The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California. Crowd estimates for the festival have ranged from 25,000-90,000 people, who congregated in and around the festival grounds.
The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and the introduction of Otis Redding to a large, predominantly white audience.
The Monterey Pop Festival embodied the theme of California as a focal point for the counterculture and is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" in 1967; the first rock festival had been held just one week earlier at Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, the KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival. Because Monterey was widely promoted and heavily attended, featured historic performances, and was the subject of a popular theatrical documentary film, it became an inspiration and a template for future music festivals, including the Woodstock Festival two years later.
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The performers' lounge backstage |
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Two unidentified girls backstage |
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Bruce Barthol (bass), Barry "The Fish" Melton (lead guitar) |
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Country Joe McDonald sings to the camera |
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Barry "The Fish" Melton strums up a storm |
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David Bennett Cohen |
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Country Joe McDonald tunes his guitar |
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Gary "Chicken" Hirsh plays the drums |
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Country Joe and the Fish playing |
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Peter Tork receives a gift of a "Sticky Wicket" candle |
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Peter Tork clowns around with his candle |
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Peter Tork shows off his candle to his friends |
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Someone tries to steal the candle from Peter Tork |
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Unidentified performer consoles Peter Tork |
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Janis Joplin belts out a song for the crowd |
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Janis Joplin encourages the crowd to clap |
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Michelle Phillips of the "Mommas and the Poppas" |
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Michelle Phillips, Mama Cass Elliot and John Phillips |
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Scott McKenzie singing |
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Visitors to the "Sticky Wicket" candle booth |
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David Bennett Cohen |
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Mich Mitchell from the Jimi Hendrix Experience |
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Jimi Hendrix with "The Jimi Hendrix Experience" |
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D.A. Pennybaker films Jimi Hendrix |
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Jimi Hendrix plays with his back to the audience |
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Jimi Hendrix ends a fine set |
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