Ended Wednesday and welcomed Thursday after my swim with Live: Ravi Shankar at the Monterey International Pop Festival a live album by Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar, released on the World Pacific record label in November 1967. It consists of part of Shankar's celebrated performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival in California on 18 June 1967...

...Ravi Shankar's appearance at the Monterey International Pop Festival marked a highpoint in the popularity of Indian classical music in the West, during a period when rock groups such as the Beatles, the Byrds and the Rolling Stones had increasingly adopted aspects of the genre in their work. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev9TFGQj4rA&list=RDev9TFGQj4rA&start_radio=1

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Otis Redding / The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Festival, 1970 on Reprise

Perhaps the most unusual split record in my collection, pairing Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding. Both are live performances captured at Monterey Pop in 1967, and both have since been expanded in more comprehensive releases dedicated to each performer.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience (with Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell, and Noel Redding) had not yet performed in the US […]

#1967 #1970 #1970s #BookerTTheMGs #JimiHendrix #JimiHendrixExperience #MontereyPop #OtisRedding #Reprise #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

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Otis Redding live at the Monterey Pop festival in 1967.

They put him on last for a reason.

The short film of this performance directed by D.A. Pennebaker ("Shake!: Otis at Monterey") is well worth your time if you can find it (I watched it on Criterion Channel awhile back). This video appears to be taken from that film.

#OtisRedding #MontereyPop #Shake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqYWfxmAStU