Robert Lantaff How loud was the PA? I mean, it was before volume became important and that you could hear it was more the thing back then I suppose. I always wondered as all we hear now are the recordings off the desk and ambient mics. Seems an odd question but being a musican and sound engineer myself I've always wondered! :o)
"Most hippes started associating drugs with Indian music and that's a problem for Ravi. He had spent years and years of disciplined life to play like this and people think he must have taken dope to play that good" - George Harrison
Indeed... but Ravi Shankar wouldn't have played at Monterey if The Beatles and Rolling Stones hadn't introduced to the sitar into western pop music. Paul McCartney, who selected UK acts (including Hendrix, who was based in UK at the time) for the concert, insisted Shankar be included on the bill. It remains my favourite performance in the movie.
@@yashmundada8811 bruv if u think so then u lack the understanding of the intricacies of Indian classical music.. all professional musicians improvise on the go, and here we are talking about the legendary Pandit Ravishankar, it goes without saying that ofcourse he can pull this performance off without any rehearsal whatsoever.
He seems like the best in the world at what he did 🤔☯️ And any time someone is the best in the world at something there’s a fine line between talent and natural destiny lol 😅☮️
I remember being home alone and bored in 1979, turned on the TV and Monterey was playing. I had never really heard of sitar or tabla or rava shankar. I sat transfixed through this incredible set. never been the same since! Eternity lives in this incredible music..bless you Mr Shankar!
It was about 1984 for me, when I as 16 or 17. My friend had just introduced me to The Doors and Jimi Hendrix, which were 'old music' by then. We rented the vide of this concert, and we were both completely blown away by Ravi Shankar and crew. I have never forgotten it. I stopped renting, and then when I discovered TH-cam, about the 5th thing I looked up was this concert. Was there then that I could find, I've watched it numerous times since I found it. It gives me shivers, and almost no music does that for me these days. Had a deep affect on me as well.
And it is legitimately CLASSICAL, even though it grooves like a monster. India had the backbeat THOUSANDS of years before the West! But listen to the last 5 minutes or so, and think like you are watching the London Symphony winding up a major composition, 1812 Overture-style. Or a solo piano Concerto. The majesty of the melodic development is right up there - and coming right out of the history, tradition (and thousands of hours of practice...)
I somehow don’t think ANCIENT is the right term to use there, but this tradition of music is really fantastic. It’s like jazz before jazz, and the instruments produce such a heady and hypnotic sonic glow.
I wanted to go to this, but my parents didn't thing a nine year old should attend such a thing. I was robbed. this man had talent beyond comprehension. I love the sitar and studied ragas ever since.
Good for you! Parents can be sick. I wanted to go to Ali Akbar Khan's School of Music in San Rafael. They prohibited it. They didn't know how much SEPARATION makes THE HEART GROW FONDER! Hare Krsna. Ravi married Ali Akbar Khan's sister.
And the personal applause he got seemed to have flustered as well as delighted Rakha. In India, I gather tabla players expect to go pretty much unnoticed, and all the applause goes to the sitarist. Which sucks, if you think about it, and especially for someone this brilliant.
I was born in Belgium in 1952. Attended my first Shankar and Indian music concert when I was 16. (Around the time of the Monterey concert indeed.) Overwhelmed and smitten since then. Try listening beyond Shankar and beyond the sitar though.
I remember reading an interview Shankar did shortly after his performance at Monterey Pop. What really stood out to me was Ravi's statement that he normally improvises about 95% of what he plays. So when you watch this video, remember that Shankar is MAKING IT ALL UP AS HE GOES ALONG! If that isn't musical genius, I don't know what is.
+UberYooTuber Yeah, notice Hendrix was sitting right there listening very carefully. Another genius who made up a lot of what he played as he went along. Composed new pieces right on the stage in the middle of a show. Amazing people in a unique time and place. May it never be forgotten.
He's got blisters on his fingers! That climactic ending and the ovation gets me every time. I am delighted to say that I showed this to my daughter when she was 11 and she totally got it. She is now 29 and it is on all her music devices and has been since she first heard it. Parenting success! Also my mum, wearing an orange sari with gold sequins, went to see Ravi at Covent Garden in London. Around 68? Maybe 67. Parenting success!
@The Conscious Indian I demur and return your respect. But isn't that exactly what I was saying?? Rakha's job appears to be more difficult because he has to follow a leader who is improvising. It's seems that this music is like jazz in that it revolves around a central theme. Tell me if I'm wrong and I'll accept it.
@@Bonzerboy you're right. Keeping up with the main performer and that too a legend can be challenging but Allah Rakha was more than equipped to face the challenge. What a brilliant performance!
Whoever filmed this is an artist. I love the way it starts showing people in the crowd doing whatever their weird thing is, and then focuses more and more on the music and the people starting to realize they were hearing greatness, and then does a phenomenal job showing the skill of the players, plus their joy in playing. And then finally shows the huge appreciation of the crowd at the end - the people blown away by having heard something truly truly amazing beyond words.
Don't forget the other filmmaker artist..the EDITOR! In French cinema the most essential characteristic of the film is 'de montage', from the French monter, “to assemble.” Montage refers to the editing of the film. As a side note I was there for this show in Monterrey in June 0f '67 with my pregnant wife we were 19 and 20..and still listening to Ravi's Ragas!
There were other gems also Pt Nikhil Banerjee, Alauddin Khan sahab etc and in tabla also pt lacchu maharaj, birju maharaj kishan maharaj, samta prasad They were and even now considered as great. Don't denigrate them
That look on Jimi Hendrix's face (and everyone else's), that "I have experienced something beyond what I imagined", gets me every time. To have been there when the idea of "what music can be" expands. That would have been something.
this is one of the most important events of its kind filmed and recorded for history, which also led the way to the famous Woodstock festival ... the quality of camera work and audio recording is super professional and pre planned by the filmmakers who did it ... (one of them is shown holding his 16mm camera @ around 02:05 btw ...) this copy is 360p ... if reconverted into video by modern standards, it can result in higher resolutions up to 1080 and possibly higher to yield even better images! and the sound quality is just great too! more info in the link below ... there's additional info at the bottom of the page about those who made produced and filmed the event ... there are more info regarding the concert and the crew also available online ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Pop_Festival
The plan was to use Ravi as outro music for the film. A little way into Ravi playing and Pennebaker gathered the camera guys and told them to get to the stage.
what really amazes me is how low the energy of the crowd is when he starts and how he slowly raises the crowd's energy level higher and higher and higher, absolutely incredible
Alla Rhaka playing those tablas and producing such sound with just his fingers blows me away. Once you get into the groove this is very danceable music.
@@vikascharan3460 no, in my opinion, Ustad Allah Rakha is the greatest, and also, he was the one who popularized the tabla in the first place. Ustad Zakir Hussain just took over and continues from where his father leftover. Still, nonetheless, Ustad Zakir Hussain's skill cannot be compared with any living artist!
Indian music takes you to the pinnacle of spirituality after which you just feel helpless. Tears flows down your cheeks. You become humble, a sense of gratitude flows henceforth. Listening to Indian classical music is a spiritual experience much much more than just a leisure experience.
@@ayushgangwar8 Persian descendants who are the Muslims and the other converted ones wouldn’t agree. They have their own classic and Indian classic doesn’t just mean the Hindu classical. Go to north east and you’d get a different type of classical music. So, thinking Hindus are the only ones surviving in India is just hypocritical. We are diversified and so is our music
Imagine what Pandit Ravi could do with a Les Paul or Stratocaster . I've watched this for 50 years and it is just as astonishing in 2017 as it was when I was a teenager in 1967 . Vale Pandit .
