MONTEREY POP FESTIVAL--40 YEARS AGO DOCUMENTARY

[@anti-social6368]

68 year old man here and I can tell you life was so carefree and fun then. Brings a tear to my eye seeing what’s happening now. God help us.

[@timsan55]

Yes, same here, but we did live in those different times and got the memories to look back on. That's something at least.

[@jiordanfisher6076]

I'm 19 and I'm eternally jealous. My heart hurts knowing I'll never be able to experience the magical and free spirited 60s :(

[@EugeneAxe]

@@jiordanfisher6076 Even the 90's were super fun.

[@BmorePatriot]

@@EugeneAxe AND the 2000s.

[@hitakkjismith3115]

@@BmorePatriot naaa

[@heavenburgo3896]

My mom Lesley is in this documentary at 5:28 wearing a red bandana. She was 16 years old. She passed away 16 years ago. So nice to see her young and happy!

[@jaenboston2683]

Beautiful!💞💞💞

[@cmkilcullen8176]

Wow - that must be so cool for you to see. Glad that you can see your Mom young and happy.

[@sixslinger9951]

when I saw her before reading your post, I said holy buckets is she gorgeous!

[@williammoody6600]

BLESS YOUR HEART OUR SON/DAUGHTER.

[@jeancprimeau1908]

W👌W that awesome 👍

[@koehlerdogtraining]

54 years ago. And folks are still listening to much of this music today.

[@brianolson6366]

Will be in another 50 years

[@Ferda1964]

not too many taking LSD

[@mikekaatman3194]

'Cause the music still stands.

[@Johnboy33545]

Yes, until the day I die.

[@colingeddes2172]

I will listen to the who till the day i die!

[@MichaelSerby]

What a great time to be young. 17 years old in 1967 peace -- out

[@scottsteel4230]

There has never been ANYTHING like the 60's. The CULTURE, The LOVE, The PEACE, The UNITY, And the MUSIC, MAN.....THE MUSIC.....It was GLORIOUS.

[@mujaku]

It is what we all strove for but collectively we never got there - individually some of us succeed. I never thought it was a collective trip. It was a path of transcendence kind of like Dante's Divine comedy.

[@mikewheeler3994]

Love? Peace? Funny as I remember, it was anything but peaceful. There were riots, murders, overdoses. The 60's except for music, was a complete waste of a decade...

[@scottfay3553]

@@mikewheeler3994 agreed just rich kid druggies pretending they acheied something . Losers

[@kimkleiner8456]

@@mikewheeler3994 How can a decade that instagated so much change be a waste. Along with riots we had civil rights legislation, with rampant pollution Nixon signed Clean Air and Clean water Acts and anyone that lived in the '60',s can tell you , the air and water at least look much cleaner. The vibe of that show changed peoples lives ( ok, credit to Osley too !) Woman's rights! ( I remember my Mom telling me she would need a man to co sign to open a checking account ). Yeah some ugly shit happened but many people rose up and basically said " We're not taking it anymore" and things eventually changed,!

[@rtflone]

@@kimkleiner8456 Not a well reasoned comment on the part of @Mike Wheeler.

[@PapaCowboySr]

I am.also a 68 year old guy who still gets goosebumps and teary eyed every time I see anything related to this outstanding music festival. My wife got this for my 60th birthday. I will cherish it till the end of time. Whenever that is.

[@swapshots4427]

67 Brought tears thru the whole thing.

[@KenFerris]

Hmm, I went to that concert as it was my last for a while since I'd been drafted to report in Oct. The 15th in fact. I was 18 and am now 75. So you were 11 at Monterrey? There were a lot of little kids, some crying as kids do in loud scary places, but you're still crying now?

[@Kate-g8q]

Kentxfirutservice

[@robertpeters4161]

Yeah. I'm the same age. I gave up everything and work out almost every day. Not so much to look and feel good as much to forstall the inevitable!

[@FlightJockey2377]

70 year old guy here…. I remember hitchhiking to Monterey from L.A. for festival, and yeah I was 14, but nobody cared and it was all great fun. And man, I had a great time. 😏😏😏. Unfortunately, the 60s came to close and so did the age of innocence.

[@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834]

'a close'

[@jorgevillavicencio427]

@FlightJockey2377 I was half your age and living in another country. The hippie bug bit me at that age which was a big no no if one was under the repressive thumb of communism. I was a precocious child in many aspects. By age 14 I was already singing in a underground cover band and 4 years later I sang a kickass rendition of Long Cool Woman. I would give anything to go back in time to enjoy those 3 days of music, tripping, and human contact with people who had no other agenda than being happy and blessed with innocence. Be blessed, always!

[@olly8]

​@@jorgevillavicencio427Well said! ✌🏽☮️

[@jorgevillavicencio427]

​@@olly8❤🌞🎶🎤✌

[@threeg6966]

The hippie generation had it right. Peace and Love. For real. No greed. No intimidation. Carefree. Sharing. A real brotherhood. AND,.....the greatest music ever.

[@axiomist4488]

That was such a wonderful time. That concert was what united all the youth and made them realize they were more than a bunch of kids . They were a society of people with new ideas, new music, a new culture in the world. This made them think of what they could do to change things . I'm so glad that I was part of that time, even though that makes me an old person, at 75, but happy that I lived thru it all . Hell, everybody has to get old and we all must die, but who else has had that time to remember and be proud of ?

[@vernpascal1531]

This concert though before my time seems perfect and the end of an era. The sixties started out with so much hope, but with the best politicians and leaders being killed off with the worst replacing them what's gonna happen? I would have loved to be here,but not Woodstock. Way Way Way too many stoned and hungry people with huge endless traffic jams and not nearly enough bathroom facilities

[@charlesevans2701]

The one's that fought in WW2?

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

Why they say that Janis was ugly I don't know... because she wasn't!😶

[@wildflowerchilds9997]

I am 25 years old, I am from Russia, but when I watch a video from Monterey, i feel a light sadness. I feel this atmosphere of friendship, this freedom of souls. This is amazing. In those years, in our country, much was banned or under strict control (perhaps sometimes it was even good), and the festivals were completely different. Although we also knew how to have fun, and people respected and appreciated each other. But still, the 60s in America will always be very close to me, just because of Monterey and Woodstock, all that. What a pity that the atmosphere of love did not spread between our countries. P.S.Sorry for the translation inaccuracies🌼

[@LeTrashPanda]

It's tough since this same generation grew up in the Cold War. Life takes on an existential tone when you're doing nuclear bomb drills weekly & wondering if you'll live to see your 21st Birthday. It was nothing personal, we seldom even SAW actual Russians, only a wall. It's easy to fill in the "blanks" with fears & nonsense. That never happened....maybe THIS year instead, eh? At least kids won't have to be afraid for decades on end of evaporating in WWIII.

[@wildflowerchilds9997]

@@LeTrashPanda Life often takes on an existential tone, we now have another battle with Ukraine, the United States is again on the side of Ukraine, which means there is nothing to talk about peace. We are still afraid and think about the length of our life. I do not understand why the governments of your country and our country have been turning the residents against each other for so long, while almost everyone wants only freedom and world peace. But I do not think that the threat of WWIII will become a reality, because then all that remains is to wait for a nuclear explosion, and our planet will become just a memory. It should not be. So we can only watch and hope. And pray. Sorry if I misunderstood your comment.

