Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 22,23 (click to see context) from:
The Altamont concert may have been conceived as a "Woodstock West", but instead wound up being cited as a cultural landmark heralding the death of TheSixties and the counter-culture.[[note]]Involving actual death as well. Besides Hunter there were three other deaths at the concert: two people struck in a hit-and-run accident by a culprit who was never identified, and a young LSD-addled man (ironically from upstate New York, the location of Woodstock) who made an ill-advised attempt to swim in a large aqueduct adjacent to the raceway[[/note]] Besides its cultural implications, the film is also one hell of a rockumentary, featuring the Stones at their peak, as well as performances by Jefferson Airplane, Ike and Music/TinaTurner, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.[[note]]While Santana and CSNY also performed at Altamont, neither appeared in the film for contractual reasons. You can find photos at ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, though. And some recently discovered silent footage of CSNY at Altamont can be seen on YouTube, thanks to the Library of Congress.[[/note]] Prior to Altamont, the Stones are shown recording "Wild Horses" and "Brown Sugar" at a studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama; both songs would subsequently be included on their classic ''Music/StickyFingers'' album. Creator/GeorgeLucas was a cameraman at Altamont; his camera jammed and none of his footage made it in the film. This film helped make the Maysles brothers famous; they went on to direct several more "direct cinema" documentaries, like the iconic ''Film/GreyGardens''.
to:
The Altamont concert may have been conceived as a "Woodstock West", but instead wound up being cited as a cultural landmark heralding the death of TheSixties and the counter-culture.[[note]]Involving actual death as well. Besides Hunter there were three other deaths at the concert: two people struck in a hit-and-run accident by a culprit who was never identified, and a young LSD-addled man (ironically from upstate New York, the location of Woodstock) who made an ill-advised attempt to swim in a large aqueduct adjacent to the raceway[[/note]] Besides its cultural implications, the film is also one hell of a rockumentary, featuring the Stones at their peak, as well as performances by Jefferson Airplane, Ike and Music/TinaTurner, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.[[note]]While Santana and CSNY also performed at Altamont, neither appeared in the film for contractual reasons. You can find photos at ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, though. And some recently discovered silent footage of CSNY at Altamont can be seen on YouTube, Website/YouTube, thanks to the Library of Congress.[[/note]] Prior to Altamont, the Stones are shown recording "Wild Horses" and "Brown Sugar" at a studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama; both songs would subsequently be included on their classic ''Music/StickyFingers'' album. Creator/GeorgeLucas was a cameraman at Altamont; his camera jammed and none of his footage made it in the film. This film helped make the Maysles brothers famous; they went on to direct several more "direct cinema" documentaries, like the iconic ''Film/GreyGardens''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Deleted line(s) 53 (click to see context) :
* SnuffFilm: Meredith Hunter is killed on camera. The film even includes a scene where his corpse is zipped up and flown away in a helicopter as his hysterical girlfriend follows. In 1970, many film critics were very upset with the Maysles brothers for showing the death of Hunter in their movie. As were Hunter's family. [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121 The article]] in ''Rolling Stone'' describes the uncaring attitude of police and concert organizers, the Stones included. No one ever contacted the family to offer condolences or accept responsibility. By his family's account, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Meredith_Hunter Meredith Hunter]] was an [[NiceGuy educated, hard-working and courteous man]]... who was high on meth and waving a gun around. Until recently, Meredith Hunter's grave at Skyview Cemetery in Vallejo, California [[DishonoredDead was unmarked]]. Artist Sam Green exposed this in his 2006 film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnVY37b0ME lot 63, grave c]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Uber rare CSNY footage - Altamont - 12.6.1969
Changed line(s) 22,23 (click to see context) from:
The Altamont concert may have been conceived as a "Woodstock West", but instead wound up being cited as a cultural landmark heralding the death of TheSixties and the counter-culture.[[note]]Involving actual death as well. Besides Hunter there were three other deaths at the concert: two people struck in a hit-and-run accident by a culprit who was never identified, and a young LSD-addled man (ironically from upstate New York, the location of Woodstock) who made an ill-advised attempt to swim in a large aqueduct adjacent to the raceway[[/note]] Besides its cultural implications, the film is also one hell of a rockumentary, featuring the Stones at their peak, as well as performances by Jefferson Airplane, Ike and Music/TinaTurner, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.[[note]]While Santana and CSNY also performed at Altamont, neither appeared in the film for contractual reasons. You can find photos at ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, though.[[/note]] Prior to Altamont, the Stones are shown recording "Wild Horses" and "Brown Sugar" at a studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama; both songs would subsequently be included on their classic ''Music/StickyFingers'' album. Creator/GeorgeLucas was a cameraman at Altamont; his camera jammed and none of his footage made it in the film. This film helped make the Maysles brothers famous; they went on to direct several more "direct cinema" documentaries, like the iconic ''Film/GreyGardens''.
