trying to usher in a 21st century Soviet Union, except on a global scale, inevitably to be run by the Chinese communist party... Most of the true liberals who showed up at this festival were smart enough to NOT want America to become part of a totalitarian communist system. But they made a mistake in not adequately educating the next generations in the evils of communism! So now we are quite literally on the brink of it.... ☹️👎
@@HighlanderNorth1 The New Evil Empire---Communist China + Global Corporations/Banks + Bought off Puppets in government.
Lol we sure have it with all this chaos going on like in the 60 with the war on drugs the war in Vietnam and all this other thigs.
@@HighlanderNorth1 poor little man
Damn, I missed the party. I was in Vietnam, what a drag. But a lot of that music came there too. The national anthem of Vietnam at that time was ''We gotta get out of this place'' by the Animals.
me too....and i wouldn't go, again .... however ...... i've noticed the ones that didn't go ?? They're often unable to get a grip on hard realities .
@@treecounting Thank you both for your service. Wrath was turned on you military guys for no reason. Hell, YOU didn't start that war, you just stepped up and laid it on the line. The brotherhood of them what has been shot at. We won't forget you.
at least you got to smoke that great Thia sticks
@Tom Riviere, I missed it too, I was 13 in Chicago. My future husband was in VietNam with you...and what happened there took him from me almost 18 yrs ago. At least some ppl piped the tunes to those of you in country. I hope you have been able to keep the great music of that time with you and that you're still groovin' today. This vid has a lil unseen footage, but not much. I'm writing this specifically to thank you for your service and let you know that all of you are thought about and prayed for every day. God bless, love and peace
oh, I can just see that being the top of the charts there...glad you came back home.....peace....
That was such a wonderful time. That concert was what united all the youth and made them realize they were more than a bunch of kids . They were a society of people with new ideas, new music, a new culture in the world. This made them think of what they could do to change things . I'm so glad that I was part of that time, even though that makes me an old person, at 75, but happy that I lived thru it all . Hell, everybody has to get old and we all must die, but who else has had that time to remember and be proud of ?
This concert though before my time seems perfect and the end of an era. The sixties started out with so much hope, but with the best politicians and leaders being killed off with the worst replacing them what's gonna happen? I would have loved to be here,but not Woodstock. Way Way Way too many stoned and hungry people with huge endless traffic jams and not nearly enough bathroom facilities
The one's that fought in WW2?
Why they say that Janis was ugly I don't know... because she wasn't!😶
So glad to see Otis spotlighted. The Warner Monterey album had Jimi on one side and Otis on the other. I played his side as much as I did Jimi's.
I’m very sure Hendrix appreciated Otis as much as Otis appreciated him. That was what was so great about those times. Otis as well as all the Blues greats used to play in England and look at what inspired musicians of England did with it. It’s fantastic. They would all hang out. It’s funny how they say Hendrix from England, he was American. Hendrix was that kid that wanted to play the Blues and R&B in America. It didn’t work out that way so he went to England to make it. When he came back to America he got famous here as well. Otis inspired so many musicians from all over. Look at The Stones doing some of his tunes.
Snap, loved that album ,BEEN A JIM I FAN since I was 14, purple haze did the trick. Saw him at the IOWF 1970, loved to have seen Otis 2 ,but never had the chance, one of my treasure albums.
I also managed to get hold of that lp. Mine was in red transparent vinyl.
That was a great album, great marketing and a great way to introduce Otis and Jimi's fans to each other. And to a lot of other people. I still have mine.
Both of them blew everyone away. I was standing right below Otis in the gentle rain. No, I’m not on film!
There was a certain innocence in those days. And a brotherhood that doesn't seem to exist anymore. You'd see a guy walking down the street with long hair and a peace symbol sewn onto his jacket, or a chick with bellbottoms and a loose, flowery shirt, and you knew they were a part of your family. I'm glad I got to experience those days. And, I miss them.
And people could be with each other without fear of spreading the virus. Maybe nature is teaching us a lesson.
Too young to have been there but used to go to Woodstock informal reunions of fans in the 1980s. We spent two or three days sleeping in cars, tents, and freezing in Chesterfield, MA. Bon fires, drugs, drink, free love. If anyone had a bit of food or a bottle they shared it with everyone. I got glimpses of the 1960s even though I was born in 69.
It was a special concert in that it was the first concert of its kind. Woodstock may never have happened if not for the success of Monterey Pop. My buddy and me tried hitching from Vancouver but never made it to Monterey in time. We had a great summer in San Francisco though.
@@prunesquallor3444 The music of that era is some of the best ever. In the 1980s I was playing my Doors, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Hendrix, and Cream albums just to name a few. The best concert I ever saw was Stevie Ray Vaughn in 1988.
Saw Nugent, Bad Company, David Bowie, Edger Winter, and my 2nd favorite front man David Lee Roth to name a few.
Most of my friends love 80s music and I can't stand it with few exceptions.
My first birthday was in Salinas in 1967.SO many vibes that I am familiar with when oldsters and I meet.
My girlfriend hitched to Monterey and appeared in the film Monterey Pop. Rest in Peace Genevra.
I've thought about that a lot, I was only 12 so I couldn't go but I knew Pennebaker was shooting and anxiously awwaaited the film. Otis Redding was a head-exploding discovery.
that's so cool! where in the video is she? rest in peace
@@jiordanfisher6076 They talked to her while she was wiping down bleachers. My son came home from high school where the history teacher showed that clip because she was local. His friend said, “I bet your dad knows her." Too funny when I explained how I knew her.
Perfect memory
@Blake R I was the same age. I still live in the same small town and I remember the movie didn't come around til I was about 17 and everybody in the theatre was young and fucked up on something - the good ol' days
Was there when I was 10 years old. Very hip parents, took our whole family to Monterey and to the festival. I still have the concert poster and the program from the show. Will never forget burning incense for Jimi and my mom just saying “no thank you,” when people were passing joints to her. I never knew it at the time, but was blown away by Jimi or Janis, was incredible. My folks were really in to the Mamas And the Papas, as well as Otis Redding. Just so cool, will never forget it. Was a time before today, once in a lifetime experience. The Association? The Who? Hendrix? Janis? Are you serious??? And you are so right Michelle Phillips, it was the end of the innocent, the end of peaceful listening.
Jeez, you are seriously lucky to have gotten to experience that, even if you were a bit too young to understand it at the time.
gosh thank for sharing all that our parents were cool and took my at 14 to Woodstock for "the music & art festival " we stay Thursday& Friday untill The Rain... not aware if this yet the document will live on.. history was music ... I. so sad about the tragic deaths... so glad utube let's us share our music generation ... What an event to re-live
Just saw the full lineup. Oh. My. GOD.
You are so lucky to have such cool parents. Mine were the opposite! Here in the UK in the 70s I had to lie about everywhere I went. I never got into any trouble, had a successful career, family and marriage. But those wild times in the 70s at parties, festivals and concerts, especially the London scene, will forever live in my memories -- I hope!
I was too young to enjoy this era. I was 6 years old. But I totally understand a magical time and its end. Thank you.
I was in the USAF at Vandenberg AFB in 1967, trying to keep my ass out of Vietnam. Some of my friends went to Monterey for the festival and said that it was "mind blowing". We are all old men know, but still love this music.
My brave brother served in Vietnam. USMC...Semper Fi .
@@guitarman6742 He's a better man than I. My thanks for his service.
@@guitarman6742 my brother as
Well. He was there from 66 to 68 in the Seabees. Lost him 7 years ago this coming August but I know he is resting in peace when he's not yelling at me in my dreams 😇😇
"Some Seem To Look At The 60's Were A Very Crucial Time Period in Our Lives in Which The Vietnam War Was A Very Crucial Time-Period Because Many Families in America Also Had Family Members & Friends Whom Had Family Serving At The Time Yet Respected One Another As A Whole & Were Concerned at The Time, But Realized As We Watched Knew Some How It Was A Peaceful Transformation in Life Years Later & Understood & Respected, But Not Until Years Later!" I Was Only 10 Years Old At The Time & Now Understand it Was a Crucial Time in Our Nation's History!"
"Now We Are Going Through Another Crucial Time Starting From The War In Iraq, Afghanistan, And Political Conflicts Today, & Threats of War Constantly For What Seems Be More Politically Motivated Today Than it Was Back Then!" "The Recent Riot in Which Was Politically Motivated For Their Own Self Serving Advantage & Interest Rather Than For Strategic Advancements Around The World!"
Thomas P Sanzi
I noticed your "quotation marks". Are you quoting someone? If so, who? And what's with all the CAPS? Hey.....just curious, Tom.
Sad that Otis Redding would die six months later but he got to showcase his talents, Monterey Pop Festival was the high point of his life and career.
They have part of his plane with his name on it in Cleveland at the Rock and Roll hall of fame. It literally stops you in your tracks
@@zeketrick I am aware of it, I've seen it in photos.
And I was standing up front right below him in the Monterey Misty rain.
Couldn't go wrong having Booker T & The MG's as his band.
Greatest soul singer ever. I said this back in 1967 when I played all his records the night he died, and I still say it. R.I.P. Otis. Rod, Dorset, England.
I’m a 70 year old hippie and I feel sorry for the young missing out on the amazing music that I grew up with. Went to quite a few concerts over the years. I saw Bad Company for $7.50! People could afford to go see live music all the time. 👵🏼☮️❤️🌻
Don’t feel I’m missing out anything…much of the “love movements” was surrounded in drugs-lies and tragedies to follow afterwards
@@transparent6748 that’s true, but that’s part of why the music was so great. Those bands were into making music and some of the best music came from people tripping. Not everybody made it thru, and that’s sad, but they gave us so much of themselves. They were really genius musicians.
@@sharonpate5481 yes I agree Sharon,,don’t get me wrong coz I love many of those bands/albums from back then and aware it’s nearly impossible to make such great music without drugs involved..floyd-Hendrix-grateful dead etc
I didn’t miss out Sharon. I’m a 69 year old hippie and it was NOT lies. It was a time of purity. Yes, there was drug use and some did not make it. Do anything to excess and there are consequences. Did you drop acid back then? With your friends on the right night LSD was magic. Would have loved to do some Monterey Purple. Rumor has it Hendrix dropped two tabs! Grace has the same birthday as me. October 30th. I saw Foghat, Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer for 7 dollars, I’m so fond of those years and feel so fortunate that I lived and experienced that period. If I knew you back in the summer of 67, I don’t care where we were living, I would have bought you and me tickets and taken us to the festival. I’ll say goodbye now. Let me leave you with with thoughts of peace and love☮️💕
There are no bad trips. Just weak sisters.
Monterey was the Mother that gave birth to subsequent festivals of this nature.
55 Years ago.... already. And to me it still feels like yesterday. I remember lying on my own, on the floor in the lounge of our home, parents thankfully out & about. Volume turned up loud, listening to Jefferson Airplane belting out, 'Somebody to Love'.... Yes, those 7 singles did their job.
It was all too beautiful ! 🥰 Oh yeah & Mama Cass's expression (gobsmacked was born there) watching Janis - Priceless. Music overflowed like our hearts did. It was a time to be 'reborn' & we were, it was the first day of a new life, for the rest of our lives. 😍❣💫 The caterpillar became a butterfly, which became a rainbow with multicoloured wings and soared. 'Scuse me, I've just kissed an angel way up high. And then there was the downside that followed a few years later... the innocence was stolen and it would never be the same again ..... but as with life, something new was born....
It's now 54 years later and the originality of each artist is so evident to this day.
That's a strong point. Everybody talks about Hendrix and rightly so,but you don't hear any group sing like The Mama's And The Papa's, or have songs like The Byrds anymore do you?
@@vernpascal1531 I agree with you totally - todays music is only a pale facsimile in comparison to the originality of groups like you mentioned.
.. lived music that i went
54 or 40?
@@nrich5127 Yup. Simon & Garfunkel beat the hell out of anyone today. Likewise with Jefferson Airplane, Doors,Byrds,The Beatles,Stones,Who,Kinks, Mama's And The Papa's,Dylan,Beach Boys,Love,Buffalo Springfield,Crosby,Stills, And Nash.Zeppelin,Hendrix,Cream.KinksOtis,James brown,Pickett etc.
