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Chill vibes, bigger crowd fill second day of Monterey Pop
The Monterey International Pop Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary this weekend and while it can’t replicate the musical magic of 1967, the artists on the bill promise to honor those who came before them. Here are highlights from the first two days of the outdoor music festival, which returns to the Monterey County Fairgrounds from Friday-Sunday, June 16-18. Jack Johnson, the musician known for his laid-back surf music, arrived onstage to close out the second night of Monterey Pop, thanking the sea of fans who filled the Monterey County Fairgrounds’ outdoor arena for waiting. By his third song, by called out Norah Jones, who had just performed less than an hour before him, to join him for a duet cover of Bob Dylan’s 1967 track “I Shall Be Released.” During his set, he also mused about his relationship to Monterey, calling it his second home since his wife, Kim, is from the area (he said he started staying in the seaside town back in ’93 when they were just dating). Jones is a second-generation Monterey Pop artist, following in her father Ravi Shankar’s footsteps who opened the Sunday program back in 1967. The singer-songwriter was originally introduced to the world as a vocalist/pianist in 2002, but she flexed her musical prowess Saturday by switching to acoustic and electric guitar as well as electric piano during her set. The band was augmented with pedal steel on certain songs, such as the single “Sunrise,” and she performed her biggest hit, “Don’t Know Why,” as a stripped down piano trio with bass guitar and drums. Singer-songwriter and “cowboy poet,” according to Bob Weir, Jackie Greene had both an obvious and an unexpected connection to the Monterey International Pop Festival. (Though tickets were nowhere near the $105 single day tickets of this year’s festival, Greene said his mom was a “badass” who jumped the fence to get in.) But Jason “Magic Fingers” Crosby was the band’s secret weapon on Hammond B3 organ, providing shimmering atmosphere and a punchy solo on “Animal” and rhythmic thrust on “Like a Ball and Chain.” Boasting a lineup that includes singer-songwriters Donovan Frankenreiter, G. Love and Cisco Adler (son of Monterey Pop co-producer Lou Adler), Jamtown came across as a humble supergroup. Though loosely associated with the beachfront bonfire musical scene, there was more jangle and thump to their set than one might have expected. The breezy “Island Time” encapsulated the trio’s aesthetic with infectious strummed acoustic and a laser focused six-string electric guitar solo. Bridges covered “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” with help from Nathaniel Ratcliffe & the Night Sweats, who took the stage earlier in the afternoon for a set that included a tribute to Janis Joplin and Big Brother & the Holding Company (Ratcliffe belted out “Take Another Piece of My Heart”). If that wasn’t enough, during “Mississippi Kisses,” Bridges’ final song of the night, Ratcliffe returned on stage as did Father John Misty for a crowd-pleasing dance party. [...] during Monterey Pop, he let loose, crooning and swaying his hips, while managing to make fans cheer and laugh. Father John Misty ran through a pitch-perfect set that included favorites like “Chateau Lobby #4 in C for Two Virgins,” “True Affection” and “When You’re Smiling And Astride Me” as the sun set behind the festival’s flower power-decorated stage. Despite being handed a lighter, however, he laughed and said, “I don’t have a guitar” — while a couple guitars sat on racks nearby — and continued with an energetic performance that had him jumping into the crowd and even doing a somersault onstage. Vocalist and consummate showman Charles Bradley didn’t perform at the original Monterey Pop Festival (he was 18 at the time, so it would have been possible yet unlikely), and yet his timeless sound and oversized charisma would have fit right in, as it did on Friday night. Bradley’s sharp dance moves and sparkly three-piece suit dazzled the crowd, while His Extraordinaires — an eight-piece band that included a Hammond B3 organist, a trumpeter and a saxophonist — backed him for original tracks and covers. One-time manager of the Rolling Stones and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Andrew Loog Oldham appeared on stage Friday as a surprise guest, reflecting on the history of Monterey Pop before introducing Eric Burdon & the Animals (Burdon played on that very same stage 50 years to the day, pointing out Friday that he recalled watching Hendrix’s famous blazing guitar stunt). Though other acts had horn sections and sometimes background vocalists, the singer-songwriter and musician held her own with 88 keys or, for two songs, a six-string guitar.
