Monterey International Pop Festival
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Oct 8, 2026
ImanAUDIENCE
And so I tend to lean back on the stuff that I grew up with.
ImanAUDIENCE
And, uh, I was listening to Otis Redding live this morning from Monterey Pop Festival, and I, I'm telling you, it just don't get no better than that.
ImanAUDIENCE
And, uh, you know, and I think that, you know, all this stuff is cyclical or the same thing with clothes and, and that kinda thing.
ImanAUDIENCE
And I think that, that the kids really have an appreciation for live music by real musicians.
Matt Money SmithHOST
They would drop the word blues and become the Steve Miller Band.
Matt Money SmithHOST
They played the famous Monterey Pop Festival in '67, became the it band coming out.
Matt Money SmithHOST
Huge bidding war.
Matt Money SmithHOST
Capitol landed them with one of the biggest deals ever offered at the time to an unsigned act.
Chris LathropHOST
mean, Hendrix came out and did his thing, and that was otherworldly, but...
Chris LathropHOST
But people were aware of what was going on because they both did their thing at the Monterey Pop Festival.
Chris LathropHOST
So the hippies were aware of The Who, and Hendrix knew what they were going to do, and they were all about it, sure.
Andy JonesHOST
Okay.
speaker_0HOST
She settled in San Francisco's counterculture scene where she became the front woman for the psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company.
speaker_0HOST
Her vocal style and stage presence at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival rocketed her to international superstardom.
speaker_0HOST
She was one of the premier rock icons of her generations.
speaker_0HOST
After she left Big Brother and the Holding Company to pursue a solo career, she formed backup groups like the Cosmic Blues Band and the Full Tilt Boogie Band and went more with a soulful, horn-driven sound.
speaker_2HOST
It was exhausting.
speaker_1HOST
The Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock are viewed as triumphs now, but the actual logistics of that era were utter chaos.
speaker_1HOST
Did texts like The Tibetan Book of the Dead and The Urantia Book provide him with a, a comforting sense of order? Did he read about celestial hierarchies just to feel like someone somewhere was in control of the paperwork?
speaker_2HOST
That is a profound psychological insight.
Jimmy WebbGUEST
So Mr. Sinatra became a friend and a proponent and it would give me a shout out on a live album or something like that.
Jimmy WebbGUEST
And just inexorably, I became associated with that older generation and I sort of watched it happen and You know, I went to the Monterey Pop Festival.
Jimmy WebbGUEST
I played with the Wrecking Crew and Johnny Rivers and wanted to make rock and roll.
Jimmy WebbGUEST
But I found myself kind of living another life.
15 MINS LATER
Jimmy WebbGUEST
You know, I'm not supporting that.
Jimmy WebbGUEST
I'm not.
Jimmy WebbGUEST
I'm going to the Monterey Pop Festival.
Jimmy WebbGUEST
My hair is longer than John Lennon's.
Clive DavisGUEST
I just knew that the first time I saw Janice Joplin in the group, Big Brother and the whole thing.
Clive DavisGUEST
Was that the Monterey thing? That's at the Monterey Pop Festival.
Clive DavisGUEST
I had the job as head of the company for a year.
Clive DavisGUEST
I watched.
Mark JoynerHOST
Whoa, what a night.
Steve WynnGUEST
So it, a- a- and we were kind, and we walked in kind of like, you know, I don't wanna overstate this, but it did feel like being Brian Jones at Monterey Pop Festival, you know? Like we sort of-
Papa NovakHOST
[laughs] Yes
Steve WynnGUEST
... we sort of walked in like, "Well, here they are," you know? And, and we were just there, of course, to see the two bands, both of-
James Marshall BerryHOST
Did you have that epiphany moment?
RonaldoGUEST
I did early in the embryo, actually, when my mom was six months pregnant with me at the Monterey Pop Festival.
CharlieGUEST
The Who were there,
RonaldoGUEST
of course.
Jonathan FerriniHOST
It was another lead instrument.
Jonathan FerriniHOST
If you've ever watched The Who performing Substitute at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967, find it, likely on YouTube.
Jonathan FerriniHOST
Watch the conviction.
Jonathan FerriniHOST
Watch the joy.
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