Monterey Pop Festival – 4 Rare Ticket Stubs (Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, Grateful Dead, etc)
A very rare set of 4 ticket stubs from the June 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival. ‘Monterey Pop’ was arguably the most important rock festival ever–the seminal rock event of the ‘Summer of Love’.
The three-day festival had five separate, individually-ticketed concerts. This set includes stubs from shows #1, 2, 3 and 5. Missing is the least collectible ticket, for Ravi Shankar’s all Indian-music concert on Sunday afternoon.
If you’ve seen the Monterey Pop film, you know the story. Jimi Hendrix smashing and burning his guitar in his first-ever US concert; The Who destroying their instruments amid explosions during their their third West Coast show (days after their first and second), Janis Joplin and Big Brother playing a set so powerful that they were signed to Columbia Records immediately afterward, The Grateful Dead and Moby Grape in their first non-Bay Area concert appearances, Otis Redding performing for the first time in front of a mostly white audience, David Crosby sitting in with Buffalo Springfield, Laura Nyro’s concert debut–and so many more historic firsts.
The stubs included here are from these shows:
Show 1 – Simon & Garfunkel, Eric Burdon & The Animals (who wrote their hit “Monterey” about the festival), The Association, Johnny Rivers, The Paupers, and Lou Rawls.
Show 2 – Janis Joplin with Big Brother & The Holding Company, Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Steve Miller Band, Electric Flag, The Butterfield Blues Band, Al Kooper and Country Joe & The Fish.
Show 3 – Moby Grape, The Byrds, Laura Nyro, Jefferson Airplane, Booker T. & the MG’s, and Otis Redding.
Show 5 – The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, Janis Joplin with Big Brother again (their manager refused to allow them to be filmed the first time, but changed his mind, so they played again), the Grateful Dead, Buffalo Springfield and the Mamas & The Papas.
We acquired these stubs from an attendee, who attended all but the Ravi Shankar show on Sunday afternoon.
A scarce opportunity to acquire ticket stubs from each of the festival’s four rock shows. All in excellent condition.
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