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Acid Tests

The Acid Tests were a series of parties held by author Ken Kesey primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area during the mid-1960s, centered on the use of and advocacy for the psychedelic drug LSD, commonly known as "acid".

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Alameda County Sheriff's Office

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) is a law enforcement agency serving Alameda County, California.

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Alameda County, California

Alameda County is a county located in the U.S. state of California.

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Albert and David Maysles

Albert Maysles (November 26, 1926 – March 5, 2015) and his brother David Maysles (January 10, 1931 – January 3, 1987) were an American documentary filmmaking team known for their work in the Direct Cinema style.

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Altamont Diary

Altamont Diary is the debut album by Melbourne electronica band Black Cab.

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Altamont Raceway Park

Altamont Raceway Park is a motorsports race track in the western United States, located in northern California, west of Tracy.

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American Pie (song)

"American Pie" is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean.

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Anthony Scaduto

Anthony Scaduto (March 7, 1932 – December 12, 2017) was an American journalist and biographer of rock musicians, who also wrote under the name Tony Sciacca.

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Baird Bryant

Wenzell Baird Bryant (December 12, 1927 – November 13, 2008) was an American filmmaker.

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Bethel, New York

Bethel is a town in Sullivan County, New York, United States.

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Bill Wyman

William George Wyman (né Perks; born 24 October 1936) is an English musician who was the bass guitarist with the rock band the Rolling Stones from 1962 to 1993.

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Black Cab (band)

Black Cab is a Melbourne based drone and electronica group.

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Blue Öyster Cult

Blue Öyster Cult (sometimes abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American hard rock band formed on Long Island in Stony Brook, New York, in 1967.

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Blue Öyster Cult (album)

Blue Öyster Cult is the debut studio album by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released in January 1972 by Columbia Records.

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Blues rock

Blues rock is a fusion genre and form of rock music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues.

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Bollocks

Bollocks is a word of Middle English origin meaning "testicles".

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Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones song)

"Brown Sugar" is a song recorded by the English rock band the Rolling Stones.

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Bystander effect

The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim in the presence of other people.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Candlestick Point State Recreation Area

Candlestick Point State Recreation Area (or simply Candlestick Point) is a state park unit of California, United States, providing an urban protected area on San Francisco Bay.

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Carol (Chuck Berry song)

"Carol" is a song written and recorded by Chuck Berry, first released by Chess Records in 1958, with "Hey Pedro" as the B-side.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Chicano rock

Chicano rock, also called chicano fusion, is rock music performed by Mexican American (Chicano) groups or music with themes derived from Chicano culture.

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Chip Monck

Edward Herbert Beresford "Chip" Monck (born March 5, 1939) is an American Tony Award nominated lighting designer, most famously serving as the master of ceremonies at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

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Counterculture of the 1960s

The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century.

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Country rock

Country rock is a music genre that fuses rock and country.

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Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Crosby, Stills & Nash (CSN) was a folk-rock supergroup comprising American singer-songwriters David Crosby and Stephen Stills and English singer-songwriter Graham Nash.

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Cue stick

A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards.

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Diggers (theater)

The Diggers were a radical community-action group of activists and street theatre actors operating from 1966 to 1968, based in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.

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Discourse on Inequality

Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men (Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes), also commonly known as the "Second Discourse", is a 1755 treatise by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, on the topic of social inequality and its origins.

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Don McLean

Donald McLean III (born October 2, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Emmett Grogan

Emmett Grogan (born Eugene Leo Grogan, November 28, 1942 – April 6, 1978) was a founder of the Diggers, a radical community-action group of Improvisational actors in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.

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Eric Saarinen

Eric Saarinen (born June 26, 1942) is an American cinematographer and film director.

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Escrow

An escrow is a contractual arrangement in which a third party (the stakeholder or escrow agent) receives and disburses money or property for the primary transacting parties, with the disbursement dependent on conditions agreed to by the transacting parties.

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine.

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Evil Ways (Santana song)

"Evil Ways" is a song made famous by Mexican-American rock band Santana from their 1969 self-titled debut album.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Filmways

Filmways, Inc. (also known as Filmways Pictures and Filmways Television) was a television and film production company founded by American film executive Martin Ransohoff and Edwin Kasper in 1952.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music.

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Gimme Shelter

"Gimme Shelter" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones.

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Gimme Shelter (1970 film)

Gimme Shelter is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of The Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter.

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Golden Gate Park

Golden Gate Park is an urban park between the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco, United States.

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Grace Slick

Grace Slick (born Grace Barnett Wing; October 30, 1939) is a retired American musician and a painter whose musical career spanned four decades.

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California, known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia.

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Haight-Ashbury

Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets.

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Hells Angels

The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) is an international outlaw motorcycle club whose members typically ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles.

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Hit and run

In traffic laws, a hit and run or a hit-and-run is the criminal act of causing a traffic collision and not stopping afterwards.

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Honky Tonk Women

"Honky Tonk Women" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones.

