Exciting times:
June '67 was when the Byrds apparently started work on Notorious Byrd Brothers after having released Younger Than Yesterday that February.
Beefheart had only put out two singles so far, but the band in the middle of recording Safe As Milk.
Jefferson Airplane were between Surrealistic Pillow and After Bathing at Baxter's.
Tim Buckley was just about to record Goodbye and Hello, which then came out in August.
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Monday, 9 July 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kl6cCp_eWc
― tylerw, Monday, 9 July 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://blogs.marinij.com/marinhistory/Images/42TheByrdsMtTam1967Picassa.jpg
The Byrds with Hugh Masekela
― tylerw, Monday, 9 July 2012 22:03 (eleven years ago) link
Cool pics in that youtube video. Is that Cooder at .59? This event looks like some good clean fun.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 9 July 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
What were the Steve Miller Band like in 1967?
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wait, they were the Steve Miller BLUES Band duh
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
I had never heard Blackburn & Snow before, but wow Stranger In A Strange Land is v groovy in a v Jefferson Airplane way. Is it a well-known song?
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecer64rlLec
― gonna send him to outer space, to hug another face (NickB), Monday, 9 July 2012 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
Penny Nichols clips here:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/pennys-arcade-mw0000735340
― timellison, Monday, 9 July 2012 23:24 (eleven years ago) link
I guess the really striking thing for me is that this was obviously much less an *international* festival than Monterrey, but what a lineup you could cobble together just from mostly California groups at the time.
― timellison, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
And $2/day seems incredibly cheap even for 1967.
― nickn, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
The amphitheater is still there. Mountain Play puts on theater productions every spring. It's a cool place to visit if your in the Bay Area
http://new.mountainplay.org/mtplay_images/8951/n667533388_460685_5866_1_.jpg
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 06:50 (eleven years ago) link
your=you're
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 06:51 (eleven years ago) link
posts that haunt your thoughts:
At a vital 'warm-up' performance at the Mt. Tamalpais Festival (June 10/11) shortly before the scheduled Monterey Festival (June 16/18), the band began to play "Electricity" and Van Vliet froze, straightened his tie, then walked off the ten–foot stage and landed on manager Bob Krasnow. He later claimed he had seen a girl in the audience turn into a fish, with bubbles coming from her mouth.[46] This aborted any opportunity of breakthrough success at Monterey, as Cooder immediately decided he could no longer work with Van Vliet,[27] effectively quitting both the event and the band on the spot.
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Friday, 3 May 2024 17:45 (four weeks ago) link