Just finished my Junior year of High School in Victorville Calif. Hitchhiked with 3 friends to Monterey for the Festival You could do that in those days. Had the best time of my life.
I grew up right up the hill past Del Ray.
And I bet the Music was awesome.
@@waynejohanson1083 As you know, we had all the concerts in LA and none of hassel of living there. Great time to be a kid in SoCal.
@@waynejohanson1083 The Music was so good you could feel it in your chest, The people the mood was go great it is hard to explain
@@billstapleton1084 That music has stood the test of time and I will forever be a music lover. My husband doesn't have that passion and it's so sad because he see's me loving it so much and he wishes he had what I do with music. He does enjoy some songs and I make his playlist for him, but he just doesn't long for it like we do. I don't go one day without it.
I went to this event. Amazing. Hard to believe it was so long ago. I was only 17 and not high. Just enjoyed it so much.
Wow - brings back so many memories of my teenage years here in Australia - such is the power of 60s music
The first true great pop festival. The Monterey Pop Festival.
...unless you were at the Magic Mountain Festival a week before...
@@taknothing4896 I wasn't there so it should be ignored. Just kidding, wish I had been there.
David Crosby on Janis Joplin.... "She put that festival in her pocket and walked off with it". Watching Mama Cass in awe of Janis at the end of her performance at 17:33, "Wow". That's all she wrote.
I'm on the other side of that, could never stand the way Joplin "sang", ack!
-* sigh *-
And yet, a lifetime later, those of us from the Bay Area who are "of a certain age" still wonder if it might all have gone better if the rest of the world hadn't "discovered" Janis at Monterey and she had stayed with the band instead of being seduced by Grossman's "stick with me baby, I'll make you a star" rap.
Janis Jim and Jimi so cool and enlightened they killed themselves on smack...
Janis hated her appearance and just wanted love and acceptance..heroin didn't help at all
@@charleshawtrey5636 So, I gather you were there and know all about what happened, right?
The Association rocked their performance, regardless whether they fit in with the spirit or not.
They actually had some good songs. I didn't appreciate them at the time.
Also, were they really such a bad fit anyway? I mean, what were they referring to with the word, "Mary" in their great song, "Along Comes Mary"?
Never My Love is their best imo and an all-time classic 60's pop song
@@HeavehBurtation can't argue with that.
They fit in because they were out there doing there thing! So many hard rock bands have covered "Never My Love", it's a trippy song with some great hooks. It's pretty cool that McCartney was involved; he really believed in Hendrix.
I didn't know the Monterey Pop concert even happened. I worked so damn hard I didn't know Woodstock took place in 1969 until I returned to my high school after working the entire summer. When I came home from work, I was so tired after taking a shower I could hardly stay awake to eat. I later realized I could not relate to these people in the slightest as I lived in a different world.
@newjerseybt, I was working my ass off in and out of school, college and a high stress carreer as a critical care nurse, all while being ill myself. But ...I didn't miss out on any of that music and danced my ass off, if only in my laundry room. All that music from then to now has created the backdrop tapestry to my life. Too bad that hard reality stole so much from you. My health still tries to rob me of way too much, but the music feeds my soul. Not only that, I pray good too. Blessings, peace and love
@@roxannetoth5026 Another Hungarian with the same last name. The "t" in bt. I did end up well-off for all of my hard work if that really means anything at this point. Just like you I am in poor health but improving after a bout with C-ovid and other maladies that are slowly improving. My wife got very sick after getting her C-ovid shot this January and passed away unexpectedly. I am devastated.
@newjerseybt, thx for your kind response. Are you really a 'Toth'? That is my married name and yes, Hungarian. I am proud to have been with my awesome gypsy, lol husband and wore the Hungarian proudly, as I'm of all eastern european descent anyway.
Unlike you, working my ass off just got me by...our life was marred by illnesses and death. The Hungarian husband, Rick has been gone 18 yrs from a horrid illness contracted in VietNam. A very decorated Navy man, but a broken one, later a sick one. I'm writing to you to offer my sympathy on the death of your wife. I hope you have ppl who can help you with this loss. I never wanted help after he died, I just wanted him. But, as.life went on, help came anyway, and as God was walking my path with me, I took the help. Right now, I'm hanging by a thread and blessed to be with a second husband for last six yrs. I was born sick, got sicker from the nurse gig, no fault of mine. So, second husband has quite a load with me.
And after 45 yrs of Hep b and c ( job), I have been offered a cure...hopefully! to start in 6 weeks. Hell, been thru so many battles, but gotta try some more...it will be hell to go thru and recover from...but it's ruined the last 4 yrs of our life.
I'm so sorry about the damn covid, and do hope you get better. I'm an older, experienced nurse and patient, so I can tell you that viruses are a bitch. I had mine 42 yrs before it took hold...no cure then, but antivirals have advanced. I'm afraid, but have gotta try, esp bc the ppl responsible for my illness are paying for the meds, which are ridiculously expensive.
Also, have to get second vovid vax in a few days...got stuck between a rock and a hard place with that.
I sincerely hope your grief subsides over time and that you do feel better also. I'm long-winded here bc you opened up that door to my lovely past, which wasn't easy At All. Worth it? Oh yeah. As a young woman, and an older woman, I always let love guide me, not money. So, both husbands and me both worked like hell, but neither was well off. I hope being financially ok helps you cope. Even tho we all worked our asses off, it's still a struggle. I'm comfortable, in a lovely place and have a husband who loves me. I only see my other family when we travel back to doctors every 3 months, but at least I have one.
I have also found that over time, all my friends have trailed off completely, so I hope you do better there.
Thx for your communication...I'm writing to you from the sickbed, making me way too long-winded. You really did open that 'Toth' door, so while I want to help you feel better, I'm rambling.
Do take solace in faith, hope, love and music. Take care of your health, money doesn't buy that. Music has gotten me thru all my life..but sometimes I gotta watch what I listen to due to my emotional state. But, it does help a lot. Maybe a concert when things start opening up?
