Book Nook: Altamont, by Joel Selvin

In August of 1969 the legendary Woodstock Music Festival took place. It has been known as having been a wonderful event, something to celebrate. Four months later, in December 1969, The Rolling Stones gave a free concert in northern California at the site of what was then the Altamont Speedway. The concert at Altamont will always be remembered as a horrific event in which people died and thousands of spectators experienced really bad acid trips. The journalist Joel Selvin wrote about it in "Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day." In this interview Selvin talked about how every possible thing that could have gone wrong with the concert that day did go wrong. It was a nightmarish scene. The Rolling Stones were on stage as a concert goer was being murdered by the Hells Angels motorcycle gang. The murder victim was actually thrown on to the stage as the Stones were performing. They kept on playing, despite the carnage unfolding right in