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Meredith Curly Hunter Jr. (October 24, 1951 – 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 the stage, and was driven off by members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club who were providing security and had agreed to prevent members of the audience from mounting the stage.
[9] Another follow-up piece in Rolling Stone called the Altamont event "rock and roll's all-time worst day". [12] In Esquire magazine, Ralph J. Gleason observed, "The day The Rolling Stones played there, the name [Altamont] became etched in the minds of millions of people who love pop music and who hate it as well. If the name 'Woodstock' has ...
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of the Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter. [2]
Nearly a half-hour of unseen 8mm footage of the Rolling Stones, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and other artists performing at Altamont has been recovered by the Library ...
A contact sheet shows photographs taken at the Stones' legendary free concert in Hyde Park, London, in the summer of 1969. - Spanish Tony Media/Bayliss Rare Books “Spanish Tony was a hard man.
The Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" London 4: October 26, 1969: December 5, 1969: Top Rock Tracks 1969 #9, from Let It Bleed - London 4. 10: Jethro Tull "Living in the Past" Island 6056: March 18, 1969: May 2, 1969: Top Rock Tracks 1969 #10, from Island single 6056. 11: The Rolling Stones "Midnight Rambler" London 4: March 11, 1969: December 5, 1969
On 6 December 1969, the Stones performed at the Altamont Free Concert music festival, in which Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death by a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club after drawing a revolver and approaching the stage, which was seen as a threat to the band. [56] Accounts of Hunter's reasoning for drawing the revolver were mixed.
The whole read-out was an utter tragedy." "I read Mick [Jagger]’s cards, and I was scanning them nervously, thinking to myself, ‘OK, this is not good.’ The whole read-out was an utter tragedy."