Altamont Free Concert

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Poster announcing the concert

The Altamont Free Concert was a rock music - festival , which in 1969 at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore in California took place. The concert was initiated by the management of the Rolling Stones as a West Coast counterpart to the Woodstock Festival . It is considered the symbolic end of the innocence of the hippie movement and the light-heartedness of the 1960s.

On December 6, 1969 came here with the Rolling Stones , among others, Ike & Tina Turner , Grateful Dead , Jefferson Airplane , the, Flying Burrito Brothers and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young on. In addition to three other people who had an accident in the organizational chaos (two people were killed in a car accident followed by a hit-and-run, another drowned in a canal), the African American viewer Meredith Hunter was stabbed in front of the stage when she was killed Rolling Stones was playing their song Under My Thumb . He was stabbed to death by one of the Hells Angels employed as security forces. Immediately beforehand, Hunter had drawn a gun under the influence of drugs. Before that, there had been fights during the song Sympathy for the Devil .

The performance of the band in Altamont and especially the course of the death are captured in the documentary Gimme Shelter by Charlotte Zwerin .

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  1. ↑ The end of innocence. Violent concert in Altamont 1969. In: Österreichischer Rundfunk. December 2, 2009, accessed March 29, 2013 .
  2. ^ Davis: The Stones , p. 386
  3. ↑ The Rolling Stones Setlist at Altamont Free Concert 1969. Setlist.fm, accessed March 29, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Hells Angels: The Last Warriors. Retrieved March 29, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Meredith Hunter. In: Find a Grave. April 2, 2006, accessed March 29, 2013 .

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