[@thisjimmybuilds]

@@wildflowerchilds9997 I totally agree and understand, I for one am still in high school and I'm so scared for this and what could be possible in a third world war. We've been learning about WWII in my history class and it's horrifying to think of so many people, both civilians and those fighting, being killed only for the reasons of greed and the desire for power. Truly terrible.

[@wildflowerchilds9997]

@@thisjimmybuilds We are led by people who pursue only their own goals. It's always been that way. Protests, power of music, flowers in a guns - all this has not affected our governments. I think this is one of the reasons why many people start hoping for God.

[@ggghhjd]

i believe this time will come again...it may not be identical musically but the togetherness and the unconditional love will return and the darkness will have nothing to feed on but itself...i too watch this with tears in my eyes and think why can't it be like this now...but the energy on the planet is changing, the vibration of the planet is rising, and the age of Aquarius will make it happen. So do not give up on your dream of seeing this in your life. I have been to Russia several times and i know there are as many beautiful peaceful nature-loving souls in your country as there are in any country

[@thunderpuppy6719]

There was a certain innocence in those days. And a brotherhood that doesn't seem to exist anymore. You'd see a guy walking down the street with long hair and a peace symbol sewn onto his jacket, or a chick with bellbottoms and a loose, flowery shirt, and you knew they were a part of your family. I'm glad I got to experience those days. And, I miss them.

[@johnstitt2615]

And people could be with each other without fear of spreading the virus. Maybe nature is teaching us a lesson.

[@StanSwan]

Too young to have been there but used to go to Woodstock informal reunions of fans in the 1980s. We spent two or three days sleeping in cars, tents, and freezing in Chesterfield, MA. Bon fires, drugs, drink, free love. If anyone had a bit of food or a bottle they shared it with everyone. I got glimpses of the 1960s even though I was born in 69.

[@prunesquallor3444]

It was a special concert in that it was the first concert of its kind. Woodstock may never have happened if not for the success of Monterey Pop. My buddy and me tried hitching from Vancouver but never made it to Monterey in time. We had a great summer in San Francisco though.

[@StanSwan]

@@prunesquallor3444 The music of that era is some of the best ever. In the 1980s I was playing my Doors, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Hendrix, and Cream albums just to name a few. The best concert I ever saw was Stevie Ray Vaughn in 1988. Saw Nugent, Bad Company, David Bowie, Edger Winter, and my 2nd favorite front man David Lee Roth to name a few. Most of my friends love 80s music and I can't stand it with few exceptions.

[@lancesecrest7577]

My first birthday was in Salinas in 1967.SO many vibes that I am familiar with when oldsters and I meet.

[@Bubba4168]

Thank you, from all of us who lived our young lives in that generation. So many wonderful people are no longer here but the ones that lived it all remember the heroes, the leaders, the lovers, and the singers.

[@csulb75]

I was in the USAF at Vandenberg AFB in 1967, trying to keep my ass out of Vietnam. Some of my friends went to Monterey for the festival and said that it was "mind blowing". We are all old men know, but still love this music.

[@guitarman6742]

My brave brother served in Vietnam. USMC...Semper Fi .

[@csulb75]

@@guitarman6742 He's a better man than I. My thanks for his service.

[@nonamegame9857]

@@guitarman6742 my brother as Well. He was there from 66 to 68 in the Seabees. Lost him 7 years ago this coming August but I know he is resting in peace when he's not yelling at me in my dreams 😇😇

[@thomaspsanzi8947]

"Some Seem To Look At The 60's Were A Very Crucial Time Period in Our Lives in Which The Vietnam War Was A Very Crucial Time-Period Because Many Families in America Also Had Family Members & Friends Whom Had Family Serving At The Time Yet Respected One Another As A Whole & Were Concerned at The Time, But Realized As We Watched Knew Some How It Was A Peaceful Transformation in Life Years Later & Understood & Respected, But Not Until Years Later!" I Was Only 10 Years Old At The Time & Now Understand it Was a Crucial Time in Our Nation's History!" "Now We Are Going Through Another Crucial Time Starting From The War In Iraq, Afghanistan, And Political Conflicts Today, & Threats of War Constantly For What Seems Be More Politically Motivated Today Than it Was Back Then!" "The Recent Riot in Which Was Politically Motivated For Their Own Self Serving Advantage & Interest Rather Than For Strategic Advancements Around The World!"

[@dr.OgataSerizawa]

Thomas P Sanzi I noticed your "quotation marks". Are you quoting someone? If so, who? And what's with all the CAPS? Hey.....just curious, Tom.

[@javiermendoza2942]

Im 70 and i mostly just dreamed about Haight/ Ashbury . The dead. The Byrds. Buffalo Springfeild,Quicksilver, Sky Saxon and the Seeds. The Hook, Hendrix,Joplin,Ten Years After. I could go on. I didnt make it to Woodstock, Didnt make it to Monterey but as a lost 14 year old kid i got myself to some awesome festivals. There is a defining rationalizing fact when someone says guess you had to be there. God Bless the 60s.

[@kpadalldotablet1009]

I was too young to enjoy this era. I was 6 years old. But I totally understand a magical time and its end. Thank you.

[@Ridendrty]

Hendrix kicked the door wide open and put his guitar on full blast that day. He just killed it.

[@crlaw75]

He also brought his own equipment.

[@anthonynaro4937]

We lucky red

[@Stu-SB]

Yea, pretty sure it was Brian Jones who introduced him.. he blew everyone away

[@billstapleton1084]

Just finished my Junior year of High School in Victorville Calif. Hitchhiked with 3 friends to Monterey for the Festival You could do that in those days. Had the best time of my life.

[@nautifella]

I grew up right up the hill past Del Ray.

[@waynejohanson1083]

And I bet the Music was awesome.

[@nautifella]

@@waynejohanson1083 As you know, we had all the concerts in LA and none of hassel of living there. Great time to be a kid in SoCal.

[@billstapleton1084]

@@waynejohanson1083 The Music was so good you could feel it in your chest, The people the mood was go great it is hard to explain

[@tammieparrishmiller3669]

@@billstapleton1084 That music has stood the test of time and I will forever be a music lover. My husband doesn't have that passion and it's so sad because he see's me loving it so much and he wishes he had what I do with music. He does enjoy some songs and I make his playlist for him, but he just doesn't long for it like we do. I don't go one day without it.

[@petertrout8140]

Was there when I was 10 years old. Very hip parents, took our whole family to Monterey and to the festival. I still have the concert poster and the program from the show. Will never forget burning incense for Jimi and my mom just saying “no thank you,” when people were passing joints to her. I never knew it at the time, but was blown away by Jimi or Janis, was incredible. My folks were really in to the Mamas And the Papas, as well as Otis Redding. Just so cool, will never forget it. Was a time before today, once in a lifetime experience. The Association? The Who? Hendrix? Janis? Are you serious??? And you are so right Michelle Phillips, it was the end of the innocent, the end of peaceful listening.

[@vickielawson3114]

Jeez, you are seriously lucky to have gotten to experience that, even if you were a bit too young to understand it at the time.

[@melodyelson3202]

gosh thank for sharing all that our parents were cool and took my at 14 to Woodstock for "the music & art festival " we stay Thursday& Friday untill The Rain... not aware if this yet the document will live on.. history was music ... I. so sad about the tragic deaths... so glad utube let's us share our music generation ... What an event to re-live

[@l.w.paradis2108]

Just saw the full lineup. Oh. My. GOD.

