Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, & Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont

The Rolling Stones hoped to end their 1969 American tour on a high note with the Altamont Festival, featuring 300,000 fans and many popular bands alongside them. Unfortunately the show became known as a disaster as "Woodstock West" unraveled with poor planning and the eventual murder of 18 year old Meredith Hunter, an African-American stabbed by the Hells Angels hired for security right after the Rolling Stones went on. Take a look into the darker side of rock n roll in the 60s through the inner circle of the Rolling Stones among interviews of people who were there and Merdith Hunter's own family. In order to truly understand rock n roll in the 60s Austerlitz shows that you haave to accept the darkness of Altamont and how Hunter's death marked the end of an era.