Sincere thanX from a 73 y.o. Indian from New Delhi, India, to Afwan Floyd for this upload. 1967 , 51 years ago , Pandit Ravi Shankar ji and Ustad Alla Rakha ji , the two were in their PRIME , prime of youth , prime of their respective talents , prime of their synchronisation , a total perfection in world of Indian classical music . All of which are standards to emulate for the generations that have followed
JC Edwards I'm an Indian and I know sitar tops every string instrument and these players are the best in human history but I gotta say I love rock music and what jimi did with his guitar was truly exceptional.
the crowd are so damn serious at first, as that new soud/joy seeps in, then as Ravi and his drummer man get so seriously into the GROOVE and start to play off each other, the crowd feeds off the humour and playfulness of it, and the laughing and cheering starts. most auspicious occasion!!!! people being intuitive and glorious. beauty beauty beauty. what a fucking day they had!!
Rest in Peace Ravi Shankar. Thank you for exposing the world (and myself) to a sound we've never heard before. One of the greatest musicians to ever live!
Thank God the tape machines and film cameras were rolling that day to capture one of the most thrilling and astounding musical performances of the 20th century. But this is only a small part of Ravi Shankar's performance at Monterey. With the 50th anniversary of this festival coming up in 2017, I truly hope that whoever owns the master tapes will release Shankar's ENTIRE four-hour concert from Monterey Pop!
Just imagine that most of the people in the audience would be long gone by now, but they lived, they lived that day to witness this body-goosebumping performance LIVE from two of the greatests. They lived that one day as an entire life, a day which might've changed their entire life. Take a bow, maestros!
I was 17 yrs old..I was there...all music at Monterey pop festival changed my life!! I still here with 9 great grandchildren now. Peace my bros and sisters. Saw ravish at UCLA also.🙂
@b wap You see movie director Roger Vadim and his wife Jane Fonda. Is this discussion in the correct demographic for Jane Fonda trivia? Maybe I should search for the Women’s Media Center demographic.
The young children would be in their 50s and early 60s today. The teens would be in their late 60s and 70s. The adults would be in their middle to late 70s, then the middle aged people their would be in their 80s and 90s now. Plenty of them still alive..... Just the older folks then would be about all died off by now.....
It's kinda' hard to imagine yourself in the place of the audience. They didn't have access to music outside the local scene or local radio. Before this, none of them had heard Indian classical/folk. They weren't running on the internet-fueled musical stimuli myself and my generation soak up. I wish that I could live this twenty minutes in their shoes.
Good god, I dont want to sound cliché, but I do wish i was born in the 50s, just so I could've lived my teenage youth in that beautiful era. The audience looks like they're in a trance. Ah, how destiny works out
Ravi came to Berkeley and showed these kids how to blow it up.none of them had any idea how hard he was going to hit it. he became a rockstar on this day.
Do please also include the lineage ('gharana') of Ustad Vilayat Khan (often described as the Imdad 'gharana') ... he was born in Mymensingh District of Bangladesh, and was a purist. Not someone who would play to the gallery ! Very smooth, genteel .. his son, Ustad Shujaat Hussain Khan is the reigning best (arguably, of course!) ... and he also sings north Indian folk! For the less initiated .. Indian Classical music has many 'Gods' :D
To look up some really GREAT Tabla players, you must listen to the genius of Ahmad Jaan 'Thirakwa' of Lucknow, India. Thirakwa was the sobriquet he had earned, which actually means TREMORS ... is what is audience often felt when he was playing in full flow !
Values my country represented, an Ustad and a Pandit from different communities shared brother like bond and rocked the west world together with monumental performance. Look at us now. I am ashamed of the hatred fueled in us.
Didn't start now, it was always there. Just amplified by social media. Like every thing else. Don't be naive. Watch what's happening in the world right now.
Around the 6:20-6:40 mark, Jimi is digging it, and Bloomfield is, too. My dad brought home the Shankar/Menuhin LP the year it came out and it left an indelible mark on my 7-year-old mind. Thanks, Dad!
Me Yehudi and Mr Shankar created music that is so pure that it can't be expressed in words.. living in India I first experienced this music when I was 23 years old and it has changed me.. from the core
His great legacy is his music, giving it to George Harrison and the Beatles, and his daughter, Anoushka, and all his other students, and his other daughter, Norah Jones. Anoushka not only plays great Indian classical music, but has also brought the sitar into modern music. I imagine that soon no orchestra will be considered complete without at least one sitar and one tabla.
David Kelley - I don't know if you're still around but you're a bit mixed up about Indian Classical music. George Harrison is not his legacy. He was influenced by Ravi-ji's music and helped spread it around the world, but george could barely play the sitar let alone Indian classical music. Also, Anoushka is not his legacy either. She plays pretty good sitar but she is absolutely not one of the great sitar players and she absolutely didn't bring sitar into modern music. If anyone brought sitar to modern music it was George Harrison.
David Kelley - Also, Sitar will most likely never be considered a normal instrument in orchestras. Indian Classical music is completely different from Western classical. There is no harmony or polyphony in Indian classical music. And Western classical has nothing like the rhythm cycles of Indian music.
@@sunkintree I'm not saying that orchestras have no use for sitars, or tabla. A few years ago I saw Zakir Hussain in London play a tabla concerto with orchestra and it was fantastic. I've also seen some really nice pieces with sitar and orchestra. I'm just saying that it will most likely never become a standard orchestral instrument. Sitar players usually don't read western notation.
I first encountered this when I was 16. It shocked me to my core and changed my life by giving me new ways to understand beauty, music and art. Thank you, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Ali Akhbar Khan for opening my ears and showing me a path that has enriched my life in more ways than I can ever count. I will be grateful always.
I was 15 living smack down in the middle of Monterey peninsula. I wonder why so many long hair colorful people where hitchhiking South on highway 1. The whole 3 TV stations that where available where advertising Monterey international Pop festival. We couldn't afford the tickets my brother and Friends drove down there anyways and caught Ravi Shankar performance at the outskirts of the festival ground. And it blew our minds and still blows my mind every time I see this wonderful concert we couldn't afford to pay at witness him in person.
1960s...the west still very much anti Indian and racism still at its peak. To see the hundreds of young people stand up and applaud and appreciate even though they had no idea of the genre of music was the break through in the march towards a racism free world. The master sitarist who is a Hundu and the music he played also based on hindu ragas was accompanied by the great tabla maestro Allah Rakha, a muslim -with no religious divide - superb!
+2006minesh I saw your comment and i thought that I would let you know not all westerners are anti Indian :) I love Indian culture, the music, the food and the people. It's history so rich from when my people sadly sapped it dry to today where it is a country on the rise. To say it lightly I always have and always will be in love with India
***** Your apology is insignificant. My "in the blood" is spot on. As an indian I have endured tons of racial abuse from whites over the years, not from just a few individuals but white corporate culture.
+2006minesh This is really sad because this dude was being polite and loving and you totally shot him down. Love and acceptance has to come from both sides of of the world or you're just as bad as everyone you so quickly throw into a stereotype. Peace and love man, I hope you can someday give it as well as receive it.
