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4. Janis Joplin: “Ball and Chain (Live)”
Though Big Brother and the Holding Company and its lead singer Janis Joplin had been a few of Monterey’s greatest breakout stars — the band obtained a file cope with Columbia on the power of its efficiency — their preliminary Saturday afternoon set had not been captured on movie. When it turned clear that Joplin’s ragged rendition of Big Mama Thornton’s “Ball and Chain” (carried out right here in 1970 at Calgary’s McMahon Stadium) would go down as one of many weekend’s highlights, she and the band got a two-song encore slot the next day, which Pennebaker and his crew had been positive to movie. That bonus efficiency resulted in considered one of my favourite moments in Pennebaker’s documentary: an awed response shot of Cass Elliot watching Joplin and mouthing the phrase “wow.”
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5. The Who: “My Generation”
The Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience had been larger within the U.Ok. than the U.S. in June 1967, however after Monterey that may change for each of them. A pleasant competitors existed between these two acts, and so they determined to flip a coin to find out who would go first — and who would get to make it appear to be they’d invented the concept of destroying one’s guitar onstage. The Who gained the coin flip, and their kinetic efficiency of set nearer “My Generation” resulted in destruction.
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6. Otis Redding, Booker T. & the M.G.’s and the Mar-Keys: “Shake (Live)”
Yet one other of the competition’s breakout stars was Otis Redding, who was backed by not one however two nice teams: the session brass gamers the Mar-Keys and instrumental Memphis soul powerhouses Booker T. & the M.G.’s. Redding’s efficiency was so electrifying that Pennebaker later launched a stand-alone quick movie, “Shake! Otis at Monterey,” documenting the whole set.
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7. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: “Wild Thing (Live)”
Knowing that he now needed to upstage the Who, the wily Hendrix acquired a small container of lighter fluid and hid it onstage. The relaxation — his groundbreaking, earth-scorching efficiency and the sacrificial conflagration by which it ended — is rock historical past.
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8. Ravi Shankar: “Dhun (Dadra and Fast Teental) (Live)”
Though the Indian sitarist Shankar’s hypnotic set came about earlier on Sunday, Pennebaker correctly used it because the finale of his movie, underscoring the “worldwide” descriptor within the competition’s title and offering an ecstatic comedown to the weekend’s lengthy, unusual journey.
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