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List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $27.99 You Save: $1.96 Features • Color • Compilation • Dolby • DTS Surround Sound • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 13 June, 2006 DVD Release : 13 June, 2006 |
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Monterey Pop - Criterion Collection description The first great rock concert documentary by the filmmaker who invented the form. D.A. Pennebaker (who teamed up with Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, and other filmmakers here), fresh off his Bob Dylan documentary, Don't Look Back, captured the music and scene of the first real rock & roll festival. The Monterey Pop Festival of 1967, which laid the groundwork for Woodstock two years later, offered an amazing array of talent that was absolutely of that moment. And, as the intervening years have shown, this music stood the test of time: from the young Janis Joplin blowing the crowd away with "Ball and Chain" to an instrument-smashing performance by the Who to the surprisingly soul-stirring showing by Otis Redding. One particular highlight: the American debut of a little-known rock trio called the Jimi Hendrix Experience, which knocked the crowd out of its seats with a guitar sound that had never been heard before--and culminated with Hendrix setting his guitar ablaze and worshipping the flaming feedback. --Marshall Fine |
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| The Criterion Collection is a must have for all who came of age in the 60's and for those who wished they did. The original Monterey Pop '67 film remains the outstanding concert film, and can be wonderfully re-experienced by the aging Baby Boomers. For all other generations, the legendary performances of Hendrix, Joplin, Otis Redding, and countless others are an absolutely incredible introduction to the music of the 60's.
The added material, while something of a mixed bag, is filled with historic performances. Simon and Garfunkel's acoustic rendition of "Sound of Silence" alone is worth the price of admission as is three songs by the Who with the incomparable Keith Moon. A single disc devoted to Hendrix and Redding contains performances that will show you the breadth of their enormous talent. Although the price may initially appear a bit steep, I think when you have played all three discs, you will feel you have scored a bargain indeed. |
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