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They just put their chins to their chests and played the set of their lives.

“They'd pick it back up finally when Mick Taylor says, ‘Let’s do the new one,’ and they did “Brown Sugar” for the first time. Ironically, the Stones performed, in Selvin's opinion, a great set. (Photo by Bill Owens/20th Century Fox/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images The film was directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin. The concert was headlined and organized by The Rolling Stones.

THE WHO CONCERT DEATHS FREE

Angels beat a fan with pool cues at the Altamont Free Concert, Altamont Speedway, California, 6th December 1969. “ in many ways,” Selvin says of Hunter, “emblematic of being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong blonde girlfriend-caught between the Hells Angels and the Rolling Stones where no black could watch, dressed in a lime green suit, with his Afro combed out, having been shooting speed.”Ī still from the documentary film 'Gimme Shelter', showing audience members looking on as Hells. Trying to get away from them, Hunter pulled out his gun near the stage and was fatally stabbed by Hells Angels member Alan Passaro (he was later acquitted in court). Meanwhile, Meredith Hunter, a young black man who went to the show with his girlfriend, was beaten up by members of the Hells Angels. And as the Rolling Stones were trying to play “Sympathy for the Devil,” Jagger was telling everybody to cool out when things started to get out of control within the audience.

Sensing the chaos, the Grateful Dead decided at the last minute to pull out. Such factors as the Angels, drugs, and the lack of police intervention and proper facilities all contributed to a tense and dark environment throughout the day. There were no longer sacraments of a movement. “It's like a toxic mass psychosis,” says Selvin. Adding to the sense of drama were the bad drugs going around health professionals at the medical tent were dealing with numerous people experiencing freak-outs. On the day of the show, they Angels were physically violent towards the crowd with pool cues they even assaulted Jefferson Airplane co-singer Marty Balin during his band's set when he tried to intervene in a scuffle. The decision to have the Hells Angels to do security for $500 worth of beer would have serious consequences. It just didn't matter what obstacles were thrown in their way.” We'll do the show on Saturday.' The hippies that the Grateful Dead marshaled behind this were idealists and innocent in some ways. 'You know, we'll be there over the weekend. There was no staging, although some of that was being sent to the Bay Area. There was no site, there was no sound system. “They sent their people to San Francisco to make the concert happen for the next weekend. “At the end of their tour on a Monday, went to Muscle Shoals to record “Brown Sugar” and a couple other songs,” says Selvin. free concert to be headlined by the Rolling Stones. Pictured later in the day, the increasingly packed together crowd at the Altamont Speedway for the. By the end of the show, a total of four people died-among them 18-year-old Meredith Hunter, who was stabbed to death by a Hells Angels member, a moment captured in the Maysles Brothers and Charlotte Zwerin’s classic documentary film Gimme Shelter. But the event was marred by violent confrontations between the Hells Angels (who were hired to do security) and the crowd, in addition to lack of organization and bad drugs. On December 6, 1969, about 300,000 gathered at the Altamont Speedway in Tracy, California to see the Rolling Stones perform a free concert that was seen as a ‘Woodstock West.’ It was also supposed to be a triumphant conclusion for the band that year, following their successful U.S. If the Woodstock festival in August 1969 represented peace and hippie idealism, then the Altamont Free Concert, held almost four months later, symbolically shattered that innocence. (Photo by Robert Altman/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Getty Images Speedway on Decemin Livermore, California. LIVERMORE, CA - DECEMBER 6: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones at The Altamont.