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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 Rolling Stones' Keith Richards was relatively sanguine about the show, calling it "basically well-handled, but lots of people were tired and a few tempers got frayed" [12] and "on the whole, a good concert." [39] Nearly half a century later, it's automatic to think of Altamont as the end of something. Yet it now looks like the beginning of something too: a world in which the aggression of the self, on the part of just about everybody, would be given a new licence. The '60s, after all, are long gone, and perhaps they really did die that day. But the violence and chaos that ruled at Altamont don't look trapped in the past. They look all too present. During the worst of the Angels’ outrages, a few of the braver non-Angels had suggested (quietly) to the friends that with enough men they could put the Angels down, and maybe they ought to. But cats like Marty Balin, who actually leapt in to fight the Angels were exceedingly rare. They usually got bloody fast.

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. The Rolling Stones". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on November 4, 2010 . Retrieved October 25, 2010. 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. It may surprise many of the people who suffered Altamont to discover that they were, in effect, unpaid extras in a full production color motion picture.From the beginning of the second until the end of the eleventh year of ownership, your product is covered by the Victorinox Quality Warranty Programme. Pause. More nastiness in the audience immediately in front of the stage. Of 300,000 people, only a few thousand can see the trouble. More and more time passed, and eventually it all came down to a big last-minute crisis. Scully and Grogan had been made to look foolish repeatedly, by starting to enter negotiations with San Francisco park and recreation people on various occasions, four, three and two weeks ahead of the scheduled December 7th concert date — only to withdraw without explanation. I don’t care if he is just a name,” Gwen concluded. “My brother was a very respectable person, and I was closer to him than to anyone in my family.”

That’s a real question there: why 300,000 – well 299,900 – people would allow themselves to be dominated by a hundred Angels?Cutler: “If you’re asking me to issue a general put down of the Angels, which I imagine a lot of people would be only too happy to do, and I’m not prepared to do that. The Angels did as they saw best in a difficult situation as I have said before. Now 50 percent of the people will dig what they did and 50 percent will not dig what they did. I don’t need to get into a kind of positive-anti kind of thing. As far as I’m concerned they were people who were here, who tried to help in their own way . . . You know . . . these people didn’t dig it. I’m sorry. I didn’t dig in fact what a lot of people did yesterday.”

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.” But he had been hired to help the Stones manage their tour. He was part of their management at the time of the Altamont “party.”Both denied doing any damage to cars, though the obvious physical condition of some of the cars showed otherwise. In all, about 200 cars were towed off, and some are still sitting in the yards of garages in Livermore and Tracy. 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. It was a long . . . long barrel, really long. Looked like a six shooter or something . . . I’ve never seen . . . it was really . . . like the barrel was about six inches or so . . . Photographer Jim Marshall, who’s been to perhaps 200 festivals in the past ten years, including about a dozen during 1969, said he’d seen more violence at Altamont than all others this year combined. “The sound was crappy and everybody felt bummed by that. There was no community feeling here at all. There was more violence at this festival than all the other ones I’ve attended this year. And somehow it relates to the hysteria over the Stones, though I can’t really make the connection.”