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Vintage glossy 7.5 x 10 silver gelatin photograph of Jimi Hendrix pouring lighter fluid onto his Fender Stratocaster at the Monterey Pop Festival on June 18, 1967. In fine condition, with a few small creases. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Tracks.
A seminal festival that kicked off the 1967 'Summer of Love,' the Monterey Pop Festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who, and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin, and the introduction of Otis Redding to a white audience. Other major acts included the Grateful Dead, the Byrds, Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, and Buffalo Springfield. The influential event became an inspiration and a template for future music festivals, including Woodstock two years later.
At the Monterey Pop Festival, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and The Who shared the stage for the second and final time, with Hendrix losing a coin toss to perform as the follow-up act. Unfortunately for The Who, Hendrix purportedly warned Pete Townshend that he was going to pull out all the stops if he played second. Hendrix went on to play one of the most, if not the most, memorable performances of his short career, stabbing his guitar into his amps and playing it behind his back and with his teeth. In a fiery finale, he then sacrificed it by dousing his guitar with lighter fluid and setting it aflame before smashing it to bits onstage and then hurling its remnants into the audience.