I wish you sympathy, love, peace and blessings .Remember, All Things Must Pass... those that are gone are in a better place and hopefully we meet again.
me too...a lot of them seemed like trust-fund babies
I was an awestruck teen when I saw Otis and Janis there - along with all the SF groups, The Byrds, Paul Butterfield, Electric Flag and more.
wow! you were there? I am eternally jealous, seems like such a magical experience.
@@jiordanfisher6076 it was! Right place, right time.
And Brian Jones they thought Beatle George would show up.
@@robertcartwright563 yes - I saw Brian and his entourage walking around. He looked quite splendid.
..., and it is now 53 years ago as time flies by
And all those young hippies are collecting Social Security.
I was 5 years old then now I'm an old person.
i smiled at the 'it was over' section of this piece. we saw the change coming and simply moved out to the woods and kept the light alive. our children are happy and carefree as we were then. our grandchildren are learning that smile. i am getting old, but i still feel that carefree spirit that was spawned into me back then. life became simple forever.
love you, mean it!
We need more flower power.
Oh so youre an amish got it
@@DobBylan_ You dont have to. Its just getting over possession as the core of our existence.
Life today is not even close to what it was then, although we do have a Manson-like Cult going on and killing more than he dictated.
Best musical / cultural event and documentary, hands down. Times have changed so much that it's like watching an event on a distant planet
I was 20 years old at that time, and now reflecting back I just can't belive all I witnessed in my life and been part of.
What a great era to be in your 20's.
@@3peckeredgoat735 It was great, if you were a woman, but the Draft was haunting my generation...and do not forget about the Civil Rights clashes, and the shocking deaths of good leaders.
I had a friend that was our cook at a fishing lodge in Alaska that grew up near San Francisco during the 60's. Him and his Brother went to ALL the local concerts during the late 60's. Could you imagine seeing the Doors, Janis Joplin, The Animals, Jefferson Airplane and Jimmy Hendricks and the likes LIVE in a small club when you were a teen-ager .
Thank you, from all of us who lived our young lives in that generation. So many wonderful people are no longer here but the ones that lived it all remember the heroes, the leaders, the lovers, and the singers.
The hippie generation had it right. Peace and Love. For real. No greed. No intimidation. Carefree. Sharing. A real brotherhood. AND,.....the greatest music ever.
Michelle is very brave to let us feel her emotions and we felt the same Michelle, we felt the same. That means we are kind, compassionate people. Beauty and love cruelly taken away is horrible; it must be replaced by more love and beauty and the strong knowledge that in the long run, beauty and love will always win.
I was born in 1972, but I know that America only once in more than 200 yrs, one generation truly "woke" up to smell the roses and what counts in life, and it was in the 60s...it only happened once. Now it's business as usual, most of American society has their head in the ground or up their @$$
It was Southern Comfort- duhhhhhh
NAMCAT53.....Are you still TRIPPING from the 67 POP FESTIVAL ??????
@@slit4659 I am!
The impact of this film cannot be denied. It introduced the counter-culture, California sound (both San Francisco and Los Angeles), Memphis soul, and British influence to the world. Perhaps the greatest musical documentary ever made.
Agreed, i'd go with #2 the Isle of Wight concert with 600,000 people. The Who, The Moody Blues, The Doors and others at the top of their games in that one 1970.
This is a documentary of 42 minutes on youtube. This is not the film Monterey Pop. If you wanna really blow your mind, find the film Monterey Pop.
Check out the book Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon by Dave McGowan. There is much more to the Laurel Canyon Music Scene. John Phillips was CIA for starters....
@@tinfoilmagnolia3134 Here we go again...
@@cjay2 I'm just the messenger. And anyone into rock music needs to check this out. As a music fan I'm glad I did, it's an interesting theory. I learned that Morrisons' Dad was the admiral involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident for starters. Interesting that one Morrison escalates the war into full conflict and the other tops the " opposition" of the war. WHEW! What are the odds of that?! And Jim's out there saying his Dad is dead- doesn't mention his Dad helped to START the Vietnam War ! Nope. Nada. Never. And Jim ' died' the day his Dad's ship was de- commissioned. You may not find that of interest but I do. The late Dave McGowan can be heard here on YT interviewed about this. It's a MINDBLOWER.
My girlfriend knew Jimi Hendrix. We both worked at the Monterey Tribal Stompin the late 70's, a Chet helms production. It was an anniversary celebration of Monterey Pop. An "X" marks the spot on the Monterey stage where Jimi lit up his Stratocaster. At Midnight on Friday we both arranged lit candles around the "X" and said some prayers, trying to summon the spirit of Jimi. The stadium itself is surrounded on the upper levels by dozens of pennants encircling the area. The air was stone still all night- not a whisper of breeze. All of a sudden the pennants began to flutter in a strong wind that came out of nowhere. Each flag opened up and waved ONE AT A TIME in PERFECT SYMMETRICAL ORDER. All in a row ONE AT A TIME! Soon every pennant was snapping proudly all around the stadium. The timing was too perfect- it was Midnight! We both knew Hendrix was there in spirit. Then the breeze disappeared and the flags all furled. TRUE STORY!
That's trippy ❤
@@fayewittwer5208 It was!
I was 18 in 1967 and read about the music festival in a music magazine I subscribed to. The article quoted the lyrics to The Association song, Enter The Young. The article also included a seating chart for people to purchase tickets. Unfortunately, living in Illinois and working to save up for starting college in the fall, I never considered attending the festival. But so grateful I was at an age to remember it so well.
As a kid in the 80's, it was great. Every decade had their thing, but we all knew THE 60's were transfomative
I can second that emotion. Born in '69 to a couple of twenty-year olds and right away was more into their culture than cartoons, G.I. Joes and going outside to play. Used to watch Monterey Pop in the middle of the night whenever it would occasionally air on TV. Can remember seeing it as early as the late 70s. There were always a few kids like us in every class, right Neil? heheh. Half the kids didn't know ANYTHING that had happened before them; and then there were the kids that were hip and in the know, and would talk about, whatever, The Beatles or Dylan in gym class or on the back of the bus, or in the lunch room. Monterey is the festival I would have wanted to been at, not Woodstock, for a whole host of reasons.
