Altamont

The violence that permeated The Rolling Stones' disastrous concert at Altamont Raceway on December 6, 1969 was proof to many that the Age of Aquarius was over.

The Hells Angels who had been hired (for five hundred dollars worth of beer!) as security guards for the free show beat hundreds of concertgoers within inches of their lives. They also stabbed a young black man named Meredith Hunter to death within sight of the stage where the Stones were performing. If this truly was the dawning of a new age, it obviously had the potential to get extremely ugly