The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was the conclusion to the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour. It was also marred by tragedy and ...
The Grateful Dead may be icons of the peace and love generation, but a new book reveals the band’s key role in the ill-fated Altamont free music festival, an infamous 1969 concert stained by violence, ...
The Rolling Stones perform "Gimme Shelter" at the Altamont Speedway in California. (1969 File Photo/The Associated Press) “Rock and roll’s all-time worst day, December 6th.” So wrote John Burks in ...
One day in early December 1969, a KGO radio traffic helicopter cruised past the East Bay city of Livermore, on its way to the hilly, barren, treeless landscape known as the Altamont Pass. That copter ...
Fifty years ago, on Dec. 6, 1969 — "rock ‘n’ roll's all-time worst day… a day when everything went perfectly wrong,” according to Rolling Stone magazine — one of the greatest tragedies in music ...
Four months after Woodstock celebrated the free-spirited nature of the 1960s, Altamont brought the decade to a crashing close. The free festival, which took place at a speedway 50 miles east of San ...
Mick Jagger on stage at Altamont. Dec. 6, 1969. Ethan Russell has a funny story about the late Jim Marshall, who helped create the archetype of the rock ‘n’ roll photographer. Marshall, who took ...
The 50th anniversary of the historic Altamont rock festival occurred last week. Perhaps you noticed all those news reports on the internet featuring photos of beautiful young women dancing around with ...
Altamont has by now acquired the kind of dynastic weight that even the Rolling Stones, for all their grandiose posturing as they promoted the concert, could never have imagined. Today, when we talk ...
The music died 50 years ago Friday. The crazy thing is how close it came to dying in our arms, at the raceway in the rolling hills of southern Sonoma County. On Dec. 6, 1969, the Rolling Stones ...
The Grateful Dead may be icons of the peace and love generation, but a new book reveals the band’s key role in the ill-fated Altamont free music festival, an infamous 1969 concert stained by violence, ...
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