Altamont is The Empire Strikes Back to Woodstock’s Star Wars—and we all know that Empire is better, right? I know it’s unseemly to frame Altamont—the designated “death of an era” moment for the sixties—as anything other than a tragedy. Because four people died, including Meredith Hunter, an eighteen-year-old man who was stabbed to death by the Hells Angels. (Though four people also died at Woodstock.) Because sociopathic bikers were hired to work security. (Though those hippies messed with the Angels’ hogs.)
