The original documentary "Monterey 40" Premieres Saturday, June 16 AT 9 PM ET/PT. The film is set to premiere on VH1 Classic and will be simulcast on VH1. The Monterey International Pop Festival was nothing short of a defining moment in rock and roll history. The three-day event, held June 16-18, 1967, ushered in the Summer of Love and featured an unprecedented bill of racially, musically diverse acts that showed rock's power to change the world.Take a look at this historic lineup (courtesty of Wikipedia). That Sunday lineup is unbelievable.
"Monterey 40" will tell the story of this historic event from conception to event to aftermath to lasting impact from the perspective of musicians, organizers, audience members and visual documentarians. The film will include new interviews with Paul McCartney, David Crosby, Michelle Phillips, Pete Townshend, Grace Slick, Bob Weir, Micky Dolenz, Ravi Shankar, Clive Davis, Jann Wenner and Paul Kantner among others.
Source: Starpulse
Friday, June 16
The AssociationThe Paupers
Lou Rawls
Beverly
Johnny Rivers
The Animals
Simon and Garfunkel
Saturday, June 17
Canned Heat
Big Brother & The Holding Company
Country Joe and The Fish
Al Kooper
The Butterfield Blues Band
Quicksilver Messenger Service
Steve Miller Band
The Electric Flag
Moby Grape
Hugh Masekela
The Byrds
Laura Nyro
Jefferson Airplane
Booker T and The MG's
Otis Redding
Sunday, June 18
Ravi Shankar
The Blues Project
Big Brother & The Holding Company
The Group With No Name
Buffalo Springfield
The Who
Grateful Dead
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Scott McKenzie
The Mamas & The Papas
2 comments:
The original movie by D.A. Pennebaker is amazing. If you don't have it I would think long and hard about buying it because it is absolutely incredible, especially the three disc version where the second disk is the entire Otis Redding and Hendrix sets.
The best part about the movie is that each act they show is better than the one before it until you build to the incredible climax that is Ravi Shankar's set. Absolutely mind-blowing.
The one downside to the film is that the Grateful Dead are not featured. I've heard two reasons why: 1) Pennebaker's crew ran out of film because of the length of the Dead's set; and 2) the Dead refused to be taped because they were against the idea of someone profiting from their performance.
I tend to believe the Dead's version...
DS
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