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Das wirklich tolle "The Complete Monterey Pop Festival"-Set erscheint einige Jahre nach der DVD nun auch auf Blu-ray:

22. September 2009
Blu-ray #167-169: “The Complete Monterey Pop Festival”
2 Discs
$69.95

The Criterion Collection is proud to present the most comprehensive document of the Monterey International Pop Festival ever produced, featuring all three films of the Festival, Monterey Pop, Jimi Plays Monterey, and Shake! Otis at Monterey, along with nearly every complete performance filmed by Pennebaker and his crew.


Blu-ray #168: “Monterey Pop” [USA 1968, D.A. Pennebaker]
1 Disc
$49.95
1.33:1
English

On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey would launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few among a wildly diverse cast including Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, Hugh Masekela, and the extraordinary Ravi Shankar. With his characteristic verite style, D. A. Pennebaker got it all, immortalizing moments that have become legend: Pete Townshend destroying his guitar, Jimi Hendrix burning his. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this timeless document of a landmark event.

DISC FEATURES

* New high-definition digital transfer, supervised by D.A. Pennebaker
* New 5.1 mix by legendary recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in Dolby Digital and DTS
* Audio commentary by Festival producer Lou Adler and D.A. Pennebaker
* New video interview with Lou Adler and D.A. Pennebaker Audio interviews with Festival producer John Phillips, Festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby
* Photo essay by photographer Elaine Mayes
* Original theatrical trailer
* Original theatrical radio spots
* Monterey Pop scrapbook


Blu-ray #169: “Jimi Plays Monterey” [USA 1986, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker] + “Shake! Otis at Monterey” [USA 1989, D.A. Pennebaker]
1 Disc
$29.95
1.33:1
English

Jimi Hendrix and Otis Redding arrived at California’s Monterey International Pop Festival virtually unknown. Returning stateside from London, where he had moved to launch his musical career, Hendrix exploded onstage, flooring an unsuspecting audience with his maniacal six-string pyrotechnics. Redding, a venerable star of Memphis’s Stax record label, seduced the “love crowd” in one of his best—and last—shows. Jimi Plays Monterey and Shake! Otis at Monterey, acclaimed documentarian D. A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop companion pieces, feature the entire sets by these legendary musicians, performances that have entered rock-and-roll mythology.

DISC FEATURES

Jimi Plays Monterey

* New high-definition digital transfer, supervised by D.A. Pennebaker
* New 5.1 mix by legendary recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in Dolby Digital and DTS
* Audio commentary by music critic and historian Charles Shaar Murray
* Trailer
* Excerpt from an interview with Pete Townshend

Shake! Otis at Monterey

* New high-definition digital transfer, supervised by D.A. Pennebaker
* New 5.1 mix by legendary recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in Dolby Digital and DTS
* Two audio commentaries by music critic and historian Peter Guralnick: on Otis Redding’s Monterey performance, song by song, and on Redding before and after Monterey
* Interview with Phil Walden, Otis Redding’s manager from 1959 to 1967
* A new essay by David Fricke

[Dr. Strangelove]

Nachdem du ihn mir nun jetzt schon so lange empfohlen hast, werde ich nicht umhin kommen, ihn mir endlich mal anzuschauen. Es soll ja einer der besten Konzertfilme sein.
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"Un artiste est toujours jeune" Jean-Marie Straub