Paul McCartney Agreed to Join the Board of Organizers of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival on the Condition That The Jimi Hendrix Experience be Invited to Perform.
The Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward on a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the start of the Summer of Love, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding made career-defining appearances at Monterey. Still, they were just a few performers […]