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Is it possible, then, that everybody who’d been at Altamont might somehow have been at fault, and therefore the Stones (et al) bore no responsibility for the injured, the wounded and the maimed? That was a question Belli had no time to hear. Busy man. Didn’t have all day. Lotta phone calls. Don’t know what you’re talking about anyway. Good day. Concert Associates, the promoters of the Rolling Stones concert at the Inglewood Forum, outside of L. A., had accepted, as did sponsors in each of the other tour cities, some unusually demanding contract terms, for the privilege of promoting the event. These included coming up with a cash guarantee of 60% of the anticipated gate receipts, months in advance. Outside of the outrageous cash advance, most of the conditions were for the ego gratification of the Stones. One of the most common questions we are asked is what is the best size suitcase for me? Below you'll find information that answers a few common questions and will help you make the right decision. And, finally, some harsh words for the Stones themselves. “I think the major mistakes were taking what was essentially a party and turning it into an ego game and a star trip. An ego trip of ‘look how many of us there are’ and a star trip of the Rolling Stones, who are on a star trip, and who qualify in my book as snobs. I’ve talked with them many times and I still think they’re snobs. I didn’t want to talk to them at all Saturday, once I saw what was going on. I’m sure they don’t understand what they did, and I’m sure they won’t understand my thinking they’re snobs, but they are in my book. I don’t like them. I think they have an exaggerated view of their own importance; I think they’re on a grotesque ego trip. I think they’re out of touch with the people to whom they’re trying to speak. I think they are on negative trips intensely, especially the two leaders.” At any rate, the cops have no suspects in the murder, or they haven’t announced any. Detectives seem most interested in determining exactly who hired the Angels, which raises the possibility that if some Angels do eventually stand trial for murder, Cutler and Scully will share the guilt as accessories.

Booth, Stanley (2000). The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones (2nded.). A Capella Books. ISBN 978-1-55652-400-4. The possibility of a film had been no spontaneous afterthought. Arrangements were underway at the very outset of the tour. Haskell Wexler, who directed the motion picture Medium Cool was the first considered by the Stones to shoot the American tour. Then some disagreements over the form and content of the film ended in Wexler’s disassociating himself from the enterprise. There were apparently no ill feelings. Martoccio, Angie (January 9, 2022). "Who Knew We Needed This Unseen Altamont Footage So Badly?". Rolling Stone . Retrieved July 11, 2022. Dodd, David (1995). "The Annotated "Mason's Children" ". The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics . Retrieved September 30, 2018. Hunter's note in the Box of Rain anthology says, "An unrecorded GD song dealing obliquely with Altamont."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. Why Saturday’s episode? I suspect it is because, just as their parents 25 years ago thought America was full of Comanches scalping stagecoach riders and Capone gangsters shooting passers-by on Chicago streets, Jagger and Cutler think San Francisco is the Hell’s Angels and the Pranksters since those are the ones who went to London last year and first broached the idea of the Stones playing free here. Under My Thumb.” A bad fight this time: a body sails across the stage. “We’re splitting; we’re splitting if those cats don’t stop,” Jagger shouts! “I want them out of the way! I don’t like doing it to them . . .” The onstage crowd in to surround him. An extremely menacing moment. Rough?” said Frisco Pete. “What I feel the roughness is if we say we’re gonna do somethin’, we do it. Do you understand that? That’s our whole thing. Now if these people asked us to do this thing, we did it. What are we supposed to do? We ain’t cops. We’re not into that thing. We decide to do somethin’, it’s done, no matter how far we have to go to do it.”

This excludes abuse, cosmetic damage (scratches on leather, polycarbonate or stained fabrics), incidental/consequential damage (such as damage to or loss of content of the bag, loss of use or loss of time), abrasion, solvents, accidents, airline handling and transit damage.It’s just amazing. There could be no worse circumstance for making music, and the Stones are playing their asses off. Jagger is incredible. They all look like they’d rather be anyplace else. But it’s getting better and better. Driving, powerhouse waves of rhythm roll on and on. Jagger is opening up. At first, when he really was trying to cool everybody out, his performance was the epitomy of cool: restrained, distanced, but still — even with fear welling in his throat — deeply inside each song, laying it on us. Meredith liked all kinds of music, his sister said. He’d gone to the Monterey Jazz Festival, had a good time, and went to this one thinking it would be much the same. He went to see the Stones, “just like everyone else.” Klein thought only the people who set it up were responsible. And they did not include any of the Stones, nor Allen Klein. Sam Cutler? “Well, he’s the guy they hired to help on the road and with this Altamont thing because he did a good job on their free concert in Hyde Park. But he’s not part of the Stones management.” They did manage to rap with an aide to the Mayor, and at one point, ten days before the concert, got themselves on the Park and Recreation commission meeting agenda. The day that meeting was to have taken place, they withdrew their request for a park permit, under what then appeared to be mysterious circumstances. Brown Sugar" (Debut live performance of the song; the studio version had been recorded only two days earlier in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.)

