“The Monterey Pop Festival is probably one of the most brilliant, brilliant captures of concert footage. The most legendary story, of course, is the Jimi Hendrix Experience performance where Hendrix famously does "Wild Thing" and then he puts his guitar on the floor and he destroys it and he sets it on fire. Also another performance that really doesn't get talked about is Otis Redding's performance. And, you know, this is the moment where Otis really rises to the occasion, you know, from Southern soul singer, with a niche audience of Black soul lovers, and this is where, really, he was able to connect to the love generation, those that lived out in the Bay Area that was really open to him. Probably more than Woodstock, this really captures what... The possibilities of what could have been.”
