Jimi Plays Monterey & Shake! Otis at Monterey

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Sundance Film Festival 1987 - Nominated - Grand Jury Prize - Documentary

Jimi Plays Monterey & Shake! Otis at Monterey

Director:
D.A. Pennebaker
68 Minutes
 

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Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding arrived at California’s Monterey International Pop Festival virtually unknown. Returning stateside from London, where he had moved to launch his musical career, Hendrix exploded onstage, flooring an unsuspecting audience with his maniacal six-string pyrotechnics. Redding, a venerable star of Memphis’s Stax record label, seduced the “love crowd” in one of his best—and last— shows. Jimi Plays Monterey and Shake! Otis at Monterey, acclaimed documentarian D. A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop companion pieces, feature the entire sets by these legendary musicians, performances that have entered rock-and-roll mythology.

Also available as part of The Complete Monterey Pop Festival Box Set .

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Details

Runtime:
68 min.

Country:
UNITED STATES

Language:
English/American

Color:
Color

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SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Jimi Plays Monterey
  • New high-definition digital transfer, supervised by D.A. Pennebaker
  • New 5.1 mix by legendary recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in Dolby Digital and DTS
  • Audio commentary by music critic and historian Charles Shaar Murray
  • Trailer
  • Excerpt from an interview with Pete Townshend

    Shake! Otis at Monterey
  • New high-definition digital transfer, supervised by D.A. Pennebaker
  • New 5.1 mix by legendary recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in Dolby Digital and DTS
  • Two audio commentaries by music critic and historian Peter Guralnick: on Otis Redding's Monterey performance, song by song, and on Redding before and after Monterey
  • Interview with Phil Walden, Otis Redding's manager from 1959 to 1967
  • A new essay by David Fricke

 

 

 

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Directed by
D.A. Pennebaker

 

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