Historic Performances Recorded on the Monterey Worldwide Pop Pageant is a stay album recorded on the Monterey Pop Pageant in June 1967. A break up artist launch, it paperwork performances by the Jimi Hendrix Expertise on facet one and Otis Redding on facet two.
Essential reception
| Overview scores | |
|---|---|
| Supply | Score |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Christgau’s Report Information | A–[7] |
| Encyclopedia of In style Music | [8] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Information | [9] |
In a recent overview of the album, Jeffrey Drucker of Rolling Stone journal stated “recollections are manufactured from units like this”, and “even if you happen to weren’t [there], you will discover some very satisfying music by two of our most gifted artists.”[10]
In Christgau’s Report Information: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), music critic Robert Christgau referred to as the album “as evocative a distillation of the hippie second in all its hope and contradiction as you will ever hear.” He described Redding and Hendrix as “two radically completely different black artists showboating on the nativity of the brand new white rock viewers”, who had each “carried out extra subtly and extra brilliantly” elsewhere, and had been “equally audacious and equally great” on the pageant.[7]
In a lukewarm overview, AllMusic’s Bruce Eder regarded Historic Performances as a major album when it was launched, but it surely has change into “purely of historic curiosity as an artifact of the time.”[2]
