[4] The New York Times explains "The movie is prefaced by some footage of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix".

Footage from the film has resurfaced in many knock-off releases such as Little Richard (1981) and Jerry Lee Lewis: The Story of Rock and Roll (1990).

[5] In 1992, the film was released alongside two other live-performance videos by Warner Reprise as part of their Classic Rock series.

[6] Mark Deming of Rovi explains that the film "captures the self-proclaimed "quasar of rock" in fine and unfettered form in this 1969 date at a Toronto festival".

The independent sequences have a development that only real-time, relatively uninterrupted seems able to provide, and consequently the whole film has a completeness that is inevitably missing from Monterey Pop, with its highly selective editing approach".