How the ’60s’ most disastrous concert came to be
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🗓️ 26 December 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's smart team. Post reports is off for the holidays, so for the next few days |
| 0:05.4 | we're gonna share with you a story from another podcast of the post called All Told. |
| 0:10.6 | It's a story about a music festival, a very epic music festival called Ultimont. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm gonna hand the reins over to my colleague Jeff Edgers, but before I do a warning, the story contains explicit language. |
| 0:23.3 | And I'd like to point out to everybody here that this could be the greatest party of 1969 that we've had. |
| 0:32.3 | Yeah! |
| 0:33.3 | That's how the party is. |
| 0:35.3 | That's standing. |
| 0:37.3 | Brett, the Rolling Stone. |
| 0:41.3 | Hey! |
| 0:44.3 | Hey! |
| 0:49.3 | I just felt it. It's an overwhelming feeling of revolzering. What am I doing here? |
| 0:55.3 | These are not my people. This is stupid. |
| 0:59.3 | And I remember exchanging looks and talk when the other guys in the band think, boy we gotta get the fuck out of here. |
| 1:08.3 | There was nothing. |
| 1:13.3 | Nobody wants to talk about it. |
| 1:15.3 | I mean, I don't want to watch that movie again. I don't want to see my friends in a situation like that. |
| 1:23.3 | Every other scene has been cool. We gotta stop right now. And then we can't. There's no point. |
| 1:31.3 | I've spent 50 years having to remember this shit, you know what I mean? And it's not nice, man. |
| 1:37.3 | This was probably the worst day, you know, in some respects in the history of the music business before or since. |
| 1:45.3 | But like Althamon is like the other side of the coin, the other side of the Woodstock coin, you know. |
| 1:50.3 | It's another way for that whole thing to happen. And it's like unfortunate, but true, you know. |
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