Noel Redding played bass with the Jimi Hendrix Experience from 1966 to 1969.

This woman is transported by the music at Monterey Pops

A young woman's joy in the music transcends the emotions of those around her, including her friend Sam Andrew (right) of Big Brother and the Holding Company.

Chet Helms, founder and major domo of the Family Dog concert hall in Francisco, introducing a band at Monterey Pops

Her attention is riveted on the band, making music no more than thirty feet from where we stood.

Monterey Pops Festival

The crowd at Monterey Pops Festival was performing, too, but not on stage. Flowers, patchouli oil, handmade clothes and leather were everywhere. So were psychedelics. It was June 1967, the beginning of the Summer of Love, when everything seemed possible.

To find photos of the musicians that made the three-day festival a success, click on these links: Janis and Big Brother, Jefferson Airplane, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Simon and Garfunkel, Country Joe and the Fish, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and Hugh Masakela.