Fifty years ago Jimi Hendrix returned to his native country and in one fell swoop changed the musical landscape for all time. It was the galvanizing U.S. debut performance of THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE at The Monterey International Pop Festival that propelled Hendrix and his bandmates Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding to the top ranks of international rock royalty. THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE at Monterey is a remarkable visual and aural document that reconfirms what the Monterey audience bore witness to on June 18 1967: Hendrix's unbridled talent and flair for showmanship are unparalleled in the annals of music. The set of songs that THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE performed at Monterey was introduced by Brian Jones, THE ROLLING STONES' guitarist whose presence at the festival amounted to a kind of benediction by an acknowledged rock god. He knew full well who he was introducing as Hendrix had moved to London fewer than nine months earlier and achieved icon status in the U.K. in very short order.