What a Creep: Altamont "Creepy Concert Tragedy" Not Fade Away Replay

<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>What a Creep: Not Fade Away Podcast Bonus Ep </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>“Altamont/The Rolling Stones”</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/176387/activitymore-893E5AB1-D812-4B99-8B3C-217953731B5B.png" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The</span> <strong><em>Not Fade Away</em></strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">podcast is back and today’s subject--the</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Altamont</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">concert that took place on December 6, 1969. It was supposed to be a showcase by the</span> <strong>Rolling Stones</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">to demonstrate their ability to draw an even bigger crowd than the Woodstock festival which took place in August of that year.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That concert was billed as “three days of peace & music” and managed to rise above their circumstances of overcrowding, rain and brown acid to become a legendary event that 50 years later serves as an example of how hippies can work peacefully with “the man” to create beauty out chaos.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instead, Altamont is rightly or wrongly known as one of the key events that ended 60s idealism.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the end of the day, 300,000 showed up at a tiny speedway far outside the city of San Francisco to find a barely visible stage, pissed-off Hell Angels members as authority figures, horrible drugs snuck into drinks that left people incapacitated, very few bathrooms, little emergency care, and four people dead.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Among the deceased was an 18-year</span> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Meredith_Hunter"><strong>Meredith Hunter</strong></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">--an African Amer