[@Haberdashery22]

You are so lucky to have such cool parents. Mine were the opposite! Here in the UK in the 70s I had to lie about everywhere I went. I never got into any trouble, had a successful career, family and marriage. But those wild times in the 70s at parties, festivals and concerts, especially the London scene, will forever live in my memories -- I hope!

[@sharonpate5481]

I’m a 70 year old hippie and I feel sorry for the young missing out on the amazing music that I grew up with. Went to quite a few concerts over the years. I saw Bad Company for $7.50! People could afford to go see live music all the time. 👵🏼☮️❤️🌻

[@transparent6748]

Don’t feel I’m missing out anything…much of the “love movements” was surrounded in drugs-lies and tragedies to follow afterwards

[@sharonpate5481]

@@transparent6748 that’s true, but that’s part of why the music was so great. Those bands were into making music and some of the best music came from people tripping. Not everybody made it thru, and that’s sad, but they gave us so much of themselves. They were really genius musicians.

[@transparent6748]

@@sharonpate5481 yes I agree Sharon,,don’t get me wrong coz I love many of those bands/albums from back then and aware it’s nearly impossible to make such great music without drugs involved..floyd-Hendrix-grateful dead etc

[@michaelbirke6050]

I didn’t miss out Sharon. I’m a 69 year old hippie and it was NOT lies. It was a time of purity. Yes, there was drug use and some did not make it. Do anything to excess and there are consequences. Did you drop acid back then? With your friends on the right night LSD was magic. Would have loved to do some Monterey Purple. Rumor has it Hendrix dropped two tabs! Grace has the same birthday as me. October 30th. I saw Foghat, Edgar Winter and Rick Derringer for 7 dollars, I’m so fond of those years and feel so fortunate that I lived and experienced that period. If I knew you back in the summer of 67, I don’t care where we were living, I would have bought you and me tickets and taken us to the festival. I’ll say goodbye now. Let me leave you with with thoughts of peace and love☮️💕

[@robertpeters4161]

There are no bad trips. Just weak sisters.

[@dougmungoven4315]

Wow - brings back so many memories of my teenage years here in Australia - such is the power of 60s music

[@michael_caz_nyc]

Michelle Phillips was so naturally Beautiful - it's just-ridiculous, how stunning she was. She seems like she has a good-heart & inner beauty - too. Great footage & music. Enjoyed this. oNe LovE from NYC

[@davidholubetz1014]

Couldn't agree more. She is a ray of sunshine and a standout even among so many beautiful hippie chicks of the time. Glad she was willing to take the time to contribute to this documentary.

[@michael_caz_nyc]

@@davidholubetz1014 I think earthy, all-natural & bohemian Hippie chicks ( all races ) are so incredibly Beautiful.

[@389383]

She had a thing for men other than her husband. Got kicked out of the Mamas and Papas for awhile because of it.

[@Catmom3]

Will always love Cass’s awestruck reaction to Janis

[@frankcorrenti5941]

Absolutely, Mama was always the Lady of the House.

[@lisamoroney3036]

It’s great !

[@bille77]

Minute time?

[@Catmom3]

@@bille77 15:40

[@dickdozer6558]

Mama Cass was much better than Janis. Janis couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket.

[@jebstewart666]

i smiled at the 'it was over' section of this piece. we saw the change coming and simply moved out to the woods and kept the light alive. our children are happy and carefree as we were then. our grandchildren are learning that smile. i am getting old, but i still feel that carefree spirit that was spawned into me back then. life became simple forever. love you, mean it!

[@tomquinn607]

We need more flower power.

[@DobBylan_]

Oh so youre an amish got it

[@musicmarauder7148]

@@DobBylan_ You dont have to. Its just getting over possession as the core of our existence.

[@tootz1950]

Life today is not even close to what it was then, although we do have a Manson-like Cult going on and killing more than he dictated.

[@lindaross783]

I went to this event. Amazing. Hard to believe it was so long ago. I was only 17 and not high. Just enjoyed it so much.

[@nrich5127]

It's now 54 years later and the originality of each artist is so evident to this day.

[@vernpascal1531]

That's a strong point. Everybody talks about Hendrix and rightly so,but you don't hear any group sing like The Mama's And The Papa's, or have songs like The Byrds anymore do you?

[@nrich5127]

@@vernpascal1531 I agree with you totally - todays music is only a pale facsimile in comparison to the originality of groups like you mentioned.

[@kathrenfullmer1987]

.. lived music that i went

[@sandrak3706]

54 or 40?

[@vernpascal1531]

@@nrich5127 Yup. Simon & Garfunkel beat the hell out of anyone today. Likewise with Jefferson Airplane, Doors,Byrds,The Beatles,Stones,Who,Kinks, Mama's And The Papa's,Dylan,Beach Boys,Love,Buffalo Springfield,Crosby,Stills, And Nash.Zeppelin,Hendrix,Cream.KinksOtis,James brown,Pickett etc.

[@thingswhatido.7371]

The first true great pop festival. The Monterey Pop Festival.

[@taknothing4896]

...unless you were at the Magic Mountain Festival a week before...

[@389383]

@@taknothing4896 I wasn't there so it should be ignored. Just kidding, wish I had been there.

[@thomaseck2986]

Flowers and Love are Eternal never give up!! This is Beautiful!!! Thx!!!!!

[@billgonzales8978]

Peace brother,

[@johnknottenbelt2727]

Monterey was the Mother that gave birth to subsequent festivals of this nature. 55 Years ago.... already. And to me it still feels like yesterday. I remember lying on my own, on the floor in the lounge of our home, parents thankfully out & about. Volume turned up loud, listening to Jefferson Airplane belting out, 'Somebody to Love'.... Yes, those 7 singles did their job. It was all too beautiful ! 🥰 Oh yeah & Mama Cass's expression (gobsmacked was born there) watching Janis - Priceless. Music overflowed like our hearts did. It was a time to be 'reborn' & we were, it was the first day of a new life, for the rest of our lives. 😍❣💫 The caterpillar became a butterfly, which became a rainbow with multicoloured wings and soared. 'Scuse me, I've just kissed an angel way up high. And then there was the downside that followed a few years later... the innocence was stolen and it would never be the same again ..... but as with life, something new was born....

[@ixoye56]

I was 11 years old in 1967, and I am so grateful that I got to be part of and experience this wonderful time in music history.

[@ronkonkoma7718]

Grateful Dead were there how could they not be.

[@AllenFreemanMediaGuru]

Same for me 11yrs old. I mostly remember the rock bands of the 70s: David Bowie, KISS, Mott the Hoople, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Aerosmith, T-Rex. I did like The Beatles, Doors, Hendrix, J Joplin, even though I missed out seeing them live.

[@patriciamays8873]

I was like 7 or so my neighborhood filled with all these communes and they were my adult friends who shared the music with me

[@klausuhlig7141]

I was 20 years old at that time, and now reflecting back I just can't belive all I witnessed in my life and been part of.

[@3peckeredgoat735]

What a great era to be in your 20's.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

@@3peckeredgoat735 It was great, if you were a woman, but the Draft was haunting my generation...and do not forget about the Civil Rights clashes, and the shocking deaths of good leaders.

[@nickjohnson811]

This does a great job of capturing the music, the musicians, and the spirit of the era. For those too young to remember, this is what the best year of the '60's was like. Innocent dreamers, and impractical to be sure, but what great music, and what a great vibe!

[@ronniebishop2496]

What happened to these ideas? Oh

[@thatstheguy07]

@@ronniebishop2496 Mostly suppressed and shut down by govt etc?

