MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL 1967 CONCERT STUB Saturday #2 Ticket JANIS JOPLIN

  
This is an ULTRA RARE authentic stub from the famed MONTEREY INTERNATIONAL POP FESTIVAL. This was almost the very first music festival of it's kind at the time, w hich would be followed by many others eventually leading to pinnacle of festivals at Woodstock. The very 1st would be the 1965 Newport Folk Festival where Bob Dylan played. Still, most would consider this as the first "rock" music festival. As Monterey Pop remains the first rock festival to be fully documented on film and audio tape, and has had the farthest-reaching influence.

This festi val featur ed among others. JIMI HENDRIX, THE WHO, JANIS JOPLIN, GRATEFUL DEA. D, BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD & THE MAMAS & PAPAS. Was from a #2 ticket which was for Saturday June 17th, 1967 at 1:30pm.

And included the performance of. Big Brother & The Holding Company. Country Joe & The Fish. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. The Steve Miller Blues Band.

The Electric Flag with Mike Bloomfield. The actual ampitheatre holding the shows was rather small so not many people got tickets in the first place. You won't be seeing many of these out there. The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds.

Monterey was the first widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival ever attracting an estimated 200,000 total attendees with up to 90,000 people present at the event's peak at midnight on Sunday. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix.

The first large scale public performance of Janis Joplin. And the introduction of Otis Redding. To a large, predominantly white audience.

The Monterey Pop Festival embodied the themes of California as a focal point for the counterculture. And is generally regarded as one of the beginnings of the Summer of Love. Along with the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival. Monterey became the template for future music festivals, notably the Woodstock Festival. The festival was planned in seven weeks by promoter Lou Adler.

Of The Mamas & the Papas. The Monterey location had been known as the site for the long-running Monterey Jazz Festival. The promoters saw the Monterey Pop festival as a way to validate rock music as an art form in the way jazz and folk were regarded. The organizers succeeded beyond all expectations, especially since the total number of attendees who could witness the legendary musical performances at any one time inside the enclosed concert arena was less than 7,000. The artists performed for free with all revenue donated to charity, except for Ravi Shankar. Monterey's bill boasted a line-up that put established stars like The Mamas and the Papas, Simon & Garfunkel. Alongside groundbreaking new acts from the UK, the USA.

Big Brother & the Holding Company. Country Joe and the Fish. Janis Joplin / Big Brother and The Holding Company. Monterey Pop was also one of the earliest major public performances for Janis Joplin.

Who appeared as a member of Big Brother and The Holding Company. Joplin was seen swigging from a bottle of Southern Comfort. As she gave a provocative rendition of the song Ball'n' Chain. Signed Big Brother and The Holding Company on the basis of their performance at Monterey. Although already a big act in the UK, and now gaining some attention in the US after playing some New York dates two months earlier, The Who were propelled into the American mainstream at Monterey.

The band used rented Vox. Amps for their set, which were not as powerful as their regular Sound City. At the end of their frenetic 30 minute performance of My Generation.

, the audience were stunned as guitarist Pete Townshend. Smashed his guitar, smoke bombs exploded behind the amps and frightened concert staff rushing onstage to scurry expensive microphones to safety. At the end of the mayhem, drummer Keith Moon.

Kicked over his drum kit as the band exited the stage. The Who, after winning a coin toss, performed before Jimi Hendrix, as Townshend and Hendrix each refused to go on after the other - both having planned an instrument-demolishing conclusion to their respective sets. Hendrix ended his Monterey performance with an unpredictable version of Wild Thing. , which he capped by kneeling over his guitar, pouring lighter fluid over it, setting it aflame, and then smashing it in to the stage seven times before throwing its remains into the audience. This produced unforeseen sounds and these actions contributed to his rising popularity in the United States. The Monterey Pop Festival of 1967. Was, in many ways, a precursor to the psychedelic, flower child generation for many of the young adults during the 1960s. The Monterey Pop Festival took place for three days in June of 1967 and was a pre-Woodstock festival, which was full of love, good vibrations, drugs, and music. During the mid-1960s, a new musical and cultural happening was beginning in San Franciscos Haight-Ashbury district and other places like Greenwich Village in New York. Was bohemian in nature and growing fast among many young people who were seeking a different lifestyle, culture, and newfound freedom than what their parents experienced. Monterey Pop Festival was the beginning of many festivals and musical events catered to the new musical sounds of the 1960s. At the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, California.

Along with a couple of other influential people, popular music mogul, Lou Adler, and John Phillips of the popular 60s group, The Mamas and The Papas, created the festival. By popular band members who wanted to showcase some of the best and most promising artists of the mid-1960s and create a festival or concert atmosphere that gave this new music sound great exposure, bringing it from underground to mainstream. Some of the people on the festival committee included members from the.

Another fact about the concert is that there were no deaths, no riots, no injuries, no violence, and no arrests, which was an unbelievable feat for any concert, festival, or even public gathering. Was unique as a concert and was also unprecedented because there were no problems. Unfortunately, concerts to follow were not so fortunate. Monterey was the exception to the rule for most rock concerts. However, the strange thing about it and maybe this had something to do with the newness of rock concerts, a very laidback atmosphere, and perhaps not as much publicity or lack of publicity or concern at the time about drug use among the.

Generation was the reason why there were no arrests for drugs. If you watch the video.

Of the festival it is very obvious that there is a definite amount of drug usage. Plus, it has been noted by artists interviewed in the video that acid or LSD were dropped over the crowd, so one couldnt help but encounter the affects of the drug. More than 200,000 people attended the festival, including many artists, music critics, and record company executives, who were sizing up the new artists.

As the height of the. The long and, now impressionable, list of artists that performed included, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, The Animals, Simon and Garfunkel, The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Booker T and the MGs, Otis Redding, Buffalo Springfield, The Mamas and The Papas, and the Grateful Dead, just to name a few. The festival was a combination of different types of music genres including jazz, blues, soul, R&B, classical, psychedelic, pop, and rock music, not to mention groups from all over the world. Were not known outside of the San Francisco bay area or had received very little publicity prior to the festival, but after the festival any unknown artists because an instant success and their popularity increased greatly. Some of the artists that received major fame and fortune after their appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival included.

Who was the biggest star at the festival and the biggest surprise. Was already popular among the R&B crowd and fans, he became very popular among mainstream America. Was the first major rock concert ever and was the model of rock concerts and festivals that followed. The Monterey Pop Festival was highly organized and professional, it was not plagued by problem after problem everyone cooperated, including the crowd.

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