Monterey Pop Festival
While playing "Electricity" in a warm-up performance for the Monterey Pop Festival at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival at Mt. Tamalpais in 1967, Beefheart stopped the song, straightened his tie, and walked off the stage, landing face flat into the grass. He later claimed that he saw a girl in the audience turn into a goldfish. This caused guitarist Ry Cooder to immediately quit the Magic Band because he couldn't deal with Beefheart's unpredictability. Cooders' departure brought about the cancellation of the scheduled appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival thereby frustrating Beefhearts' chances of any future commercial success.