6/18/67 Free jams following each night of the Monterey Pop Fest Venue: Peninsula College Football Field, Monterey, CA Artist: Artist: "Communications Company" The hand drawn handbill for the 6/8/67 free Central Park show was also done by the "Communications Company." Perhaps these were drawn by a crew member? No known setlists Dennis McNally says of Saturday night, "...afterward, some musicians went over to the Peninsula College football field and played on, most notably Eric Burdon. Oddly, the Dead did not join them."
Rock Scully says they set up a PA system at one end of the floral pavilion, "...on a little platform that is already there...We get everything ready and then Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Garcia, and Jimi Hendrix...come tripping out onstage...and here's the Airplane, the Grateful Dead, and Jimi Hendrix cranking through 'Walkin the Dog'...We do the same thing over at the football field...Eric Burdon, the Byrds, the Who."
Blair Jackson writes, "The Dead managed to organize a free campground on the football field of nearby Monterey Peninsula College, and even set up a stage there, powered by generators, where various musicians who were playing at the festival - Eric Burdon, Jimi Hendrix, lots of San Francisco band people - came and jammed late at night after the fairgrounds were closed. (Contrary to the impression given in Rock Scully's Living with the Dead, Garcia and Hendrix never played together there, or anywhere else for that matter)." Open this page in a new window Goin' home, goin' home |