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Sitar player extraordinaire Ravi Shankar died on Tuesday from complications following heart surgery. He was 92.
Although the Indian born Shankar had performed all over the globe for many years, it wasn’t until his association with George Harrison of The Beatles that Shankar became an international superstar in his own right. Although Shankar has long been associated with the Quiet Beatle, it was actually Roger McGuinn of the Byrds who introduced the two at the home of Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1965. To have been a fly on the wall at that party.
Shankar was also the father of singer Norah Jones although they had a distant relationship.
Here is Shankar blowing away minds at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival including those of Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas and Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees.
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Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.13.12 @ 8:49AM
If one uses the hit by Eric Burdon & the Animals (Monterey) as the accurate chronicle of the 1967 Pop Festival, it was not Ravi Shankar, but the Grateful Dead, who blew everybody's minds. Mr. Burdon, who used the sitar prominently in the track, characterized the quality of Mr. Shankar's performance at the show as having made him "cry" (a quality the Animal's front man apparently shares with the current Speaker of the House).
Mick Lee| 12.13.12 @ 10:12AM
Shankar or The Grateful Dead blowing people's minds at Monterey? Are you serious?
Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix. 'Nuff said.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.13.12 @ 1:37PM
I believe Mr. Burdon's lyric about Jimi went to the effect of:
Jimi Hendrix baby believe he set the world on Fire
and followed the lyric about the Grateful Dead.
Mick Lee| 12.14.12 @ 7:05AM
Eric was a great singer with some tasty hits; but his judgment is hardly pristine.
OTIS AND JIMI!!!
If Eric doesn't see them as the very top in that festival, than all I can say is this is another example of "the white man keeping the black man down".
Skippy| 12.13.12 @ 2:48PM
RIP Ravi. You could really pick, dude.
M0nterey Pop '67: watch Cass Elliot go from gabbing w/friends to attentive to stunned as Janis sings Ball and Chain.
Occam's Tool| 12.13.12 @ 5:07PM
Things truly have dropped lower: Greatest female pop singer in '67: Janis. Greatest in 2012: Adele.
I don't think people will be playing "Skyfall" fifty to a hundred years later. But Janis will still be tearing a piece of our hearts then.