The
Altamont
Concert
,
held
only
four
months
after
the
generation
-
defining
Woodstock
Festival
in
upstate
New
York
,
was
seen
by
many
as
the
end
of
____________________
culture
,
and
marked
the
death
of
the
'60s
,
a
____________________
famous
for
____________________
,
musical
and
____________________
revolutions
.
Mick
Jagger
rejected
this
notion
.
?
Of
course
____________________
people
wanted
to
say
Altamont
was
the
end
of
an
era
,
?
he
____________________
.
?
People
like
that
are
fashion
writers
.
Perhaps
it
was
the
end
of
their
era
,
the
end
of
their
naïveté
.
I
would
have
thought
it
ended
long
before
Altamont
.
?
Eric
Danton
of
the
Hartford
Courant
argues
that
Altamont
____________________
a
more
accurate
representation
of
the
'60s
than
Woodstock
.
?
In
too
many
ways
,
Altamont
was
a
condensed
version
of
the
preceding
decade
,
with
queasy
race
relations
,
well
-
intentioned
non
-
conformism
turned
reckless
and
a
bid
for
____________________
,
harmonious
co
-
existence
?
among
the
most
valued
ideals
of
the
'60s
?
shattered
by
senseless
violence
,
?
he
writes
.
?
Writers
focus
on
Altamont
not
because
it
brought
on
the
end
of
an
____________________
but
because
it
provided
such
a
complex
metaphor
for
the
way
an
era
____________________
,
?
wrote
rock
critic
Robert
Christgau
in
1972
.
