Uncommon and highly desirable program for the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, 8.25 x 10.75, 80 pages, filled with colorful psychedelic designs and images of the various performers, including: the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, the Beach Boys, Ravi Shankar, Otis Redding, Simon and Garfunkel, The Who, Bob Dylan, and others. In very good to fine condition, with wear to spine, scattered creasing, and bits of surface loss to covers. A seminal festival that kicked off the 1967 'Summer of Love,' the Monterey Pop Festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin, and the introduction of Otis Redding to a white audience. Although the Beatles did not appear (despite rumors), they were supporters of the festival and recommended that the organizers include The Who and Jimi Hendrix Experience in the lineup; they also contributed a full page of images to this program. Hendrix would famously close out his set by lighting his guitar on fire. The influential Monterey International Pop Festival became an inspiration and a template for future music festivals, including Woodstock two years later.