Fair to say that 99.99% of the audience had no clue what Ravishankar and Alla Rakha were all about but they were gripped and mersmerised, hash pipe or otherwise, by the pure magic only this duo could create. As for me, had rewind this 3 times with no smoke or anything whatsoever. Powerful.
First saw this nearly 45 years ago and watch it regularly. it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Stunning performance by Ali Akbar Khan. Thanks TH-cam - Thanks Afwan Floyd.
One of the greatest moments in musical history, celebrating 50 years this summer. I have that album and I've listened to Dhun monthly at the minimum, which would make at least 600 times. Every single time, it gives me chills.
two things. one: this is one of the most incredible performances ever. the way so many in the crowd jumped to their feet screaming as soon as the music stopped--you see all that sincere joy in their faces. it's beautiful. two: I really hate that TH-cam ruins this with commercials.
Always wondered who that woman in the shot at the finale is. The one with the short dark hair. The look of absolute joy on her face is contagious. Makes me smile every time I see it. I hope the rest of her life was filled with moments of equal joy.
Frank Mirenzi. That's Kamala Shastri, Ravi Shankar's wife at the time.. she was a classical singer and dancer as well. She remained close friends with him and his family even after they split up so I guess everything was cool....
@@AnasKhan-ht2tb No, he is asking about the white lady in the audience who is sitting in the finale shot and suddenly erupts from her chair as the music concludes
Look at the respect the audience has for the artist. Quiet and listening. Even if they didn’t like the music, they respected it. I think we have lost that,sadly.
Amazing that they were able to step on stage in a festival dominated by blues and rock bands, play this wonderful instrumental music that must have sounded very exotic and strange to many people in the audience at the time, and still blow everyone away. Shankar and his band delivered a pure psychedelic and transcendental experience with no drugs or theatrics necessary to fuel their performance.
I was never a big fan of Shankar until I watched this. I would be hard pressed after six decades to think of any performance that can top the energy this one does! Sadly, we forgot what we were all trying to "make right" with this World. Some day we may get it "right". Sadly, it won't be in my time. Love is all around. Really.
As some have posted before it's so obviously true. Music is the language that transcends all barriers, geographical, political, cultural and otherwise. Music has perhaps been the single most influence on our world to lead mankind to a greater respect and curiosity to try and understand each other's differences and to reconcile misunderstanding. When the world is at war due to political and organized religious quarrels musicians thru the ages have promoted peace, love and brotherhood of all mankind. I give my highest respect and praise to such beautiful souls such as Ravi Shankar and so many countless and some nameless like him. You brought joy and light into this world to share with all. Yahweh bless your place in heaven
PaulGreen11 guys, this is just one example of Indian Classical music. There must be a million videos just as amazing as this on TH-cam. Dig a little and you will find an endless cache of gold. Karthik Seshadri, for example, a pupil of Ravi Shankar.
My mum said Ravi Shankar ruined Monterey for her because after listing to this the rest was mundane That's was back in the late 60's or early 70's when it was still on the theatre :) Personally Jimi Hendrix is my favorite act but i've always loved Ravi Shankar 1>3
What isn't sublime about this piece of film? A superb musical moment in history perfectly captured, cut and delivered. So much going on, and all so subtly portrayed.
Couldn't agree with you more Dave. It was a stroke of genius having Ravi Shankar's performance appear last in the Monterey Pop film!! IMHO this was the apex of the peace and love movement....before Charles Manson...before the proliferation of destructive drugs (amphetamines, heroin, etc)...before the Altamont/Hells Angels tragedy, etc. Most people associate Woodstock as the defining moment of the counterculture but it was really more of its last stand. Monterey was when the optimism and good vibes were at a peak---and Shankar's performance beautifully captures the hopes and dreams of the time!!
Very perceptive. And yet I like to think it will happen again. Maybe in the next generation, when they rebel against their device addicted parents. Full circle.
marinman39 so we dropped out, went on the inner journey, the existential trip, plugged in for the information age, and promptly rebelled against all logic? sounds about right. the time is here for change. Peace man.
Brilliant repertoire by the sitar genius himself. To those who had never heard his music or and Indian music as a whole it must have a very uplifting and spiritual moment. I know it was for me when I first heard it in San. Fran in 1968, @ 16 yo. I was blown away. Still am today, 50 years later when I here Ravi's songs, nice to get stones still too as well, LOL Namasta friends!
I was fortune to take several tabla lessons with him before I discovered the Ali Akbar College in San Fran (he told his translator I had the best beginner's Na he ever heard ) But his kid ain't bad, either... Both amazing monsters.
Its now December 2020,....after almost a year in isolation, trying not to catch the Corona Virus, and dying. I have routinely listened to Ravi Shankar, a few times a year since my earliest exposure to it, in around 1969. I was 16 in 1969. I'm 67, presently.
This is HISTORY, not only music history. The camera person must have felt this was an auspicious occasion and used his true genius gift to capture the look of awe and deep appreciation on these unsuspecting faces. There is so much joy and beauty, we are all blessed to share in this moment of world peace. Brothers and sisters, let this call out to ALL OF US to honor this performance by putting our lives back upon this path. LOVE to everyone of us. You have our most sincere gratitude Ravi Shankar and Ustad Allah Tahka!!! Your magical music has caused many hearts to grow in eighteen minutes and forty two seconds!
I was there.June 16th,1967.Awesome.A jr in highschool.Totally blew there minds with everyone Asli passing out the drug whoever wanted it for free.A day I have tattooed on my mind some 53 years ago.Groovy man.🇱🇷😎👁️🌻 power.
Yep. Hare Krsna! Ravi met the world renown Hare Krsna movement's guru, Srila Prabhupada. Now Hare Krsna is a household word. Although it's not a material chant.... Hare Krsna comes directly from the eternal spiritual sky. Be blessed.
What an amazing performance! I've been a fan of Ravi's for 40 years, but sadly, never got to see him perform. What skills! He's at the top of his game during this era. It's so thrilling, too, to witness the audience's reaction. Thanks for this...
Truly MASTERS and their instruments. they created something profound and massive here. I have no doubt many lives were touched and forever changed by this performance, just incredible.
@@heartbreakkid5757 I am always surprised when someone says it being psychedelic. It's probably a cultural thing but for us Indians it is like exploring very deep and profound emotions like melancholy, joy, sadness it's basically living through those moments in your life which you might never go through, it is that abstract....
@@heartbreakkid5757 yeah it feels so bad that many of my western friends associate hindustani classical music with drugs and trippy stuff, when actually it is very spiritual and used in many bhajans (songs made for the hindu gods)
Have watched this so many times. Makes me laugh and cry for sheer joy at the beauty of the moment. Was n't there, but thank god it was captured on film. Always makes me feel joyful. Christopher C.
One of the few times I ever really felt the 'morning' of a morning raga - except Gujari Todi always works... Great introductory sequence (but SEVEN MINUTES before we see Alla Rakha's face? Seems a tad 'underkill.' Other than that, I agree.
I missed this because I was born in 1963. Now that I'm 56 years along, I hear this and fall in love with it. Such progressive units, pitch, tempo.... they keep changing all around in an ancient, perfect Mode. The lady in this band, not shown enough in this video is the beautiful, smiling with red lipstick, mature female pickin' or pluckin' her stand up stringed instrument I saw in the audience: Jimmy Hendrix, Mike Bloomfield, Mary from Peter Paul and Mary. hahaha I'm glad folks got to see this live.
I was there for this concert. Up in the stands stage left. Will always remember it!
Robert Lantaff Wow! Lucky you, friend - thanks for sharing that!
