Monterey Pop Festival

Woodstock Woodstock Woodstock was a rock music festival that took place near Woodstock, New York in a town called Bethel. The festival took place over three days, August 15, 16, and 17, 1969. The original plan for Woodstock was an outdoor rock festival, "three days of peace and music" in the Catskill village of Woodstock. The festival was expected to attract 50,000 to 100,000 people. It was estimated that an unexpected 400,000 or more people attended. If it weren't for Woodstock, rock and roll

In the 1950’s and 1960’s, rebellion and music were synonymous. The 1950’s brought widespread attention to a new kind of music coined as “Rock ‘n’ Roll”. Because parents deemed the music as sinful, the youth used it to establish an identity for themselvess. In the 1960’s, the rebellion was given a collective charge when young adults voiced displeasure over the country’s entrance into the Vietnam War and the use of nuclear weapons. One group within this movement was coined the “hippies”. This paper

For the music industry, Simon and Garfunkel, musical rock artists during this time, wrote “Sound of Silence” in 1966. This song displayed sequences of guitar, bass, and drums and quickly became a pop hit due to the increased tempo, in which Simon and Garfunkel only found out about after it was recorded. Coming into the 70s, San Francisco Rock became apparent. It was the alternative scene which was developed in San Francisco. This alternative rock music was a combination of folk, rock, blue, and

about him by John Lennon. He covered the hit Beatles song “Sgt. Peppers” the week it came out. Monterey International Pop Festival tried to book The Beatles but they couldn’t make it so they suggested Jimi. He gets booked and flies back to America. In June 1967 he plays his first big show in America. People in the audience were appalled that he had lit his guitar on fire and smashed it. After Monterey The Jimi Hendrix Experience started getting gigs. His stage performance mirrored T-Bone walker with

and were later featured on the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s first full length album Are You Experienced?. A month after its release The Jimi Hendrix Experience Played its first major US show at the Monterey Pop Festival in California. There were an estimated 200,000 people in who attended the 3 day long festival. When Jimi Hendrix took the stage the American crowd was stunned, this was the first time most of them had seen a performer as flamboyant as Hendrix and who played guitar with his rough and dirty

another band called The Hendrix Experience. While in London, he became a new phenomenal success. After returning to America in 1967, Hendrix went on stage at the Monterey Pop Festival in which he gave unforgettable performance. According to Biography.com, Hendrix “won over American music fans with his stunning performance at the Monterey Pop Festival, which ended with Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire.” Information gleamed from the article Rock Music as an Art Form from Reason to Rock “Jimi Hendrix was

In the late 1960’s, the height of her career, Janis Joplin was titled the “Queen of Rock n’ Roll”. To this day, she still lives on as one of the most influential women in the music industry. Her raspy, blues-inspired voice left audiences speechless, and her success paved the way for the advancement of women in the music industry. Her lyrics reflected her carefree spirit and love of the blues, but also her opinions on social and political issues. These positions made her an outcast before her fame

There, she formed the successful Big Brother & The Holding Company whose highlight performance was in 67' Monterey Festival. Her popularity turned out to be bigger than expected provoking some adverse reactions in her band mates, Peter Albin and James Gurley. The band didn’t last much longer and Janis, feeling guilty and depressed, started her solo career with a new

proponents of peace, love and understanding. One of the biggest develops in music of the 60s and early 70s are music festivals. Folk festivals were already established in the early sixties. Bob Dylan's electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Fold Festival has become legendary, but it wasn't until the Monterey Pop Festival, which launched Jimi Hendrix to the big stage, the Isle of White Festivals and Woodstock that the idea really took

Sex, drugs and rock and roll. These were the values of the young generation of the mid 1960’s. This generation was pushing the limits of sexual, social, and political inhibitions and behind the force of their “hippie love” was the engine of psychedelic rock and roll music. This genre of rock music is inspired by the counterculture scene of the 1950’s and 60’s and attempts to capture the mind-altering feelings and emotions attached to psychedelic drugs. The first group to advertise themselves as