In the 21st century, destination music festivals seem like a dime a dozen. But just 50 years ago, there was only one: the Monterey International Pop Festival, which featured more than 30 artists and ...

Monterey overture : a circus filled with love and clowns and animals -- The City by the Bay -- Monterey gets ready for its close-up. Just like Tom Joad's blues / by Marisa Mercado ; Sitting on top of ...

More than 20,000 people camped out on the football field at Monterey Peninsula College during the Monterey International Pop Music Festival of June 16-18, 1967, when Jimi Hendrix famously burned his ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Some bands that played Monterey Pop 40 years ago will return in July to the site of the first great rock festival, but the original promoter and others say the spirit of the ...

In 1958, jazz promoter Jimmy Lyons worked with legendary San Francisco music writer Ralph J. Gleason to organize a jazz festival, the first of its kind on the West Coast. Gleason and Lyons (not to be ...

Otis Redding and The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Historic Performances Recorded At the Montery International Pop Festival (Reprise MS 2029). 33-1/3 rpm.

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