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Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is a, historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London.

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James Miller (academic)

James Miller (born 1947) is an American writer and academic.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.

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Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band based in San Francisco, California, that became one of the pioneering bands of psychedelic rock.

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Jim Carrey

James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor and comedian known for his energetic slapstick performances.

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Jin-go-lo-ba

"Jin-go-lo-ba" (or "Jingo") is a song by Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji, featured on his first album Drums of Passion (1959).

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Jorma Kaukonen

Jorma Ludwik Kaukonen, Jr. (born December 23, 1940) is an American blues, folk, and rock guitarist.

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Jumpin' Jack Flash

"Jumpin' Jack Flash" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released as a non-album single in 1968.

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Keith Richards

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who is an original member, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones.

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Ken Kesey

Ken Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure.

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Kezar Stadium

Kezar Stadium is an outdoor athletics stadium in San Francisco, California, located adjacent to Kezar Pavilion in the southeastern corner of Golden Gate Park.

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Killing of Meredith Hunter

Meredith Curly Hunter Jr. (October 24, 1951 – December 6, 1969) was an American man who was killed at the 1969 Altamont Free Concert. Altamont Free Concert and Killing of Meredith Hunter are Hells Angels.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of music festivals

A list of music festivals around the world.

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Little Queenie

"Little Queenie" is a song written and recorded by Chuck Berry.

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Live with Me

"Live with Me" is a song by the Rolling Stones from their album Let It Bleed, released in December 1969.

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Long Island

Long Island is a populous island east of Manhattan in southeastern New York state, constituting a significant share of the New York metropolitan area in both population and land area.

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Love in Vain

"Love in Vain" (originally "Love in Vain Blues") is a blues song written by American musician Robert Johnson.

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LSD

Lysergic acid diethylamide, commonly known as LSD (from German Lysergsäure-diethylamid), and known colloquially as acid or lucy, is a potent psychedelic drug.

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Manson Family

The Manson Family (known among its members as the Family) was a commune, gang, and cult led by criminal Charles Manson that was active in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Altamont Free Concert and Manson Family are 1969 in California.

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Marty Balin

Martyn Jerel Buchwald (January 30, 1942 – September 27, 2018), known as Marty Balin, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship.

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Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine (contracted from) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is mainly used as a recreational drug and less commonly as a second-line treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obesity.

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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Michael Lang (producer)

Michael Scott Lang (December 11, 1944 – January 8, 2022) was an American concert promoter, producer, and artistic manager who was best known as a co-creator of the Woodstock Music & Art Festival in 1969.

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Michael Shrieve

Michael Shrieve (born July 6, 1949) is an American drummer, percussionist, and composer.

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Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer.

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Midnight Rambler

"Midnight Rambler" is a song by English rock band The Rolling Stones, released on their 1969 album Let It Bleed.

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Motorcycle club

A motorcycle club is a group of individuals whose primary interest and activities involve motorcycles.

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Murder of Kitty Genovese

In the early hours of March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old bartender, was raped and stabbed outside the apartment building where she lived in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens, New York, United States.

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Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Muscle Shoals is the largest city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

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Noble savage

In Western anthropology, philosophy, and literature, the noble savage is a stock character who is uncorrupted by civilization.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California.

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Parry (fencing)

A parry is a fencing bladework maneuver intended to deflect or block an incoming attack.

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Paul Kantner

Paul Lorin Kantner (March 17, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American rock musician.

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Pauline Kael

Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 – September 3, 2001) was an American film critic who wrote for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991.

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Portable toilet

A portable or mobile toilet (colloquial terms: thunderbox, porta-john, porta-potty or portaloo) is any type of toilet that can be moved around, some by one person, some by mechanical equipment such as a truck and crane.

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Porter Bibb

Porter Bibb (born c. 1937, Louisville, Kentucky), Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit, May 17th, 2011 is an American financier, media producer, and writer.

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Prelinger Archives

The Prelinger Archives is a collection of films relating to U.S. cultural history, the evolution of the American landscape, everyday life, and social history.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Ralph J. Gleason

Ralph Joseph Gleason (March 1, 1917 – June 3, 1975) was an American music critic and columnist.

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Revolver

A revolver is a repeating handgun that has at least one barrel and uses a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing.

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Richard Brody

Richard Brody (born January 22, 1958) is an American film critic who has written for The New Yorker since 1999.

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Road manager

In the music industry, a road manager is a person who works with small to mid-size tours (in terms of personnel involved, based on the size of the production).

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.

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Robert Hunter (lyricist)

Robert C. Christie Hunter (born Robert Burns; June 23, 1941 – September 23, 2019) was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator and poet, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead.

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Rock concert

A rock concert is a performance of rock music. Altamont Free Concert and rock concert are rock concerts.

