Altamont, which is referred to in the song, "Transmaniacon MC" (the "MC" standing for "motorcycle club"), refers to a festival in 1970 at Altamont (a racetrack in California). The festival was supposed to be another Woodstock. The Rolling Stones were the main act, and they controversially hired the Hells Angels as security.
Apparently The Stones had used the British Hell's Angels as security in the past, and assumed that the California Hell's Angels would be the same. There was mayhem during the Stones' set, and the Angels stabbed one member of the audience to death (right in front of a camera), although the stabbed man was apparently holding a gun.
The "Transmaniacon MC", according to Al Bouchard, are a mythical group that Sandy Pearlman invented called "the Los Maniacos Bus Boy Club" which was supposed to conjure up a picture of insane Mexican waiters that have a musical group.
The concert was in Dec 1969 not 1970, there was only one death caused by the Angels, not deaths and the bastard that got himself killed Meredith Hunter not only had a gun but was firing it when the HA took him out.
The concert was in Dec 1969 not 1970, there was only one death caused by the Angels, not deaths and the bastard that got himself killed Meredith Hunter not only had a gun but was firing it when the HA took him out.
Altamont, which is referred to in the song, "Transmaniacon MC" (the "MC" standing for "motorcycle club"), refers to a festival in 1970 at Altamont (a racetrack in California). The festival was supposed to be another Woodstock. The Rolling Stones were the main act, and they controversially hired the Hells Angels as security.
Apparently The Stones had used the British Hell's Angels as security in the past, and assumed that the California Hell's Angels would be the same. There was mayhem during the Stones' set, and the Angels stabbed one member of the audience to death (right in front of a camera), although the stabbed man was apparently holding a gun.
The "Transmaniacon MC", according to Al Bouchard, are a mythical group that Sandy Pearlman invented called "the Los Maniacos Bus Boy Club" which was supposed to conjure up a picture of insane Mexican waiters that have a musical group.
The concert was in Dec 1969 not 1970, there was only one death caused by the Angels, not deaths and the bastard that got himself killed Meredith Hunter not only had a gun but was firing it when the HA took him out.
The concert was in Dec 1969 not 1970, there was only one death caused by the Angels, not deaths and the bastard that got himself killed Meredith Hunter not only had a gun but was firing it when the HA took him out.