The Altamont Free Concert is held at the Altamont Speedway in northern California

Quando

6 de dez. de 1969

Tipo

Evento

Coordenadas

37.74° N, 121.56° W

Posicionado em: coordinates of the event it links, Altamont Free Concert.

The Altamont Free Concert is held at the Altamont Speedway in northern California. Hosted by the Rolling Stones, it is an attempt at a "Woodstock West" and is best known for the uproar of violence that occurred. It is viewed by many as the "end of the sixties."

1969 music festival in northern California

The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture rock concert in the United States, held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway outside of Tracy, California. Approximately 300,000 attended the concert, with some anticipating that it would be a "Woodstock West". The Woodstock festival had taken place in Bethel, New York, in mid-August, almost four months earlier.

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