@@straypigs yep on the back of the bus. Not the front of the bus and not the middle of the bus. My seat was straight back behind the driver the last seat right hand corner window seat
I was 11 years old in 1967, the 60s were an amazing time, what a time to be alive!
@@tolfan4438 :) Very cool, Tolan, ha! "Not the middle of the bus" Ha! Straight back, behind the driver. I sat there too! I used to drum on the seat with my drumsticks, the other kids would watch me try and sustain a drum-roll for the entire ride, lol. We were all like a rock 'n' roll Peanuts! Trouble was: we were all spread out, right? Would have been great if we could have all gone to one big school! Now THAT would have been a prom!!! :D
PS: Talking 60s (or 50s, 40s, etc) with Social Studies teachers (or any teacher) was always great, too. If I hadn't done my homework, I would often try and get the teacher off topic by asking a question about some 60's topic. Wasn't like I was disinterested in the answer! :D
3 days of fun, no deaths, arrests or overdoses. Life has changed it seems. Wish we could do it again.
I’m 68 and our generation was for the first time in history realizing that what we were being told about war etc. by the elites (hidden behind the scenes) was not right. So the music brought us all together.
The crazy thing about this era, is that it ran parallel with the horrific, ugliness of the Viet Nam war. So much peace and love in one place and complete and total hell in another.
The 60s and 70s were a magic time.....never to be seen again.
Yes they were, best 2 decades of my life!
Yeah Bro, we may never see 'em like again. Not that today's musician are lacking anything, but the years gone by, the creativity, the originality, we may never see again in this age of synthetic and mechanical sound that pass for music.
Best and worst time here in California
@@mrinal9999 ,
Black magic
I had just moved to Monterey from San Francisco and was actually playing golf at a little 9 hole course on the edge of the fairgrounds. I could hear everything that was being played for fee and had seen Big Brother, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & the Fish, and other bands performing in San Francisco. It's amazing how many of these people were dead within 10 years of this event. But such was the culture of the time.
Within a year or so, Haight-Ashbury had become so violent and dangerous that most of the "real" flower children moved on south to isolated communes on the coast. By the time I left California in 1969, the days of peace and love in San Francisco were just a memory.
Sixty-eight year old guy here. Heart breaking to see Michelle cry at that loss. It was a wonderful time and fading to a close in the early seventies. We enjoyed some of it in Free Camp in Jasper Alberta, and our hitch hiking episodes across Canada. I never witnessed anything bad. Adopting draft-dodgers, the guy who picked us up in Thunder Bay, calmly talking down a cop who pulled his van over... scared out of our wits. helped us feel part of a bigger scene, loving vibe.
A time like this shall never happen again - a drop in the ocean of times...
in todays Monterey not a chance........ Shankars daughter is as close as it gets
Like 99. Y2K. Then we survived n had a year of optimism we never had before. Napster. Internet. Then 9/11 ruined it n Evry years it’s been worse
Good riddance
Wkattenbach newsflash drugs and whores have been around since the dawn of society. Music too. Nothing new here. India is the lord of whores. :p You don't really know history. It's all very repetitive. Natives and other ancient tribal people have long been whores that get high on drugs.
Oh, I think they were similar things in the 20s and even some in the 40s
The summer of love actually started two week before Monterey on June 10 & 11 at Mt. Tamalpias at the Magic Mountain Music Festival.
Man if I had a fuckin time machine. Holy shit
Mee too!
We were supposed to progress and evolve to even better music. Instead, we have devolved in our music, TV, and movies. Why?
you do, it’s called youtube.
You'd have to learn some new adjectives first.
What would you have done except in joyed it? There's wicked spirits in our country people have given theresleves over to them the lists of the flesh and the eyes money became there God doing things that were against nature nature will teach you a cat doesn't belong with a dog neither a bird with a fish but they are doing things today as they did Before the Flood mixing DNA men with men leaving the women burned in their lust one toward another which is inconvenient also the women the same if they did they brought the flood on goodnight history teach anything they are God unto themselves and they are going to reap the reward before our Lord comes back two-thirds of the people are going to be dead from war from famine from the plagues all because they turned away from the Creator that made them I speak the truth by the spirit of truth we are the last generation all that was written will be fulfilled two asteroids I going to hit the Earth one in the ocean and one on land it is written in the Book of Revelations one third of all fish in the ocean will die one third of the ships will be destroyed one third of humanity will die the tsunamis we'll hit the East and the West Coast the water will go in land 200 mile people will be killed by the debris and many will drowned by the tidal wave move away from the oceans at least 300 miles to be safe when do meteorites fall there will be nowhere safe but Underground for they will each weighed 100 lb that hitting your house it will go through your house into the dirt underneath it and leave a crater wherever they hit you better not be in his path still people would not repent but cursed God for the plague they had taken the mark of the beast and their DNA was changed and now there is no hope for them for whosoever receiveth the mark and worship is the image of the Beast will never get forgiveness you are lost for eternity those that will not take the mark nor worship the image will be killed but they will rule and reign with the Lord for a thousand years on the Earth this is the truth I pray it gets into your spirit and you take heed unto yourself
Proof that music has no boundaries of color or cultures! Everyone is loved and welcome and they all get together and get along.
Eric Burdon had the complexion of 250 grit sandpaper. The man can sing his ass off though!
the 60s. the decade of decades.
YEAH. PEACE, LOVE, AND UNITY.
It is obvious you did not watch the last few minutes of the documentary..
Oh come on the 70's was the ultimate decade, the 60's was just the opening act!
@Evil Rev THE F#&%ING COUNTRY WAS ALREADY FRACTURED.
@@discodirk48 the whole hippie thing was over by 71
Young women were so fine back then. No fake crazy nails or huge baggy clothes. No Instagram posers, no tiktoking ding dongs. Take me back there, lord.
Never a more true word spoken. I wasn't around then. What year was it? If I'm reincarnated, please take me back there! :)
@@hexx.hockey Watever you do Marty..never set the DeLorean to 2020.