[@ronniebishop2496]

thatstheguy07 And yet the liberals in my day was trying to change the government in the 60s and 70s but Liberals today believe everything they say and the media. A total flip of intelligence and the quest to keep democracy.

[@thatstheguy07]

@@ronniebishop2496 Liberals today have definitely lost the plot. I think the parties actually flipped. Used to be conservatives who were too uptight, had no sense of humour and were basically the establishment. That better sums up the left these days tho. The media is like the PR arm of the Democratic Party. All in cahoots. All full of shit.

[@BlueGreens]

@@thatstheguy07 anything’s better than having an illiterate, fascist like Trump who pathetically tried to turn the USA into a totalitarian nation. On the other hand Trump did help to expose the hidden barbaric hatred and hypocrisy of those who call themselves a “patriotic conservative”. His supporters are fake and robotic 🥳

[@HensleyDon]

So glad to see Otis spotlighted. The Warner Monterey album had Jimi on one side and Otis on the other. I played his side as much as I did Jimi's.

[@michaelheller8841]

I’m very sure Hendrix appreciated Otis as much as Otis appreciated him. That was what was so great about those times. Otis as well as all the Blues greats used to play in England and look at what inspired musicians of England did with it. It’s fantastic. They would all hang out. It’s funny how they say Hendrix from England, he was American. Hendrix was that kid that wanted to play the Blues and R&B in America. It didn’t work out that way so he went to England to make it. When he came back to America he got famous here as well. Otis inspired so many musicians from all over. Look at The Stones doing some of his tunes.

[@grahamramsay8461]

Snap, loved that album ,BEEN A JIM I FAN since I was 14, purple haze did the trick. Saw him at the IOWF 1970, loved to have seen Otis 2 ,but never had the chance, one of my treasure albums.

[@johnknottenbelt2727]

I also managed to get hold of that lp. Mine was in red transparent vinyl.

[@caribman10]

That was a great album, great marketing and a great way to introduce Otis and Jimi's fans to each other. And to a lot of other people. I still have mine.

[@TheDivayenta]

Both of them blew everyone away. I was standing right below Otis in the gentle rain. No, I’m not on film!

[@melodyofpsalm9468]

WE could sure use some of this spirit of the 60,s now😢😔

[@tracylemme1375]

We need more respect for each other. Without respect we will never trust each other. By the way, Sammy was in my graduating class at Fohi in CA

[@HighlanderNorth1]

📛☹️Unfortunately, the children of the pop festival attendees are now trying to usher in a 21st century Soviet Union, except on a global scale, inevitably to be run by the Chinese communist party... Most of the true liberals who showed up at this festival were smart enough to NOT want America to become part of a totalitarian communist system. But they made a mistake in not adequately educating the next generations in the evils of communism! So now we are quite literally on the brink of it.... ☹️👎

[@michaelbroer6378]

@@HighlanderNorth1 The New Evil Empire---Communist China + Global Corporations/Banks + Bought off Puppets in government.

[@lizardking7772]

Lol we sure have it with all this chaos going on like in the 60 with the war on drugs the war in Vietnam and all this other thigs.

[@colargolfriend]

@@HighlanderNorth1 poor little man

[@discodirk48]

So sad watching this and longing for that loving connection that we all shared at one time but has been steadily programmed out of us! Divide and conquer as they say and we are the most divided ever!

[@thomasbrissee3251]

Oh my brother. Yes, Yes, YES! I see films of Monterey, Woodstock, the coming together of people unselfish and loving and can feel what must have been relatively speaking the completion of who humans need to be: a CO-mmunity, Fuck Division, Conquer the hate with Love. It seems coincidental to me that the isolation that we have all been forced into by this epidemic has bred this division that we see in the world. People locked in with their isolation and non-connection with other humans and they only glimpse they have is the bullshit that is fed to them by the so-called "leader" of our country who can only spew selfishness and encourage others to be me-centered instead of US centered. Can we get back to appreciating our collective differences and appreciate our lives for how they are enriched by the contact with other humans?

[@wildride6349]

The impact of this film cannot be denied. It introduced the counter-culture, California sound (both San Francisco and Los Angeles), Memphis soul, and British influence to the world. Perhaps the greatest musical documentary ever made.

[@cosmo1eleven855]

Agreed, i'd go with #2 the Isle of Wight concert with 600,000 people. The Who, The Moody Blues, The Doors and others at the top of their games in that one 1970.

[@cjay2]

This is a documentary of 42 minutes on youtube. This is not the film Monterey Pop. If you wanna really blow your mind, find the film Monterey Pop.

[@tinfoilmagnolia3134]

Check out the book Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon by Dave McGowan. There is much more to the Laurel Canyon Music Scene. John Phillips was CIA for starters....

[@cjay2]

@@tinfoilmagnolia3134 Here we go again...

[@tinfoilmagnolia3134]

@@cjay2 I'm just the messenger. And anyone into rock music needs to check this out. As a music fan I'm glad I did, it's an interesting theory. I learned that Morrisons' Dad was the admiral involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident for starters. Interesting that one Morrison escalates the war into full conflict and the other tops the " opposition" of the war. WHEW! What are the odds of that?! And Jim's out there saying his Dad is dead- doesn't mention his Dad helped to START the Vietnam War ! Nope. Nada. Never. And Jim ' died' the day his Dad's ship was de- commissioned. You may not find that of interest but I do. The late Dave McGowan can be heard here on YT interviewed about this. It's a MINDBLOWER.

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

As an English teenager I saw this movie SO many times at late night cinema screenings in the late ‘60’s & it never failed to completely blow me away! I think Monterey was the original & best music festival of the era… it caught the zeitgeist perfectly, before the ‘love & peace’ flower power dream inevitably faded & died. On an American road trip holiday a few years ago I visited the Monterey County Fairgrounds which hosted the festival & was both amazed & thrilled to see it hadn’t really changed at all over the decades. I climbed onto the stage to take some photos of the relatively small ‘arena’ area where the audience sat & my spine tingled as I remembered all those rock, pop & soul legends who stood & performed on the very same spot where I was now standing!

[@namcat53]

Michelle is very brave to let us feel her emotions and we felt the same Michelle, we felt the same. That means we are kind, compassionate people. Beauty and love cruelly taken away is horrible; it must be replaced by more love and beauty and the strong knowledge that in the long run, beauty and love will always win.

[@eargasm1072]

I was born in 1972, but I know that America only once in more than 200 yrs, one generation truly "woke" up to smell the roses and what counts in life, and it was in the 60s...it only happened once. Now it's business as usual, most of American society has their head in the ground or up their @$$

[@lhasaroadrat9374]

It was Southern Comfort- duhhhhhh

[@slit4659]

NAMCAT53.....Are you still TRIPPING from the 67 POP FESTIVAL ??????

[@lhasaroadrat9374]

@@slit4659 I am!

[@bassboye8959]

Omg yah I was born in 1960 but I claim this as the music of my generation!! Ty to who ever posted this. Love you the rest of my amazing life. I'm a 4 time cancer survivor & still a musician. Love this✌✌❤💋

[@davidtrindle6473]

God bless you.

[@David-og7di]

good on ya mate.......hero you are.

