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Monterey Pop Festival Talk Page

For me, the image of the Monterey Pop Festival being label as a milestone for modern Rock & Roll history, is true. But, the 1967 festival was musically and sociologically much broader.

With acts from Hendrix & Janis Joplin to the performances of Simon & Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, Hugh Maskela, Moby Grape, The Blues Project, Mamas and the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, etc.,it seems to this writer that the most compelling thing about the 1967 festival was its eclecticism.

While in its importance for the Recording Industry and the subsequent shift toward the commercialization of psychedelic, heavy metal and Hard core blues music is important in history. In truth, many things in music and culture were misconstrued. In turn, many rudimentary aspects began to get lost in the frantic shuffle. For the festival, there were politically motivated folks mixing with bikers, the establishment of the time, hippies hanging with cops, all doing so in a peaceful setting.