Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival

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
Recorded	June 1967
Venue	Monterey Pop Festival, California
Genre	Rock; soul;
Label	Reprise
Producer	Lou Adler; John Phillips;
Jimi Hendrix U.S. chronology
Otis Redding chronology

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 United States on August 26, 1970,^[1] less than a month before Hendrix died. 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 over 500,000 copies.^[6] The album was not released in the United Kingdom.

Critical reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	A–^[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 Christgau's Record Guide: 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 lukewarm 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.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Like a Rolling Stone"	Bob Dylan	6:22
2.	"Rock Me Baby"	B.B. King, Joe Josea	3:00
3.	"Can You See Me"	Jimi Hendrix	2:30
4.	"Wild Thing"	Chip Taylor	7:30

Side two: Otis Redding
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Shake"	Sam Cooke	2:37
2.	"Respect"	Otis Redding	3:22
3.	"I've Been Loving You Too Long"	Otis Redding, Jerry Butler	3:32
4.	"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"	Mick Jagger, Keith Richards	3:21
5.	"Try a Little Tenderness"	Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell, Reginald Connelly	4:40

Personnel[]

Side one

Jimi Hendrix – guitar, vocals
Noel Redding – Bass guitar
Mitch Mitchell – drums

Side two

Otis Redding – vocals
Booker T. Jones – keyboards, piano, organ
Steve Cropper – guitar
Donald "Duck" Dunn – bass guitar
Al Jackson Jr. – drums
Wayne Jackson – trumpet
Andrew Love – tenor saxophone

Production

Producers: Lou Adler, John Phillips
Engineers: Wally Heider, Eric Weinberg
Photography: Jim Marshall
Cover Layout: Ed Thrasher

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "August 26, 1970". The Jimi Hendrix Encyclopedia. Experience Hendrix. Archived from the original on September 26, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2008.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Eder, Bruce. "At Monterey - Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
^ 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
^ "Otis Redding: Chart History – Billboard 200". Billboard.com. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
^ "Otis Redding: Chart History – Top R&B Albums". Billboard.com. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
^ "Gold & Platinum – Jimi Hendrix". RIAA. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: R". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 10, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
^ DeCurtis, Henke & George-Warren 1992, p. 315.
^ Drucker, Jeffrey (October 15, 1970). "Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival". Rolling Stone. New York. Retrieved June 8, 2013.

Bibliography[]

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.

External links[]

Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival at Discogs (list of releases)

[jh.com-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b "August 26, 1970". The Jimi Hendrix Encyclopedia. Experience Hendrix. Archived from the original on September 26, 2008. Retrieved July 12, 2008.

[Eder-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c 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.

[CG-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: R". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 10, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.

[8] Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.

[FOOTNOTEDeCurtisHenkeGeorge-Warren1992315-9] DeCurtis, Henke & George-Warren 1992, p. 315.

[Drucker-10] Drucker, Jeffrey (October 15, 1970). "Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival". Rolling Stone. New York. Retrieved June 8, 2013.

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