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June 29, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 37The Hip Homunculus
By Richard Golstein"MONTEREY -- It begins to sound like the plot of one of those absurdly gargantuan Hollywood musicals. They are sitting around John Phillips's living room in the highest holiest Hollywood, when suddenly the phone rings and someone with a lot of bread is offering those present a share of what promises to be a very profitable venture -- a pop blast at Monterey, festival capital of the West. Everybody listens and yawns the way superstars do at the prospect of earning another line on next year's 1040, when suddenly some supercool Mickey Rooney, with a flower child June Haver nestled at his feet, comes up with the eureka idea: "Let's do a show of our own. A pop festival, with flowers and food and a trippy flippy cast of thousands. Yeah."
And they do. For once, the money men back off and with them that cardboard consistency the title "music festival" usually conjures. For the first time in anyone's memory, the scene exploits back."
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