Extremely rare original first printing color 19 x 35 poster for the Monterey International Pop Festival—which famously marked the American debut of the Jimi Hendrix Experience—held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds from June 16–18, 1967. Designed by Tom Wilkes and printed on a silver-metallic foil paper, this is a highly condition sensitive issue. In very good condition, with scattered creasing, and tack holes to the corners.
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.