to:
The Altamont concert may have been conceived as a "Woodstock West", but instead wound up being cited as a cultural landmark heralding the death of TheSixties and the counter-culture.[[note]]Involving actual death as well. Besides Hunter there were three other deaths at the concert: two people struck in a hit-and-run accident by a culprit who was never identified, and a young LSD-addled man (ironically from upstate New York, the location of Woodstock) who made an ill-advised attempt to swim in a large aqueduct adjacent to the raceway[[/note]] Besides its cultural implications, the film is also one hell of a rockumentary, featuring the Stones at their peak, as well as performances by Jefferson Airplane, Ike and Music/TinaTurner, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.[[note]]While Santana and CSNY also performed at Altamont, neither appeared in the film for contractual reasons. You can find photos at ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, though. And some recently discovered silent footage of CSNY at Altamont can be seen on YouTube, thanks to the Library of Congress.[[/note]] Prior to Altamont, the Stones are shown recording "Wild Horses" and "Brown Sugar" at a studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama; both songs would subsequently be included on their classic ''Music/StickyFingers'' album. Creator/GeorgeLucas was a cameraman at Altamont; his camera jammed and none of his footage made it in the film. This film helped make the Maysles brothers famous; they went on to direct several more "direct cinema" documentaries, like the iconic ''Film/GreyGardens''.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
A few more details and some potholes
Changed line(s) 10,11 (click to see context) from:
The free concert, which was anticipated by many as being a West Coast answer to that summer's UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}} festival, was originally supposed to be held at San Jose State University; then, after they backed out, at Golden Gate Park in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco; but there were conflicts with city authorities and a previously-scheduled football game there. The show was then moved to the Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma County, but financial conflicts with the raceway owners prompted one final location change just 24 hours before the event, to the Altamont Speedway, a much smaller and more remote venue on the outskirts of Alameda County. This last-minute planning led to 300,000 people descending upon a barren, unfriendly environment with an extremely small stage (designed for the earlier venues, where it would have been up on a hill or platform) placed at the ''bottom'' of a hill. With gravity pulling people down the incline, they ended up in a mass crush against the stage.
to:
The free concert, which was anticipated by many as being a West Coast answer to that summer's UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}} festival, had a TroubledProduction. It was originally supposed to be held at San Jose State University; then, after they backed out, at Golden Gate Park in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco; but there were conflicts with city authorities and a previously-scheduled football game there. The show was then moved to the Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma County, but financial conflicts with the raceway owners prompted one final location change just 24 hours before the event, to the Altamont Speedway, a much smaller and more remote venue on the outskirts of Alameda County. This last-minute planning led to 300,000 people descending upon a barren, unfriendly environment with an extremely small stage (designed for the earlier venues, where it would have been up on a hill or platform) placed at the ''bottom'' of a hill. With gravity pulling people down the incline, they ended up in a mass crush against the stage.
Changed line(s) 16,19 (click to see context) from:
The result was a disaster. While things started out fairly well, with a desire to recreate the legendary "peace and music" Woodstock vibe, the concert eventually descended into chaos and violence. Part of this was due to the lack of crowd control. Performers and attendees later described a very strange, and even nasty, ambience that was the opposite of Woodstock,[[note]]Rock reviewer/historian Greil Marcus said later, "It felt perfectly safe, except for acid casualties, and then the Angels, but people were unfriendly, territorial, selfish -- just a weird reversal of Woodstock, where I’d been just a few months before. And completely different from the crowd at the Oakland Arena, where the Stones played at the beginning of their tour."[[/note]] with a sense that everyone was impatient to have the full Woodstock experience crammed into a single day. They were in a hurry to get to the concert site, get high on whatever drugs happened to be available, then watch the show, with the hopes that the other 300,000 people at the show would just stay out of their way and leave them alone. At Woodstock, security had been provided by a gentle "Please Force" (please do this, please don't do that) led by professional NonIronicClown and Merry Prankster Wavy Gravy. At Altamont, it was the Hells Angels, a ''biker gang'', who were soon heavily liquored up. They have a hard and fast rule about anyone touching an Angel's bike without permission, and apparently a bike got knocked over in the crowd crush and the Angels began beating people with weighted pool cues. They were soon beating anyone at random. They didn't stop with audience members; Jefferson Airplane lead vocalist Marty Balin was knocked unconscious, as shown in the film.[[note]]Grace Slick remembers the Angels beating one of the Airplane's crew people and Balin trying to stop them. The Angels piled onto Balin because he said "Fuck you!" The Angels said "No one says 'fuck you' to an Angel," so Balin repeated it. Balin himself remembers jumping off the stage and yelling at the Angels to stop, then slugging one of them himself[[/note]] Music/MickJagger himself had been punched in the face by a random stranger (also shown in the film) as the Stones arrived.[[note]]Balin and Jagger weren't even the only musicians who were injured at Altamont; Ace of Cups singer Denise Kaufman-Jewkes, who was pregnant at the time, was hit in the head by a full bottle of beer thrown by one of the Angels. The injury fractured her skull and required emergency surgery. Stephen Stills was stabbed repeatedly in the leg with a sharpened bicycle spoke by one of the Angels while CSNY were playing.[[/note]]
Further fueling the hostilities, the Stones delayed their part of the show until well after dark. Many had waited over 24 hours to hear them and reacted with impatience and anger. Additionally, the Grateful Dead, who had co-planned the whole show and were supposed to co-headline with the Stones, were stunned by the violence at the festival when they arrived[[note]]Jerry Garcia had a flat-out panic attack[[/note]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere split the scene]] as soon as they were informed of what happened to Balin. The lack of the Dead caused a large hole in the concert lineup, which made concertgoers even more agitated. Angels Willie Tumbleweed and Bill Fritsch warned the Stones backstage that their delaying tactics would cause the crowd to "blow beyond sanity" and that people would die. They finally had to force the band out onto the stage.
