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“The local law enforcement authorities never expected … the spirit of ‘Music, Love and Flowers’ to take over to the point where they’d allow themselves to be festooned with flowers.” – Founder Lou Adler on the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival

Paul Butterfield played both the famed 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and its 1969 spiritual successor, Woodstock.

The Stratocaster guitar that Jimi Hendrix famously (first) set on fire at Monterey Pop Festival on March 31st, 1967 was given to Frank Zappa & restored by DeWeezil.

Producer Lou Adler created the modern music festival with 1967’s Monterey Pop Festival, produced hit records for The Mamas & The Papas, Carol King, Cheech & Chong, and popular counter-culture movies The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Cheech & Chong’s Up In Smoke, and the Monterey Pop documentary. He was inducted in to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.

Rolling Stone Magazine’s first issue featured an expose on the famed 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

The hit song “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” was released to promote Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.

The famous image of Hendrix setting his guitar on fire & The Who’s Pete Townshend making headlines smashing his guitar happened on the night, same stage… Sunday, June 18th, 1967 at Monterey Pop Festival.

The Monterey Pop Festival flute mascot is “Pan”, the Greek mythological flutist who shepherds flocks and plays with nymphs.

Both Jimi Hendrix and The Who’s first U.S. appearance was at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

1967’s Monterey Pop Festival hosted one of the greatest lineups of all time: Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankur, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, The Animals, & many more. Tickets were $3.

1967’s Monterey Pop Festival in Monterey, California became known as the beginning of the Summer of Love.

Monterey Pop Festival didn’t record Janis Joplin’s performance due to a rights concern — so she performed a second set so the festival could film it.

Otis Redding was backed by Booker T and the MGs at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.

The famous photo of Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar at Monterey Pop Festival was taken by 17-year-old Ed Caraeff, who’d never heard of Jimi, with the last picture in his camera.

Jimi Hendrix opened his famous 1967 Monterey Pop Festival set with Howlin’ Wolf’s “Killing Floor”

Janis Joplin’s cover of Big Mama Thornton’s “Ball and Chain” at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival helped solidify her reputation a star.