[@LeTrashPanda]

That was a great year! This was my brother's era (mine was more GenX since I'm younger like you), but I grew up listening to ALL of it before, during, and after my bro's tours in Nam, he was drafted in 67. I was 4 when the Beatles first movie came out (64 or 65?) a bit ahead of my time. Blessings upon you, I wish you peace, wellness, & great music. 💜

[@georgebuscay8511]

The best to you. ✌️ ☮️ Kathleen

[@krusty6246]

Music and musicians we will never see again in this lifetime. It was a great ride!

[@oleandreasjensen5263]

This is one the best video and music docmentaries Iever have seen. I am soon 65 and I love this music and the yester years back then when the youth was full of peace and love : )

[@LadyJ5569]

This was the twenties of my life and although I never attended the festivals, I have been forever influenced by the love and talent that flowed from the era that is lost in today's music and society.

[@grownjohnboy]

Ms. Aiken I believe we have another Summer of Love to live through. The next time I hope we are brave enough to hang on for the ride.

[@tomquinn607]

It's not lost. It's evolving.

[@m42037]

@@tomquinn607 Music today is garbage bro, I say 60s-80s, the 90s had some new stuff I liked like STP, Alice and chains, Nirvana Chili peppers to name a few then things really started to get boring, now it's all techno digital crap, stuff that's machines not people except a singer that's nothing like decades past

[@tomquinn607]

@@m42037 Agreed dude. But check out some jazz and other alternative music.

[@AZ-uq7kn]

@@m42037 don't give up looking for great modern bands because there are a dime a dozen. A few modern psych rock bands that I feel could've played at Monterey Pop/Woodstock are Kikagaku Moyo, Tibetan Miracle Seeds and Kundalini Genie.

[@anthonykellum9501]

Michelle Phillips is still stunning to me and those tears. What an amazing woman..

[@georginapaki9328]

It was great to hear her talk these are the real deal God bless them all and Thankyou for the freedom of music 🎶 🙏 ❤

[@jasperyirl]

I am Irish and never knew " My generation" by "The Who" was about Irish emigrants to London. All has changed now, as Ireland is a wealthy 1st World country and now we welcome people from all over the World . But still how cool.

[@tammieparrishmiller3669]

@@jasperyirl I didn't know it for a long time myself. I learned about it from a reaction channel called Soul Train Bro. He has a fantastic channel and goes into the stories behind the songs. It's really cool. I hope to visit Ireland one day btw.

[@johndoyle2429]

I liked the Mama's and the Papa's, they were a great band ,the only thing is ,it was a shame stick together for another five years or a pit more. Just like Fleetwood Mac, Mama's and Papa's had conflicts too in their band.

[@Wkattenbach]

One in a trillion!

[@martinphilip8998]

My girlfriend hitched to Monterey and appeared in the film Monterey Pop. Rest in Peace Genevra.

[@petebradt]

I've thought about that a lot, I was only 12 so I couldn't go but I knew Pennebaker was shooting and anxiously awwaaited the film. Otis Redding was a head-exploding discovery.

[@jiordanfisher6076]

that's so cool! where in the video is she? rest in peace

[@martinphilip8998]

@@jiordanfisher6076 They talked to her while she was wiping down bleachers. My son came home from high school where the history teacher showed that clip because she was local. His friend said, “I bet your dad knows her." Too funny when I explained how I knew her.

[@jasonr3991]

Perfect memory

[@Robertodette]

@Blake R I was the same age. I still live in the same small town and I remember the movie didn't come around til I was about 17 and everybody in the theatre was young and fucked up on something - the good ol' days

[@BigBusDream]

Best musical / cultural event and documentary, hands down. Times have changed so much that it's like watching an event on a distant planet

[@LClark-ry9to]

I’ve only been here for the music the whole time , I’m 65 yrs and still rocking with my best Bud , bud .

[@kevinhall9034]

Bless you friend

[@willwilburn9473]

Man we had the life didn't we. 60 years later, the knees only hold me up when I'm playin' because the music takes me to that place where nothing else exists. The fingers are slower but my hands still work. My ears are still ringing from all the shows in the 70's but I'll be rockin' 'till the day I die

[@nonamegame9857]

That's why I love my playlists ✌️👍

[@Mrvinylboy]

This is Beautiful, I'm 21 And I Love The 60s Counterculture, I Wish I Had Lived Those Great Times, Thanks Man, This Is Gold!

[@geraldsobel3470]

Your parents were there, hopefully you experienced it thru your genetic inheritance!

[@sancho8521]

@@geraldsobel3470 Hey. I'm 62 now & my big sister had me listening to all kinds of music back then, as an 8 yr old. I remember a lot. Wish you were there...

[@tyrone.m.warren9011]

🗣I think you ought to know that the ‘60’s Counterculture was completely manufactured by the Establishment & Tavistock behavioural institute! It was far from grassroots,resulting in to break down the family unit & to usher in sex ,drugs & overall degeneracy! Don’t get me wrong there’s a lot I like about the Counterculture, Books,Films civil rights etc BUT don’t let anyone ever tell you that it came about naturally...far from it.You should thank the U.S/U.K military & Intelligence units on both sides of the Atlantic!💯

[@vernpascal1531]

@@tyrone.m.warren9011 That's ridiculous you don't manufacture The Beatles, Dylan,Stones,Who etc. that should be obvious.

[@tammieparrishmiller3669]

@@tyrone.m.warren9011 I get what you're saying here. I can't say I agree with all of it 100%, but I can't say you don't have some valid points. The music, it was what took us to some beautiful memories that we'll always have. Unfortunately, the drugs took many lives to either death or even worse, in my opinion, a life of dependency that then led to methadone clinics where still to this day people are dependant on the gov't. I also want to say that the "Gov't" is who brought in the heroin, but we all know that. We are at a huge turning point right now where the government is concerned. I hope we can all come together one day soon and not be divided the way they have too many of us heading in these times. I will always be glad to have the music that came out of the '50s, '60s, and '70s and even way before then because those early artists are who inspired the greats who came after them. It feeds my soul!

[@glentorn5362]

Those were the days. Great vibe. A spirit of optimism and liberation. Peace & Love ✌❣💋😎

[@ksgtrpkr]

Proof that music has no boundaries of color or cultures! Everyone is loved and welcome and they all get together and get along.

[@TomRivieremusic]

Damn, I missed the party. I was in Vietnam, what a drag. But a lot of that music came there too. The national anthem of Vietnam at that time was ''We gotta get out of this place'' by the Animals.

[@treecounting]

me too....and i wouldn't go, again .... however ...... i've noticed the ones that didn't go ?? They're often unable to get a grip on hard realities .

[@jupiterlegrand4817]

@@treecounting Thank you both for your service. Wrath was turned on you military guys for no reason. Hell, YOU didn't start that war, you just stepped up and laid it on the line. The brotherhood of them what has been shot at. We won't forget you.

[@timhitt9541]

at least you got to smoke that great Thia sticks

[@roxannetoth5026]

@Tom Riviere, I missed it too, I was 13 in Chicago. My future husband was in VietNam with you...and what happened there took him from me almost 18 yrs ago. At least some ppl piped the tunes to those of you in country. I hope you have been able to keep the great music of that time with you and that you're still groovin' today. This vid has a lil unseen footage, but not much. I'm writing this specifically to thank you for your service and let you know that all of you are thought about and prayed for every day. God bless, love and peace

[@peterjohnson617]

oh, I can just see that being the top of the charts there...glad you came back home.....peace....

[@michaelthemind]

64 years old and still rocking. Keep on rocking in the free world. we are one !!!!

