The contrast between the love and hope in Monterey Pop and Woodstock and the terrible reality in Easy Rider portrays the world climate as the 60s melted into the 70s. War was ever present and impossible to escape from. Hopes and dreams of earlier years seemed to be disappearing. Before the love and peace were gone, the two above concerts films came to spread some form of cheer. Monterey Pop begins with a young girl talking about the excitement that awaits them. The whole scene exists to make people feel happy and safe. From such feelings come performances that are impossible to recreate, as Janis Joplin found out when the filmmakers didn't turn on the cameras for what was supposedly "the best performance of her career". Jimi Hendrix's iconic performance, however, was captured and exists for all of us who never had the privilege to see him live. The festival was still couple years from the true collapse of the good feelings of the 60s. Two years later and one month after the premiere of the moral smashing Easy Rider, Woodstock took the music world by storm. This festival is remembered much more by people today than Monterey Pop, and is what people refer to when they talk of the drugs and love of the 60s. What is strange about that is it really was the end of the 60s, one last hurray before it all came crashing down. Easy Rider already paved the way for what was to come and Woodstock was people's way to forget about it for a weekend. Unity, love, and psychedelic drugs ruled for one more event before  the terrible events at Altamont  would show it was all over. To this day we still celebrate Woodstock, and to a lesser extent Monterey Pop, through film, television, and song. One such instance is the 2009 film Taking Woodstock that celebrating the feelings and unity of the festival.