Original 1st printing concert/event program (82 pages, 10&3/4 x 8&3/8") oversized embossed business card (3&1/2 x 4", for festival organizer Alan Pariser) and a trio of unused/untorn tickets (3&5/8 x 1&3/8", one for each day) for the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival, held at the Monterey (CA) Fairgrounds Arena (and surrounding area) from 6/16-18/1967. Design (program) by Tom Wilkes/Guy Webster (edited by David Wheeler), tickets were printed by Weldon, Williams and Lick. Most of the acts that performed at the event are represented within the pages of the program- they included: the Association, Laura Nyro, Lou Rawls, Hugh Masekela, Eric Burdon and the Animals, the Byrds, the Blues Project, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Electric Flag, Moby Grape, Country Joe & the Fish, the Blues Project, Steve Miller Band, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Al Kooper, the Paupers, Simon & Garfunkel, Johnny Rivers, the Mamas & the Papas, Canned Heat, Big Brother & the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin), Otis Redding with the Bar-Kays and Booker T. & the MG's, Ravi Shankar, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, the Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The program also features assorted record company promotions, a really weird essay by Al Kooper, a hand-drawn personal greeting from the Beatles and more. The program has a thick glossy-coated index stock cover and assorted mixed stock (thin glossy, "construction paper"/textured) pages on the interior; it is completely intact, with a bit of cover/spine wear and a minor amount of edge wear/toning on a few of the pages, but overall it is in very good to excellent (B/B+ to B+) condition; the business card and tickets are all printed on thin index card stock and are all in mint/near mint (A/A-) condition. Tickets are are for the Friday night (1), Saturday (2)/Sunday (4) afternoon shows and are all comps (charitable contribution) obtained from the production office. VERY NEAT little set of original Monterey Pop items!
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