Robert Lantaff AAARGH lucky man you are !!! AMAZING performance, I don't get enough...
Robert Lantaff How loud was the PA? I mean, it was before volume became important and that you could hear it was more the thing back then I suppose. I always wondered as all we hear now are the recordings off the desk and ambient mics. Seems an odd question but being a musican and sound engineer myself I've always wondered! :o)
+Robert Lantaff Did you know what was in store for you when the gig started?
No clue. I was one month back from Vietnam and did not know what was in store for me. Did not know the cops would be so friendly either.
"Most hippes started associating drugs with Indian music and that's a problem for Ravi. He had spent years and years of disciplined life to play like this and people think he must have taken dope to play that good" - George Harrison
Indeed... but Ravi Shankar wouldn't have played at Monterey if The Beatles and Rolling Stones hadn't introduced to the sitar into western pop music. Paul McCartney, who selected UK acts (including Hendrix, who was based in UK at the time) for the concert, insisted Shankar be included on the bill. It remains my favourite performance in the movie.
YOU 're WRONG..Jimmy Henndrixxx was there..Listening🎶..
The drugs aren't be a big deal to creat 🎶🎶🎼🎶
@@mafiamoscoloni2332 Read my comment again.
@@bingsinatra5283 I love LSD
@@mrwhosmynameagain I'll alert the media.
The fact that he never rehearsed for this performance is insane. He kept improvising on the go. Sheer genius
I thought this is an urban legend. If not, this is the most amazing thing I have read today
You can say that about every guitarist there lol
@@yashmundada8811 bruv if u think so then u lack the understanding of the intricacies of Indian classical music.. all professional musicians improvise on the go, and here we are talking about the legendary Pandit Ravishankar, it goes without saying that ofcourse he can pull this performance off without any rehearsal whatsoever.
He seems like the best in the world at what he did 🤔☯️ And any time someone is the best in the world at something there’s a fine line between talent and natural destiny lol 😅☮️
All classical indian musicians improvise, its the core aspect of thr music
The generations will be thankful for documenting this
Thank DA PENNEBAKER
I'm sure thankful!
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I hope they will be thankful, I am! Thank you so much for the upload, fantastic!!
Only the music
I remember being home alone and bored in 1979, turned on the TV and Monterey was playing. I had never really heard of sitar or tabla or rava shankar. I sat transfixed through this incredible set. never been the same since! Eternity lives in this incredible music..bless you Mr Shankar!
David Lovegrove Jay Hind indian person is great sir
It was about 1984 for me, when I as 16 or 17. My friend had just introduced me to The Doors and Jimi Hendrix, which were 'old music' by then. We rented the vide of this concert, and we were both completely blown away by Ravi Shankar and crew. I have never forgotten it. I stopped renting, and then when I discovered TH-cam, about the 5th thing I looked up was this concert. Was there then that I could find, I've watched it numerous times since I found it. It gives me shivers, and almost no music does that for me these days. Had a deep affect on me as well.
Ravi Shankar actually.
@@Marnie-hates-winter It is indeed a masterpiece! same happens to me.
Its Ravi Shankar.
The biggest flaw in this piece of music is that it ends.
So true.
‘The point of the dance is the dance itself, not the ending of the dance’- Alan Watts
Yes.
Well said
@@dominicbrinkley8007 well said bro
MAN the ancient Indians knew how to ROCK!
Love Ravi, and Indian classical music!
peace all, namaste!
And it is legitimately CLASSICAL, even though it grooves like a monster. India had the backbeat THOUSANDS of years before the West!
But listen to the last 5 minutes or so, and think like you are watching the London Symphony winding up a major composition, 1812 Overture-style. Or a solo piano Concerto. The majesty of the melodic development is right up there - and coming right out of the history, tradition (and thousands of hours of practice...)
Check this out : th-cam.com/video/sNJJRxUvNKw/w-d-xo.html :)
Love u
I believe I spent past lives in India
I somehow don’t think ANCIENT is the right term to use there, but this tradition of music is really fantastic. It’s like jazz before jazz, and the instruments produce such a heady and hypnotic sonic glow.
The crowd reaction is a joy. Makes me proud to be American.
Me too!
Ravi shankar is not American
Nihar bh456 he didn’t say Ravi shankar he said the crowd
You have to put it in context. It was 1967 and those were North Americans - they had never heard this sort of music before.
Proud to be an indian
Hearing sitar and tabla for the first time is life changing.
True
I was so overwhelmed I cried like a baby.
I wanted to go to this, but my parents didn't thing a nine year old should attend such a thing. I was robbed. this man had talent beyond comprehension. I love the sitar and studied ragas ever since.
Good for you!
Parents can be sick. I wanted to go to Ali Akbar Khan's School of Music in San Rafael. They prohibited it.
They didn't know how much SEPARATION makes THE HEART GROW FONDER!
Hare Krsna.
Ravi married Ali Akbar Khan's sister.
I hate your parents
Has anyone electrified this instrument? All the world is a stage and we are just mere actors listening for inspiration.
@@stephenmacciocchi3519 I love that, we're spectators waiting and searching for inspiration.. phoenomenal!
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And a hand for the great Alla Rakha, master tabla player as well
72daystar very much agreed.
72daystar Right on! was just wondering who he was- brilliant!
And the personal applause he got seemed to have flustered as well as delighted Rakha. In India, I gather tabla players expect to go pretty much unnoticed, and all the applause goes to the sitarist. Which sucks, if you think about it, and especially for someone this brilliant.
The chemistry between the two of them is electrifying!
I ❤him....he is absolutely was the best in the world...so awesome
I was born in 1994 in Mexico 🇲🇽 whoever recorded this, may god bless you! Thank you for this gift 🎁
My fellow respectful too❤
I was born in Belgium in 1952. Attended my first Shankar and Indian music concert when I was 16. (Around the time of the Monterey concert indeed.) Overwhelmed and smitten since then.
Try listening beyond Shankar and beyond the sitar though.
I remember reading an interview Shankar did shortly after his performance at Monterey Pop. What really stood out to me was Ravi's statement that he normally improvises about 95% of what he plays. So when you watch this video, remember that Shankar is MAKING IT ALL UP AS HE GOES ALONG! If that isn't musical genius, I don't know what is.
+UberYooTuber Yeah, notice Hendrix was sitting right there listening very carefully. Another genius who made up a lot of what he played as he went along. Composed new pieces right on the stage in the middle of a show. Amazing people in a unique time and place. May it never be forgotten.
yes that is how a Raga is played, think of them like different languages, once u learn it u can speak in it for eternity
+ksol1460tv they'll unfortunately never be another time like it; so thankful TH-cam exists
That's a great analogy, thanks.
UberYooTuber that's jazz
A shining example of why the 60's was the greatest decade in music history.
Beatles
@@anuragdeshpande6918 not just the beatles
@@07nikhilchaudhari83 yeah the doors pink Floyd rolling Stones Jimi Hendrix to name a few
@@anuragdeshpande6918 Bob dylan. The beach boys. The velvet underground. Pink Floyd is more of a 70's thing.
I do agree
He's got blisters on his fingers!
That climactic ending and the ovation gets me every time. I am delighted to say that I showed this to my daughter when she was 11 and she totally got it. She is now 29 and it is on all her music devices and has been since she first heard it. Parenting success!
