S1 Ep26: Worse than Fyre Festival - Hells Angels Pt. 4
Past Gas
Donut Media
4.9 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
As we continue our journey through the history of the now infamous Hells Angels, James, Joe, and Nolan take a thorough look at the event that forever tarnished their name, The Altamont Free Concert. Initially booked as a sister concert to the biggest festival at the time, Woodstock, The Altamont Free Concert almost didn’t happen when security dropped out last minute. The Hells Angels stepped in and took over, but their decision would consequently defame the beloved motorcycle outlaws. However, was the disaster at Altamont really their fault? We’ll find out in Part Four of our series on the Hells Angels!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, my name is Nolan Sykes. I'm from Past Gas by Donut Media. We are an |
| 0:04.7 | automotive history show and this week we're talking about a guy named Phil Hill. |
| 0:09.6 | Phil Hill spent his youth dreaming of driving foreign cars who'd read British |
| 0:13.8 | race publications back to back. He grew to idolize racers like Juan Manuel Fongeo |
| 0:18.9 | and Alberto Escarri and cars like Maserade's, Ferraris and Triams. But for most of |
| 0:24.1 | his life it was just a dream. So how did the nervous son of a postmaster and |
| 0:28.6 | him composer become one of the most talented race car drivers of all time? |
| 0:32.2 | Why did you leave racing near the peak of his career? What unfortunate event led |
| 0:37.2 | him to winning a world championship? The down past gas? Part one of the story of Phil Hill |
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| 1:13.7 | All right, now for the show. |
| 1:16.3 | Alta Mont Raceway Park was a half mile oval just outside of Tracy, California. |
| 1:23.2 | Regular patrons were used to the howling engines of stockcars flying around the |
| 1:28.1 | bank turns. But on December 6th 1969 a new kind of roar was coming to the track. |
| 1:36.5 | Some of the world's biggest bands and all their fans had descended on the |
| 1:41.4 | small town racetrack packing the infield with more people and drugs than it |
| 1:46.6 | had ever seen. The Alta Mont Free Concert was poised to rekindle the magic of |
| 1:51.7 | the Woodstock Festival bringing peace and love to the West Coast closing out |
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