Answer: Sultry Hawaii native Tia Carrere played bassist/vocalist Cassandra Wong, the love of Wayne's life.
According to the first bio of her I found online, Tia was born in 1967, which happened to be the year that ushered in the golden age of rock. (You have an even more golden age in mind? Lemme know what you think it might be.)
The Big Event of '67 was the Monterey International Pop Festival (billed as "first annual," but it didn't work out that way), the first of its kind and still the best one ever - Woodstock, Live Aid and Bonnaroo included.
Volumes have been written about those three days in June nearly four years ago, but suffice it to say that the festival's headliners, the Mamas and the Papas, must have been on a major downer by the time they closed the show on Sunday night.
Why? You try competing against the major-stage U.S. debuts of the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Who, not to mention a lineup that also included a cast of present and future superstars ranging from from Simon and Garfunkel to the Grateful Dead. By the time John, Michelle, Denny and Mama Cass crooned their tunes, they must have known their brand of folk-rooted rock wasn't quite the hippest thing going anymore. (Still, it sounds pretty darn good on the Monterey CD and DVD sets.)
My favorite part of the proceedings - one my kids always get a kick out of seeing - is the crowd's reaction to Jimi's famous guitar-lighting antics, hot on the heels of Pete Townshend smashing up his axe. D.A. Pennebaker's film crew captured some scenes of audience members staring at the stage in utter disbelief, if not abject fear. The tide had definitely turned.
And we've seen nothing to top it since.
Question: One of the bands at Monterey had just had its debut album released by Columbia Records a few weeks previously. On the night of the debut party, a couple of band members were arrested for cavorting with some young ladies, suffering the first of what would be many blows that derailed what rock historians say should have been a tremendously successful career. What was this group of San Franciscans?
According to the first bio of her I found online, Tia was born in 1967, which happened to be the year that ushered in the golden age of rock. (You have an even more golden age in mind? Lemme know what you think it might be.)
The Big Event of '67 was the Monterey International Pop Festival (billed as "first annual," but it didn't work out that way), the first of its kind and still the best one ever - Woodstock, Live Aid and Bonnaroo included.
Volumes have been written about those three days in June nearly four years ago, but suffice it to say that the festival's headliners, the Mamas and the Papas, must have been on a major downer by the time they closed the show on Sunday night.
Why? You try competing against the major-stage U.S. debuts of the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Who, not to mention a lineup that also included a cast of present and future superstars ranging from from Simon and Garfunkel to the Grateful Dead. By the time John, Michelle, Denny and Mama Cass crooned their tunes, they must have known their brand of folk-rooted rock wasn't quite the hippest thing going anymore. (Still, it sounds pretty darn good on the Monterey CD and DVD sets.)
My favorite part of the proceedings - one my kids always get a kick out of seeing - is the crowd's reaction to Jimi's famous guitar-lighting antics, hot on the heels of Pete Townshend smashing up his axe. D.A. Pennebaker's film crew captured some scenes of audience members staring at the stage in utter disbelief, if not abject fear. The tide had definitely turned.
And we've seen nothing to top it since.
Question: One of the bands at Monterey had just had its debut album released by Columbia Records a few weeks previously. On the night of the debut party, a couple of band members were arrested for cavorting with some young ladies, suffering the first of what would be many blows that derailed what rock historians say should have been a tremendously successful career. What was this group of San Franciscans?
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