Jimi Plays Monterey
1986·United States·50 min.
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Produced from out-takes of Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop, Jimi Plays Monterey is not so much a trip down memory lane as a rocketship ride to the ‘60’s. June 1967. The Summer of Love. Here is Jimi Hendrix making some of the best and wildest rock-n-roll music: yellow ruffles down his chest, a purple feather boa around his neck, face aglow, playing “Foxey Lady,” “Purple Haze,” and “Like a Rolling Stone” to thousands of adoring fans. In less than an hour we are transported to an ear when “to be young was very heaven.”
CinematographyNick Doob·Barry Feinstein·Richard Leacock·Albert Maysles·Roger Murphy·D.A. Pennebaker·Nicholas T. ProferesShow all
CastJimi Hendrix
Original titleJimi Plays Monterey