Tune of the Week: Otis at Monterey Pop

Here is Otis Redding and his band hipping the 1967 hippy crowd onto some serious funk. Closing out the second night of the Monterey Pop Festival, the Stax Records crew proceed to wreck shop. Otis closes the set out with a fiery version of one of his best songs. D.A. Pennebaker catches the sentiment of the song and wraps up the flim about the festival with a montage of tender moments, and then rolls credits. There is no way to follow a perfomance that soulful! Indeed, the performance ended up being one of Otis’ biggest. Six months later he would tragically die in a plane crash.