Stung by accusations of profiteering during their 1969 United States tour, the Rolling Stones announced plans for a free concert in San Francisco at its conclusion. It would be a thank you to their adoring public, and a means to assuage their guilt....

The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was an infamous rock concert held on December 6, 1969 at the then-disused Altamont Speedway in Northern California, between Tracy and Livermore. Headlined and organized by the The Rolling Stones, it also featured, in...

Byline: ADAM TSCHORN LIVERMORE, Calif. - Sole Technology Inc., best known for its skate-shoe brands, last week chose Altamont Motorsports Park, the site of an infamous 1969 rock concert that signaled the end of the '60s free-love era, as the place to...

It was billed as a West Coast Woodstock -- a huge free concert in a windswept cow pasture, headlined by the Rolling Stones. Instead, the gathering at Altamont, Calif., 30 years ago this week became one of the most violent days in the history...