When the Rolling Stones toured America in 1969 for the first time in three years, they found a more psychedelic landscape, but also a more violent one. Not only had a lot changed since 1966, a lot had changed since Woodstock four months earlier. Such was the reality of Altamont, the free concert the band decided would top off the tour, which ended up becoming the symbolic end-of-the-sixties as much as Charlie Manson, 5’5 barefoot in his buckskins, being rounded up and charged with murder around the same time.