One CHP who refused to identify himself said the main problem was just too many people. “Those roads are only designed for about 15,000 cars at the most, and there were thousands more than that. It wouldn’t have even mattered if the new freeway was finished; it couldn’t have handled it either.” To all complaints that they had been over-zealous — too rough — in keeping the stage clear, the Angels simply replied that they was just doin’ their thing. Which is violence. There was the young mother in blue blouse with Peter Pan collar and pleated skirt, looking like she’d just stepped out of a Hayward model home, who pushed ahead of her husband. In one hand she carried a baby only a few months old. She’d nudge the person ahead of her with the baby, smile and look wide-eyed at them as they turned to see who was pushing — and then she’d push right through. The fight scene got worse. Long silence at the mike. Dense uncertainty crowded the night chill. Amazingly, Jagger seemed to lose control of his audience. A rare moment.The layout at the raceway is easy enough to visualize without a map. It consists of an 80-acre plot of land with an auto raceway carved into its central plateau. This has got high rolling ground on three sides — these sides where were the earliest autos parked — and a low bowl-like fourth area on the side nearest the highway. The latter was where the stage was set up, since it afforded the greatest line of sight, line of hearing potential for the greatest number of people. By night, with only some 5,000 people milling around the interior section, it seemed to stretch on forever. It was hard to imagine that it could ever be totally filled with people, as far as the eye could see looking out from the stage. The Grateful Dead wrote several songs about, or in response to, what lyricist Robert Hunter called "the Altamont affair", including "New Speedway Boogie" (featuring the line "One way or another, this darkness got to give") and "Mason's Children". [41] Both songs were written and recorded during sessions for the early 1970 album Workingman's Dead, but "Mason's Children" was not included on the album. KSAN: Well, what I’m speaking to, and what I’m sure you saw because you were right on the stage. . . I myself,” said Cutler, “feel that the Hell’s Angels were as helpful as they saw that they could be in a situation which most people found very confusing, including the Hell’s Angels. Everybody found last night very confusing so everybody acted on their own initiative. If you want to ask me what the Hell’s Angels were doing last night then I’m not qualified to speak for the Hell’s Angels, you’ll have to talk to the Hell’s Angels yourself.” Stones road manager Sam Cutler, who has MC’d all day long, takes the mike to try to clear the stage. “First of all, everyone is going to get to the side of the stage who’s on it now, aside from the Stones. Please, everyone. We need a doctor and ambulance, right away. Just sit down and keep calm and relax. We can get it together.”

Though they have nothing to say about it publicly, the Alameda County Sheriff’s office is pressing very hard on an investigation of the entire event — one of the prime reasons being that the department has been getting so much heat from county officials for “mishandling” it in the first place. The investigation has not gone especially well so far. Sheriff’s sleuths are “surprised and frustrated” to discover that hardly any witnesses to the violence are willing to talk with them. He’s right. The huge, brown mass now appears to be moving. It no longer just looks like a burnt out field. From every direction, people are converging on the scene. It looks like the peons following Marlon Brando to the town where he’s killed in Viva Zapata!

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But some display — however restrained — of compassion hardly seems too much to expect. A man died before their eyes. Do they give a shit? Yes or no? The two killed by the car were Mark Feiger and Richard Savlov, both 22, of Berkeley. They had recently moved to the Bay Area from New Jersey. They were killed around midnight Saturday when a 1964 Plymouth sedan plowed into them and several others as they sat around their camp fire by the side of the speedway road. The official cause of death was listed by the coroner as “multiple blunt crushing injuries.” The wheels of the hit-and-run car went across their chests, and they were dead on arrival at Valley Memorial Hospital in Livermore at 12:20 A.M. Sunday. The driver of the car has not yet been found. Jagger 'escaped gang murder plot' BBC March 3, 2008". BBC News. March 3, 2008. Archived from the original on November 2, 2010 . Retrieved October 25, 2010. Wexler had in mind something with a little more craft and depth than, say, a movie like Monterey Pop. He was interested in doing a behind-the-scenes chronicle of the tour, perhaps involving other bands and other countries. Wexler claims that it was perhaps the Stones’ disenchantment with Godard’s Sympathy for the Devil that made them skeptical of his plans.