Also my mum, wearing an orange sari with gold sequins, went to see Ravi at Covent Garden in London. Around 68? Maybe 67. Parenting success!
i must say Whole family got great taste in Music. :)
@@ankushkalia We do! It's in our jeans, lol.
Big hug and lots of love from a Ravi Shankar fan
Wow... that's awesome Mom
Wow maam.
Art is how we decorate emptiness, music is how we decorate silence.
Beautifully put.
Indeed beautiful
Beautiful
"Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time." -Jean-Michel Basquiat.
I don't think so .
How about some love for Alla Rakha (the other guy performing here on tabla) and Kamala Chakravarty on the tanpura?
Maybe his job was even more difficult. Keep up with the boss and he is improvising.
@The Conscious Indian I demur and return your respect. But isn't that exactly what I was saying?? Rakha's job appears to be more difficult because he has to follow a leader who is improvising. It's seems that this music is like jazz in that it revolves around a central theme. Tell me if I'm wrong and I'll accept it.
Ustaad Zakir Hussain is his son.
@@Bonzerboy don't bring jazz into this. Namaste.
@@Bonzerboy you're right. Keeping up with the main performer and that too a legend can be challenging but Allah Rakha was more than equipped to face the challenge. What a brilliant performance!
Whoever filmed this is an artist. I love the way it starts showing people in the crowd doing whatever their weird thing is, and then focuses more and more on the music and the people starting to realize they were hearing greatness, and then does a phenomenal job showing the skill of the players, plus their joy in playing. And then finally shows the huge appreciation of the crowd at the end - the people blown away by having heard something truly truly amazing beyond words.
D.E. Pennebaker!!!! The whole film this is from (Monterey Pop) is amazing
Don't forget the other filmmaker artist..the EDITOR! In French cinema the most essential characteristic of the film is 'de montage', from the French monter, “to assemble.” Montage refers to the editing of the film. As a side note I was there for this show in Monterrey in June 0f '67 with my pregnant wife we were 19 and 20..and still listening to Ravi's Ragas!
I agree though I think the 'weird' thing was just people literally backstage and 'vendors' who seemed to become more and more focused on the music.
Agree. I'm an artist. A well enjoyed life is my work. Let this music enter the mind. Great video of ppl being social.
Well said 💯☯️
No cameras, no cell phones. Just people and the musicians enjoying the music, as it should be. As it is meant to be.
@Degree7 what a fuckin hipster!
Come on now, you know if they had phones back then they'd be recording this shit too 😂
Well cameras are the only reason you're making such an observation and commenting on the video.
@@AA-sn9lz camera phones dickhead
Just drugs.
a Tabla player like no other and a sitar player like no other, people who witnessed this are blessed, this can never be repeated , never
Worlds best ,must have went through hell at school with surname.
@@1963johnbhoy why ?
@@darkseid856 Sharma ji ka beta
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There were other gems also Pt Nikhil Banerjee, Alauddin Khan sahab etc and in tabla also pt lacchu maharaj, birju maharaj kishan maharaj, samta prasad
They were and even now considered as great. Don't denigrate them
That look on Jimi Hendrix's face (and everyone else's), that "I have experienced something beyond what I imagined", gets me every time. To have been there when the idea of "what music can be" expands. That would have been something.
The guy playing the drums is the most adorable human being I've ever seen (except my son, of course).
Check out his son, he is even better than his father :) Ustad Zakir Hussain is son of Allah Rakha ( the table player in this video)
Agreed
@@vikascharan3460 yeah, he's handsome and cute too
@@vikascharan3460 he is the god of tabla .
@@vikascharan3460 i didn't see no table player lol
salute to the person who got filmed this, this footage is spectacular
this is one of the most important events of its kind filmed and recorded for history, which also led the way to the famous Woodstock festival ...
the quality of camera work and audio recording is super professional and pre planned by the filmmakers who did it ... (one of them is shown holding his 16mm camera @ around 02:05 btw ...)
this copy is 360p ... if reconverted into video by modern standards, it can result in higher resolutions up to 1080 and possibly higher to yield even better images!
and the sound quality is just great too!
more info in the link below ... there's additional info at the bottom of the page about those who made produced and filmed the event ... there are more info regarding the concert and the crew also available online ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Pop_Festival
The plan was to use Ravi as outro music for the film. A little way into Ravi playing and Pennebaker gathered the camera guys and told them to get to the stage.
It's still undeniably better than 2000s DD channel productions
D. A. Pennebaker
was the mastermind behind this documentary. Sadly, he passed away last week.
Amazing videography! Some visionary of that era for sure
This performance is for ages, someone somewhere must be listening this in the year 2100 C.E.
what really amazes me is how low the energy of the crowd is when he starts and how he slowly raises the crowd's energy level higher and higher and higher, absolutely incredible
exactly done
That is exactly what happens to me every time I watch this. Music is a profound, deep thing.
Alla Rhaka playing those tablas and producing such sound with just his fingers blows me away. Once you get into the groove this is very danceable music.
Thanks, Zakir Hussain ( Allah Rakha's son) is arguably better than his father :) check him out
@@vikascharan3460 no, in my opinion, Ustad Allah Rakha is the greatest, and also, he was the one who popularized the tabla in the first place. Ustad Zakir Hussain just took over and continues from where his father leftover. Still, nonetheless, Ustad Zakir Hussain's skill cannot be compared with any living artist!
Omgsh the tabla artist is phenomenal
@@retrorockdriquesrock9638 yes , he indeed is . And don't forget that they are CONSTANTLY improvising with each other .
@@darkseid856 ....."Extremely Amazing humans.......💛
Indian music takes you to the pinnacle of spirituality after which you just feel helpless. Tears flows down your cheeks. You become humble, a sense of gratitude flows henceforth. Listening to Indian classical music is a spiritual experience much much more than just a leisure experience.
I think we should call it the Hindu classical. Unfortunately after Hindus, now India is a mixture of various religions with different music styles
@@srinidhiacharla1766 it is Indian classical music.
@@srinidhiacharla1766 na , this is regional
@@ayushgangwar8 Persian descendants who are the Muslims and the other converted ones wouldn’t agree. They have their own classic and Indian classic doesn’t just mean the Hindu classical. Go to north east and you’d get a different type of classical music. So, thinking Hindus are the only ones surviving in India is just hypocritical. We are diversified and so is our music
@@srinidhiacharla1766i agree!
Imagine what Pandit Ravi could do with a Les Paul or Stratocaster . I've watched this for 50 years and it is just as astonishing in 2017 as it was when I was a teenager in 1967 . Vale Pandit .
You have been watching it for that many years ? :o
Awesome !!
Sincere thanX from a 73 y.o. Indian from New Delhi, India, to Afwan Floyd
for this upload.
1967 , 51 years ago , Pandit Ravi Shankar ji and Ustad Alla Rakha ji , the two were in their PRIME , prime of youth , prime of their respective talents , prime of their synchronisation , a total perfection in world of Indian classical music . All of which are standards to emulate for the generations that have followed
who is the lady playing another strings instrument on stage
@@novanalf4698 Kamala Chakravarty, playing the tanpura (tamboura).
It’s Norah Jones dad
must have been a great time to experience it in the moment :)
THE BEST LIVE PERFORMANCE BY ANY ARTIST OF ALL TIME. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I FORGOT TO ADD EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not really @@johngonzalez5722
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Hendrix and Bloomfield were both sitting there like "how can I do that on my little six-string guitar?"
