Today marks the 34th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival. Held in 1967 in Monterey, California, it was one of the first widely promoted and heavily attended rock festivals, attracting an estimated 55,000 total attendees with up to 90,000 people present at the event's peak at midnight on Sunday. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by Jimi Hindrix and The Who, as well as the first major public performances of Janis Joplin (yes ma'am!)
Ironically, The Rolling Stones didn't play this festival. Now, how the hell does that happen?? I mean, you have this huge musical eargasm occurring at a time when acid is flowing freely and hippies are all about the psychedelic sound and you forget to invite the fucking STONES, man??? Well, to make up for it they did let Brian Jones (guitarist) introduce Hendrix. Still, I feel this is a travesty. With that in mind, I give you The Rolling Stones: