Monterey Pop - 1987 Radio Show

Mike Hunte · Postby **Mike Hunte** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:29 pm

Anyone here have a complete copy of the 9-CD Radio Express show that was broadcast over the air in 1987 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Festival? The original promo transcript CD's are insanely rare now, but direct clones do exist. Not to mention various CD boots (e.g. Document label).

I taped it off the radio in '87 on a couple of Beta Hi-Fi cassettes...but managed to misplace them many years ago. It was the most complete broadcast ever of the Festival - and I preferred the mix on many of the tracks over the official box set.

Anyone?

Chris M · Postby **Chris M** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:23 am

That's interesting. I'd LOVE to hear Moby Grape's set.

Xenu · Postby **Xenu** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:37 pm

Oh lord. Sign me up if you find these. What're some major differences? And NINE discs?

Mike Hunte · Postby **Mike Hunte** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 10:10 am

Xenu wrote:Oh lord. Sign me up if you find these. What're some major differences? And NINE discs?

It was a great broadcast that ran over the course of a weekend - maybe it was the actual Festival dates, or Labor Day Weekend, I can't remember. It might have even been 1988 the more I think about it, but that doesn't make much sense. It was right around the time I moved out on my own, my first apartment, that's all I know for sure. Like I said, I taped the whole thing off the radio on a few Beta Hi-Fi cassettes...but managed to lose/misplace them somehow. Sadly, most of my Live Aid and first Farm Aid video tapes went the same direction.

The special had mostly complete sets and was interspersed with interviews from the artists and organizers. The Simon and Garfunkel set was broadcast complete, the Springfield wasn't as I recall - more like 3 or 4 songs for them. The Big Brother/Joplin "encore" from the next day was broadcast also. Moby Grape...I can't remember if anything was broadcast. John Phillips was behind the whole radio show and had a hand in the mixing as I seem to recall. Mind you, this was the first time since the original movie (save for the Hendrix, Redding, and M&P lps) that most of the stuff saw the light of day...so it was all pretty awesome.

The mix, as I remember, was a bit more "flattering" to the artists - particularly vocally. The box set seemed more interested in a cleaner, more fidelity-driven experience with the vocals upfront. The Airplane set comes to mind.

A few years ago, I saw the original 9 CD set go for several hundred dollars on Ebay. It was the source of nearly all the Monterey boots that followed leading up to the boxset, the VH1 Lost Performance special from '96/'97 (which broadcast 2 Simon and Garfunkel performances) and the expanded DVD.

Postby **lukpac** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:45 am

Per Mr. Hunte...

http://www.woodstockproject.com/monterey/

Monterey Pop - The Radio Concerts

This is the ultimate Monterey box set. During June 1988, 21 years after Monterey, a radio broadcast airs. 88 songs from Monterey are played. Many of the musicians, Tommy Smothers and actor Dennis Hopper (Monterey was a year before Easy Rider came out) are interviewed especially for the radio show. It flows well - you get to hear complete Monterey sets of Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and The Papas and Jimi Hendrix mixed with what Ravi Shankar, Country Joe and Bob Weir thought of it all. Its a 9 cd flower power-house. The other Monterey bootlegs are based on the music here.

Label is Radio Express.