Altamont
Altamont is a Road racing set of California of north to the the United States located between the towns of Tracy and Livermore.
The December 6th 1969, the Rolling Stones give a free concert to it at the head poster at the time of a also programming festival, inter alia, the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane. Approximately 300.000 people has a presentiment of themselves with go. 4 births are even listed during this concert. But contrary to peaceful the Woodstock (whose this event wanted to be the American western counterpart) this festival is marked by violence (brawls between the public and the Service of order composed of Hell' S Angels) and will sign a stage of end in the movement Hippie. A spectator, a black, old teenager 18 years, Meredith Hunter , leaves a weapon there and then is stabbed with died by one of the members of the service of a nature named Alan Passaro which will be stopped then judged for murder at the summer 1972, and will be discharged because considered in a state of self-defense. Two teenagers will be crushed, in their bags of bed, by a roadhog under the influence of LSD, and a fourth victim, under the influence of the same drug, will drown in an irrigation canal while wanting to take a bath. The festivals of rock'n'roll are then prohibited.
The documentary film Gimme Shelter watch this concert, and evokes this murder which one can see filmed images.
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