Perhaps one thing I didn't really do justice to in this review, is Campbell's considerable reputation and legacy as a musician, particularly in respect to his work with the Wrecking Crew. Co-incidentally there's an interview with Jimmy Webb in this month's Mojo where he does just that. Here he's talking about the Monterrey Festival:
'Lou Adler and John Phillips never edited us into footage of Monterrey Pop. They left the Wrecking Crew lying on the cutting room floor.
What we did was great. And the most popular act at the festival was Otis Redding. And Otis Redding was a traditional nightclub performer just like Johnny (Rivers). They were concentrating on Jefferson Airplane and all this airy-fairy, hippy-dippy stuff and Otis Redding came out and wrecked the joint. The reason he was able to do that is because he was an experienced professional musician. He'd been doing it all his life. Most of the people on that stage were dilettantes, Johnny-come-latelies. That's the reason Glen Campbell worked from dawn 'til dark every day on other people's records -it's because there were so few people who knew how to play. That's just a fact.'
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