
Legendary California music festival (pre-Woodstock) that launched the state-side careers of several performers, most notably Jimi Hendrix. Check out Mama Cass being absolutely blown away while watching Joplin sing. Here there be REAL acid rock.... (Full plot summary below)
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Legendary California music festival (pre-Woodstock) that launched the state-side careers of several performers, most notably Jimi Hendrix. Check out Mama Cass being absolutely blown away while watching Joplin sing. Here there be REAL acid rock.
Leave your thoughts about Monterey Pop.
| Chicago ReaderDon DrukerThe film possesses a quality of nostalgia beyond the fact that it was made way back in 1967. |
| Boulder WeeklyThomas DelapaWoodstock is more famous, Altamont more notorious, but the June 1967 Monterey Pop Festival was the first great coming together of the tribes of the rock 'n' roll generation. |
| The Tyee (British Columbia)Dorothy WoodendEven now, 50 years later, Monterey Pop packs a hell of a wallop. In the final sequence when the crowd leaps to its feet in rapture and ecstasy, it is hard not to want to do precisely the same thing. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongLike the time and artists it captures "Monterey Pop" is imperfect, yet vital. |
| MetroActiveRichard von BusackWith its banners touting love and flowers, Monterey Pop shows the tribes before they went their separate ways. |
| Film ThreatFelix Vasquez Jr.Next to Woodstock, this is an excellent glimpse into the sixties and the musical experience, with great performances from rock legends. |
| DVDJournal.comMark Bourne...a beatific 79-minute document that set out to catch the look, the feel, and especially the sounds of a seminal moment in American popular culture. |
| Village VoiceJessica WinterThough there's considerable footage of hippie activity (crafting kites, sleeping) and moments of prelapsarian frisson (a cop warns that "there's talk of the Hell's Angels coming down"), the film is resolutely performance-driven. |
| Filmcritic.comRachel Gordonan affectionate glimpse of the music that influenced our parents to be hippies |
| Seanax.comSean Axmaker... a concert film as a cinema vérité documentary, a little shaggy, a little low-fi, up close and intimate and very much in tune with the audience basking in the joy of the music... |