@@hexx.hockey 1967.
Take me with you to “FLASH Back “
@@hexx.hockey you ready
How great to have Janis footage from this show . Never been a singer like her again . There was a woman singing soul , blues & R n B and giving it 100% .
She sounded like a cat being strangled, Let's be honest 😂🤣
@@ianwhitehead691Haha only when she hit her high notes.
I was in the basement of Sherman & Clay music store on June 1967 in downtown SF, trying out instruments and jamming with my cousin and another friend, like I frequently did back then. In walks this dude... all colors and feathers and beads. He walks calmly over to a wall of Fenders, grabs a Stratocaster and tries it, then walks over to the counter to pay. No case. Just the axe. Our jaws dropped when we realized it was Jimi. That was shortly before the MPF weekend ... I forget the exact day. Long time back. It was 54 years ago but I’ll never forget that meeting. True story.
Then he casually walks out, but looks over at our surprised faces, smiles, then winks, and he’s gone. Our jaws were on the ground, literally.
I’m not sure, but I’ve always thought that Strat he bought was the same guitar he burned at Monterey.
I hitchhiked down to Monterey that weekend, and couldn’t get in because it was full. But I heard him play it from outside. It was a truly magical time. I was lucky enough to see Hendrix live 3 times, including when he played the old Fillmore to a packed house, right after Monterey. But that day in SF in the store will never leave my memory.
Good times for sure.👍🏼✌️
Being in SF, I had seen many of those acts at either Fillmore, or when I worked the band door at the Avalon.
Moby Grape is infrequently mentioned, probably because they were short lived, and didn’t have hits like the JA, Janis and some others. But they were one of, if not the best SF bands at that time, imho. 3 guitars and incredible harmonies.
If you weren’t around back then to see it all, you missed a great time in rock music that fostered in most of the music for decades after. Lots of good bands since. But it was cutting edge back then.
Peace*
If Hendrix burned a Strat, it was THAT Strat. That's how a story "ages."
@@cybolton302 yup. Thats what I’ve always thought. But I doubt either of us know absolutely for sure. We just kinda have a gut feeling. So for aging purposes we can call it THAT Strat. I’m good with that. 😉 🤟🏼
@@Rikkcas Excellent! It IS a great story. T-up... down the line.
This was the twenties of my life and although I never attended the festivals, I have been forever influenced by the love and talent that flowed from the era that is lost in today's music and society.
Ms. Aiken I believe we have another Summer of Love to live through. The next time I hope we are brave enough to hang on for the ride.
It's not lost. It's evolving.
@@tomquinn607 Music today is garbage bro, I say 60s-80s, the 90s had some new stuff I liked like STP, Alice and chains, Nirvana Chili peppers to name a few then things really started to get boring, now it's all techno digital crap, stuff that's machines not people except a singer that's nothing like decades past
@@m42037 Agreed dude. But check out some jazz and other alternative music.
@@m42037 don't give up looking for great modern bands because there are a dime a dozen. A few modern psych rock bands that I feel could've played at Monterey Pop/Woodstock are Kikagaku Moyo, Tibetan Miracle Seeds and Kundalini Genie.
I was 11 years old in 1967, and I am so grateful that I got to be part of and experience this wonderful time in music history.
Grateful Dead were there how could they not be.
Same for me 11yrs old. I mostly remember the rock bands of the 70s: David Bowie, KISS, Mott the Hoople, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, T-Rex. I did like The Beatles, Doors, Hendrix, J Joplin, even though I missed out seeing them live.
I was like 7 or so my neighborhood filled with all these communes and they were my adult friends who shared the music with me
I’ve stood on that stage…great vibe.
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting quite a few musicians who played there that weekend.
That was a pivotal moment in music history, setting the stage for Woodstock, two years later..
This documentary was done exceptionally well. Should be a blueprint for others to follow. On a related note, Mitch Mitchell, The Experience's drummer, doesn't get enough credit for how good he was.
He was good with Hendrix, but did not do much after that...except that he became hooked on Heroin for several years...he died at age 61.
Wow. Fifty years later and I still get goosebumps when I hear Janice sing that song. She shouldn't have been talked into leaving the band. They complimented her voice so well.
JANIS
Yep
Agree mate. This performance of Ball and Chain always gives me chills when I watch it.
Check out full tilt boogie,pearl different bands later made her sound better.
Amen. She was never the same after Big Brother...or as good.
Michelle Phillips is still stunning to me and those tears. What an amazing woman..
It was great to hear her talk these are the real deal God bless them all and Thankyou for the freedom of music 🎶 🙏 ❤
I am Irish and never knew " My generation" by "The Who" was about Irish emigrants to London. All has changed now, as Ireland is a wealthy 1st World country and now we welcome people from all over the World . But still how cool.
@@jasperyirl I didn't know it for a long time myself. I learned about it from a reaction channel called Soul Train Bro. He has a fantastic channel and goes into the stories behind the songs. It's really cool. I hope to visit Ireland one day btw.
I liked the Mama's and the Papa's, they were a great band ,the only thing is ,it was a shame stick together for another five years or a pit more. Just like Fleetwood Mac, Mama's and Papa's had conflicts too in their band.
One in a trillion!
Otis Redding can sing so beautifully it brings a tear to my eye...who am I kidding,I literaly cry.
Hunter Thomson, "Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era-the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . ."
If you didn't know Sammy Hager you could talk to him for hours and never know he is a famous singer. One cool dude!!
he really does give off that vibe. Probably helps that he was super into mountain biking :-)
He talked just like someone you would have tripped with. Cool vibe
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.” ― Bertolt Brecht
As an English teenager I saw this movie SO many times at late night cinema screenings in the late ‘60’s & it never failed to completely blow me away! I think Monterey was the original & best music festival of the era… it caught the zeitgeist perfectly, before the ‘love & peace’ flower power dream inevitably faded & died. On an American road trip holiday a few years ago I visited the Monterey County Fairgrounds which hosted the festival & was both amazed & thrilled to see it hadn’t really changed at all over the decades. I climbed onto the stage to take some photos of the relatively small ‘arena’ area where the audience sat & my spine tingled as I remembered all those rock, pop & soul legends who stood & performed on the very same spot where I was now standing!
now 90 years old, Clive Davis was involved and wish he was interviewed more in this. He had so much influence on performers' success in the next 50-60 years
How I wish this could have lasted forever!
