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Jack Turner

·Mar 15

The Bay Area’s Most Important Rail Corridor

It’s not Caltrain Though I expect to cause controversy when I say this, I can definitively say it’s not Caltrain. Caltrain is great, and prior to the pandemic saw exceptionally high ridership, but the Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) also was incredibly successful, and in my opinion, is more important as…

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The Bay Area’s Most Important Rail Corridor

Richard Evans

·Jan 15

Dark December In Altamont

So we did a BIG two-parter in the RNRA Podcast about 1969. In the second part, we go from the Hippie Apotheosis at Woodstock to the Hell’s Angels Abyss at Altamont. We used four concerts to tell the story of that gigantic, eventful year: The Beatles on the Roof in…

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Steve Bloom

·Jan 9

Michael Lang Created Woodstock and Destroyed It

For better or worse, Michael was the face of Woodstock. With his curly Jew-fro, paisley shirts and fringed vests, he epitomized the ’60s as much as Hollywood icons like Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Lang, who passed away on January 8 in New York at 77 after a bout with…

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Michael Lang Created Woodstock and Destroyed It

Jeremy Gaunt

The Riff

·Sep 27, 2021

“Woodstock” and “Gimme Shelter”

How two songs (not two concerts) reflect the end of one era and the start of another — It is a common conceit that the peaceful Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Upstate New York in August 1969 marked the zenith of the hippie/flower power generation, while the violent Altamont Freeway Free Festival three months later in California was its death knell. Like many things historical, of course…

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Tim Anderson

The Elastic Mind

·Dec 28, 2020

Baron Wolman: Every Picture Tells a Story, The Rolling Stone Years-déjà vu

I met Baron Wolman at an exhibit in Santa Fe around fifteen years-ago. After we talked for a while, it was decided we should meet for coffee. A week passed before we could arrange schedule appropriately. We talked for quite a while at that meeting; mostly about photography, but a…

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Baron Wolman: Every Picture Tells a Story, The Rolling Stone Years-déjà vu

Altamont

The Bay Area’s Most Important Rail Corridor

Dark December In Altamont

Michael Lang Created Woodstock and Destroyed It

“Woodstock” and “Gimme Shelter”

Baron Wolman: Every Picture Tells a Story, The Rolling Stone Years-déjà vu

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