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In an interview just posted on Spinner, former Rolling Stones tour manager Sam Cutler talks for the first time about the infamous Altamont Free Concert from December 1969.

http://www.spinner.com/2010/03/29/sam-cutler-rolling-stones-altamont/?ncid=webmaildl2

Cutler blames the fiasco that occurred that day on the fact that the stage was only three feet high, which is one factor I cited in my Huffington Post piece commemorating the 40th anniversary of Altamont:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-kirkpatrick/the-day-the-music-died-th_b_381731.html

For more on this and other incidents, both good and bad, from that memorable year, check out 1969: The Year Everything Changed (Skyhorse Publishing, 1969).

Read my column on Altamont, the flipside of Woodstock, on The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-kirkpatrick/the-day-the-music-died-th_b_381731.html