This issue features a four page interview with The Doors, a four page recap of the Monterey Pop Festival, a three page joint review of the debut albums from The Grateful Dead, Moby Grape, and Country Joe & The Fish (all today regarded as psychedelic rock classics,) and a three page review of the Are You Experienced by the Jimi Hendrix Experience (the UK issue, as it had not yet been released in the United States.) At the time of this piece, Hendrix had only released one single in the United States, his debut 'Hey Joe,' though the Experience had just played the Monterey Pop Festival and Fillmore. David Harris's review/article begins 'Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell are without a doubt the most important musical, and in some ways, dramatic, happening in the world today.' The co.
