Old Man reacts to The Who performing "My Generation," Live at the Monterey Pop Festival #reaction

The Monterey Pop Festival in June of 1967 provided a big boost to the careers of many little-known musical performers including Jimi Hendrix , Janis Joplin, Otis Redding and four guys from England who called themselves The Who.

Their performance of "My Generation" was the last in their set on Sunday night and the audience was shocked when lead guitarist Peter Townsend smashed his guitar into his amplifier and drummer Keith Moon kicked over his drum set amid an explosion of smoke bombs!

The song had been the band's first hit record. Released in October 1965, it rose to #2 in England. It only reached # 74 in the United States, so the band was somewhat unknown here before their appearance at Monterey. Like it did for do many groups, Monterey made them instantly famous.

Her is a link to the original video:

https://youtu.be/Kr82lZOAFYI?si=gwOhYfIcaGSeSfQt

The band also performed the song with even bigger explosions on the Smother's Brothers TV Show. That video is definitely worth a watch:

https://youtu.be/OiSKu7SbGNQ?si=MeunJYhUGVJMy5ok

As mentioned, I have now updated my original Top 40 column to a Top 50 on Substack. The link to my 8,000 word opus is here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/corrin/p/my-top-50-mostly-musical-artists?r=ze2j1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true