Monterey Pop - 1968 - 8/10

For many, this is the peak, the moment the Summer Of Love bloomed.
This concert, especially the extended version, is artifact and testament to that moment.
The Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Festival came two weeks before Monterey, but scant little survives.
Monterey featured groups from San Francisco and Los Angeles, from Chicago, New York, England…
Watching, one sometimes catches the heady hope that a better world is at hand.
Sure, Woodstock was more massive and influential, but it came two years later.
It was also profit oriented, less idealistic.
As with most moments, they are precious because they don’t last. Then the memory fades.
This documentary, however, is a glorious reminder (and something of a myth) of three days in 1967.