Title: Irresponsible Party Music From Adam 12 Source:
Jack Webb URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76YSoBzqe1U Published:Sep 30, 2023 Author:Pete Malloy's secret basement tapes Post Date:2023-09-30 15:35:08 by Dakmar Keywords:None Views:922 Comments:11
Everytime Reed and Malloy roll up on a noise complaint, the same crappy hippy music is playing. Not that cops are ever ever called on me, but I wonder if they would appreciate my sense of humor were I to blast this upon their arrival.
Did you know the Hell's Angels did Security for the Rolling Stones in 1969 at Altamont, California Speedway for 500 cases of beer? I think they were so mean because the couldn't get the beer until the show was over.
They parked thier bikes in front of the stage and when the crowd came over the top of them the Angels beat them back. ;)
Did you know the Hell's Angels did Security for the Rolling Stones in 1969 at Altamont, California Speedway for 500 cases of beer? I think they were so mean because the couldn't get the beer until the show was over.
I did, in fact. Only person killed was one Meridith Hunter, a negro that was stabbed as he tried to rush the stage. Here is the report from Wikipedia
Hunter was an 18-year-old from Berkeley, California, nicknamed "Murdock" and described by friends as a flashy dresser with a big Afro. Hunter, his girlfriend Patty Bredehoft, Ronnie Brown (nicknamed "Blood"), and Brown's girlfriend Judy traveled from Berkeley to attend the Altamont Free Concert. His sister Dixie warned him about the still prevalent racism in the outer reaches of Alameda County, which prompted Meredith to take a .22 Smith and Wesson revolver for protection.[1][2][3]
The Hells Angels had agreed to prevent members of the audience from getting onto the stage, in exchange for $500 (about US$3,830 adjusted for inflation, 2022) worth of beer.[4] They stood directly in front of the bands in an effort to keep people off the unusually low stage, which had been set up at the bottom of a low slope. They parked several of their motorcycles in front of the stage to act "as a kind of bulwark against the crowd".[5]
As the Hells Angels drank the beer and became intoxicated and the crowd became restless and unpredictable, the drunken Hells Angels began hurling full cans of beer from their stockpile and striking concertgoers with motorcycle chains and sawed-off, weighted pool cues to drive the crowd back from the stage and the Angels' motorcycles. By the time the Rolling Stones took the stage in the early evening, the mood had taken a decidedly ugly turn, as numerous fights began to erupt between Angels and crowd members. Denise Jewkes (née Kaufman) of local San Francisco rock band the Ace of Cups, six months pregnant at the time, was hit in the head by an empty beer bottle thrown from the crowd and suffered a skull fracture that warranted emergency surgery.[6]
Lead singer Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones (who had been punched by a concertgoer within seconds of emerging from the Stones' helicopter)[7] urged the audience to "just be cool down in the front there, don't push around." Within the first minute of the Stones' third song, "Sympathy for the Devil", a fight erupted in the front of the crowd at the foot of the stage. After another appeal for calm, the band restarted the song and continued their set with fewer incidents until the start of "Under My Thumb". At this point, Hunter climbed on top of a speaker box next to the stage, and two of the Hells Angels got into a scuffle with Hunter. One of the Hells Angels grabbed Hunter's head, punched him, and chased him back into the crowd, where four Angels descended upon him.[8]
After a few seconds, Hunter angrily returned to the front of the stage where, according to Gimme Shelter producer Porter Bibb, Hunter's girlfriend Patty Bredehoft found him and tearfully begged him to calm down and move farther back in the crowd with her. By her report he was enraged, irrational and "so high he could barely walk".[9] Grateful Dead associate Rock Scully noticed Hunter in the crowd, concluding that “I saw what he was looking at, that he was crazy, he was on drugs, and that he had murderous intent. There was no doubt in my mind that he intended to do terrible harm to Mick or somebody in the Rolling Stones, or somebody on that stage."[10] Another witness reported Hunter as looking "pretty straight", though visibly upset about the violence inflicted upon him.[8]
Keith Richard said something to effect that the entire crowd had "victim faces", lol.
The reason I posted the Altamont "Frank Bank" vid in #2 is something you will have to figure out on your own, if you are so inclined :)