His guitar-burning act was a highlight of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival
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The DVD Journal | Reviews : The Complete Monterey Pop Festival  Click here to read The DVD Journal's review of The Complete Monterey Pop Festival. ... the music that played for three days in June 1967 should jump on this superb ... became famous at Monterey by bringing his guitar to a masterful screaming ... He edited three days and thirty-two acts into 1968's Monterey Pop, a beatific...
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Jimi Hendrix - Wikipedia  James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Although ..... When Jimi Hendrix set his guitar on fire at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival he created ... Caraeff stood on a chair next to the edge of the stage while taking a series of four monochrome pictures of Hendrix burning his guitar.
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48 Years Ago: Jimi Hendrix Sets His Guitar on Fire for the First Time  Mar 31, 2015 ... The Day Jimi Hendrix Set His Guitar on Fire for the First Time ... Distinguishing yourself in the colorful musical climate of 1967 wasn't easy. ... flames soared to a height of four feet, burning the guitarist's hands in the process. ... performance at the Monterey International Pop Music Festival a few months later.
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Jimi Hendrix | Rolling Stone  The performance, which Hendrix climaxed by burning his guitar, was filmed by D.A. Pennebaker for the documentary Monterey Pop. ... tour, early in 1968, he renounced the extravagances of his stage act and simply performed his music. ... In August 1969, Hendrix appeared at the Woodstock Festival with a large, informal...
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Johnny Rivers: When Hendrix Torched Guitar At Monterey, Fire ...  May 14, 2015 ... Here we go back to the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, co-organized ... Forbes writers have the ability to highlight comments that contribute to the conversation. .... When Jimi Hendrix burned his guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, a fire ... But Lou Adler grabbed him and said, No, that's part of his act.
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Entertainment & the Arts | Memories Are Piling Up For Rock's Hall Of ...  Jul 23, 1995 ... Such was the case with Chuck Berry, whom Henke met with at the 1994 induction ... a stellar selection that includes one of his guitars, the original lyric manuscripts to the ... of the items planned for display in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum: ... Jimi Hendrix's handwritten lyrics for "Purple Haze.".
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Doors 1967 - The Doors Interactive Chronological History  "While stumbling through a song he let out a deep-throated roar, .... The Doors appear for two shows with The Jefferson Airplane playing to their largest crowd to ... 'Break On Through' was out and people were turning onto the album. ..... it is The Doors dark heavy sound that rules The Summer of Love in a time where peace,...
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BBC - Culture - Altamont at 45: The most dangerous rock concert  Dec 5, 2014 ... The Altamont concert, with its notorious murder caught on film, ... 1969, a free rock concert headlined by The Rolling Stones at the Altamont ... Shelter, the great 1970 documentary that caught the dark tumult of Altamont on film,...
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Jerry Lee Lewis | rockportraits  Oct 1, 2014 ... He gets homesick, quits, and returns to Ferriday. .... On 3 November 1957 'Great Balls Of Fire' (US no. ... much love drives a man insane / You broke my will / But what a thrill / Goodness gracious, great balls of fire. .... Two more albums hail from the same year: 'Sometimes A Memory Ain't Enough' (1973) and...
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Gulf War One and the BBC's banned songs | Sarah Irving  Jan 1, 2015 ... Like 'Warpaint', an early 60s Everly-Brothers-style number about ... One, which will be interesting only to people who remember ... 'Cos you don't understand ... I Shot the Sheriff Eric Clapton 1974 ... Light My Fire Jos Feliciano 1968 ... Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town Kenny Rogers and The First...
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LSD, Ecstasy, and a Blast of Utopianism: How 1967's Summer of ...  It was billed as the Summer of Love, a blast of glamour, ecstasy, and Utopianism ... and San Francisco State College students became besotted with the city's past. ... While Leary and Alpert were raising consciousness in their way on the East .... She took the song to Jefferson Airplane when she replaced Signe Anderson.
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Unknown and Other Causes - Angelfire  In 2003, the group made national headlines when pyrotechnics at one of their club shows ... Sandy Denny: head injuries sustained during a fall in 1978. ... "No More Sad Refrains,"co-vocalist on Led Zeppelin's "Battle of Evermore" ... stems from his claim that Courtney Love offered him 50 thousand dollars to kill her husband,...
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J! Archive - Show #4852, aired 2005-10-18  In 1968 this film star turned pop star with the song heard here "MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark / All the sweet, green .... This N.Y. free-jazz saxophonist heard here wrote tribute songs to Ennio Morricone, Sonny Clark & Ornette Coleman...
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Altamont Free Concert - Wikipedia  The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture-era rock concert held on Saturday, ... During the Rolling Stones' American tour in 1969, many (including ... In the documentary Gimme Shelter, Sonny Barger states that the Hells .... Hunter (as seen in concert footage wearing a bright lime-green suit) returned to the...
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The Mamas & The Papas: Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll or Incest ...  Nov 7, 2010 ... Onstage 1966  l-r: bassist Joe Osborne, Michelle Phillips, Cass Elliot, John Phillips and Denny Doherty. Courtesy www.casselliot.com.
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Carlos Santana ~ Woodstock, August 1969 | Music | Pinterest ...  See more about Carlos Santana, Woodstock and Guitar. ... We have not forgotten you....cause you were awesome!! WOODSTOCK ... Saturday, August 16, 1969.
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50 Greatest Concerts in San Diego History 1917 - 2005 | San Diego ...  Oct 9, 2008 ... El Cajon's mayor Mark Lewis has been quoted saying Cash did the .... The Stone Poneys with Linda Ronstadt had Mike Nesmith's "Different Drum" on ... "Janis was flirting with a lethal combination of drugs, alcohol, and heroin," ... a free ticket to the concert and present their love beads to Hendrix in person.
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Bob Dylan | Rolling Stone  That April he played New York's Gerdes Folk City as the opening act for ... "Song to Woody"), Dylan stirred up the Greenwich Village folk scene with his ... whose band the Byrds would in 1965 have its first hit with "Mr. Tambourine ... The intensity of his performances and his live-in-the-studio albums  Highway 61 Revisited...
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The Story of the Rolling Stones' Altamont Speedway Concert  Dec 6, 2015 ... But what they intended as a way for their fans to come together for a day of ... During the Stones' American tour in 1969, they faced repeated criticism ... of the Grateful Dead, who were also scheduled to play on a show that included ... tried to get onstage with a group of other fans, and having been punched...