Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival

Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival
Live album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience (side 1) and Otis Redding (side 2)
Released August 26, 1970[1]
Recorded June 1967
Venue Monterey Pop Festival, California
Genre
Label Reprise
Producer
Jimi Hendrix U.S. chronology
Band of Gypsys
(1970)		 Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival
(1970)		 The Cry of Love
(1971)
Otis Redding chronology
Tell the Truth
(1970)		 Historic Performances
(1970)		 The Best of Otis Redding
(1972)

Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival is a live album recorded at the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967. A split artist release, it documents performances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on side one and Otis Redding on side two.

Release and charts

Reprise Records released Historic Performances in the U.S. on August 26, 1970.[1] It reached number 16 on the Billboard 200 albums chart[4] and number 15 on the magazine's Top R&B Albums chart.[5] The Recording Industry Association of America certified it as a "Gold" album, signifying sales in excess of 500,000 copies.[6] The album was not released in the UK.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideA–[7]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[9]

In a contemporary review of the album, Jeffrey Drucker of Rolling Stone magazine said "memories are made of sets like this", and "even if you weren't [there], you'll find some very satisfying music by two of our most gifted artists."[10]

In Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), music critic Robert Christgau called the album "as evocative a distillation of the hippie moment in all its hope and contradiction as you'll ever hear." He described Redding and Hendrix as "two radically different black artists showboating at the nativity of the new white rock audience", who had both "performed more subtly and more brilliantly" elsewhere, and were "equally audacious and equally wonderful" at the festival.[7]

In a mixed review, AllMusic's Bruce Eder regarded Historic Performances as a significant album when it was released, but it has become "purely of historic interest as an artifact of the time."[2]

Track listing

Side one: the Jimi Hendrix Experience
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Like a Rolling Stone"Bob Dylan6:22
2."Rock Me Baby"B.B. King, Joe Josea3:00
3."Can You See Me"Jimi Hendrix2:30
4."Wild Thing"Chip Taylor7:30
Side two: Otis Redding
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Shake"Sam Cooke2:37
6."Respect"Otis Redding3:22
7."I've Been Loving You Too Long"Otis Redding, Jerry Butler3:32
8."(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"Mick Jagger, Keith Richards3:21
9."Try a Little Tenderness"Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly4:40

Personnel

Side one

Side two

Production

References

  1. 1 2 "August 26, 1970". The Jimi Hendrix Encyclopedia. Experience Hendrix. Retrieved July 12, 2008.
  2. 1 2 3 Eder, Bruce. "At Monterey - Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
  3. ↑ Kubernik, Harvey; Kubernik, Kenneth (2011). A Perfect Haze: The Illustrated History of the Monterey International Pop. Santa Monica Press. p. eBook. ISBN 978-1595808721. The headlining slot on Saturday night was opened up when the Beach Boys failed to appear. It was taken by a young (only 25!) soul singer named Otis Redding
  4. ↑ "Otis Redding: Chart History – Billboard 200". Billboard.com. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Otis Redding: Chart History – Top R&B Albums". Billboard.com. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Gold & Platinum – Jimi Hendrix". RIAA. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
  7. 1 2 Christgau 1981, p. 319.
  8. ↑ Larkin 2006, p. 249.
  9. ↑ DeCurtis, Henke & George-Warren 1992, p. 315.
  10. ↑ Drucker, Jeffrey (October 15, 1970). "Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival". Rolling Stone. New York. Retrieved June 8, 2013.

Bibliography

  • Christgau, Robert (October 13, 1981). Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0899190251.
  • DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly (1992). The Rolling Stone Album Guide (3rd ed.). Random House. ISBN 0679737294.
  • Larkin, Colin (2006). Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 4 (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195313739.
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