"MONTEREY INTERNATIONAL POP FESTIVAL" CONCERT POSTER
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Winning Bid:
$536.36 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
Bids:
5
Bidding Ended:
Thursday, March 17, 2016 9:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, March 17, 2016 9:00:00 AM)
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Auction:
217 Part 2B
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Item Description
12.25x21-3/8" first printing poster for three-day concert event held June 16-18, 1967 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey, CA. Crowd estimates for the festival ranged from 50,000-90,000 people, who congregated in and around the festival grounds to see the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix (where he lit his guitar on fire), The Who and Ravi Shankar as well as the first large-scale public performance by Janis Joplin and the introduction of Otis Redding to a large, predominantly white audience. Embodying the theme of California as a counter-culture focal point this festival is regarded as one of the beginnings of the "Summer of Love" in 1967 and became the template for future music festivals, notably the Woodstock Festival two years later. Poster features stunning reflective foil design that incorporates photo image of Mata Hari-like performer wearing necktie w/Pan character/mascot of the festival. Poster has obvious handling wear, w/several creases, most running horizontally across poster. Pin holes at corners and along margins, w/some scattered surface paper loss at bottom right. VG.
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