{"id":78,"date":"2006-09-28T02:42:12","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=78"},"modified":"2006-09-28T02:42:12","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T02:42:12","slug":"the-criterion-collection-monterey-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"The Criterion Collection: Monterey Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Criterion Collection: Monterey Pop<\/a><\/p>\n

From the publishers of the Monterey Pop DVD set, an amazing website about the concert including full text versions of articles written about the festival within days of the event.\u00a0 Lots of interesting stories of who was there and who wasn’t and why…several musicians were having issues with pot charges and draft dodging.\u00a0 Extensive musician biographies as well.\u00a0 We’re watching the third DVD of the set which is just outtakes, stuff that didn’t make it into the original documentary.\u00a0 Great music cut with shots of the audience.\u00a0 And it really is about the music.<\/p>\n

Some of those writing at the time are critical of the organizers for not having more ethnic diversity.\u00a0 Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix are in the documentary but so far the outtakes have been all nice white boys.\u00a0 But the comment I found most interesting was Robert Christgau’s suggestion<\/a> that “real” hippies were gone: “But there are no hippies\u2014they have disappeared in an avalanche of copy. Most of the originals who were living in the Haight in 1966, when the journalists started nosing around, have fled from the bus tour and the LSD-Burgers and the panhandling flower children who will be back in school next semester.”<\/p>\n

I can’t help but contrasting these hippies with the members of the Weather Underground.\u00a0 While the hippies in Monterey might be anti-establishment, the Weathermen were anti-government.\u00a0 Christgau suggests that there is sort of hippie-mentality that is associated with liberal ideas.\u00a0 But the Weathermen were actual communists, politically motivated.\u00a0 Yet, both groups tended to be affluent white kids; they could afford to be bohemians and radicals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Criterion Collection: Monterey Pop From the publishers of the Monterey Pop DVD set, an amazing website about the concert including full text versions of articles written about the festival within days of the event.\u00a0 Lots of interesting stories of who was there and who wasn’t and why…several musicians were having issues with pot charges … Continue reading The Criterion Collection: Monterey Pop<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary-film"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-1g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}