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Palace Revolution 2000
I can't wait for the book. From a real man on the inside. And he's sort of one of us..
Ron, in the film when we see Mick and Charlie watching the film on tape, where are they? What studio is that?
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Kennedy
If we are placing blame for what happened at Altamont, I assume we are referring to the death. And that blame lies squarely on Merideth Hunter, and only Merideth Hunter.
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hopkins
"...Stones representative Ron Schneider suggested that his office would offer some kind of compensation to the Hunter family. "We haven't talked to the family yet, but we'll have to do something about that. If we come up and say we're going to give $500,000 to the family, it all sounds so tacky. As far as I'm concerned, if we gave the family $50 million it still doesn't make up for the kid being killed. So whatever you give it doesn't matter, you're just giving something to them. What could I say to them? I don't know what to say to them, that's the problem."
Perhaps Schneider will eventually think of something to say. For now, Gwen and the family are still waiting."...
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Kennedy
If we are placing blame for what happened at Altamont, I assume we are referring to the death. And that blame lies squarely on Merideth Hunter, and only Merideth Hunter.
Yeah obviously it had nothing to do with the thugs who started picking on him which lead him to pull the gun in the first place. Good call.
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Kennedy
If we are placing blame for what happened at Altamont, I assume we are referring to the death. And that blame lies squarely on Merideth Hunter, and only Merideth Hunter.
Yeah obviously it had nothing to do with the thugs who started picking on him which lead him to pull the gun in the first place. Good call.
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Kennedy
If we are placing blame for what happened at Altamont, I assume we are referring to the death. And that blame lies squarely on Merideth Hunter, and only Merideth Hunter.
Yeah obviously it had nothing to do with the thugs who started picking on him which lead him to pull the gun in the first place. Good call.
Yeah yeah, and if Mick and Keith hadn’t run into each other at that station Meredith might still be alive today...He was probably fated to die a hundred times before Altamont but most definitely whenever he purchased (or stole) that hot gun. Stan, history doesn’t have any love for a black man waving a gun and neither should you. Besides, the kid’s been immortalized.
And let’s all be honest: Altamont is so important to the Stones mythology that it’s almost heresy to wish that Meredith had lived.
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Swayed1967
And let’s all be honest: Altamont is so important to the Stones mythology that it’s almost heresy to wish that Meredith had lived.
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Kennedy
If we are placing blame for what happened at Altamont, I assume we are referring to the death. And that blame lies squarely on Merideth Hunter, and only Merideth Hunter.
Yeah obviously it had nothing to do with the thugs who started picking on him which lead him to pull the gun in the first place. Good call.
Trump voter in the house.
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And let’s all be honest: Altamont is so important to the Stones mythology that it’s almost heresy to wish that Meredith had lived.
That there is a sincerely disgusting statement, and every clause in it is wrong.
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Kennedy
If we are placing blame for what happened at Altamont, I assume we are referring to the death. And that blame lies squarely on Merideth Hunter, and only Merideth Hunter.
Yeah obviously it had nothing to do with the thugs who started picking on him which lead him to pull the gun in the first place. Good call.
Trump voter in the house.
Don't get your point
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Swayed1967
And let’s all be honest: Altamont is so important to the Stones mythology that it’s almost heresy to wish that Meredith had lived.
That there is a sincerely disgusting statement, and every clause in it is wrong.
Yes shockingly inappropriate and insensitive.
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hopkins
[www.rollingstone.com]
"The Stones figure they spent something like $80,000 on the Altamont affair, including helicopters, which isn't bad at all — when you consider as the cost of a movie set.
Any proceeds from the film, Schneider said, would be used first to pay back neighboring ranchers who had property damaged (they're filing the lawsuit anyhow), to recoup the costs of the film, and to pay back those persons who made donations to the festival so it could be set up in the first place.
Proceeds beyond that (if any) would be split up equally among the participating bands. This in itself is a shuck, because the word at first was that all proceeds from the film would go to charity. "It'd be presumptuous of us to decide what the other bands want to do, so we're just going to let them have their own share and decide for themselves," Schneider explained.
The Stones themselves, however, have definitely committed their share to some as yet undecided cause, according to Schneider. "Anything we get out of this will either go to a charity or else directly back to the kids in San Francisco, so they can buy some land out there and have lots of free concerts without the hassles we've had. That was Mick's idea, that's the best idea because we want the people there to have their own piece of land. The trouble with giving it to some organizational charity is that by the time they take off their fee and everything, the money doesn't get to the people you wanted to have it. But we don't want any money from this, we never wanted to make a profit and we were never trying to like people said."
"...Stones representative Ron Schneider suggested that his office would offer some kind of compensation to the Hunter family. "We haven't talked to the family yet, but we'll have to do something about that. If we come up and say we're going to give $500,000 to the family, it all sounds so tacky. As far as I'm concerned, if we gave the family $50 million it still doesn't make up for the kid being killed. So whatever you give it doesn't matter, you're just giving something to them. What could I say to them? I don't know what to say to them, that's the problem."
Perhaps Schneider will eventually think of something to say. For now, Gwen and the family are still waiting."...
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