Talk:Monterey Pop Festival

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[edit] Wow

Just posting this little note to say I absolutely love this article and will be checking out all the Monterey Pop footage I can. Really a fun read.Twisket 01:59, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Possible Plagiarism

Large chunks of text look like they have been pasted by User:Dunks58 from here: http://www.milesago.com/Festivals/intro.htm Is this text fair use?

Dunks wrote that text (see his talk page, or mine). Adam Bishop 21:56, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Dylan comment

I think the comment about Bob Dylan "poleaxing" the Newport Folf Festival is: 1)Adding a negative tone to an objective article, and 2) Irrelevant to the article at hand.

I agree with both of your statements. Could someone fix that up? -Karen L. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.104.81.72 (talk) 06:15, 9 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] References

The link to the short summary is broken.

[edit] Hendrix

I can't find a reference of how Jimi Hendrix apparently set his guitar on fire on stage . . . I really just did CTRL + F on his name, but never found anything. What's the story behind that? It says he did in the picture in his article ( the same one used in this lower down ), and the picture even illustrates him over a burning guitar . . . 12.107.246.113 01:17, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:JimiHendrixAtMonterey.jpg

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[edit] I removed the following sentence from this article

"; Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper however has said through the internet that the appearance was canceled due to being sponsored by Coca-Cola and Mike Love thought it was a "plot" to get the nation's youth hooked on soda" First of all, its unsourced -- "through the internet" is not a source. Desper does appear to have an internet presence, but a google search of his name + coca cola did not produce this story to me. Secondly, there doesn't seem to be any other evidence that I can find that the festival was actually sponsored by Coca Cola (which seems a weird stretch to me anyway) so even if he said that, his assertion itself needs to be clarified. Lastly, how many reasons do we actually need here about why the Beach Boys didn't appear? So other editors, please re-add if you want, but answer to my concerns please. Cheers. Dina 02:33, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ticket Price

This morning, I heard Rosalie Howard on SF's local station KFOG state ticket prices were actually $3 for the afternoon shows and $6.50 for the evening shows. Not much of a reference, so I didn't want to edit. Anyone confirm/deny this?

TedSki 17:55, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No artists of color?

One comment in the article seemed pretty jarring: "Also conspicuous by their absence were acts featuring artists of color." While it may have been a predominantly white bill and audience, African Americans were hardly "absent." In addition to Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding, acts representing people of color included Booker T and the MGs, Hugh Masekela, Lou Rawls, and Ravi Shankar. The article even notes that Smokey Robinson was on the festival board. Drilljoy 07:04, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Competing festivals?

I read somewhere that rival promoters staged other multi-bill concerts elsewhere on the same weekend. Does anyone have any more information about those shows, if this is true? Thanks. The Sanity Inspector (talk) 02:49, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Deaths at Monterey

This section is confusing at best, and possibly even misleading. Jimi Hendrix, for example, didn't die until 1970. This wasn't even his last performance (musical/career "death.") This section should be heavily edited or removed. Any thoughts? Pygmypony (talk) 14:11, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

  • I agree; that passage is just flat wrong. The Sanity Inspector (talk) 22:53, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
I'll delete it. There's really nothing unusual/untimely about most of these: Nyro didn't die until '97, Garcia in '95, Hite in '81, Entwistle in 2002 and so on. People die, often younger than the average life expectancy; it happens. Is it sad? Yes. Is it sufficiently bizarre to be encyclopedia-worthy? I don't think so. intooblv (talk) 19:51, 29 March 2008 (UTC)