Further fueling the hostilities, the Stones delayed their part of the show until well after dark. Many had waited over 24 hours to hear them and reacted with impatience and anger. Additionally, the Grateful Dead, who had co-planned the whole show and were supposed to co-headline with the Stones, were stunned by the violence at the festival when they arrived[[note]]Jerry Garcia had a flat-out panic attack[[/note]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere split the scene]] as soon as they were informed of what happened to Balin. The lack of the Dead caused a large hole in the concert lineup, which made concertgoers even more agitated. Angels Willie Tumbleweed and Bill Fritsch warned the Stones backstage that their delaying tactics would cause the crowd to "blow beyond sanity" and that people would die. They finally had to force the band out onto the stage.
to:
The result was a disaster. While things started out fairly well, with a desire to recreate the legendary "peace and music" Woodstock vibe, the concert eventually descended into chaos and violence. Part of this was due to the lack of crowd control. Performers and attendees later described a very strange, and even nasty, ambience that was the opposite of Woodstock,[[note]]Rock reviewer/historian Greil Marcus said later, "It felt perfectly safe, except for acid casualties, and then the Angels, but people were unfriendly, territorial, selfish -- just a weird reversal of Woodstock, where I’d been just a few months before. And completely different from the crowd at the Oakland Arena, where the Stones played at the beginning of their tour."[[/note]] with a sense that everyone was impatient to have the full Woodstock experience crammed into a single day. They were in a hurry to get to the concert site, get high on whatever drugs happened to be available, then watch the show, with the hopes that the other 300,000 people at the show would just stay out of their way and leave them alone. At Woodstock, security had been provided by a gentle "Please Force" (please do this, please don't do that) led by professional NonIronicClown and Merry Prankster Wavy Gravy. [[note]]Mr. Gravy was on the scene at Altamont, and said the Angels didn't need to be there in the first place and once the violence began, they should have been paid another $500 to leave.[[/note]] At Altamont, it was the Hells Angels, a ''biker gang'', who were soon heavily liquored up. They have a hard and fast rule about anyone touching an Angel's bike without permission, and apparently a bike got knocked over in the crowd crush and the Angels began beating people with weighted pool cues. They were soon beating anyone at random. They didn't stop with audience members; Jefferson Airplane lead vocalist Marty Balin was knocked unconscious, as shown in the film.[[note]]Grace Slick remembers the Angels beating one of the Airplane's crew people and Balin trying to stop them. The Angels piled onto Balin because he said "Fuck you!" The Angels said "No one says 'fuck you' to an Angel," so Balin repeated it. Balin himself remembers jumping off the stage and yelling at the Angels to stop, then slugging one of them himself[[/note]] Music/MickJagger himself had been punched in the face by a random stranger (also shown in the film) as the Stones arrived.[[note]]Balin and Jagger weren't even the only musicians who were injured at Altamont; Ace of Cups singer Denise Kaufman-Jewkes, who was pregnant at the time, was hit in the head by a full bottle of beer thrown by one of the Angels. The injury fractured her skull and required emergency surgery. Stephen Stills was stabbed repeatedly in the leg with a sharpened bicycle spoke by one of the Angels while CSNY were playing.[[/note]]
Further fueling the hostilities, the Stones delayed their part of the show until well after dark. Many had waited over 24 hours to hear them and reacted with impatience and anger. Additionally, the Grateful Dead, who had co-planned the whole show and were supposed to co-headline with the Stones, were stunned by the violence at the festival when they arrived[[note]]Jerry Garcia had a flat-out panic attack[[/note]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere split the scene]] as soon as they were informed of what happened to Balin. The lack of the Dead caused a large hole in the concert lineup, which made concertgoers even more agitated. Angels Willie Tumbleweed and Bill Fritsch warned the Stones backstage that their delaying tactics would cause the crowd to"blow "[[PowderKegCrowd blow beyond sanity" sanity]]" and that people would die. They finally had to force the band out onto the stage.
Further fueling the hostilities, the Stones delayed their part of the show until well after dark. Many had waited over 24 hours to hear them and reacted with impatience and anger. Additionally, the Grateful Dead, who had co-planned the whole show and were supposed to co-headline with the Stones, were stunned by the violence at the festival when they arrived[[note]]Jerry Garcia had a flat-out panic attack[[/note]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere split the scene]] as soon as they were informed of what happened to Balin. The lack of the Dead caused a large hole in the concert lineup, which made concertgoers even more agitated. Angels Willie Tumbleweed and Bill Fritsch warned the Stones backstage that their delaying tactics would cause the crowd to
Changed line(s) 24,25 (click to see context) from:
More about the show and what went wrong can be heard in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUlyVSfhgaM this excerpt from KSAN Radio's four-hour post-mortem]] the following day; and in [[https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-71299/ this article about the events]], [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-altamont-trial-how-it-happened-190498/ this article about the trial]] (both from ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine), and [[http://davrosky.blogspot.com/2012/06/altamont-what-really-happened.html this article by David Curry]]. Saul Austerlitz's book ''Just a Shot Away'' provides an in-depth analysis, including a 2015 interview with Hunter's sister, contextualizing his death in light of more recent scandalous murders of black men. [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-chaos-of-altamont-and-the-murder-of-meredith-hunter Review and summary of the disaster in this New Yorker article]]. Joel Selvin's book ''Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day'' is also worth a read. There are more details in Gatz Hjortsberg's ''Jubilee Hitchhiker'', his massive biography of Creator/RichardBrautigan.[[note]]Both were there with families and friends, but too far away to see any violence, and left early. Brautigan, a friend of the San Francisco Angels, believed Meredith's killing was justified to stop him shooting Jagger.[[/note]] Music/{{Negativland}}'s Don Joyce covered Altamont in sound collage form in [[https://archive.org/details/OTE_20070419_How_Radio_Was_Done_36 chapter 36 of 'How Radio Was Done']]. [[https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2009/12/altamont/ More about commemoratives to Altamont here]].
