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Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival (1970)

Where the lyrics of Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival take you, and where it was really made.

The album came out in 1970, less than a month before Hendrix died, yet its recordings were made three years earlier at the Monterey festival.

Key places

Recorded at the Monterey County Fairgrounds (1970)

Recording site Monterey County Fairgrounds — The album was recorded live at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. The recording location is listed as the Monterey County Fairgrounds, shown at city-level precision. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Monterey Pop Festival performances (1970)

Live show Monterey Pop Festival (Monterey) — Otis Redding and The Jimi Hendrix Experience performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. This point is placed at city-center level for Monterey. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Live album recorded at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967
• Split artist release: side one by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, side two by Otis Redding
• Side one: Hendrix, Noel Redding on bass, Mitch Mitchell on drums
• Side two: Otis Redding with the Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn, Al Jackson Jr., Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love band
• Released by Reprise Records in the United States on August 26, 1970
• Not released in the United Kingdom
• Later more complete releases supplanted it: Live at Monterey (Hendrix, 2007) and Captured Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival (Redding, 2019)

Background

• Otis Redding performed on 17 June 1967 and Jimi Hendrix on 18 June 1967
• Before Monterey, Hendrix had success in the UK but nowhere else in the world
• Monterey performance drew an estimated 25,000 to 90,000 people for Hendrix
• Reprise was eager for new Hendrix material, but he had delivered nothing in two years, so the label released this concert material instead
• The album reached shops shortly before Hendrix died

Recording

• Recorded live at the Monterey Pop Festival, June 1967
• Producers: Lou Adler and John Phillips
• Engineers: Wally Heider and Eric Weinberg

Cover

• Photography by Jim Marshall
• Cover layout by Ed Thrasher

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · ko.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Otis Ray Redding Jr. was born September 9, 1941 in Dawson, Georgia, and raised in Macon.
• He left school at 15 to support his family, performing in local talent contests and at Macon's Douglass Theatre.
• In 1958 he joined Johnny Jenkins' band, the Pinetoppers, touring the Southern states as singer and driver.
• A Stax Records session in 1962 led to a contract and his first hit, "These Arms of Mine".

Career

• His debut album Pain in My Heart was released by Stax in 1964; he later reached a wider pop audience.
• He performed at Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, toured Europe, and played the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967.
• "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was recorded shortly before his death and released January 1968, becoming his only Billboard Hot 100 number one.
• He died in a plane crash on December 10, 1967 in Lake Monona, near Madison, Wisconsin.
• He is known as the "King of Soul" and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Rolling Stone's Jeffrey Drucker wrote in a contemporary review that memories are made of sets like this, and that listeners who were not there would still find satisfying music by two of the most gifted artists of the time
• The album was regarded as a significant release when it came out, according to AllMusic's Bruce Eder, who gave a lukewarm review

Reappraisal

• Robert Christgau, in Christgau's Record Guide (1981), called the album a distillation of the hippie moment in all its hope and contradiction
• Christgau described Redding and Hendrix as two radically different black artists showboating at the nativity of the new white rock audience, both equally audacious and wonderful at the festival
• Eder later judged the album purely of historic interest as an artifact of its time

Records

• Billboard 200 albums chart: number 16
• Top R&B Albums chart: number 15
• RIAA certified it gold, signifying one million dollars in sales

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · it.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• At the end of Wild Thing, Hendrix lit his guitar on fire, smashed it seven times and threw its remains into the crowd.
• The Monterey performance made Hendrix famous in the US and led to a later chance to headline at Woodstock.
• The album is the last Hendrix release issued during his lifetime.
• Monterey Pop Festival concert recordings from both artists were later reissued in fuller form.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org

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