Road To Hell

[liadnan]

I am deep in my annual accounts/tax crisis. Expect nowt from me until it is over, one way or another.

For those who were wondering about the question posed in my poll the other day, but not wondering enough to Run And Find Out, Meredith Hunter was the man killed by the Hell's Angels security while the Rolling Stones played* at the Altamont Free Concert, on 6th December 1969, sometimes seen as the Anti-Woodstock and the day the 60s died. Now you know. There was no real purpose to the poll, it was just a random thought.

*Not "Sympathy for the Devil", but "Under My Thumb", contrary to the myth. I've never really seen why they should be blamed to be honest: for one thing they probably couldn't see much of what was going on, for another, stopping playing would probably have caused a major riot.

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

And if you had asked a couple of days later I would have known, for last night I watched From the Byrds to the Eagles, an account of the LA music scene with IMHO not enough Doors.

old enuff ter remember all this first 'and...

[alan1957.livejournal.com]

although i didn't know the name i, of course, know the story and 'ave always thought that it's reputation as the end of the sixties woz a trifle unfair. especially when compared to the deaths (in less than a year) of the three J's (Jimi Hendrix, Jannis Joplin 'n' Jim Morrison) or (p'rapes even more so) the crimes of Charles Manson and those associated wiv 'im.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I was asleep during your poll - I recognised the name, but to me it has never had the resonance of Kitty Genovese...