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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.
The music magazine Rolling Stone, in a 14-page, 11-author article on the event entitled "The Rolling Stones Disaster at Altamont: Let It Bleed" published in their January 21, 1970, issue, stated that "Altamont was the product of diabolical egotism, hype, ineptitude, money manipulation, and, at base, a fundamental lack of concern for humanity". [9]
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.
Half-Hour of Lost Footage of Rolling Stones' Altamont Festival Unveiled by Library of Congress ... a fascinating soundboard recording of two Flying Burrito Brothers 1969 sets in San Francisco ...
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
The Rolling Stones' 1969 Tour of the United States took place in November 1969. With Ike & Tina Turner, Terry Reid, and B.B. King (replaced on some dates by Chuck Berry) as the supporting acts, [1] rock critic Robert Christgau called it "history's first mythic rock and roll tour", [2] while rock critic Dave Marsh wrote that the tour was "part of rock and roll legend" and one of the "benchmarks ...