[@michaelthemind]

@Blake R just listening to enigma, return to innocence, I don't know you but i love you. Have a great day !!!

[@randydellinger2996]

Try 80 years old and still rocking.

[@davidhollyfield5148]

Wow. Fifty years later and I still get goosebumps when I hear Janice sing that song. She shouldn't have been talked into leaving the band. They complimented her voice so well.

[@namcat53]

JANIS

[@lobdsk]

Yep

[@waynesworld7804]

Agree mate. This performance of Ball and Chain always gives me chills when I watch it.

[@robertcartwright563]

Check out full tilt boogie,pearl different bands later made her sound better.

[@markhunter8554]

Amen. She was never the same after Big Brother...or as good.

[@juliusgreen7495]

Hi guys I love this documentary l was born in 1960herd all these song s this was my era love y’all man grove and dig your self there will never be another time like this if I could buy a ticket back into time it would be 1960s70 great video guy thanks for a great piece of real American love for each other god bless American

[@jonness8927]

I had a friend that was our cook at a fishing lodge in Alaska that grew up near San Francisco during the 60's. Him and his Brother went to ALL the local concerts during the late 60's. Could you imagine seeing the Doors, Janis Joplin, The Animals, Jefferson Airplane and Jimmy Hendricks and the likes LIVE in a small club when you were a teen-ager .

[@verasileikis17]

🇨🇦❤️I was 13 when the Monterey Festival took place but it had an enormous impact on my life and the lives of those around me. I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to look back at that time and remember the sights, sounds, and most importantly, the feelings from those days. It makes me smile when I think of how infrequently I wore shoes.

[@HVYMETL]

I felt it 2,000 miles away in Chicago at 12 yrs old. The older teens were playing the music and talking about it. I felt I was part of a movement just by hanging with them.

[@Strikan33]

I was 14. I was too far away and I heard about the Monterey festival two years later ... I envy you. :)

[@curbozerboomer1773]

First of all-the human foot is ugly!...and the impact of those times faded into pop culture, just like most other events in society...the lesson here--keep your shoes on!

[@cherylflanders1929]

I attended this huge event in 1967 because I won tickets on a radio station. I was 17. It was a cultural experience I have never forgotten. Seeing all the "greats" and then watching many disappear into drugs or die... It was uncomfortable as a 17 year old to be there. To process the clouds of weed smoke, the LSD trips. And yet I remember it as a catalyst. And at 74, I still think it was the most remarkable era of music.

[@tunafang]

David Crosby on Janis Joplin.... "She put that festival in her pocket and walked off with it". Watching Mama Cass in awe of Janis at the end of her performance at 17:33, "Wow". That's all she wrote.

[@bluevictory1010]

I'm on the other side of that, could never stand the way Joplin "sang", ack!

[@beachdog67]

-* sigh *- And yet, a lifetime later, those of us from the Bay Area who are "of a certain age" still wonder if it might all have gone better if the rest of the world hadn't "discovered" Janis at Monterey and she had stayed with the band instead of being seduced by Grossman's "stick with me baby, I'll make you a star" rap.

[@charleshawtrey5636]

Janis Jim and Jimi so cool and enlightened they killed themselves on smack...

[@charleshawtrey5636]

Janis hated her appearance and just wanted love and acceptance..heroin didn't help at all

[@beachdog67]

@@charleshawtrey5636 So, I gather you were there and know all about what happened, right?

[@LarryRichelli]

The woman back then were out of a different world and I miss it dearly. We were flower children with love and happiness. The music, the dope and the freedom.

[@michaelweizer7794]

I don't think you were free!, It was still the same old bullshit, If someone wasn't like you they were still considered an outsider!.

[@if6was929]

@@michaelweizer7794 Well boo-hoo for the people who didn't fit in! You were either on the bus or you weren't and if they didn't "get it" that's on them and it wasn't the fault of the counterculture! Free? Absolutely, it was the only culture which fully availed themselves of the privilege of youth, the rest of the generation was still tethered to their parents culture.

[@michaelweizer7794]

@@if6was929 well then you were part of the problem( talk about narrow minded)

[@snicklefritz6182]

@@michaelweizer7794 Yeah, but we didn't care about them. Live and let live.

[@vernpascal1531]

@@snicklefritz6182 Well..I can remember when if you didn't have long hair you weren't cool.And gee it was cool to take drugs...I loved the music, but in retrospect a lot of it was stupid and conformist. A little before my time,but I imagine a lot of young guys hey let's go to Frisco Man and it was like what Zappa is describing in We're Only In It For The Money... that Peace And Love is only gonna go so far when yer freezing,hungry, exhausted, no money, surrounded by dopers, and then around late 68' and '69' a lot harder drugs and hell's Angel's types came on the scene Lovely! and every girl you meet has slept with a ton of these knuckleheads that if they were straight would never have slept with them in the first place. Doesn't sound quite so appealing now does it?

[@BigBass-xf5yi]

Great music and real hippies with worth while causes. Not like today’s “paid for” shenanigans.

[@arityatiyui7161]

@@xtc1957 plenty didn´t

[@lobdsk]

It’s still there but you have to go more underground always did

[@plantfeeder6677]

@@xtc1957 they got tired of sharing a bathroom with 30 people. They also found out a little hard work and life can get quite comfortable. Imagine that, here in America. Far out man

[@Senna-xi1gr]

You obviously have not been to Glastonbury. Once you go you will want to go every year. It’s the mother of all festivals. 🇬🇧🏆🥇

[@rowenalloyd7760]

brought a tear to my eye - where are people like Jimi these days - so talentedxxx

[@gregmoore7709]

Rowena LLOYD, I miss Jimi sooo much , he would be playing blues with his friend Eric Clapton if he was living. The Monterey Pop Festival is were Jimi made his huge mark in the U.S.

[@rowenalloyd7760]

@@gregmoore7709 Agreed!!! xxxx

[@rowenalloyd7760]

@@gregmoore7709 I was born the next year so missed all that x

[@gregmoore7709]

@@rowenalloyd7760 Rowena LLOYD,I grew up listening to it.It was great but.... that means i'm quit a bit older then you.Actually the 60s music was so iconic ,it was being played a lot still when you were in school.

[@rowenalloyd7760]

@@gregmoore7709 Keep in touch x

[@TheDivayenta]

I was an awestruck teen when I saw Otis and Janis there - along with all the SF groups, The Byrds, Paul Butterfield, Electric Flag and more.

[@jiordanfisher6076]

wow! you were there? I am eternally jealous, seems like such a magical experience.

[@TheDivayenta]

@@jiordanfisher6076 it was! Right place, right time.

[@robertcartwright563]

And Brian Jones they thought Beatle George would show up.

[@TheDivayenta]

@@robertcartwright563 yes - I saw Brian and his entourage walking around. He looked quite splendid.

[@jonirudenski7702]

So many wonderful memories with this time and these bands!🥰🥰🥰

[@bobcaldwellrocks]

I'm thankful for the boomers boldness to experiment with everything! As a Gen Xer (whatever) you left Us a wonderful legacy for us to learn from and carry on.

[@daleval2182]

Someone that said a positive to an old hippy boomer , god bless you my boy 😊

[@Mr666acab]

I just wished we cared about it. oh well, whatever...

