The Complete Monterey Pop Festival

“The Monterey Pop Festival is probably one of the most brilliant, brilliant captures of concert footage. The most legendary story, of course, is the Jimi Hendrix Experience Performance where Hendrix famously does “Wild Thing” and then he puts his guitar on the floor and he destroys it and he sets it on fire. Also another Performance that really doesn’t get talked about is Otis Redding’s Performance.”

“I'm pulling out Monterey Pop. Oh, excellent choice. Monterey Pop. Oh, that has that whole Tiny Tim backstage jam that I have not seen.”

“This is The Complete Monterey Pop Festival, where Janis wearing her little mules—I'm going like that—she is so cool though. So I imitated everything she did from her clothes to her high heels. This is worth listening to the performances and remembering who we were.”

“Monterey Pop, the complete Monterey Pop. Seeing the reaction of people at this show, these West Coast hippie types just losing their mind to Otis Redding, something that was really impactful to me when I first saw it. And so I got to take this.”

“I love Monterey Pop. In a world where a lot of people try and do period movies and try and imagine what it's like to be in the '60s and what an audience would be like in the '60s, Monterey Pop is the best examination and the best kind of footage of Real Life at the time and it captures that feel in the air and also the Faces are incredible. So Monterey Pop is a moment in time that lasts forever. I love it.”