The Monterey International Pop Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary this weekend and while it can’t replicate the musical magic of 1967, the artists on the bill promise to honor those who came before them. Here are highlights from the first two days of the outdoor music festival, which returns to the Monterey County Fairgrounds from Friday-Sunday, June 16-18. Jack Johnson, the musician known for his laid-back surf music, arrived onstage to close out the second night of Monterey Pop, thanking the sea of fans who filled the Monterey County Fairgrounds’ outdoor arena for waiting. By his third song, by called out Norah Jones, who had just performed less than an hour before him, to join him for a duet cover of Bob Dylan’s 1967 track “I Shall Be Released.” During his set, he also mused about his relationship to Monterey, calling it his second home since his wife, Kim, is from the area (he said he started staying in the seaside town back in ’93 when they were just dating). Jones is a second-generation Monterey Pop artist, following in her father Ravi Shankar’s footsteps who opened the Sunday program back in 1967. The singer-songwriter was originally introduced to the world as a vocalist/pianist in 2002, but she flexed her musical prowess Saturday by switching to acoustic and electric guitar as well as electric piano during her set. The band was augmented with pedal steel on certain songs, such as the single “Sunrise,” and she performed her biggest hit, “Don’t Know Why,” as a stripped down piano trio with bass guitar and drums. Singer-songwriter and “cowboy poet,” according to Bob Weir, Jackie Greene had both an obvious and an unexpected connection to the Monterey International Pop Festival. (Though tickets were nowhere near the $105 single day tickets of this year’s festival, Greene said his mom was a “badass” who jumped the fence to get in.) But Jason “Magic Fingers” Crosby was the band’s secret weapon on Hammond B3 organ, providing shimmering atmosphere and a punchy solo on “Animal” and rhythmic thrust on “Like a Ball and Chain.” Boasting a lineup that includes singer-songwriters Donovan Frankenreiter, G. Love and Cisco Adler (son of Monterey Pop co-producer Lou Adler), Jamtown came across as a humble supergroup. Though loosely associated with the beachfront bonfire musical scene, there was more jangle and thump to their set than one might have expected. The breezy “Island Time” encapsulated the trio’s aesthetic with infectious strummed acoustic and a laser focused six-string electric guitar solo. Bridges covered “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” with help from Nathaniel Ratcliffe & the Night Sweats, who took the stage earlier in the afternoon for a set that included a tribute to Janis Joplin and Big Brother & the Holding Company (Ratcliffe belted out “Take Another Piece of My Heart”). If that wasn’t enough, during “Mississippi Kisses,” Bridges’ final song of the night, Ratcliffe returned on stage as did Father John Misty for a crowd-pleasing dance party. [...] during Monterey Pop, he let loose, crooning and swaying his hips, while managing to make fans cheer and laugh. Father John Misty ran through a pitch-perfect set that included favorites like “Chateau Lobby #4 in C for Two Virgins,” “True Affection” and “When You’re Smiling And Astride Me” as the sun set behind the festival’s flower power-decorated stage. Despite being handed a lighter, however, he laughed and said, “I don’t have a guitar” — while a couple guitars sat on racks nearby — and continued with an energetic performance that had him jumping into the crowd and even doing a somersault onstage. Vocalist and consummate showman Charles Bradley didn’t perform at the original Monterey Pop Festival (he was 18 at the time, so it would have been possible yet unlikely), and yet his timeless sound and oversized charisma would have fit right in, as it did on Friday night. Bradley’s sharp dance moves and sparkly three-piece suit dazzled the crowd, while His Extraordinaires — an eight-piece band that included a Hammond B3 organist, a trumpeter and a saxophonist — backed him for original tracks and covers. One-time manager of the Rolling Stones and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Andrew Loog Oldham appeared on stage Friday as a surprise guest, reflecting on the history of Monterey Pop before introducing Eric Burdon & the Animals (Burdon played on that very same stage 50 years to the day, pointing out Friday that he recalled watching Hendrix’s famous blazing guitar stunt). Though other acts had horn sections and sometimes background vocalists, the singer-songwriter and musician held her own with 88 keys or, for two songs, a six-string guitar.
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