I loved the 60s music, and I try to live in the past as much as I can, because I don't like what the future is looking like. What happened to us man?
The best thing about the internet is that you can watch and listen to things from the 40 or 60 yrs ago when there weren't so many pansies and clueless whiny people. Things they would never show on tv today. When it comes to entertainment I live in a bubble of my own making by watching RUclips and never watching news or socal media .
The wheels of commerce drove consumerism to astronomically higher levels of more, more, more and the Fat Cats in Wall Street got so bloated they sent all our jobs off shore, inflation staggered our debt load, the Politicians continued lying their asses off and continued to send our sons and daughters to endless wars dropping trillions of dollars and bombs and breeding the terrorism of today, back to our shores, the Gatekeepers must be stopped they now manipulate us with technology every stroke of your keyboard , every conversation on your phone, emails, text, social media, facial recognition logged and data stored, welcome to the New World Order. Oh God how I miss the 60's and 70's, way more Love and way less hate.
Be here now
@@baliscotsurf Be there then
@@Cincinnatus1869 Good for you in your bubble! When your country is completely taken over, you'll be oblivious to it, until youre removed from your home and imprisoned or worse. Good work!
Those were the days. Great vibe.
A spirit of optimism and liberation.
Peace & Love ✌❣💋😎
I didn't want this to end. But, I was rewarded by staying to the end. Won't spoil it.
My heartfelt thanks to the uploader.
The FINEST guitar tones EVER in music history were created at Monterey Pop Festival
I love this festival more than Woodstock because Janis, Jimmy, Grace and Jefferson Air Airplane, The Mamas and the Papas, Ottis, The Who, Grateful Dead, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, etc., and "...be sure to wear some flowers in your hair if you're going to San Francisco..."
Yes, but Woodstock had Santana, with arguably the greatest live performance of *ANY* band anywhere with *Soul Sacrifice* . Was *ANYTHING* better than them at Monterrey?
@@jamesanthony5681 Paul Butterfield Blues Band killed at Monterey- as did Otis Redding and Janis . This
Because Brian Jones was there makes it superior to any other festival !
The Association opened the show... then Moby Grape. Dick Smothers introduced them.
What's funny is, I played with Jerry Miller (from Moby Grape) in the mid-80s. He's from Tacoma, and I played with him on 6th Ave. small bar. Read a book about Zeppelin, and Robert Plant mentioned Jerry Miller. "Hey, Jerry, this guy mentions your name !" All of a sudden I realized... "It's YOU !" Jerry said, "Yeah, that's why I hired you. You didn't know who I was."
THEN, get this... Jerry and Stephen Stills both auditioned for The Monkees in '66! Didn't make it, but in mid-80s CSN was playing Tacoma Dome... and Stephen Stills showed up at the small bar. I got to play the harmonics on guitar for "For What It's Worth". Then we all got to go backstage, etc. So fun.
brought a tear to my eye - where are people like Jimi these days - so talentedxxx
Rowena LLOYD, I miss Jimi sooo much , he would be playing blues with his friend Eric Clapton if he was living. The Monterey Pop Festival is were Jimi made his huge mark in the U.S.
@@gregmoore7709 Agreed!!! xxxx
@@gregmoore7709 I was born the next year so missed all that x
@@rowenalloyd7760 Rowena LLOYD,I grew up listening to it.It was great but.... that means i'm quit a bit older then you.Actually the 60s music was so iconic ,it was being played a lot still when you were in school.
@@gregmoore7709 Keep in touch x
One of the biggest standouts for me (apart from Hendrix, of course) was Section 43 by Country Joe & The Fish. Absolutely magical!
yes indeed,so glad to see it on film.
"superbird" lyrics should be updated to what's going on with trump.
How can I see section 43 by Country Joe and the Fish
@@brenthammond9679 That song was on the actual film of the concert "Monterey Pop". For some reason, it's not on here. You should be able to find it if you search for it on RUclips quite easily.
@@brenthammond9679 ruclips.net/video/41q4p0UyZAA/видео.html
Great music and real hippies with worth while causes.
Not like today’s “paid for” shenanigans.
@@xtc1957 plenty didn´t
It’s still there but you have to go more underground always did
@@xtc1957 they got tired of sharing a bathroom with 30 people. They also found out a little hard work and life can get quite comfortable. Imagine that, here in America. Far out man
You obviously have not been to Glastonbury. Once you go you will want to go every year. It’s the mother of all festivals. 🇬🇧🏆🥇
I grew up in the sixties, graduated from high school in 1964 and graduated from college in 1968. When I look back on those years I feel there was so much violence that nothing could justify calling those years the flower generation. Numerous assassinations, numerous riots in major cities, numerous demonstrations against the war in Vietnam, numerous closures of colleges because of riotin and a feeling of despair and hopelessness was prevalent.
You are 100% right! I was there and although the idea of peace and love were a great idea, the fact is... It was a horrible time for sooo many families losing there son and daughter in the war...." Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans"
I grew up then too and you’re right, much of the sixties was very dark but the yang to that yin was offsettingly good. The music , movies and pop cult use was amazing at the same time. And we sent a man to the moon! Still was a good time to grow up in my opinion
When the movie came out in theatres,I went with my friends and saw it twice in 1 week.
My husband told me he had plans with friends to see Hendrix but when he saw the price 3.00 he said no way he was paying that much
i love it lol BTW i saw the Beatles in 63 for 11s 6d which is about 55p which id about 80 cents lol
Adjusted for inflation today that'd be about $23. A bargain I bet he regrets.
Saw rush Halen acdc dire straits and others Nassau Coliseum 12.50. Still got the stubs. Earl 80s😋
Wouldn't pay what LiveNation monopoly charges NOW for concerts where you can't even bring water - plus get your face recorded with "facial recognition" tech and a chip bracelet with all your info on it as a ticket. It's convenient but creepy and fascist.
