Daydream Sunset:'60s Counterculture in the '70s

An alternative look at the history of the 1970s by Ron Jacobs

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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Altamont Rock Concert--December 6, 1969

I'll let Rolling Stone tell the story in one of their first (and best) pieces of reportage not written by Hunter S. Thompson...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-rolling-stones-disaster-at-altamont-let-it-bleed-19700121
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Labels: 1960s, 1970s, Altamont, counterculture, Flying Burrito Brothers, Grateful Dead, Hells Angels, Jefferson Airplane, Oakland, rock festivals, Rolling Stone

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Blast From the Past--1969

This piece first appeared in the now defunct newspaper edited by Shay Totten--the Vermont Times....it was reprinted in Counterpunch a few years later...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/01/13/a-blast-from-the-past/
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Labels: 1960s, 1970s, Altamont, anti-imperialism, antiwar, Beatles, Bill Graham, Black Panthers, counterculture, Fred Hampton, Grateful Dead, hippies, Mark ClarkCounterpunch, Rolling Stones, underground press, Washington DC
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