The complete Monterey Pop Festival
By: producer, Kim Hendrickson ; films directed by D.A. Pennebaker ; original film, the Festival, and live recordings produced by Lou Adler and John Phillips ; executive producers, Peter Becker and Johathan Turell.
Contributors: Pennebaker, D. A.; Hendrickson, Kim; Phillips, John
Series: The Criterion Collection -- 167
Publisher: Monterey International Pop Festival Foundation/Pennebaker Hegedus Films
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Monterey, Calif.]
Language: eng
Format: Videorecording (DVD)
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Rock music -- California -- Monterey -- 1961-1970; Popular music -- California -- Monterey -- 1961-1970
Other titles: Monterey International Pop Festival (1967 : Monterey, Calif.)
Description: Information in booklet by different authors inserted on container./ Duration: 1 hr., 19 min. ; 49 min. ; 19 min. ; 2 hr., 03 min./ Title from container./ Features: new high-definition digital transfers of Monterey Pop, Jimi Plays Monterey, and, Shake! Otis at Monterey, supervised by D.A. Pennebaker ; new 5.1 mixes by legendary recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in Dolby digital and DTS; Outtake performances by The Association, Big Brother, and The Holding Company, The Blues Project, Buffalo Springfield, The Paul Butterfied Blues Band, The Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, The Electric Flag, Jefferson Airplane, Al Kooper, The Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simon and Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, and The Who; audio commentaries: Festival producer Lou Adler and D.A. Pennebaker on Monterey Pop; music critic Charles Shaar Murray on Jimi Plays Monterey; music critic Peter Guralnick on Shake! Otis at Monterey; new video interview with Lou Adler and D.A. Pennebaker on the beginnings of the Festival and the making of the film ; new video interview with Phil Walden, manager of Otis Redding from 1959 to 1967; audio interviews with Festival producer Joh Phillips, Festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby; photo essay, Monterey Pop scrapbook, Theatrical trailers and radio spots./ Participants: Featuring: The Who, Simon and Garfunkel, Ravi Shankar, Otis Redding, Scott Mckenzie, Hugh Masekela, The Mamas and the Papas, Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Country Joe and the Fish, Canned Heat, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Big Brother and the Holding Company.
Notes: 3
Table of contents: title: Disc 1: Monterey pop (1968) (79 min.); title: Disc 2. Jimi plays Monterey (1986) (49 min.); Shake! Otis at Monterey (1986) (19 min.); title: Disc 3. The outtake performances (1997) (123 min.).