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marvpeck
I had to go back and remind myself of what started this:
"Altamont and Pearl Harbor. 39 and 67 years since. Regardless of the vast difference in scale, both have had reverberations that are felt to the present day." And the adding of John's murder.
I agree ... it's strange how those three things occurred on successive dates.
Personally, I think it's strange how folks have been attacking these ideas. You've obviously touched some sort of button here and I'm not quite sure what it is.
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ChrisM
... The press gave Altamont the tag "end of the 60's" or some such thing, but really the hippy ideal of peace and love ended after the Summer of Love in 1967 and the nail in the coffin was the assassination of RFK and MLK a year later..
wow, this is the exact post I made In the end of 60's thread. I guess I must have learned something in school after all!
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hbwriter
i took this from the exact location of the stage, looking out toward the meredith hunter site, toward the left
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Sir Craven of Cottage
A slight overreaction. One man died at Altamont. Nothing more nothing less - it had no significant impact on western civilisation except for a bunch of belly button gazing hippies. To compare it with Pearl Harbour demonstates a completely distorted view of the world.
It may have ad an impact on the Stones, it may have indicated a chnage in values but it chnaged nothing in itself.
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timbernardis
I do think, again, that Pearl and Altamont have become symbols of an era (or two eras) in the eyes of a number of people. How many, I do not know.