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Nanker Phlegm
Let's be sensible here, we don't want people getting hurt, I know lets get the Angles to do security !
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timbernardis
Some might think this is sick, or impossible, but many of us know people who were there and could provide informal "guide service" or something of that ilk.
A few months ago, I mentioned to my brother that some time when I am back home in Northern California, that he and I go out to the site and I could record his memories on-site with a video camera.
Yes, it might mean a helluva bit of walking, but nothing triggers memories like being on the site of a particular event. This is a common experience in doing oral history with people, say, veterans of a particular battle or anything really.
Maybe one could not even gain access to the site, maybe it or the egress to the area is in private hands who would not allow it or want a lot of money, but who knows? You can be sure that the same thing will happen with Woodstock in August, probably already tour groups are organized and paid for.
Say whatever u will about the event, history was made there. OK, go ahead and quibble that it was not that significant, but I still think it would be an interesting thing to do.
"Yeah, are we gonna have Mick and Sonny Barger lead us on tours??" -- ok, bring it on, but I think it would be fascinating if done properly with history "brought alive" by some people who were there.
the plexi-man
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Manofwealthandtaste
For us Londoners......perhaps a picnic in Hyde Park on 5th July?!
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skipstone
I think it's a fantastic idea to go celebrate Altamont - get a bunch of people together and go stand or sit in a field.
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Manofwealthandtaste
For us Londoners......perhaps a picnic in Hyde Park on 5th July?!
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mccparty
What's the Dec. 5th, New Orleans annivesary?
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mccparty
What's the Dec. 5th, New Orleans annivesary?
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ghostryder13
to me that would be like celebrating the 40th anniversary of the manson killings. it's poor taste to celebrate something where people died for no reason.
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sundevil
good idea!! who's gonna be the dead guy?
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sundevil
good idea!! who's gonna be the dead guy?
we could sacrifice a random iorrean....
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sundevil
good idea!! who's gonna be the dead guy?
we could sacrifice a random iorrean....
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sundevil
good idea!! who's gonna be the dead guy?
we could sacrifice a random iorrean....
Couldn't we sacrifice a shidoobean instead?
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Gazza
>How About Organizing a 40th Anniversary Trip to Altamont on Dec. 6th??
To do what? Have a fight at dawn?
Do we have to bring our own knives and pool cues or will they be provided?
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Gazza
>How About Organizing a 40th Anniversary Trip to Altamont on Dec. 6th??
To do what? Have a fight at dawn?
Do we have to bring our own knives and pool cues or will they be provided?
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VoodooLounge13
Wait a minute....Altamont is near San Fran?! Oh please say it isn't so - I was in San Fran about 7 years ago, and had I known I certainly would have made this little trek over to check out the track!!
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Gazza
>How About Organizing a 40th Anniversary Trip to Altamont on Dec. 6th??
To do what? Have a fight at dawn?
Do we have to bring our own knives and pool cues or will they be provided?
OK smart ass. I thought u were something of a historian and there is nothing like being on the site of an event. If it doesn't interest u, there are others.
the plexi-man
ps good one, tho!!
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Kurt
C'mon...
Celebrating this anniversary sounds like a mighty bad idea to me.
In 1997, a man died at the Pontiac Silverdome during a Stones show. Do you want to come here to the site and celebrate that too?
Since the Silverdome has been vacant for a number of years, and Pontiac Michigan is in serious decline, the landscapes are probably similar.
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skipstone
I think it's a fantastic idea to go celebrate Altamont - get a bunch of people together and go stand or sit in a field.
GENIUS.
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sundevil
good idea!! who's gonna be the dead guy?
we could sacrifice a random iorrean....
Does it have to be random? I'd prefer a nomination process followed by a vote.