Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day Audiobook (Free)

With this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock and roll journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story from the Rolling Rocks’ infamous Altamont concert in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, the disastrous historic event that marked the end from the idealistic 1960s.

In the annals of rock history, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival on December 6, 1969, has long been seen as the distorted twin of Woodstock-the day that shattered the Sixties’ guarantee of peace and about Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the within Story of Rock’s Darkest Day love whenever a concertgoer was killed by an associate from the Hells Angels, the notorious biker club acting as security. While most people know of the events through the film Gimme Shelter, the whole story has remained buried in assorted accounts, rumor, and myth-until today.

Altamont explores rock’s darkest day time, a fiasco that began well before the climactic death of Meredith Hunter and continued beyond that infamous Dec night. Joel Selvin probes every part from the show-from the Rocks’ hastily prepared tour preceding the concert towards the poor acid that swept through the audience to other fatalities that also happened that evening-to catch the full scope from the tragedy and its own aftermath. He also has an in-depth look at the Thankful Dead’s role in the occasions leading to Altamont, analyzing the band’s behind-the-scenes existence in both organizing the show and employing the Hells Angels as security.

The product of twenty years of exhaustive research and dozens of interviews with many key players, including medical staff, Hells Angels members, the stage crew, and the musicians who have there been, Altamont is the ultimate account of the final event in rock’s formative & most turbulent decade.