JC Edwards I'm an Indian and I know sitar tops every string instrument and these players are the best in human history but I gotta say I love rock music and what jimi did with his guitar was truly exceptional.
JC Edwards mr. This is possible only in my India
Designated
As you probably know, Bloomfield's song East-West came out the year before, so he was into it.
@Greg Moonen sir where did you find the expanded version.. need to watch it. Would be of great help
the crowd are so damn serious at first, as that new soud/joy seeps in, then as Ravi and his drummer man get so seriously into the GROOVE and start to play off each other, the crowd feeds off the humour and playfulness of it, and the laughing and cheering starts. most auspicious occasion!!!! people being intuitive and glorious. beauty beauty beauty. what a fucking day they had!!
Very well said!!
Ustad Allah Rakha, Ustad Zakir Hussain’s father and one of the greatest tablchi in all time. Maestros both men.
It's a tabla
Gods manifestation of beauty and love on earth.
Rest in Peace Ravi Shankar. Thank you for exposing the world (and myself) to a sound we've never heard before. One of the greatest musicians to ever live!
Joshua Stephens shankat
Ravi Sankat?
@@bakerskaterboy6 Ravi Shankar
Thank God the tape machines and film cameras were rolling that day to capture one of the most thrilling and astounding musical performances of the 20th century. But this is only a small part of Ravi Shankar's performance at Monterey. With the 50th anniversary of this festival coming up in 2017, I truly hope that whoever owns the master tapes will release Shankar's ENTIRE four-hour concert from Monterey Pop!
4 hours? are you saying that was never released?
ya Pt Ravi shankar performed for 4 hours that day, and audience remained glued to it.
I thank the people who made tape machines ...the PEOPLE ......what God do you thank sir ?
Perhaps the PEOPLE ...human beings could be thanked ....the people who made this possible....
The people ...right here on the planet EARTH !!
I don't know kitni bar like Kiya hai or kaha se like Karu this is legendary...........
Just imagine that most of the people in the audience would be long gone by now, but they lived, they lived that day to witness this body-goosebumping performance LIVE from two of the greatests. They lived that one day as an entire life, a day which might've changed their entire life. Take a bow, maestros!
Most are alive as of 2020. Its only 53 years ago dude relax. A teen who went is your mothers age
I was 17 yrs old..I was there...all music at Monterey pop festival changed my life!!
I still here with 9 great grandchildren now.
Peace my bros and sisters.
Saw ravish at UCLA also.🙂
@b wap You see movie director Roger Vadim and his wife Jane Fonda. Is this discussion in the correct demographic for Jane Fonda trivia? Maybe I should search for the Women’s Media Center demographic.
The young children would be in their 50s and early 60s today. The teens would be in their late 60s and 70s. The adults would be in their middle to late 70s, then the middle aged people their would be in their 80s and 90s now. Plenty of them still alive.....
Just the older folks then would be about all died off by now.....
Don't forget Kamala Chakravarty playing the tanpura. She did a fantastic job too!
It's kinda' hard to imagine yourself in the place of the audience. They didn't have access to music outside the local scene or local radio. Before this, none of them had heard Indian classical/folk. They weren't running on the internet-fueled musical stimuli myself and my generation soak up. I wish that I could live this twenty minutes in their shoes.
BrotherCrispen made me cry bro...I wish I could be there for a few minutes it would have changed me forever
A few minutes in the woods- blooming,hendrix, Shankar and Allah Rakha trippin on music (this music LSD for me)
Good god, I dont want to sound cliché, but I do wish i was born in the 50s, just so I could've lived my teenage youth in that beautiful era. The audience looks like they're in a trance. Ah, how destiny works out
It was 4 hour long.
Ravi came to Berkeley and showed these kids how to blow it up.none of them had any idea how hard he was going to hit it. he became a rockstar on this day.
That tabla player is equally exquisite. It takes two to tango.
He is tabla maestro Zakir Hussain’s father , Ustad AllaRakkha khan.
Alla Rakha and Ravi Shankar arguably the greatest tabla and Sitar players in modern history. The skill here is another order of magnitude. Amazing.
Do please also include the lineage ('gharana') of Ustad Vilayat Khan (often described as the Imdad 'gharana') ... he was born in Mymensingh District of Bangladesh, and was a purist. Not someone who would play to the gallery ! Very smooth, genteel .. his son, Ustad Shujaat Hussain Khan is the reigning best (arguably, of course!) ... and he also sings north Indian folk!
For the less initiated .. Indian Classical music has many 'Gods' :D
To look up some really GREAT Tabla players, you must listen to the genius of Ahmad Jaan 'Thirakwa' of Lucknow, India. Thirakwa was the sobriquet he had earned, which actually means TREMORS ... is what is audience often felt when he was playing in full flow !
Thanks but Zakir Hussain ( Allah Rakha's son) is arguably better than his father :D check him out
Please do look at Annapurna Devi...Ravi Shankar's wife. Supposed to be better than him.
@@Agastya26 not supposed but in fact was better than him (known fact ravi shankar forbid her to play because of jealously)
Values my country represented, an Ustad and a Pandit from different communities shared brother like bond and rocked the west world together with monumental performance.
Look at us now. I am ashamed of the hatred fueled in us.
Hatred is perpetuated by the liberal media.
@@ocmom7831 bruh shut up lol
Didn't start now, it was always there. Just amplified by social media. Like every thing else. Don't be naive. Watch what's happening in the world right now.
1947 had not social media.@@gamerdude3126
Around the 6:20-6:40 mark, Jimi is digging it, and Bloomfield is, too. My dad brought home the Shankar/Menuhin LP the year it came out and it left an indelible mark on my 7-year-old mind. Thanks, Dad!
Me Yehudi and Mr Shankar created music that is so pure that it can't be expressed in words.. living in India I first experienced this music when I was 23 years old and it has changed me.. from the core
Hey, hey, there's a Monkee! (Micky Dolenz 16:48)
His great legacy is his music, giving it to George Harrison and the Beatles, and his daughter, Anoushka, and all his other students, and his other daughter, Norah Jones. Anoushka not only plays great Indian classical music, but has also brought the sitar into modern music. I imagine that soon no orchestra will be considered complete without at least one sitar and one tabla.
David Kelley - I don't know if you're still around but you're a bit mixed up about Indian Classical music. George Harrison is not his legacy. He was influenced by Ravi-ji's music and helped spread it around the world, but george could barely play the sitar let alone Indian classical music. Also, Anoushka is not his legacy either. She plays pretty good sitar but she is absolutely not one of the great sitar players and she absolutely didn't bring sitar into modern music. If anyone brought sitar to modern music it was George Harrison.
David Kelley - Also, Sitar will most likely never be considered a normal instrument in orchestras. Indian Classical music is completely different from Western classical. There is no harmony or polyphony in Indian classical music. And Western classical has nothing like the rhythm cycles of Indian music.
Harrison's pop music was still highly influenced by what he learned. Like Here Comes the Sun for example
@@jwallah346 Nothing you wrote is a reason orchestras have no use for sitars. You only listed why Indian music has no use for orchestras.
@@sunkintree I'm not saying that orchestras have no use for sitars, or tabla. A few years ago I saw Zakir Hussain in London play a tabla concerto with orchestra and it was fantastic. I've also seen some really nice pieces with sitar and orchestra. I'm just saying that it will most likely never become a standard orchestral instrument. Sitar players usually don't read western notation.
Today is his 100 th birth anniversary.😍
Damn... all these people are so stoned, I just can imagine what kind of experience this performance had to be for them - amazing...
