The Complete Monterey Pop Festival [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

Dozens of live performances by Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, the Mamas and the Papas as well as the Jimi Hendrix Experience in Jimi Plays Monterey . Also includes Shake! Otis at Monterey, Monterey Pop: The Outtake Performances and Pennebaker's documentary. 3 Discs. 1968/color/4 hrs/NR.

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: All
• Number of Discs: 2
• Screen: Color
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 (Pre-1954 Standard)
• Features:
  • The outtake performances: Two hours of performances not included in Monterey Pop, from the association, Big Brother and the Holding company, the Blues project, the Byrds, Country Joe and the Fish, the Electric Flag, Jefferson Airplane, Al Kooper, the Mamas and the Papas, Laura Nyro, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Simon and Garfunkel, Tiny Tim, and the Who
  • Audio commentaries by Pennebaker and festival producer Lou Adler, and music critics and historians Charles Shaar Murray and Peter Guralnick
  • Video interviews with Adler and Pennebaker, Pete Townshend, and Phil Walden, Otis Redding's manager from 1959 to 1967
  • Audio interviews with festival producer John Phillips, festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby
  • Photo-essay by photographer Elaine Mayes
  • Original theatrical trailers and radio spots
  • Monterey Pop festival scrapbook
  • Plus: Booklets featuring essays by critics Michael Lydon, Barney Hoskyns, Armond White and David Fricke