That's the real tragedy.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 11/29/2009 9:03:46 AM PST by SmithL
“Well other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?”
“But Bill Graham, the most experienced concert promoter in Northern California, wanted no part of it....
“Witnessing the security problems, the Grateful Dead decided not to play....
So those most experienced in this sort of thing recognized that there was a problem.
That's the real tragedy.
Woody Allen: "Yeah? I was at an Alice Cooper thing where six people were rushed to the hospital with bad vibes".
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter Trailer (altamount 1969) -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6IfTTnVqSY
That sums it up.
Check out the smiling girl just at the end of the upraised pool cue. Creepy.
Moral of the story:
A rushed agenda + poor planning + lots of hype = UNFORESEEN DISASTER ....
.... welcome to ObamaCare.
“Anybody up for a game of pool?!”
Interesting fun trivia fact, the female backup singer on Gimme Shelter also sang backup on Sweet Home Alabama. Merry Clayton
Thanks for the tidbit - her vocals REALLY make that record and gives it the magic. For some reason, I had thought the vocalist was the background singer on PF’s “Dark Side of the Moon”.
Like, far out, man.
Don't bring a gun to a knife fight?
Gotta love the Stones. They have never had a ‘social conscience’ and fled England to avoid paying taxes.
Lol, lefty fags are still calling this a murder, but the jury ruled it was self defense.
Some of the great, but little known strangeness surrounding the Hell’s Angels was that they should never be lumped together with Hippies, and especially the anti-Vietnam War movement, because whatever else their failings, the Angels were both very patriotic and downright violent towards the anti-war movement, which they believed to be communist backed and led. As early as 1965, they actively broke up anti-war demonstrations in California.
They rose to prominence primarily due to one of their early leaders, Sonny Barger, who was a naturally gifted organizer, creating a cellular organizational structure to protect the national organization against the criminal liability of individuals or groups within it; all the way to trademarking and copyrighting the Hells Angels “brand” and logos.
The “Singing Nun”, Jeanine Deckers, whose hit single “Dominique” had dominated the US and European charts, had a catastrophic fall from grace as soon as she arrived in the US, involving drugs, alcohol, and a humiliating concert in front of US Catholic leaders at Notre Dame University. Some time thereafter, after having insulted the Pope to his face, she left her holy order, came back to the US, and had a brief fling with Sonny Barger.
From there she eventually became a “leather nun” in San Francisco, until she accidentally caused the death of then governor Ronald Reagan.
Since those days, again mostly due to Barger, the Hells Angels have become not just a national US organization, but are found in both Canada and Europe.
They should not be singled out for criticism at Altamont, as the Hells Angel who stabbed a gun wielding maniac on methamphetamine, might have actually prevented a massacre, and he was acquitted at trial on the grounds of self defense.
I guess the rules are a little different for Hell's Angels.
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