User:Trevmo34/Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival

Diving into the significance of this album and the Monterey Pop Performance, pre Monterey Pop Jimi Hendrix was a wildcard musician with success in the UK but nowhere else in the world. As Friday and Saturday of Monterey went by with stellar performances from groups like Janis Joplin and The Who, Jimi Hendrix performed in front of an estimated 25,000-90,000 people, where he delivered an electric and almost angelic performance. Hendrix played his guitar like it was an extension of his own body that day. Concluding to the song ‘Wild thing’, Hendrix lit his guitar on fire, smashed it 7 times, and threw its remains into the crowd. Hendrix's erotic onstage antics, use of extraordinarily high volumes, his unique guitar feedback, vigorously using his vibrato bar on his guitar, and general contempt for the rules by lighting and smashing his guitar gained national attention and gave Hendrix future opportunities. From this significant performance and album, and the hype created around Jimi Hendrix because of it, allowed Hendrix to release his multi-platinum albums after Monterey Pop: Axis: Bold As Love and Electric Ladyland . This performance also significantly contributed to other aspects of Hendrix's career, such as the opportunity to headline at Woodstock, one of the largest rock festivals of all time and a highlight of the 1960s in the US. Monterey Pop was incredibly historic for its significance to Hendrix's career.