Ticket prices for Rolling Stone cancelled 2020 No Filter Tour were $98 to $500.
This does a great job of capturing the music, the musicians, and the spirit of the era. For those too young to remember, this is what the best year of the '60's was like. Innocent dreamers, and impractical to be sure, but what great music, and what a great vibe!
What happened to these ideas? Oh
@@ronniebishop2496 Mostly suppressed and shut down by govt etc?
thatstheguy07 And yet the liberals in my day was trying to change the government in the 60s and 70s but Liberals today believe everything they say and the media. A total flip of intelligence and the quest to keep democracy.
@@ronniebishop2496 Liberals today have definitely lost the plot.
I think the parties actually flipped. Used to be conservatives who were too uptight, had no sense of humour and were basically the establishment. That better sums up the left these days tho.
The media is like the PR arm of the Democratic Party. All in cahoots. All full of shit.
@@thatstheguy07 anything’s better than having an illiterate, fascist like Trump who pathetically tried to turn the USA into a totalitarian nation.
On the other hand Trump did help to expose the hidden barbaric hatred and hypocrisy of those who call themselves a “patriotic conservative”. His supporters are fake and robotic 🥳
Yes the Sixties were a beautiful time of brotherly love. Although I was just 9 yrs old in 67 , I remember those times as if it were yesterday.
My first concert was Quicksilver when I was 13. My father didn’t want me to go, my mother said yes…… and the rest is history.
During the Summer of Love i was in Santa Cruz, and some of my brother’s friends started smoking marijuana.
I was present at some of the parties, and loved the vib of the music and the feeling of community.
We all greeted each other as family, never mind skin color or economic condition. They were times of innocence and hope.
Now there’s so much social trauma, distance and distrust in the air. It’s all very painful to witness.
Yes, Joni, we do need to get back to the garden, Lo,!,
These were the times when America was at its best - the acknowledged popular culture leader of the world. The music, the movies, the poets and the authors, the peaceniks, even the politicians, and everybody was young and slim and good looking and hopeful. The world revolved around America. It will never be like that again.
Weren't we sweet back then? What a happy time, innocent almost. Love, hope, charity. Look at what we have become, makes me sad.
Never forget that it's the generation that preceded the hippies that made them, the hippies rebelled against it but had in fact all the honesty, integrity but wanted to break away from it. They were in fact still it. That is why the hippies could not be recreated, they threw the baby away with the water by trying to distance themselves from their parent when in fact they were still the same.
It was a hell of a time. I was so naive. I was also so high all the time, wow! No cell phones, no internet. How did we ever survive?
@@wmmseo cell phones are pure social destruction. I knew it right from the beginning and hated Steve jobs profoundly for that fake product. Unfortunately i could not fight against the tide but still hold to my belief that smartphone are socially destructive and nefarious to humanity.
unfortunately true....
Its not your fault u be happy u were part of this love love love 2 u
🇨🇦❤️I was 13 when the Monterey Festival took place but it had an enormous impact on my life and the lives of those around me. I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to look back at that time and remember the sights, sounds, and most importantly, the feelings from those days. It makes me smile when I think of how infrequently I wore shoes.
I felt it 2,000 miles away in Chicago at 12 yrs old. The older teens were playing the music and talking about it. I felt I was part of a movement just by hanging with them.
I was 14. I was too far away and I heard about the Monterey festival two years later ... I envy you. :)
First of all-the human foot is ugly!...and the impact of those times faded into pop culture, just like most other events in society...the lesson here--keep your shoes on!
Man it’s so weird knowing Hendrix’s historical performance happened right where I live.
You can see the pain in Michelle's eyes at the end, the 60s seemed like the best times for humanity.
Omg yah I was born in 1960 but I claim this as the music of my generation!! Ty to who ever posted this. Love you the rest of my amazing life. I'm a 4 time cancer survivor & still a musician. Love this✌✌❤💋
God bless you.
good on ya mate.......hero you are.
That was a great year! This was my brother's era (mine was more GenX since I'm younger like you), but I grew up listening to ALL of it before, during, and after my bro's tours in Nam, he was drafted in 67. I was 4 when the Beatles first movie came out (64 or 65?) a bit ahead of my time. Blessings upon you, I wish you peace, wellness, & great music. 💜
The best to you. ✌️ ☮️ Kathleen
in 1980 in oakland ,ca i saw the grateful dead,carlos santana,the beach boys,jefferson starship,joan biaz,and the eagles all in one concert in one night . the tickets were $8.50 as a benefit concert for the cambodian relief fund.
That has Bill Graham's name written all over it.
you are one lucky sob!
THE GREATEST CONCERT EVER. Better than Woodstock....less mud too.🤔🙃🤟😷😇
Agreed 🙂👍
A couple of places in this film bought a tear to my eye but also gave me thoughts of a week with Jimi and the band in Folkestone at the first real gig.
Lets get back to this type of festivals after Covid
People aren't able to hang loose like they did back then.
@@juana1483 Don't we have a choice how to behave?
@@krakaka8218 why certainly. Just I love when people relax, get along, respect each other. And enjoy great music together.
@@juana1483 Right on my man
@@krakaka8218 So I Left him sippin' his tea and I stood on my horse back and screamed without a rack,oh brother,why'd ja wanna burn your house down ( Jimi Hendrix- 68,from Electric Ladyland Album) play on tea 'er gee-tar,Man!!
This archive footage shows a spirit, a mutual respect and commonality that is so clearly missing from our society today. We have all been socially engineered, isolated and divided. It’s time for us all to come together again in the spirit of Monterey.
Yes and the drugs are part of that engineering.
@@waitaminute2015 They will and then they'll tax it!
I'm afraid that social media has destroyed any chance for this kind of love and togetherness on a grand scale ever happening again.
Unfortunately, the trolls have invaded our lives with their negativity, jealousy and hatred.
I think a great many of us are doomed to sadly miss the 60s and 70s, and feel sorry for those who missed a wonderful time.
Fantastic Era and fantastic music