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Rock festival

A rock festival is an open-air rock concert featuring many different performers, typically spread over two or three days and having a campsite and other amenities and forms of entertainment provided at the venue.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Rock Scully

Rock Robert Scully (August 1, 1941 – December 16, 2014, aged 73) was an American music manager, best known as one of the managers of the rock band the Grateful Dead from 1965 to 1985.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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Sam Cutler

Sam Cutler (born Brendan Lawrence Lyons; 10 March 1943 – 11 July 2023) was an English tour manager for The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, and other acts.

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San Francisco

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.

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San Jose State University

San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California.

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San Jose, California

San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.

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Santana (band)

Santana is an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1966 by Mexican-born guitarist Carlos Santana.

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Six Days on the Road

"Six Days on the Road" is an American song written by Earl Green and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio songwriter Carl Montgomery, made famous by country music singer Dave Dudley.

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Skull fracture

A skull fracture is a break in one or more of the eight bones that form the cranial portion of the skull, usually occurring as a result of blunt force trauma.

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Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane song)

"Somebody to Love" (originally titled "Someone to Love") is a rock song that was written by Darby Slick.

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Sonny Barger

Ralph Hubert "Sonny" Barger Jr. (October 8, 1938 – June 29, 2022) was an American outlaw biker who was a founding member of the Oakland, California chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in 1957. Altamont Free Concert and Sonny Barger are Hells Angels.

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Sonoma Raceway

Sonoma Raceway (originally known as Sears Point Raceway, Golden State International Raceway and Infineon Raceway) is a road course and dragstrip located at Sears Point in the southern Sonoma Mountains of Sonoma County, California.

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Sonoma, California

Sonoma is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, located in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Soul Sacrifice (song)

"Soul Sacrifice" is an instrumental composed and recorded by the American rock group Santana.

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Spencer Dryden

Spencer Charles Dryden (April 7, 1938 – January 11, 2005) was an American musician best known as the drummer for Jefferson Airplane and New Riders of the Purple Sage.

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Stanley Booth

Stanley Booth (born January 5, 1942, in Waycross, Georgia) is an American, Memphis, Tennessee-based music journalist.

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Stephen Stills

Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Manassas. As both a solo act and member of three successful bands, Stills has combined record sales of over 35 million albums. He was ranked number 28 in Rolling Stones 2003 list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"Rolling Stone 2003-08-27.

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Stray Cat Blues

"Stray Cat Blues" is the eighth song on the Rolling Stones' album Beggars Banquet.

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Street Fighting Man

"Street Fighting Man" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, written by the songwriting team of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

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Surrealistic Pillow

Surrealistic Pillow is the second studio album by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane, released on February 1, 1967, by RCA Victor.

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Sympathy for the Devil

"Sympathy for the Devil" is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones.

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The Ace of Cups

Ace of Cups is an American rock band formed in San Francisco in 1967 during the Summer of Love era.

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The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil

"The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil" is a song by the American psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Cable Guy

The Cable Guy is a 1996 American satirical black comedy thriller film directed by Ben Stiller, written by Lou Holtz Jr.

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The Day the Music Died

On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash near Cedar Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson.

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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.

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The Flying Burrito Brothers

The Flying Burrito Brothers are an American country rock band best known for their influential 1969 debut album, The Gilded Palace of Sin.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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The Rolling Stones American Tour 1969

The Rolling Stones' 1969 Tour of the United States took place in November 1969. Altamont Free Concert and the Rolling Stones American Tour 1969 are 1969 in American music and December 1969 events in the United States.

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Tracy, California

Tracy is the second most populated city in San Joaquin County, California, United States.

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Under My Thumb

"Under My Thumb" is a song recorded by the English rock band the Rolling Stones.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vincent Canby

Vincent Canby (July 27, 1924 – October 15, 2000) was an American film and theatre critic who served as the chief film critic for The New York Times from 1969 until the early 1990s, then its chief theatre critic from 1994 until his death in 2000.

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Virgin Books

Virgin Books is a British book publisher 90% owned by the publishing group Random House, and 10% owned by Virgin Group, the company originally set up by Richard Branson as a record company.

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Volunteers (song)

"Volunteers" is a Jefferson Airplane single from 1969 that was released to promote the album Volunteers two months before the album's release.

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Wallkill, Orange County, New York

Wallkill is a town in Orange County, New York, United States.

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Wes Nisker

Wes "Scoop" Nisker (December 22, 1942 – July 31, 2023) was an American author, radio commentator, comedian, and Buddhist meditation instructor.

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast of the United Statesalso known as the Pacific Coast, and the Western Seaboardis the coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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White Rabbit (song)

"White Rabbit" is a song written by Grace Slick and recorded by the American rock band Jefferson Airplane for their 1967 album Surrealistic Pillow.

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Woodstock

The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, southwest of the town of Woodstock. Altamont Free Concert and Woodstock are 1969 in American music, 1969 music festivals, concerts in the United States, Free festivals, jam band festivals, music festivals established in 1969 and rock festivals in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert

Also known as Altamont '69, Altamont Festival, Altamont Free Festival, Altamont Music Festival, Altamont Speedway Free Festival.

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Altamont Free Concert, the Glossary

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