Fifty-four years ago June 16-18 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds the event that introduced large scale America to The Who, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix. The Wikipedia on it is well worth a look and from it, one of my favorite stories in the history of popular music...
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Interestingly, an early draft of the lineup had the Experience scheduled to play on the Friday night bill, rather than Sunday. The move could have been made by the organizers discovering the London rivalry between Hendrix and the Who. Fruitless wrangling between the two acts over which would perform before the other was ultimately settled by a coin flip. Hendrix and the Who also had what is sometimes described as a backstage jam session, but Pete Townshend disputes that description: "I've heard Roger talk about it as a jam session, but it wasn't a jam session. It was just Jimi on a chair playing at me. Playing at me like 'Don't fuck with me, you little shit.'"
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06-16-2021, 07:15 AM
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