The Complete Monterey Pop Festival - The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival
 
SYNOPSIS
Spine #167
On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey would launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few among a wildly diverse cast that included Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, the Byrds, Hugh Masekela, and the extraordinary Ravi Shankar. With his characteristic vérité style, D. A. Pennebaker captured it all, immortalizing moments that have become legend: Pete Townshend destroying his guitar; Hendrix burning his. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the most comprehensive document of the Monterey International Pop Festival ever produced, featuring the films Monterey Pop, Jimi Plays Monterey, and Shake! Otis at Monterey, along with every available complete performance filmed by Pennebaker and his crew.
Collector’s Set Includes
Jimi Plays Monterey and Shake! Otis at Monterey, acclaimed documentarian D. A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop companion pieces, feature the entire sets by these legendary musicians, performances that have entered rock-and-roll mythology.
Disc Features
Restored high-definition digital transfers of all three films, supervised and approved by D. A. Pennebaker
Soundtracks featuring 5.1 mixes by legendary recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in Dolby Digital and DTS-HD Master Audio on Blu-ray edition
THE OUTTAKE PERFORMANCES: Two hours of performances not included in Monterey Pop, from the Association, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Blues Project, the Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, the Electric Flag, Jefferson Airplane, Al Kooper, the Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simon and Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, and the Who
Audio commentaries by Pennebaker and  festival producer Lou Adler, and music critics and historians Charles Shaar Murray and Peter Guralnick
Video interviews with Adler and Pennebaker and with Phil Walden, Otis Redding’s manager from 1959-1967
Audio interviews with festival producer John Phillips, festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby
Photo-essay by photographer Elaine Mayes
Original theatrical trailers and radio spots
Monterey Pop Festival scrapbook
PLUS: New essays by critics Michael Lydon, Barney Hoskyns, Armond White, and David Fricke (DVD and Blu-ray); and a 1968 Rolling Stone article by Jann Wenner (DVD only)
New covers by Neil Kellerhouse
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