😂 I can’t imagine
I'm sure they all were in heaven!☺️
I first encountered this when I was 16. It shocked me to my core and changed my life by giving me new ways to understand beauty, music and art. Thank you, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Ali Akhbar Khan for opening my ears and showing me a path that has enriched my life in more ways than I can ever count. I will be grateful always.
Actually it's only Ravi Shankar or "Pandit" Ravi Shankar. "Sri Sri" Ravi Shankar is a completely different person...lol.
Thast would be just one Sri. The guy with two Sris is a guru who lives near Bangalore
Ali akbar khan
??? Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a spiritual leader, not a musician...
It's Pandit Ravi Shankar. Shri shri Ravi Shankar is totally different person. And the man on the tabla is Allah rakha
I was 15 living smack down in the middle of Monterey peninsula. I wonder why so many long hair colorful people where hitchhiking South on highway 1. The whole 3 TV stations that where available where advertising Monterey international Pop festival. We couldn't afford the tickets my brother and Friends drove down there anyways and caught Ravi Shankar performance at the outskirts of the festival ground. And it blew our minds and still blows my mind every time I see this wonderful concert we couldn't afford to pay at witness him in person.
Legends says they are still applausing ! one of the best show ever
Can be , they were stoned
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1960s...the west still very much anti Indian and racism still at its peak. To see the hundreds of young people stand up and applaud and appreciate even though they had no idea of the genre of music was the break through in the march towards a racism free world. The master sitarist who is a Hundu and the music he played also based on hindu ragas was accompanied by the great tabla maestro Allah Rakha, a muslim -with no religious divide - superb!
Francesco Calle de rivas The west is still and will remain anti Indian. Its in their blood, I as an indian is so used to it, and I react accordingly.
+2006minesh I saw your comment and i thought that I would let you know not all westerners are anti Indian :) I love Indian culture, the music, the food and the people. It's history so rich from when my people sadly sapped it dry to today where it is a country on the rise. To say it lightly I always have and always will be in love with India
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Your apology is insignificant. My "in the blood" is spot on. As an indian I have endured tons of racial abuse from whites over the years, not from just a few individuals but white corporate culture.
Preach love and peace amongst your own kind, they need it more than anyone else. Oh while you at it teach them about respect as well.
+2006minesh This is really sad because this dude was being polite and loving and you totally shot him down. Love and acceptance has to come from both sides of of the world or you're just as bad as everyone you so quickly throw into a stereotype. Peace and love man, I hope you can someday give it as well as receive it.
Fair to say that 99.99% of the audience had no clue what Ravishankar and Alla Rakha were all about but they were gripped and mersmerised, hash pipe or otherwise, by the pure magic only this duo could create. As for me, had rewind this 3 times with no smoke or anything whatsoever. Powerful.
First saw this nearly 45 years ago and watch it regularly. it still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Stunning performance by Ali Akbar Khan. Thanks TH-cam - Thanks Afwan Floyd.
2006minesh Thanks. Apologies for getting this wrong. Appreciate the correction.
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Hey get the masters name right DAMMIT. I hate ignorance
@@2006minesh lmao harsh
Please correct the name as Pandit Ravi Shankar ...Tabla played by Ustad Allah Rakha
One of the greatest moments in musical history, celebrating 50 years this summer. I have that album and I've listened to Dhun monthly at the minimum, which would make at least 600 times. Every single time, it gives me chills.
two things. one: this is one of the most incredible performances ever. the way so many in the crowd jumped to their feet screaming as soon as the music stopped--you see all that sincere joy in their faces. it's beautiful. two: I really hate that TH-cam ruins this with commercials.
Ad blocker is your friend.
i played this on Sitar Hero
C J Parrott ya mean there's a Sitar Hero????j/k :P
😭👏👏👌
OK - that's funny as fuck.....and this is a great, epic video
Always wondered who that woman in the shot at the finale is. The one with the short dark hair. The look of absolute joy on her face is contagious. Makes me smile every time I see it. I hope the rest of her life was filled with moments of equal joy.
Frank Mirenzi. That's Kamala Shastri, Ravi Shankar's wife at the time.. she was a classical singer and dancer as well. She remained close friends with him and his family even after they split up so I guess everything was cool....
@@AnasKhan-ht2tb No, he is asking about the white lady in the audience who is sitting in the finale shot and suddenly erupts from her chair as the music concludes
It was Hilary Clinton......................Honest
Yeah i have that doubt too.. was she a celeb or an ordinary woman???
The one at 16:49 sitting in front of Mickey Dolenz? No idea, but I can see exactly what you mean.
Look at the respect the audience has for the artist. Quiet and listening. Even if they didn’t like the music, they respected it. I think we have lost that,sadly.
Today was an Epic day, I learned from google doodle that a great man named Ravi Shankar wrote this beautiful music. I feel blessed today
Created, yes. Wrote, no. This raga is a couple thousand years old, and he builds on the developmental framework of many great masters.
@@thesoundsmith right, well said
@@thesoundsmith 👍
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His humility after playing like that is such an inspiration.......what a genius he and Alla Rakha possess..
Amazing that they were able to step on stage in a festival dominated by blues and rock bands, play this wonderful instrumental music that must have sounded very exotic and strange to many people in the audience at the time, and still blow everyone away. Shankar and his band delivered a pure psychedelic and transcendental experience with no drugs or theatrics necessary to fuel their performance.
It's not just sound but also the beautiful composition.
I was never a big fan of Shankar until I watched this. I would be hard pressed after six decades to think of any performance that can top the energy this one does! Sadly, we forgot what we were all trying to "make right" with this World. Some day we may get it "right". Sadly, it won't be in my time. Love is all around. Really.
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Seeing Hendrix and Bloomfield watching Shankar's performance from the audience is pretty extraordinary.
This man was PHENOMENAL. Thank you, Mr. Shankar!
As some have posted before it's so obviously true. Music is the language that transcends all barriers, geographical, political, cultural and otherwise. Music has perhaps been the single most influence on our world to lead mankind to a greater respect and curiosity to try and understand each other's differences and to reconcile misunderstanding. When the world is at war due to political and organized religious quarrels musicians thru the ages have promoted peace, love and brotherhood of all mankind. I give my highest respect and praise to such beautiful souls such as Ravi Shankar and so many countless and some nameless like him. You brought joy and light into this world to share with all. Yahweh bless your place in heaven
mike swift read your comment in 2019. And I feel what you are saying.😍
Almost 50yrs later and we still haven't found our way back to the garden.
We never were there. Sadly. Other than in the fiction books religions use to control their followers.
Buggs Bunny Thanks for saying that. I wasn't trying to be religious.
You're right. Peace be with you.
PaulGreen11 guys, this is just one example of Indian Classical music. There must be a million videos just as amazing as this on TH-cam. Dig a little and you will find an endless cache of gold. Karthik Seshadri, for example, a pupil of Ravi Shankar.
:'(
This is so satisfying! I want to close my eyes, but I don’t want to miss anything!
My mum said Ravi Shankar ruined Monterey for her because after listing to this the rest was mundane That's was back in the late 60's or early 70's when it was still on the theatre :) Personally Jimi Hendrix is my favorite act but i've always loved Ravi Shankar 1>3
What isn't sublime about this piece of film? A superb musical moment in history perfectly captured, cut and delivered. So much going on, and all so subtly portrayed.
