Fmr Hell's Angels Pres George Christie : Altamont, Rolling Stones Concer

George Christie Bio
George Christie is a dynamic and uniquely informed Criminal Justice
Expert who turned his life around after a four-decade stint as
President of the Hells Angels Ventura County. He founded Felony
Prison Consultants (www.felonyprisonconsultants.com) in order to
share the information he gathered during his several incarcerations
with those seeking real-life advice. Christie, whose show Outlaw
Chronicles: Hells Angels premiered on The History Channel (Link to
Trailer) in August to millions of viewers, has appeared as a guest
advisor on numerous television shows including 60 minutes, Larry
King, CBS News and most recently on CNN .

The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was a counterculture-era rock
concert held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the Altamont
Speedway in northern California, between Tracy and Livermore. The
event is best known for considerable violence, including the death
of Meredith Hunter and three accidental deaths: two caused by a
hit-and-run car accident and one by drowning in an irrigation
canal. Four births were reported during the event.[2] Scores were
injured, numerous cars were stolen and then abandoned, and there
was extensive property damage.[3][4]

The concert featured, in order of appearance: Santana, Jefferson
Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Crosby, Stills, Nash
& Young, with the Rolling Stones taking the stage as the final
act.[5] The Grateful Dead were also scheduled to perform, but
declined to play shortly before their scheduled appearance due to
the increasing violence at the venue.[6] "That's the way things
went at Altamont—so badly that the Grateful Dead, prime organizers
and movers of the festival, didn't even get to play," staff at
Rolling Stone magazine wrote in a detailed narrative on the
event,[5] terming it in an additional follow-up piece "rock and
roll's all-time worst day, December 6th, a day when everything went
perfectly wrong."[7]

Approximately 300,000 people attended the concert, and some
anticipated that it would be a "Woodstock West."[8] Filmmakers
Albert and David Maysles shot footage of the event and incorporated
it into a documentary film titled Gimme Shelter (1970).

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