to:
More about the show and what went wrong can be heard in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUlyVSfhgaM this excerpt from KSAN Radio's four-hour post-mortem]] the following day; and in [[https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-71299/ this article about the events]], [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-altamont-trial-how-it-happened-190498/ this article about the trial]] (both from ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine), and [[http://davrosky.blogspot.com/2012/06/altamont-what-really-happened.html this article by David Curry]]. Saul Austerlitz's book ''Just a Shot Away'' provides an in-depth analysis, including a 2015 interview with Hunter's sister, contextualizing his death in light of more recent scandalous murders of black men. [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-chaos-of-altamont-and-the-murder-of-meredith-hunter Review and summary of the disaster in this New Yorker article]]. Joel Selvin's book ''Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day'' is also worth a read. There are more details in Jon Wiener's ''Come Together: Music/JohnLennon In His Time'' has a detailed chapter on Altamont, as does Gatz Hjortsberg's ''Jubilee Hitchhiker'', his massive biography of Creator/RichardBrautigan.[[note]]Both [[note]]Brautigan and Hjortsberg were there with families and friends, but too far away to see any violence, and left early. Brautigan, a friend of the San Francisco Angels, believed Meredith's killing was justified to stop him shooting Jagger.[[/note]] Music/{{Negativland}}'s Don Joyce covered Altamont in sound collage form in [[https://archive.org/details/OTE_20070419_How_Radio_Was_Done_36 chapter 36 of 'How Radio Was Done']]. [[https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2009/12/altamont/ More about commemoratives to Altamont here]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* InherentInTheSystem: What's morbidly interesting about the death of Meredith Hunter is that it was kind of everyone's fault to some degree, though all the major players would go on to never fully take responsibility and blame someone else or a nebulous feeling in the crowd.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8,9 (click to see context) from:
The film was originally supposed to be a straightforward documentary of the Stones on their 1969 American tour, which was to culminate with a free concert held in California on December 6, 1969, featuring the Stones as co-headliners with Music/TheGratefulDead and such supporting acts as Music/{{Santana}}, Music/JeffersonAirplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung.
to:
The film was originally supposed to be a straightforward documentary of the Stones on their 1969 American tour, which was to culminate with a free concert held in California on December 6, 1969, featuring the Stones as co-headliners with Music/TheGratefulDead and such supporting acts as Music/{{Santana}}, Music/JeffersonAirplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Music/TheFlyingBurritoBrothers, and Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TheShowMustGoWrong: And how! Every detail of the Altamont Free Concert is a logistical disaster, culminating in Meredith Hunter’s tragic death mid-show.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 12,13 (click to see context) from:
Altamont was not intended as a concert venue. Hells Angel Bill Fritsch called it "A goddamn fucking bereft pasture in the middle of nothing," and his fellow Angel Willie Tumbleweed said "Couple wire fences, cow shit, not even a barn." There were no facilities to support a massive crowd -- too few toilets, bare minimum first aid, very little in the way of medical staff, nothing. Also no security, which led the Rolling Stones' tour manager Sam Cutler to hire the Hells Angels biker gang for security around the stage. The story goes that the Angels were recommended to the Stones by the Grateful Dead, who had used the relatively well-behaved UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco chapter to do security at concerts with no incident. Security at Altamont, however, was instead largely provided by members of the UsefulNotes/{{Oakland}} chapter, which had a more violent reputation. While the Angels warned they were not really security guards, they agreed to simply keep people away from the stage and the equipment, and perhaps stop fights or give directions. They were paid with $500 worth of beer.[[note]]That would be almost $4,000 in today's money.[[/note]]
to:
Altamont was not intended as a concert venue.venue nor could it be adapted to one as Woodstock had been. Hells Angel Bill Fritsch called it "A goddamn fucking bereft pasture in the middle of nothing," and his fellow Angel Willie Tumbleweed said "Couple wire fences, cow shit, not even a barn." There were no facilities to support a massive crowd -- too few toilets, bare minimum first aid, very little in the way of medical staff, nothing. Also no security, which led the Rolling Stones' tour manager Sam Cutler to hire the Hells Angels biker gang for security around the stage. The story goes that the Angels were recommended to the Stones by the Grateful Dead, who had used the relatively well-behaved UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco chapter to do security at concerts with no incident. Playing at Hyde Park, the Stones had used the English Hells Angels, not realizing they're an entirely different group. Security at Altamont, however, was instead largely provided by members of the UsefulNotes/{{Oakland}} chapter, which had a more violent reputation. While the Angels warned they were not really security guards, they agreed to simply keep people away from the stage and the equipment, and perhaps stop fights or give directions. They were paid with $500 worth of beer.[[note]]That would be almost $4,000 in today's money.[[/note]]
Changed line(s) 16,17 (click to see context) from:
The result was a disaster. While things started out fairly well, with a desire to recreate the legendary "peace and music" Woodstock vibe, the concert eventually descended into chaos and violence. Part of this was due to the lack of crowd control. Performers and attendees later described a very strange, and even nasty, ambience that was the opposite of Woodstock, with a sense that everyone was impatient to have the full Woodstock experience crammed into a single day. They were in a hurry to get to the concert site, get high on whatever drugs happened to be available, then watch the show, with the hopes that the other 300,000 people at the show would just stay out of their way and leave them alone. At Woodstock, security had been provided by a gentle "Please Force" (please do this, please don't do that) led by professional NonIronicClown and Merry Prankster Wavy Gravy. At Altamont, it was the Hells Angels, a ''biker gang'', who were soon heavily liquored up. They have a hard and fast rule about anyone touching an Angel's bike without permission, and apparently a bike got knocked over in the crowd crush and the Angels began beating people with weighted pool cues. They were soon beating anyone at random. They didn't stop with audience members; Jefferson Airplane lead vocalist Marty Balin was knocked unconscious, as shown in the film.[[note]]Grace Slick remembers the Angels beating one of the Airplane's crew people and Balin trying to stop them. The Angels piled onto Balin because he said "Fuck you!" The Angels said "No one says 'fuck you' to an Angel," so Balin repeated it. Balin himself remembers jumping off the stage and yelling at the Angels to stop, then slugging one of them himself[[/note]] Music/MickJagger himself had been punched in the face by a random stranger (also shown in the film) as the Stones arrived.[[note]]Balin and Jagger weren't even the only musicians who were injured at Altamont; Ace of Cups singer Denise Kaufman-Jewkes, who was pregnant at the time, was hit in the head by a full bottle of beer thrown by one of the Angels. The injury fractured her skull and required emergency surgery. Stephen Stills was stabbed repeatedly in the leg with a sharpened bicycle spoke by one of the Angels while CSNY were playing.[[/note]]
to:
The result was a disaster. While things started out fairly well, with a desire to recreate the legendary "peace and music" Woodstock vibe, the concert eventually descended into chaos and violence. Part of this was due to the lack of crowd control. Performers and attendees later described a very strange, and even nasty, ambience that was the opposite of Woodstock,[[note]]Rock reviewer/historian Greil Marcus said later, "It felt perfectly safe, except for acid casualties, and then the Angels, but people were unfriendly, territorial, selfish -- just a weird reversal of Woodstock, where I’d been just a few months before. And completely different from the crowd at the Oakland Arena, where the Stones played at the beginning of their tour."[[/note]] with a sense that everyone was impatient to have the full Woodstock experience crammed into a single day. They were in a hurry to get to the concert site, get high on whatever drugs happened to be available, then watch the show, with the hopes that the other 300,000 people at the show would just stay out of their way and leave them alone. At Woodstock, security had been provided by a gentle "Please Force" (please do this, please don't do that) led by professional NonIronicClown and Merry Prankster Wavy Gravy. At Altamont, it was the Hells Angels, a ''biker gang'', who were soon heavily liquored up. They have a hard and fast rule about anyone touching an Angel's bike without permission, and apparently a bike got knocked over in the crowd crush and the Angels began beating people with weighted pool cues. They were soon beating anyone at random. They didn't stop with audience members; Jefferson Airplane lead vocalist Marty Balin was knocked unconscious, as shown in the film.[[note]]Grace Slick remembers the Angels beating one of the Airplane's crew people and Balin trying to stop them. The Angels piled onto Balin because he said "Fuck you!" The Angels said "No one says 'fuck you' to an Angel," so Balin repeated it. Balin himself remembers jumping off the stage and yelling at the Angels to stop, then slugging one of them himself[[/note]] Music/MickJagger himself had been punched in the face by a random stranger (also shown in the film) as the Stones arrived.[[note]]Balin and Jagger weren't even the only musicians who were injured at Altamont; Ace of Cups singer Denise Kaufman-Jewkes, who was pregnant at the time, was hit in the head by a full bottle of beer thrown by one of the Angels. The injury fractured her skull and required emergency surgery. Stephen Stills was stabbed repeatedly in the leg with a sharpened bicycle spoke by one of the Angels while CSNY were playing.[[/note]]
Changed line(s) 22,25 (click to see context) from:
The Altamont concert may have been conceived as a "Woodstock West", but instead wound up being cited as a cultural landmark heralding the death of TheSixties and the counter-culture.[[note]]Involving actual death as well. Besides Hunter there were three other deaths at the concert: two people struck in a hit-and-run accident by a culprit who was never identified, and a young LSD-addled man (ironically from upstate New York, the location of Woodstock) who made an ill-advised attempt to swim in a large aqueduct adjacent to the raceway[[/note]] Besides its cultural implications, the film is also one hell of a rockumentary, featuring the Stones at their peak, as well as performances by Jefferson Airplane, Ike and Music/TinaTurner, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.[[note]]While Santana and CSNY also performed at Altamont, neither appeared in the film for contractual reasons.[[/note]] Prior to Altamont, the Stones are shown recording "Wild Horses" and "Brown Sugar" at a studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama; both songs would subsequently be included on their classic ''Music/StickyFingers'' album. Creator/GeorgeLucas was a cameraman at Altamont; his camera jammed and none of his footage made it in the film. This film helped make the Maysles brothers famous; they went on to direct several more "direct cinema" documentaries, like the iconic ''Film/GreyGardens''.
More about the show and what went wrong can be heard in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUlyVSfhgaM this excerpt from KSAN Radio's four-hour post-mortem]] the following day; and in [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121 this article about the events]] and [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-altamont-trial-how-it-happened-19710401 this article about the trial]] from ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine, and [[http://davrosky.blogspot.com/2012/06/altamont-what-really-happened.html this article by David Curry]]. Saul Austerlitz's book ''Just a Shot Away'' provides an in-depth analysis, including a 2015 interview with Hunter's sister, contextualizing his death in light of more recent scandalous murders of black men. Joel Selvin's book ''Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day'' is also worth a read. There are more details in Gatz Hjortsberg's ''Jubilee Hitchhiker'', his massive biography of Creator/RichardBrautigan.[[note]]Both were there with families and friends, but too far away to see any violence, and left early. Brautigan, a friend of the San Francisco Angels, believed Meredith's killing was justified to stop him shooting Jagger.[[/note]] Music/{{Negativland}}'s Don Joyce covered Altamont in sound collage form in [[https://archive.org/details/OTE_20070419_How_Radio_Was_Done_36 chapter 36 of 'How Radio Was Done']]. [[https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2009/12/altamont/ More about commemoratives to Altamont here]].