[@amileoj9043]

Seconded. Growing up in their wake the children of the 60s were almost a mythical presence to me--their political idealism (and sometime extremism), their sexual and pharmacological experimentalism and, above all else, their amazing musical syncretism. It's become rather stupidly fashionable to bash them as a generation--as if they weren't just as full of villains & heroes & ordinary folk as any other generation. And of course it's true their follies were magnified by their huge numbers and the then-unprecedented cultural power enjoyed by at least the white & male & middle class among them. But there were also genuine & enduring advances made by that generation in those years, in politics & culture & generally in opening up the possibilities of what a modern society might do & be for its people. And the spirit of Monterey '67 was certainly one of the great & emblematic flowers of that movement. It may have been fueled by Monterey Purple, but it's enduring legacy is the amazing range of great music it brought to prominence.

[@jamesbrennenman8671]

@@amileoj9043 then they sold out and became Yuppies, ruined the planet and made greed God

[@lindajanes5698]

Love this walk down memory lane!!! The hippies that I met in the summer of '67 were kind, respectful people. I have fond memories of the 60's; didn't need drugs, it was a "happening" that was magical. ✌️✌️✌️✌️

[@Andrew-i9k3t]

I think drugs were a massive part of this "happening"

[@walterfechter8080]

I had a few friends who rode their beautiful choppers to Monterey Pop '67. They said the event was truly amazing. After visiting some relatives and friends in Sacramento, I left CA. I missed Monterey Pop '67 by a few weeks.

[@stephenroman9015]

..., and it is now 53 years ago as time flies by

[@spooky3120]

And all those young hippies are collecting Social Security.

[@garymckee8857]

I was 5 years old then now I'm an old person.

[@randallhamon5412]

The 60s and 70s were a magic time.....never to be seen again.

[@rosethorne5066]

Yes they were, best 2 decades of my life!

[@mrinal9999]

Yeah Bro, we may never see 'em like again. Not that today's musician are lacking anything, but the years gone by, the creativity, the originality, we may never see again in this age of synthetic and mechanical sound that pass for music.

[@gloppy101]

Best and worst time here in California

[@richardraffin2310]

@@mrinal9999 ,

[@robertcooper1246]

Black magic

[@martylmilton]

I was 18 in 1967 and read about the music festival in a music magazine I subscribed to. The article quoted the lyrics to The Association song, Enter The Young. The article also included a seating chart for people to purchase tickets. Unfortunately, living in Illinois and working to save up for starting college in the fall, I never considered attending the festival. But so grateful I was at an age to remember it so well.

[@slogger1345]

This archive footage shows a spirit, a mutual respect and commonality that is so clearly missing from our society today. We have all been socially engineered, isolated and divided. It’s time for us all to come together again in the spirit of Monterey.

[@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066]

Yes and the drugs are part of that engineering.

[@BaronMichaelDeBlone1066]

@@waitaminute2015 They will and then they'll tax it!

[@MustangJen777]

No doubt!!

[@SQTierHog]

I didn't want this to end. But, I was rewarded by staying to the end. Won't spoil it. My heartfelt thanks to the uploader.

[@ytubepuppy]

I had just moved to Monterey from San Francisco and was actually playing golf at a little 9 hole course on the edge of the fairgrounds. I could hear everything that was being played for fee and had seen Big Brother, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe & the Fish, and other bands performing in San Francisco. It's amazing how many of these people were dead within 10 years of this event. But such was the culture of the time. Within a year or so, Haight-Ashbury had become so violent and dangerous that most of the "real" flower children moved on south to isolated communes on the coast. By the time I left California in 1969, the days of peace and love in San Francisco were just a memory.

[@Harry-sy7sb]

What an awesome documemtary!! Michelle Phillips endeared on me and she was a cutie back then and really still a cutie at the time of the documentary!!

[@mikeervin3147]

Fantastic Era and fantastic music

[@paulnicolosi4792]

I’ve stood on that stage…great vibe. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting quite a few musicians who played there that weekend. That was a pivotal moment in music history, setting the stage for Woodstock, two years later..

[@briansam2524]

Sad that Otis Redding would die six months later but he got to showcase his talents, Monterey Pop Festival was the high point of his life and career.

[@zeketrick]

They have part of his plane with his name on it in Cleveland at the Rock and Roll hall of fame. It literally stops you in your tracks

[@briansam2524]

@@zeketrick I am aware of it, I've seen it in photos.

[@TheDivayenta]

And I was standing up front right below him in the Monterey Misty rain.

[@jamesjwalsh]

Couldn't go wrong having Booker T & The MG's as his band.

[@rodrollingstone2362]

Greatest soul singer ever. I said this back in 1967 when I played all his records the night he died, and I still say it. R.I.P. Otis. Rod, Dorset, England.

[@kpietran61]

65 year old here i lived through all these jams still freaking am daily rock will never die!!!!!!!!!!

[@colinwilliams553]

WOW,54 years, amazing and god bless Michelle Phillips she almost got me crying.

[@mustangmikep51]

what a great ,experimental time to be ALIVE!! I'm stil a "hippy" in my heart+mind...and I'm still WIDE OPEN to everything + everyone I encounter..LOVE and LIGHT to all..for a short period of time we were ONE! We were SO close to reaching something very special+ precious..but we BLEW it!! the ONLY way we can find PEACE + LOVE on Earth is to find it in ourselves 1st..then we can share it with others Namaste.

[@tammieparrishmiller3669]

Right on!

[@timothyonucki1860]

Yes

[@mustangmikep51]

@Robert Helix what do you mean by being grown up? you seem like a cynical materialist to me...i feel sorry for you...are you a demoncrat? peace = love...

[@Wkattenbach]

A time like this shall never happen again - a drop in the ocean of times...

[@claytobndavbis1222]

in todays Monterey not a chance........ Shankars daughter is as close as it gets

[@bookreaderson]

Like 99. Y2K. Then we survived n had a year of optimism we never had before. Napster. Internet. Then 9/11 ruined it n Evry years it’s been worse

[@imyourhuckleberry4547]

Good riddance

[@donvandamnjohnsonlongfella1239]

Wkattenbach newsflash drugs and whores have been around since the dawn of society. Music too. Nothing new here. India is the lord of whores. :p You don't really know history. It's all very repetitive. Natives and other ancient tribal people have long been whores that get high on drugs.

[@davidolds4617]

Oh, I think they were similar things in the 20s and even some in the 40s

[@johnbrown-g7g]

So glad this was available - THANK YOU!!!

[@neilbender3050]

As a kid in the 80's, it was great. Every decade had their thing, but we all knew THE 60's were transfomative

[@straypigs]

I can second that emotion. Born in '69 to a couple of twenty-year olds and right away was more into their culture than cartoons, G.I. Joes and going outside to play. Used to watch Monterey Pop in the middle of the night whenever it would occasionally air on TV. Can remember seeing it as early as the late 70s. There were always a few kids like us in every class, right Neil? heheh. Half the kids didn't know ANYTHING that had happened before them; and then there were the kids that were hip and in the know, and would talk about, whatever, The Beatles or Dylan in gym class or on the back of the bus, or in the lunch room. Monterey is the festival I would have wanted to been at, not Woodstock, for a whole host of reasons.

[@tolfan4438]

@@straypigs yep on the back of the bus. Not the front of the bus and not the middle of the bus. My seat was straight back behind the driver the last seat right hand corner window seat

[@doninmichigan]

I was 11 years old in 1967, the 60s were an amazing time, what a time to be alive!

