Music Notes
I watched the entirety of Otis Redding’s Monterey Pop performance this week, as filmed by D.A. Pennebaker. It was great. There were so many artists who died young in the late 60s and early 70s, mostly from being idiots, but also in tragic circumstances such as Redding. Such a tragedy. Among all of these artists, he’s one that I really could see remaining a major power in American music at least through the 70s, along with Hendrix. Morrison would have been a disaster as the sleaze of the 70s built….
