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Back in 1969, the Rolling Stones paid the world’s most notoriously violent biker gang to do security for a hastily thrown together concert in exchange for beer. It went…. poorly.
Highlights:
[0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about the horrors of the Altamont Free Concert (make sure you listen to the companion ep. for free on our Ko-Fi!)
[01:04:03] Summer is terrible, we reminisce on our blogging days, Marko saw monster trucks
[01:17:40] What we watched: (Exhibit A, Faces of Death, It Ends, Infested, Buffet Infinity, The Blackening)
Stuff we referenced:
- Inside the Rise of the Hells Angels, the World’s Most Powerful Biker Gang
- LIFE Rides With Hells Angels, 1965
- ‘If Woodstock started it, we stopped it’: How the Rolling Stones killed the hippie dream at Altamont
- What happened at the Altamont Free Festival?
- Altamont At 50: The Disastrous Concert That Brought The ‘60s To A Crashing Halt
- Altamont at 45: The most dangerous rock concert
- Who was to blame for the Altamont Free Concert tragedy?
- The Altamont Speedway Free Concert: The Deadly End To The Hippie Era
- Days Of Rage: The Rolling Stones’ Road To Altamont
- The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
- The Sixties aren’t dead… they’ve been rebooted on today’s American streets
- Angels & Abominations: The Altamont Tragedy
- KoRn at Woodstock ’99
Jack of All Graves 