• Altamont Speedway The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert in the United States, held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the...
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  • Gimme Shelter (1970 film) (category Concert films)
    Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter. The film is named after "Gimme...
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    band's concerts was the Altamont Free Concert at the Altamont Speedway in 1969, the final show of their American Tour 1969. For this concert, the biker...
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  • Rolling Stones' Altamont Free Concert on December 6, 1969, at which the bikers were reportedly given $500 of beer to provide security. Concert goers and musicians...
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    22, 1966, and operated under the names Altamont Speedway, Altamont Raceway, Altamont Motorsports Park, Altamont Raceway Park and Arena, and Bernal Memorial...
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    catastrophe. Lang was not among the producers of the December 6, 1969, Altamont Free Concert that some had billed as a "Woodstock West". However, Lang was asked...
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  • December 6, 1969) was an American man who was killed at the 1969 Altamont Free Concert. During the performance by the Rolling Stones, Hunter approached...
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    the Altamont Pass area was home to the Altamont Speedway, which became famous as the site of the 1969 Altamont Free Concert, a large outdoor concert featuring...
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  • Look up Altamont in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Altamont may refer to: Altamont, British Columbia Altamont, Manitoba Altamont Road, in south Mumbai...
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    They headlined the Monterey Pop Festival (1967), Woodstock (1969), Altamont Free Concert (1969), and the first Isle of Wight Festival (1968) in England....
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  • Dan Southwick of Acid King. The band is named after the infamous Altamont Free Concert of 1969. Dale Crover – guitar, vocals Joey Osbourne – drums, vocals...
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    in Hells Angels' history involved the December 6, 1969 Altamont Free Concert at the Altamont Speedway – partially documented in the 1970 film Gimme Shelter...
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  • tour as the opening number at each concert. It was the song being performed by the group at the Altamont Free Concert in December 1969 during which the...
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    Just after the US tour ended, the band performed at the Altamont Free Concert at the Altamont Speedway, about fifty miles (80 km) east of San Francisco...
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    Don McLean (section Concerts)
    culminates with a description of the killing of Meredith Hunter at the Altamont Free Concert, ten years after the plane crash that killed Holly, Valens and Richardson...
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  • climaxes with a description of the killing of Meredith Hunter at the Altamont Free Concert, ten years after the plane crash that killed Holly, Valens, and...
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    San Joaquin Valley and Altamont Raceway Park near Tracy, California. There, they attended the now-infamous Altamont Free Concert. Loud's fame came with...
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    Celebration at Big Sur. They also appeared at the violence-plagued Altamont Free Concert on December 6, 1969, alongside Santana, Jefferson Airplane, the...
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    Helter Skelter, using the violent image from the 1968 Rolling Stones Altamont Free Concert and the Hells Angels killing of Meredith Hunter, over and over,...
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    infamous Altamont Free Concert on December 6, 1969, after the Rolling Stones but withdrew after security concerns. "That's the way things went at Altamont—so...
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    the previous day. On 6 December 1969, the Stones performed at the Altamont Free Concert music festival, in which Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death by...
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    between early 1969 and 1972, appearing with the band at the infamous Altamont Free Concert in California, headlined by The Rolling Stones, in December 1969...
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    (1970), explaining the scenes of violence that occurred at the Altamont free concert to Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh. Shrieve appeared in the 1970 documentary...
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    the band's first performances in the United States following the Altamont Free Concert in December 1969, critic Dave Marsh would later write that the tour...
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  • since they had not visited there since the 1969 disaster at the Altamont Free Concert in which a fan was stabbed and beaten to death by Hells Angels and...
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    circle of friends". Following the killing of Meredith Hunter at the Altamont Free Concert in 1969, KSAN put on a four-hour telephone call-in program to discuss...
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    Hells Angels motorcycle club while performing during the infamous Altamont Free Concert, as seen in the 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter. In April 1971...
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    iconic U.S. rock festivals of the 1960s. During CSN&Y's set at Altamont Free Concert, Stills was reported to have been repeatedly stabbed in the leg...
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    solo careers. In December 1969, Crosby appeared with CSNY at the Altamont Free Concert, increasing his visibility after also having performed at the Monterey...
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  • its most famous stories. The January 21, 1970, issue covered the Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter, which won a Specialized Journalism...
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