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Jimi Plays Monterey (1987)

ALL 10/16/1987 (en) Documentary, Music 50 Min
  • Release
    10/16/1987
  • Production
    Are You Experienced?, Pennebaker Films
  • Rotten tomato
    72%
  • Original title
    Jimi Plays Monterey
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

It's no exaggeration to say this might be the most intense and groundbreaking 45-minute performance in the history of rock. Jimi Hendrix's debut American set at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival is generally considered one of the most radical and legendary live shows ever. Virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, even though he was already an established entity in the UK, Hendrix and his two-piece Experience explode on stage, ripping through blues classics "Rock Me Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor," interpreting and electrifying Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," debuting songs from his yet-to-be-released first album and closing with the now historic sacrificing/burning of his guitar during an unhinged version of "Wild Thing" that even its writer Chip Taylor would never have imagined. Hendrix uses feedback and distortion to enhance the songs in whisper-to-scream intensity, blazing territory that had not been previously explored with as much soul-frazzled power.

  2. Story

  4. Alan Douglas

    Producer



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  1. John Phillips

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Jimi Hendrix

    Self (archive footage)

  3. Noel Redding

    Self (archive footage)

  4. Mitch Mitchell

    Self (archive footage)

  5. Art Garfunkel

    Self (archive footage)

  6. George Harrison

    Self (archive footage)

  7. Mick Jagger

    Self (archive footage)

  8. Brian Jones

    Self (archive footage)

  9. Janis Joplin

    Self (archive footage)

  10. John Lennon

    Self (archive footage)

  11. Paul McCartney

    Self (archive footage)

  12. Charles Shaar Murray

    Self - Commentary

  13. Ringo Starr

    Self (archive footage)

  14. Denny Dent

    Street Painter

  15. Michelle Phillips

    Self (archive footage)

  16. Cass Elliot

    Self (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 16 , Crews : 23

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Jimi Plays Monterey (1987) 50 Min

ALL 10/16/1987 (en)
Documentary, Music
  • Release 10/16/1987
  • Production
    Are You Experienced?, Pennebaker Films
  • Original title Jimi Plays Monterey
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

It's no exaggeration to say this might be the most intense and groundbreaking 45-minute performance in the history of rock. Jimi Hendrix's debut American set at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival is generally considered one of the most radical and legendary live shows ever. Virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, even though he was already an established entity in the UK, Hendrix and his two-piece Experience explode on stage, ripping through blues classics "Rock Me Baby" and Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Floor," interpreting and electrifying Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," debuting songs from his yet-to-be-released first album and closing with the now historic sacrificing/burning of his guitar during an unhinged version of "Wild Thing" that even its writer Chip Taylor would never have imagined. Hendrix uses feedback and distortion to enhance the songs in whisper-to-scream intensity, blazing territory that had not been previously explored with as much soul-frazzled power.

  1. D. A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus

    Director

  2. Story

  3. D. A. Pennebaker, Alan Douglas, David Dawkins, Chris Hegedus

    Editor

  4. Alan Douglas

    Producer



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