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As the final show of their American tour, the Rolling Stones held a one-day rock festival at Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California, on December 6, 1969. The free event was intended as a thank-you gesture by the band to their fans and was to feature Santana; the Jefferson Airplane; the Flying Burrito Brothers; Crosby, Stills and Nash; and the Rolling Stones themselves. The most notable flaw of the haphazardly organized festival (besides its relatively inaccessible location) was the hiring of the Oakland chapter of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang as security, a shocking bit of naïveté on the band’s part. ...(100 of 193 words)

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