The Monterey Pop Festival movie June 22, 2007

WMNF presents the Monterey Pop Festival movie!

Uncle Johns Band will perform music from the movie after the first showing and before the second showing (separate admission for each showing). The Monterey Pop Festival movie kicks off the 10 day movie festival FlickStock-a celebration of Music, Movies and More at the Beach Theatre in St Pete Beach.

Two shows: 6:45 and 9:30.

The first and, as it turned out, only Monterey International Pop Festival took place over the weekend of 21-23 June 1967. The first of the three major pop/rock festivals that took place on American soil in the late 1960s. Organized by John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas, Monterey was a major breakthrough in the careers of Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding, both of whom died before the Sixties were over. But in addition to these two, there was an impressive line-up of other bands and singers, many of whom were at or near their best, Jefferson Airplane, The Who and Janis Joplin among them, not to mention Phillipss own band The Mamas and the Papas. At its heights, Monterey Pop is exhilarating. Its also a sad film, as in encapsulates an era and a moment that is no longer. Many of those present would be dead before the decade was out. John Phillips died more recently, in 2001, and the DVD package is dedicated to him. Along the way there are plenty of classic moments. Janis Joplin, then fronting Big Brother and the Holding Company before going solo, shows in Ball and Chain just why she was one of the finest white female blues singers ever its a performance that seems torn out of herself. Not for nothing can you see Mama Cass Elliott exclaim Wow! in the audience. Grace Slicks, flowing robe she wears here offsets her She Who Must Be Obeyed persona, like a dominatrix in mufti. Theres an extraordinary violin-led version of the Stoness Paint It Black from Eric Burdon and the Animals. And finallyThis is where it all ends, says John Entwistle, leading off The Whos assault on My Generation, on the audiences eardrums and finally on their own instruments. -DVD Times.co.uk The Monterey Pop Festival (Not Rated, D.A. Pennebaker, 1968/1986/1997) Combination of the Two (Big Brother and the Holding Company), San Francisco (Scott McKenzie), Creeque Alley and California Dreamin (The Mamas and the Papas), Rollin and Tumblin (Canned Heat), The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin Groovy) (Simon and Garfunkel), Bajabula Bonke (Healing Song) (Hugh Masakela), High Flyin Bird and Today (Jefferson Airplane), Ball and Chain (Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin), Paint It Black (Eric Burdon and the Animals), My Generation (The Who), Section 43 (Country Joe and the Fish), Shake! and Ive Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding), Wild Thing (Jimi Hendrix Experience), Gotta Feelin (The Mamas and the Papas), Raga Bhimpalasi (Ravi Shankar)

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