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\u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Though Big Brother and the Holding Company and its lead singer Janis Joplin were some of Monterey\u2019s biggest breakout stars \u2014 the band got a record deal with Columbia on the strength of its performance \u2014 their initial Saturday afternoon set had not been captured on film. When it became clear that Joplin\u2019s ragged rendition of Big Mama Thornton\u2019s \u201cBall and Chain\u201d (performed here in 1970 at Calgary\u2019s McMahon Stadium) would go down as one of the weekend\u2019s highlights, she and the band were given a two-song encore slot the following day, which Pennebaker and his crew were sure to film. That bonus performance resulted in one of my favorite moments in Pennebaker\u2019s documentary: an awed reaction shot of Cass Elliot watching Joplin and mouthing the word \u201cwow.\u201d<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n The Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience were bigger in the U.K. than the U.S. in June 1967, but after Monterey that would change for both of them. A friendly competition existed between these two acts, and they decided to flip a coin to determine who would go first \u2014 and who would get to make it seem like they had invented the idea of destroying one\u2019s guitar onstage. The Who won the coin flip, and their kinetic performance of set closer \u201cMy Generation\u201d ended in destruction.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Yet another of the festival\u2019s breakout stars was Otis Redding, who was backed by not one but two great groups: the session brass players the Mar-Keys and instrumental Memphis soul powerhouses Booker T. & the M.G.\u2019s. Redding\u2019s performance was so electrifying that Pennebaker later released a stand-alone short film, \u201cShake! Otis at Monterey,\u201d documenting the entire set.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Knowing that he now had to upstage the Who, the wily Hendrix acquired a small container of lighter fluid and hid it onstage. The rest \u2014 his groundbreaking, earth-scorching performance and the sacrificial conflagration in which it ended \u2014 is rock history.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n Though the Indian sitarist Shankar\u2019s hypnotic set took place earlier on Sunday, Pennebaker wisely used it as the finale of his film, underscoring the \u201cinternational\u201d descriptor in the festival\u2019s title and providing an ecstatic comedown to the weekend\u2019s long, strange trip.<\/p>\n \u25b6 Listen on <\/strong>Spotify<\/a>, Apple Music<\/a> or YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n4. Janis Joplin: \u201cBall and Chain (Live)\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
5. The Who: \u201cMy Generation\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
6. Otis Redding, Booker T. & the M.G.\u2019s and the Mar-Keys: \u201cShake (Live)\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
7. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: \u201cWild Thing (Live)\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
8. Ravi Shankar: \u201cDhun (Dadra and Fast Teental) (Live)\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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