More about the show and what went wrong can be heard in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUlyVSfhgaM this excerpt from KSAN Radio's four-hour post-mortem]] the following day; and in [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121 this article about the events]] and [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-altamont-trial-how-it-happened-19710401 this article about the trial]] from ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine, and [[http://davrosky.blogspot.com/2012/06/altamont-what-really-happened.html this article by David Curry]]. Saul Austerlitz's book ''Just a Shot Away'' provides an in-depth analysis, including a 2015 interview with Hunter's sister, contextualizing his death in light of more recent scandalous murders of black men. Joel Selvin's book ''Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day'' is also worth a read. There are more details in Gatz Hjortsberg's ''Jubilee Hitchhiker'', his massive biography of Creator/RichardBrautigan.[[note]]Both were there with families and friends, but too far away to see any violence, and left early. Brautigan, a friend of the San Francisco Angels, believed Meredith's killing was justified to stop him shooting Jagger.[[/note]] Music/{{Negativland}}'s Don Joyce covered Altamont in sound collage form in [[https://archive.org/details/OTE_20070419_How_Radio_Was_Done_36 chapter 36 of 'How Radio Was Done']]. [[https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2009/12/altamont/ More about commemoratives to Altamont here]].
to:
The Altamont concert may have been conceived as a "Woodstock West", but instead wound up being cited as a cultural landmark heralding the death of TheSixties and the counter-culture.[[note]]Involving actual death as well. Besides Hunter there were three other deaths at the concert: two people struck in a hit-and-run accident by a culprit who was never identified, and a young LSD-addled man (ironically from upstate New York, the location of Woodstock) who made an ill-advised attempt to swim in a large aqueduct adjacent to the raceway[[/note]] Besides its cultural implications, the film is also one hell of a rockumentary, featuring the Stones at their peak, as well as performances by Jefferson Airplane, Ike and Music/TinaTurner, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.[[note]]While Santana and CSNY also performed at Altamont, neither appeared in the film for contractual reasons. You can find photos at ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, though.[[/note]] Prior to Altamont, the Stones are shown recording "Wild Horses" and "Brown Sugar" at a studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama; both songs would subsequently be included on their classic ''Music/StickyFingers'' album. Creator/GeorgeLucas was a cameraman at Altamont; his camera jammed and none of his footage made it in the film. This film helped make the Maysles brothers famous; they went on to direct several more "direct cinema" documentaries, like the iconic ''Film/GreyGardens''.
More about the show and what went wrong can be heard in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUlyVSfhgaM this excerpt from KSAN Radio's four-hour post-mortem]] the following day; and in[[http://www.[[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121 com/feature/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-71299/ this article about the events]] and [[http://www.events]], [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-altamont-trial-how-it-happened-19710401 com/music/music-news/the-altamont-trial-how-it-happened-190498/ this article about the trial]] (both from ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine, magazine), and [[http://davrosky.blogspot.com/2012/06/altamont-what-really-happened.html this article by David Curry]]. Saul Austerlitz's book ''Just a Shot Away'' provides an in-depth analysis, including a 2015 interview with Hunter's sister, contextualizing his death in light of more recent scandalous murders of black men. [[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-chaos-of-altamont-and-the-murder-of-meredith-hunter Review and summary of the disaster in this New Yorker article]]. Joel Selvin's book ''Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day'' is also worth a read. There are more details in Gatz Hjortsberg's ''Jubilee Hitchhiker'', his massive biography of Creator/RichardBrautigan.[[note]]Both were there with families and friends, but too far away to see any violence, and left early. Brautigan, a friend of the San Francisco Angels, believed Meredith's killing was justified to stop him shooting Jagger.[[/note]] Music/{{Negativland}}'s Don Joyce covered Altamont in sound collage form in [[https://archive.org/details/OTE_20070419_How_Radio_Was_Done_36 chapter 36 of 'How Radio Was Done']]. [[https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2009/12/altamont/ More about commemoratives to Altamont here]].
More about the show and what went wrong can be heard in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUlyVSfhgaM this excerpt from KSAN Radio's four-hour post-mortem]] the following day; and in
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 24,25 (click to see context) from:
More about the show and what went wrong can be heard in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUlyVSfhgaM this excerpt from KSAN Radio's four-hour post-mortem]] the following day; and in [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121 this article about the events]] and [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-altamont-trial-how-it-happened-19710401 this article about the trial]] from ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine, and [[http://davrosky.blogspot.com/2012/06/altamont-what-really-happened.html this article by David Curry]]. Saul Austerlitz's book ''Just a Shot Away'' provides an in-depth analysis, including a 2015 interview with Hunter's sister, contextualizing his death in light of more recent scandalous murders of black men. Joel Selvin's book ''Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day'' is also worth a read. There are more details in Gatz Hjortsberg's ''Jubilee Hitchhiker'', his massive biography of Creator/RichardBrautigan.[[note]]Both were there with families and friends, but too far away to see any violence, and left early. Brautigan, a friend of the San Francisco Angels, believed Meredith's killing was justified to stop him shooting Jagger.[[/note]] Music/{{Negativland}}'s Don Joyce covered Altamont in sound collage form in [[https://archive.org/details/OTE_20070419_How_Radio_Was_Done_36 chapter 36 of 'How Radio Was Done']].
