Monterey Pop
1968, Film, 78 min, Documentary, History, Music, English, United States, MoviePedia score 71
Do you know where your kids are hanging out tonight?
Featuring performances by popular artists of the 1960s, this concert film highlights the music of the 1967 California festival. Although not all musicians who performed at the Monterey Pop Festival are on film, some of the notable acts include the Mamas and the Papas, Simon & Garfunkel, Jefferson Airplane, the Who, Otis Redding, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hendrix's post-performance antics -- lighting a guitar on fire, breaking it and tossing a part into the audience -- are captured.
Directed by D.A. Pennebaker
Cast
- Otis Redding as Performer
- Jimi Hendrix as Performer
- Ravi Shankar as Performer
- Country Joe McDonald as Performers
- Scott McKenzie as Performer
- Denny Doherty as Performers
- Cass Elliot as Performers
- The Mamas and the Papas as Themselves
- John Phillips as Performers
- Michelle Phillips as Performers
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