Couldn't agree with you more Dave. It was a stroke of genius having Ravi Shankar's performance appear last in the Monterey Pop film!! IMHO this was the apex of the peace and love movement....before Charles Manson...before the proliferation of destructive drugs (amphetamines, heroin, etc)...before the Altamont/Hells Angels tragedy, etc. Most people associate Woodstock as the defining moment of the counterculture but it was really more of its last stand. Monterey was when the optimism and good vibes were at a peak---and Shankar's performance beautifully captures the hopes and dreams of the time!!
Very perceptive. And yet I like to think it will happen again. Maybe in the next generation, when they rebel against their device addicted parents. Full circle.
marinman39 so we dropped out, went on the inner journey, the existential trip, plugged in for the information age, and promptly rebelled against all logic? sounds about right. the time is here for change.
Peace man.
Brilliant repertoire by the sitar genius himself. To those who had never heard his music or and Indian music as a whole it must have a very uplifting and spiritual moment. I know it was for me when I first heard it in San. Fran in 1968, @ 16 yo. I was blown away. Still am today, 50 years later when I here Ravi's songs, nice to get stones still too as well, LOL Namasta friends!
Namaste to all...
Music is to unite people.
Music is lot better than drugs.
Absolutely
Music is a lot better on drugs
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Yes bro🎵🎶🎶🎵🎵👍
@@Luke-cl8nu truer words have never been said
The greatest music I've ever heard in my life
The best musician ever lived
Allah Rakha Khan sahab ....simply awesome with his Tabla...
Right Buddy :)
I was fortune to take several tabla lessons with him before I discovered the Ali Akbar College in San Fran (he told his translator I had the best beginner's Na he ever heard )
But his kid ain't bad, either... Both amazing monsters.
@@thesoundsmith Awesome! Not everyone gets such a great and rare moment in life . You are very lucky , sir . :)
I've watched this segment since 1971, never old.
Its now December 2020,....after almost a year in isolation, trying not to catch the Corona Virus, and dying. I have routinely listened to Ravi Shankar, a few times a year since my earliest exposure to it, in around 1969. I was 16 in 1969. I'm 67, presently.
He would have been 96 today. The music is timeless.
And now 100?
I LOVE Ravi Shankar!! What a genius! I could listen to him playing sitar all day; in fact, I think I will!!
One could say, the greatest duo to perform on stage :')
Sometimes I feel this was the era I was supposed to be in
These were dark times. The music was good though.
same here!
Not alone on that one, friend
You can recreate the era. You're not alone..
For sure, whatever the entrance fee was for Monterey, even if they only saw this guy, they got there money's worth.
This is HISTORY, not only music history. The camera person must have felt this was an auspicious occasion and used his true genius gift to capture the look of awe and deep appreciation on these unsuspecting faces. There is so much joy and beauty, we are all blessed to share in this moment of world peace. Brothers and sisters, let this call out to ALL OF US to honor this performance by putting our lives back upon this path. LOVE to everyone of us. You have our most sincere gratitude Ravi Shankar and Ustad Allah Tahka!!! Your magical music has caused many hearts to grow in eighteen minutes and forty two seconds!
I was there.June 16th,1967.Awesome.A jr in highschool.Totally blew there minds with everyone Asli passing out the drug whoever wanted it for free.A day I have tattooed on my mind some 53 years ago.Groovy man.🇱🇷😎👁️🌻 power.
6:30 Jimi Hendrix
15:54 Michelle Philips
6:36 Mike Bloomfield
16:49 Micky Dolenz
there are more familiar faces in that crowd although can't tell recall their names ...
Mickey D was the original Mc' D. No golden arches needed.
4:56 Helena Kallianiotes (from Fives Easy Pieces with Jack Nicholson)
❤❤❤
It's another form them
( Those may be infuenced by here )
An legendary music ♥️
Also from ancient
Ravi Shankar music is unbelievable and very spiritual, awesome musician even now outstanding thanks for the memories
Yep. Hare Krsna!
Ravi met the world renown Hare Krsna movement's guru, Srila Prabhupada.
Now Hare Krsna is a household word.
Although it's not a material chant.... Hare Krsna comes directly from the eternal spiritual sky.
Be blessed.
I shed tears and I've never been this close to feeling the universe
have u felt urself?
What an amazing performance! I've been a fan of Ravi's for 40 years, but sadly, never got to see him perform. What skills! He's at the top of his game during this era. It's so thrilling, too, to witness the audience's reaction. Thanks for this...
ravi is garbage, unsophisticated white tourist music
His music can get you "high" --in the moment with no intrusive thoughts.
It was a magical musical prayer experienced in various ways by those who heard it. Look at the two boys, perhaps two to three years old.
A great musician.There is only one Ravi in a Century.Listen and enjoy.Wish he could live forever.
Vinodlal Kataria same here.... :)
Call and response. The ultimate musical duality. Even better with drums asking questions.
This was an amazing performance. I love how they got a standing ovation that they most certainly deserved.
No phones. Only calm faces. No hurry to go anywhere!!! ♥️
Still one of the greatest performers ever recorded
Truly MASTERS and their instruments. they created something profound and massive here. I have no doubt many lives were touched and forever changed by this performance, just incredible.
Someone 2019????
yash wankhede Why not???
Untill i die i will play this amazing pschaedelic masterpiece
@@heartbreakkid5757 I am always surprised when someone says it being psychedelic.
It's probably a cultural thing but for us Indians it is like exploring very deep and profound emotions like melancholy, joy, sadness it's basically living through those moments in your life which you might never go through, it is that abstract....
@@jay-mg9rf people here seems don't enjoy this kind of music but i do,hare khrisna brother...regard from Indonesia
@@heartbreakkid5757 yeah it feels so bad that many of my western friends associate hindustani classical music with drugs and trippy stuff, when actually it is very spiritual and used in many bhajans (songs made for the hindu gods)
Have watched this so many times. Makes me laugh and cry for sheer joy at the beauty of the moment. Was n't there, but thank god it was captured on film. Always makes me feel joyful. Christopher C.
One of the greatest music videos of all time!
Ravi Shanker was so far ahead of his time. His piece with Eddie Veddar is timeless, priceless, and eternal.
The filming is absolutely brilliant
I am curious who did the video?
This is from the film Monterey Pop by D.A. Pennebaker. The entire film is excellent.
One of the few times I ever really felt the 'morning' of a morning raga - except Gujari Todi always works... Great introductory sequence (but SEVEN MINUTES before we see Alla Rakha's face? Seems a tad 'underkill.' Other than that, I agree.
There were dozens of cameramen covering the event !!
namaste!
Luis Arellano namaste from India
Namaste .(after 2 years) :)
namaste bhai kaisa hai?
@@absolutscheisse4483 are bhai itna Hindi nahi ata hoga usko . 😂
@@darkseid856 baat to sahi hai 😂
tv me aaya tha ye ZEETV par isiliye dekha ye
I missed this because I was born in 1963. Now that I'm 56 years along, I hear this and fall in love with it. Such progressive units, pitch, tempo.... they keep changing all around in an ancient, perfect Mode. The lady in this band, not shown enough in this video is the beautiful, smiling with red lipstick, mature female pickin' or pluckin' her stand up stringed instrument I saw in the audience: Jimmy Hendrix, Mike Bloomfield, Mary from Peter Paul and Mary. hahaha I'm glad folks got to see this live.
i missed this because i was born in 1990.. we're in the same boat
Yea. Jimmy Hendrix was like Holy Sh*t!