to:
More about the show and what went wrong can be heard in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUlyVSfhgaM this excerpt from KSAN Radio's four-hour post-mortem]] the following day; and in [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121 this article about the events]] and [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-altamont-trial-how-it-happened-19710401 this article about the trial]] from ''Magazine/RollingStone'' magazine, and [[http://davrosky.blogspot.com/2012/06/altamont-what-really-happened.html this article by David Curry]]. Saul Austerlitz's book ''Just a Shot Away'' provides an in-depth analysis, including a 2015 interview with Hunter's sister, contextualizing his death in light of more recent scandalous murders of black men. Joel Selvin's book ''Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day'' is also worth a read. There are more details in Gatz Hjortsberg's ''Jubilee Hitchhiker'', his massive biography of Creator/RichardBrautigan.[[note]]Both were there with families and friends, but too far away to see any violence, and left early. Brautigan, a friend of the San Francisco Angels, believed Meredith's killing was justified to stop him shooting Jagger.[[/note]] Music/{{Negativland}}'s Don Joyce covered Altamont in sound collage form in [[https://archive.org/details/OTE_20070419_How_Radio_Was_Done_36 chapter 36 of 'How Radio Was Done']].
Done']]. [[https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2009/12/altamont/ More about commemoratives to Altamont here]].
Changed line(s) 52 (click to see context) from:
* SnuffFilm: Meredith Hunter is killed on camera. The film even includes a scene where his corpse is zipped up and flown away in a helicopter as his hysterical girlfriend follows. In 1970, many film critics were very upset with the Maysles brothers for showing the death of Hunter in their movie. As were Hunter's family. [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121 The article]] in ''Rolling Stone'' describes the uncaring attitude of police and concert organizers, the Stones included. No one ever contacted the family to offer condolences or accept responsibility. By his family's account, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Meredith_Hunter Meredith Hunter]] was an [[NiceGuy educated, hard-working and courteous man]]... who was high on meth and waving a gun around. To this day, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnVY37b0ME Meredith Hunter's grave at Skyview Cemetery in Vallejo, California]] [[DishonoredDead is unmarked]].
to:
* SnuffFilm: Meredith Hunter is killed on camera. The film even includes a scene where his corpse is zipped up and flown away in a helicopter as his hysterical girlfriend follows. In 1970, many film critics were very upset with the Maysles brothers for showing the death of Hunter in their movie. As were Hunter's family. [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121 The article]] in ''Rolling Stone'' describes the uncaring attitude of police and concert organizers, the Stones included. No one ever contacted the family to offer condolences or accept responsibility. By his family's account, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Meredith_Hunter Meredith Hunter]] was an [[NiceGuy educated, hard-working and courteous man]]... who was high on meth and waving a gun around. To Until recently, Meredith Hunter's grave at Skyview Cemetery in Vallejo, California [[DishonoredDead was unmarked]]. Artist Sam Green exposed this day, in his 2006 film [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnVY37b0ME Meredith Hunter's lot 63, grave at Skyview Cemetery in Vallejo, California]] [[DishonoredDead is unmarked]].c]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 52 (click to see context) from:
* SnuffFilm: Meredith Hunter is killed on camera. The film even includes a scene where his corpse is zipped up and flown away in a helicopter as his hysterical girlfriend follows. In 1970, many film critics were very upset with the Maysles brothers for showing the death of Hunter in their movie. As were Hunter's family. [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121 The article]] in ''Rolling Stone'' describes the uncaring attitude of police and concert organizers, the Stones included. No one ever contacted the family to offer condolences or accept responsibility. By his family's account, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Meredith_Hunter Meredith Hunter]] was an [[NiceGuy educated, hard-working and courteous man]]... who was high on meth and waving a gun around.
to:
* SnuffFilm: Meredith Hunter is killed on camera. The film even includes a scene where his corpse is zipped up and flown away in a helicopter as his hysterical girlfriend follows. In 1970, many film critics were very upset with the Maysles brothers for showing the death of Hunter in their movie. As were Hunter's family. [[http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121 The article]] in ''Rolling Stone'' describes the uncaring attitude of police and concert organizers, the Stones included. No one ever contacted the family to offer condolences or accept responsibility. By his family's account, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Meredith_Hunter Meredith Hunter]] was an [[NiceGuy educated, hard-working and courteous man]]... who was high on meth and waving a gun around. To this day, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnVY37b0ME Meredith Hunter's grave at Skyview Cemetery in Vallejo, California]] [[DishonoredDead is unmarked]].
