Comments on: The Complete Monterey Pop Festival Blu Ray Review

By: aspenv

aspenv — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:18:22 +0000

The New Monterey?

By: Thireegeogs

Thireegeogs — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:48:03 +0000

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By: gringo

gringo — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:25:35 +0000

I appreciate your comparison to the Woodstock documentary, but this really is a different type of music festival documentary and appreciating the context of its creation will hopefully help you see it in a new light. The crew was so strapped for film stock that they could only capture snippets of a few performances here and there, in fact there is no footage of the Grateful Dead and some other acts.

Also, by the time Woodstock came around the Who and Hendrix and others were all household names in America, but Monterey was what really launched their careers in the US, along with Janis Joplin, Ravi Shankar and Otis Redding. Hendrix and Redding’s performances are still as powerful to watch today as they must have been then, the DVD of their sets are masterpieces all on their own.

I have the Criterion release from a few years back and I can pop it in my player weekly just to hear the music. It could have used some more footage to supplement the concert performances, but I think those are what made the event so magical.

(long time reader, first time poster, I love the blog and always look forward to discovering new gems)

By: The Het

The Het — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:47:45 +0000

I really love concert films. This is one of the best. However, I love “Woodstock” more. I dig the split screen and the footage of the townspeople.