[@straypigs]

@@tolfan4438 :) Very cool, Tolan, ha! "Not the middle of the bus" Ha! Straight back, behind the driver. I sat there too! I used to drum on the seat with my drumsticks, the other kids would watch me try and sustain a drum-roll for the entire ride, lol. We were all like a rock 'n' roll Peanuts! Trouble was: we were all spread out, right? Would have been great if we could have all gone to one big school! Now THAT would have been a prom!!! :D PS: Talking 60s (or 50s, 40s, etc) with Social Studies teachers (or any teacher) was always great, too. If I hadn't done my homework, I would often try and get the teacher off topic by asking a question about some 60's topic. Wasn't like I was disinterested in the answer! :D

[@Carrilleptbreak]

3 days of fun, no deaths, arrests or overdoses. Life has changed it seems. Wish we could do it again.

[@luizmarcosvasconcelos5996]

Thanks for posting! A breath of fresh air in the present weird times...

[@johnirvin7880]

what a wonderful tribute to a great 1960s happening. made me cry.

[@richardl3720]

This documentary was done exceptionally well. Should be a blueprint for others to follow. On a related note, Mitch Mitchell, The Experience's drummer, doesn't get enough credit for how good he was.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

He was good with Hendrix, but did not do much after that...except that he became hooked on Heroin for several years...he died at age 61.

[@sly2392]

the 60s. the decade of decades.

[@scottsteel4230]

YEAH. PEACE, LOVE, AND UNITY.

[@Goodkidjr43]

It is obvious you did not watch the last few minutes of the documentary..

[@discodirk48]

Oh come on the 70's was the ultimate decade, the 60's was just the opening act!

[@scottsteel4230]

@Evil Rev THE F#&%ING COUNTRY WAS ALREADY FRACTURED.

[@glenisclaribelcastilloguer6321]

@@discodirk48 the whole hippie thing was over by 71

[@antknee8695]

Thanks for posting. I’ve seen many music documentaries of this same era, but never this one.

[@danielgiraud1118]

Sitting in a chair of bamboo, sipping grenadine Straining my eyes for a surfacing submarine Kingdoms of ants walk across my feet I'm a-shakin' in my seat in Mexico

[@daveneighbors5777]

My brother brought home "Cheap Thrills" by Big Brother and the Holding Company when it first came out. I think I was 12 at the time. Changed my world.

[@theironbutterflychannel9400]

So cool! I wish I could have grown up during this time and see all the greats that played here. If I ever had a band, I would want to play music like this and start some type of cult or movement like this!

[@thabilsterone]

Here is My Monterey Pop story: For high school graduation me and my bud Carl got to go to the Monterey Pop Festival. So we get there and get our hotel room and we're walking around the grounds looking at all the booths and stuff and all of a sudden I hear this killer guitar playing coming out of a little room that they had setup to demonstrate musical equipment. I said "Carl listen to that! we need to check that out." So we go up to the door and open up the door and walk in and there's this black guy sitting on a stool trying out a Guild guitar but he is playing it backwards, (left handed) and all the sudden he just stops playing and started just looking at the guitar. So to try to get him to play some more I said "Hey Man that sounded really good!" He looked up and said "Yeah thanks man"..and then just put the Guild down and walked off. Well Sunday night after watching The Who tear it up, the announcer says " and now the Jimi Hendrix Experience" and out comes the black guy that we had seen sitting on the stool. I was about 60 ft in front of the stage directly in front of Jimi I got to watch the whole show and He was incredible. I did find myself in the Monterey Film out in front of The stage where I remembered. It was cool.

[@TJ-id6ee]

That's a cool story.

[@thabilsterone]

@@TJ-id6ee Thank You. It was wild.

[@kathryngoulden]

😮❤❤❤

[@georgebuscay8511]

✌️ ☮️ 🕊 Kathleen

[@loisaustin6200]

Weren't we sweet back then? What a happy time, innocent almost. Love, hope, charity. Look at what we have become, makes me sad.

[@ericastier1646]

Never forget that it's the generation that preceded the hippies that made them, the hippies rebelled against it but had in fact all the honesty, integrity but wanted to break away from it. They were in fact still it. That is why the hippies could not be recreated, they threw the baby away with the water by trying to distance themselves from their parent when in fact they were still the same.

[@wmmseo]

It was a hell of a time. I was so naive. I was also so high all the time, wow! No cell phones, no internet. How did we ever survive?

[@ericastier1646]

@@wmmseo cell phones are pure social destruction. I knew it right from the beginning and hated Steve jobs profoundly for that fake product. Unfortunately i could not fight against the tide but still hold to my belief that smartphone are socially destructive and nefarious to humanity.

[@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834]

unfortunately true....

[@MichelleAhern-gr9zl]

Its not your fault u be happy u were part of this love love love 2 u

[@Dorthy-wx9fq]

I'm 62 and growing up in the 60's and 70's was fun to be a kid. I just wish I had been old enough to go to this and Woodstock.

[@cpcattin]

I was 14 years old. A kid from a little town in Washington State. My parents put me on a bus to Oakland. I had a two week visit with my 74 years old grandmother. She took me everywhere. I had no idea that just 2 hours away Monterey was having this massive social awakening. In San Francisco and at my grandma’s home in Berkeley I knew I was in a special place at a special time. Just a few years younger than the performers.

[@Voncid]

I just missed it , I had just returned from Nam and was trying to find myself America again, the music has been in my life every since. Came San Fran 68 made to all the hippy hill free concerts in Golden Gate park to make up for it. Lots of my friends made it to Woodstock and I was training combat center controlers in Virginia.

[@weneedtermlimits]

Thank you for your service

[@billgonzales8978]

welcome home voncid I hope all is well for you Peace Brother

[@maxpeck4154]

The Association rocked their performance, regardless whether they fit in with the spirit or not.

[@OspreyFlyer]

They actually had some good songs. I didn't appreciate them at the time.

[@MusicLover-mx4kf]

Also, were they really such a bad fit anyway? I mean, what were they referring to with the word, "Mary" in their great song, "Along Comes Mary"?

[@HeavehBurtation]

Never My Love is their best imo and an all-time classic 60's pop song

[@maxpeck4154]

@@HeavehBurtation can't argue with that.

[@mikeciresi3697]

They fit in because they were out there doing there thing! So many hard rock bands have covered "Never My Love", it's a trippy song with some great hooks. It's pretty cool that McCartney was involved; he really believed in Hendrix.

[@filmic1]

Sixty-eight year old guy here. Heart breaking to see Michelle cry at that loss. It was a wonderful time and fading to a close in the early seventies. We enjoyed some of it in Free Camp in Jasper Alberta, and our hitch hiking episodes across Canada. I never witnessed anything bad. Adopting draft-dodgers, the guy who picked us up in Thunder Bay, calmly talking down a cop who pulled his van over... scared out of our wits. helped us feel part of a bigger scene, loving vibe.

[@johncagle8355]

Late 50's and 60's best music era ever! Movies today still use that music.

[@thomaskauser8978]

First Christmas album of many- the association. Every time I hear them I still get goosebumps

[@warrenfloyd1484]

Absolutely awesome, thanks for going to the trouble to bring us this, I'm a blues harmonica player, 59 years old, and remember listening to Woodstock on a am radio sitting in a 67 Chevelle 👍

[@hmackie6823]

Otis Redding can sing so beautifully it brings a tear to my eye...who am I kidding,I literaly cry.

[@xbioman7882]

The summer of love actually started two week before Monterey on June 10 & 11 at Mt. Tamalpias at the Magic Mountain Music Festival.