Altamont: the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rocks Darkest Day Pdf
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FREE ALTAMONT: THE ROLLING STONES, THE HELLS ANGELS, AND THE INSIDE STORY OF ROCKS DARKEST DAY PDF Joel Selvin | 368 pages | 25 Aug 2016 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | 9780062444257 | English | New York, United States 'Altamont' remembers rock’s darkest day In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones' infamous Altamont concert, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic s. In the annals of rock history, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival on December 6,has long been seen as the distorted twin of Woodstock--the day that shattered the Sixties' Altamont: The Rolling Stones of peace and love when a concertgoer was killed by a member of the Hells Angels, the notorious biker club acting as security. While most people know of the events from the film Gimme Shelterthe whole story has remained buried in varied accounts, rumor, and myth--until now. Altamont explores rock's darkest day, a fiasco that began well before the climactic death of Meredith Hunter and continued beyond that infamous December night. Joel Selvin probes every aspect of the show--from the Stones' hastily planned tour preceding the concert to the bad acid that swept through the audience to other deaths that also occurred that evening--to capture the full scope of the tragedy and its aftermath. He also provides an in-depth look at the Grateful Dead's role and the Inside Story of Rocks Darkest Day the events leading to Altamont, examining the band's behind-the-scenes presence in both arranging the show and hiring 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 were there, and Altamont: The Rolling Stones sixteen pages of color photos, Altamont is the ultimate and the Inside Story of Rocks Darkest Day of the final event in rock's formative and most turbulent decade. Here at Walmart. Your email address will never be sold or distributed to a third party for any reason. Sorry, but we can't respond to individual comments. If you need immediate assistance, please contact Customer Care. Your feedback helps us make Walmart shopping better for millions of customers. Recent searches Clear All. Enter Location. Update location. Learn more. Report incorrect product information. Joel Selvin. Walmart Book Format. Select Option. Current selection is: Hardcover. Pickup not available. Add to list. Add to registry. About This Item. 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To ensure we are able to help you as best we can, please include your Altamont: The Rolling Stones number:. Thank you for signing up! How was your experience with this page? Thank you. Thank you! The Rolling Stones Disaster at Altamont: What Happened? - Rolling Stone He was just being uptight. He reached over and grabbed the guy beside me by the ear and hair, and yanked on it, thinking it was funny, you know, kind of laughing. And so, this guy shook loose; he yanked away from him. Yeah, right. They started mugging him and. This is when they claim he had the gun? See, and they started, they were mugging him, and then he started running. Had he been smoking, had he been drinking, or do you know? He was really straight, he was really. Feeling really weird about being pushed around and stuff, but he was really pretty straight. When the cat started grabbing him, what did he say? What Altamont: The Rolling Stones this black guy say? He just gave him a weird look, kind of a mean look, and yanked away. What kind of knife? I just saw the flash of the blade. Everything was happening too fast. And he hit him in the back and he pulled out a gun and held it up in the air you know. Could you tell what kind of a gun? It was a long. Looked like a six shooter or something. Like a service revolver or something? They grabbed the gun from him, and then stabbed him again in the back? Yeah, yeah. What did the cat who stabbed him look like? I think there was two people that stabbed him. One had his hair straight. It was straight the Hells Angels thick, and it was straight back, combed straight back. The front of his. They hit him. Altamont: The Rolling Stones then he kind of stumbled and he fell down on his knees. He came running toward me. He let go and he fell down on his face. And then one of them kicked him on the side and the Inside Story of Rocks Darkest Day he rolled over, and he muttered some words. You kept right up with them. You could have gotten hurt. I just stayed as close. If some other people had jumped in I would have jumped in. He grabbed one of those garbage cans, you know, one of those cardboard garbage cans with the metal rimming, and he smashed him over the head with it, and then he kicked the garbage can out of the way and started kicking his head in. Five of them started kicking his head in. Kicked him all over the place. And then the guy that started the whole thing, the fat guy, stood on his head for a minute or so and then walked off. So what did everybody do? Did anybody say anything? Chicks were just screaming. It was all confusion. We turned him over and ripped off his shirt. So you could see his back? We rubbed his back up and down to get the blood off so we could see, and there was a big hole on his spine and a big hole on the side and there was a big hole in his temple. A big open slice. You could see all the way in. You could see inside. You could see at least an inch down and stuff, you know. Did you stick with him after that? I picked up his legs and someone else. Tell Mick Jagger to stop playing so we could get him on the stage and get some attention for him. Who told Jagger that? No one told Jagger that, but someone was trying to tell him to stop and he kept leaning over and looking out at the crowd like he was paying attention and trying to figure out what was happening. They kept blocking us saying go around. They knew he was going to die in a matter of minutes. And so we carried. It took about 15 minutes to get him behind the stage. We went around that whole thing and got behind where there was a Red Cross truck. And someone brought out a metal stretcher and laid him on that. Well first we laid him on the ground. And then we felt his pulse and it was just barely doing it. Real slow or real fast or what? Real slow and real weak. He was trying to breathe out of his mouth. We carried him over to some station wagon and then whoever owned the car hopped in and some other people hopped in and I stayed there. I went over and they had this thing of coffee and I had it. Hot coffee? Yeah, because there was nothing else. Do you intend to go to any more of these mass concerts? No violence. I did get bummed out. I got a little depressed about. R obert Hiatt, a medical resident at the Public Health Hospital in San Francisco, was the first doctor to reach year-old Meredith Hunter after the fatal wounds. When Hiatt got to the scene, and the Inside Story of Rocks Darkest Day were trying to get Hunter up on the stage, apparently in the hope that the Stones would stop playing and the Inside Story of Rocks Darkest Day help could get through quicker. He was still breathing then, though quite shallowly, and he had a very weak pulse. He had a wound in the lower back which could have gone into the lungs, a wound in the back near the spine which could have severed a major vessel, and a fairly large wound in the left temple. There was no equipment there to treat him. He needed to be operated on immediately, to have a couple large vessels repaired. Treatment immediately would have been intravenous fluids, none of which were available. Roland W. Prahl said that as far as he knew, Hunter was taken from the scene on a stretcher to the racetrack offices area.