It is possible that the way to a new kind of musical -- using some of the talent and energy of what is still the most lively contemporary medium -- may begin with just this kind of musical performance documentary.
Monterey Pop
Do you know where your kids are hanging out tonight?
1968 · 1h 20m · NOT RATED
Documentary, Music
Directed by
D. A. Pennebaker
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- D. A. Pennebaker Director
- Scott McKenzie as Performer
- Denny Doherty as Performers (as Mamas and the Papas)
- Cass Elliot as Performers (as Mamas and the Papas)
- John Phillips as Performers (as Mamas and the Papas)
- Frank Cook as Performers (as Canned Heat)
- Bob Hite as Performers (as Canned Heat)
- Henry Vestine as Performers (as Canned Heat)
- Alan Wilson as Performers (as Canned Heat)
- Art Garfunkel as Performers (as Simon and Garfunkel)
- Paul Simon as Performers (as Simon and Garfunkel)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
The film possesses a quality of nostalgia beyond the fact that it was made way back in 1967.
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