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Episode #450

Only Judgments

#450 Only Judgments
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An aerial view of the crowd at Altamont Speedway December 6, 1969 (AP photo)

Karen:

The 1969 Altamont Free Concert

Episode sources:

  1. “Just a Shot Away” by Saul Austerlitz

  2. “Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day” by Joel Selvin

  3. “Altamont part 1: How the ‘60s most disastrous concert came to be” by Geoff Edgers (Washington Post/All Told) 2019

  4. “Altamont part 2: Re-creating a day of chaos and violence” by Geoff Edgers (Washington Post/All Told) 2019

  5. “Altamont ended the ‘60s with chaos and death” by Geoff Edgers (Washington Post) 2019

  6. “The short life and tragic death of Meredith Hunter” by Dennis Yusko (Medium) 2020 

  7. “Gimme Shelter” by Albert and David Maysles

  8. “The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter” by Sasha Frere-Jones (The New Yorker) 2019 

  9. “The Rolling Stones Disaster at Altamont: Let it Bleed” (Rolling Stone magazine) 1970

  10. “’Just a Shot Away’ shines a light on the family that paid for the Altamont concert in blood” by Chris Vognar (The Dallas Morning News) 2018

  11. “Tragedy at Altamont. Remembering death and dust in the deep East Bay.” By Andrew Chamings (SFGate) 2023

  12. “The Daydream of the 1960s Ended 50 Years Ago at Altamont. Here’s What the Rolling Stones’ Official Photographer Saw That Day” by James Sullivan (Time Magazine) 2019

  13. “Remembering Meredith Hunter, the Fan Killed at Altamont” by Saul Austerlitz (Rolling Stone) 2018

  14. “How Altamont Cursed the Rolling Stones” by Joel Selvin (The Daily Beast) 2017 

  15. “Four people died over the weekend at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival” (Gaslight Records) 1969 

  16. “The long strange saga of the Grateful Dead and the Hells Angels” by Nicholas G. Meriwether (SFGate) 2022 

  17. “The 1969 Altamont Free Concert” (SFGate) 2019 

  18. “No Woodstock: Grateful Dead’s role in infamous Altamont concert” by Paul Liberatore (East Bay Times) 2016

  19. “Altamont at 50: How 1969 went from peace and love to murder and mayhem” by Chuck Arnold (New York Post) 2019 

  20. “About the Stage” (Peace of Stage) 

  21. “Death, debris in Altamont wake” by UPI (1969)

  22. “The Altamont festival” by Ed Ward (Britannica)

  23. “The Rolling Stones American Tour 1969” (Wikipedia) 

 

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