All week long, Vulture is exploring the many ways true crime has become one of the most dominant genres in popular culture. Darkness came early in the Bay Area in December, and with its arrival, the temperature fell precipitously. Some of the crowd had been overdressed for a warm day in the sun; now, most of the crowd was underdressed for what was proving to be a very chilly evening.
The festival was intended to be an epic event — and it certainly was, but for all the wrong reasons. The festival was meant to bring the radically counter-cultural s to a glorious end. Instead, the festival that meant to encapsulate the Summer of Love ended in tragedy when four people died, including year-old Meredith Hunter who was stabbed by a Hells Angel.
Passaro was later acquitted of the stabbing after claiming he acted in self-defense. The film was released in as Gimme Shelter. At the New York City press conference on November 26th,Mick Jagger said he thought that the free Northern California concert would follow in the footsteps of the Woodstock festival, in terms of how people would get along: [ Mick Jagger : "We are doing a free concert in San Francisco.
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He was just being uptight. He reached over and grabbed the guy beside me by the ear and hair, and yanked on it, thinking it was funny, you know, kind of laughing. And so, this guy shook loose; he yanked away from him.
The Rolling Stones recorded it for their album Aftermath. Although it was never released as a single in English-speaking countries, it is one of the band's more popular songs from the period and appears on several best-of compilations, such as Hot Rocks Init was released as a single in Japan.
For information about how to use this forum please check out forum help and policies. Posted by: southboundtrain. In no way am I intending to spark a discussion about Altamont or what happened at the end of Under My Thumb.
The Rolling Stones were trying to prove their critics wrong by booking a free festival to wrap up their tour at Altamont Speedway on Dec. But what they intended as a way for their fans to come together for a day of music and celebration turned into a tragic debacle that ended with a homicide — effectively bringing the peace-and-love ethos of the '60s to a jarring end. During the Stones' American tour inthey faced repeated criticism from fans and journalists who accused the band of being mercenary, claiming that ticket prices were far too high.
The tale has been told many times of how, at Altamont, among three hundred thousand fans, the Hell's Angels, serving as semiofficial guards, killed a young fan, black, who had a white date and the temerity to offend the Angels by getting too close to them, or their motorcycles, or the stageand then, at some point, pulled a gun—all the while Mick Jagger was singing "Under My Thumb. But by the time I left, in the late afternoon, Altamont already felt like death. Let it sound mystical, I wasn't the only one who felt oppressed by the general ambience; a leading Berkeley activist told me he had dropped acid at Altamont and had received the insight that "everyone was dead.
Meredith Curly Hunter, Jr. October 24, — December 6, was an year-old African-American teen who was killed at the Altamont Free Concert. During the performance by The Rolling StonesHunter approached the stage, and was violently driven off by members of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who had been contracted to serve as security guards.
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