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Stills
Changed line(s) 16,17 (click to see context) from:
The result was a disaster. While things started out fairly well, with a desire to recreate the legendary "peace and music" Woodstock vibe, the concert eventually descended into chaos and violence. Part of this was due to the lack of crowd control. Performers and attendees later described a very strange, and even nasty, ambience that was the opposite of Woodstock, with a sense that everyone was impatient to have the full Woodstock experience crammed into a single day. They were in a hurry to get to the concert site, get high on whatever drugs happened to be available, then watch the show, with the hopes that the other 300,000 people at the show would just stay out of their way and leave them alone. At Woodstock, security had been provided by a gentle "Please Force" (please do this, please don't do that) led by professional NonIronicClown and Merry Prankster Wavy Gravy. At Altamont, it was the Hells Angels, a ''biker gang'', who were soon heavily liquored up. They have a hard and fast rule about anyone touching an Angel's bike without permission, and apparently a bike got knocked over in the crowd crush and the Angels began beating people with weighted pool cues. They were soon beating anyone at random. They didn't stop with audience members; Jefferson Airplane lead vocalist Marty Balin was knocked unconscious, as shown in the film.[[note]]Grace Slick remembers the Angels beating one of the Airplane's crew people and Balin trying to stop them. The Angels piled onto Balin because he said "Fuck you!" The Angels said "No one says 'fuck you' to an Angel," so Balin repeated it. Balin himself remembers jumping off the stage and yelling at the Angels to stop, then slugging one of them himself[[/note]] Music/MickJagger himself had been punched in the face by a random stranger (also shown in the film) as the Stones arrived.[[note]]Balin and Jagger weren't even the only musicians who were injured at Altamont; Ace of Cups singer Denise Kaufman-Jewkes, who was pregnant at the time, was hit in the head by a full bottle of beer thrown by one of the Angels. The injury fractured her skull and required emergency surgery.[[/note]]
to:
The result was a disaster. While things started out fairly well, with a desire to recreate the legendary "peace and music" Woodstock vibe, the concert eventually descended into chaos and violence. Part of this was due to the lack of crowd control. Performers and attendees later described a very strange, and even nasty, ambience that was the opposite of Woodstock, with a sense that everyone was impatient to have the full Woodstock experience crammed into a single day. They were in a hurry to get to the concert site, get high on whatever drugs happened to be available, then watch the show, with the hopes that the other 300,000 people at the show would just stay out of their way and leave them alone. At Woodstock, security had been provided by a gentle "Please Force" (please do this, please don't do that) led by professional NonIronicClown and Merry Prankster Wavy Gravy. At Altamont, it was the Hells Angels, a ''biker gang'', who were soon heavily liquored up. They have a hard and fast rule about anyone touching an Angel's bike without permission, and apparently a bike got knocked over in the crowd crush and the Angels began beating people with weighted pool cues. They were soon beating anyone at random. They didn't stop with audience members; Jefferson Airplane lead vocalist Marty Balin was knocked unconscious, as shown in the film.[[note]]Grace Slick remembers the Angels beating one of the Airplane's crew people and Balin trying to stop them. The Angels piled onto Balin because he said "Fuck you!" The Angels said "No one says 'fuck you' to an Angel," so Balin repeated it. Balin himself remembers jumping off the stage and yelling at the Angels to stop, then slugging one of them himself[[/note]] Music/MickJagger himself had been punched in the face by a random stranger (also shown in the film) as the Stones arrived.[[note]]Balin and Jagger weren't even the only musicians who were injured at Altamont; Ace of Cups singer Denise Kaufman-Jewkes, who was pregnant at the time, was hit in the head by a full bottle of beer thrown by one of the Angels. The injury fractured her skull and required emergency surgery. Stephen Stills was stabbed repeatedly in the leg with a sharpened bicycle spoke by one of the Angels while CSNY were playing.[[/note]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 8,9 (click to see context) from:
The film was originally supposed to be a straightforward documentary of the Stones on their 1969 American tour, which was to culminate with a free concert held at the Altamont Speedway in California on December 6, 1969, featuring the Stones as co-headliners with Music/TheGratefulDead and such supporting acts as Music/{{Santana}}, Music/JeffersonAirplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung.
to:
The film was originally supposed to be a straightforward documentary of the Stones on their 1969 American tour, which was to culminate with a free concert held at the Altamont Speedway in California on December 6, 1969, featuring the Stones as co-headliners with Music/TheGratefulDead and such supporting acts as Music/{{Santana}}, Music/JeffersonAirplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10,11 (click to see context) from:
The free concert, which was anticipated by many as being a West Coast answer to that summer's UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}} festival, was originally supposed to be held at San Jose State University; then, after they backed out, in Golden Gate Park in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco; but there were conflicts with authorities and a previously-scheduled football game there. The show was then moved to the Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma County, but financial conflicts with the raceway owners prompted one final location change just 24 hours before the event, to the Altamont Speedway, a much smaller and more remote venue on the outskirts of Alameda County. This last-minute planning led to 300,000 people descending upon a barren, unfriendly environment with an extremely small stage (designed for earlier venues where it would have been up on a hill or platform) placed at the ''bottom'' of a hill. With gravity pulling people down the incline, they ended up in a mass crush against the stage.
to:
The free concert, which was anticipated by many as being a West Coast answer to that summer's UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}} festival, was originally supposed to be held at San Jose State University; then, after they backed out, in at Golden Gate Park in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco; but there were conflicts with city authorities and a previously-scheduled football game there. The show was then moved to the Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma County, but financial conflicts with the raceway owners prompted one final location change just 24 hours before the event, to the Altamont Speedway, a much smaller and more remote venue on the outskirts of Alameda County. This last-minute planning led to 300,000 people descending upon a barren, unfriendly environment with an extremely small stage (designed for the earlier venues venues, where it would have been up on a hill or platform) placed at the ''bottom'' of a hill. With gravity pulling people down the incline, they ended up in a mass crush against the stage.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
TRS
has turned Gainaxing into a definition only page. Removing examples.
has turned Gainaxing into a definition only page. Removing examples.Changed line(s) 40 (click to see context) from:
* {{Fanservice}}: The topless woman demonstrating {{Gainaxing}} while Jefferson Airplane plays.
to:
* {{Fanservice}}: The topless woman demonstrating {{Gainaxing}} breast bounce while Jefferson Airplane plays.
