<P> The music magazine Rolling Stone stated, "Altamont was the product of diabolical egotism, hype, ineptitude, money manipulation, and, at base, a fundamental lack of concern for humanity," in a 14 - page, 11 - author article on the event entitled "The Rolling Stones Disaster at Altamont: Let It Bleed" published in their January 21, 1970 issue . The article covered the many issues with the event's organization and was very critical of the organizers and the Rolling Stones; one writer stated: "what an enormous thrill it would have been for an Angel to kick Mick Jagger's teeth down his throat ." Another follow - up piece in Rolling Stone called the Altamont event "rock and roll's all - time worst day ." In Esquire magazine, Ralph J. Gleason observed, "The day The Rolling Stones played there, the name (Altamont) became etched in the minds of millions of people who love pop music and who hate it as well . If the name' Woodstock' has come to denote the flowering of one phase of the youth culture,' Altamont' has come to mean the end of it ." </P> <P> The film Gimme Shelter was criticized by Pauline Kael, Vincent Canby and other reviewers for portraying the Stones too sympathetically and exploiting the events . Salon's Michael Sragow, writing in 2000, said many of the critics took their cues from the Rolling Stone review, which heavily blamed the filmmakers for the disastrous events at the concert . Sragow pointed out numerous errors in the Rolling Stone coverage and added that the Maysles did not make "major motion pictures" in the traditional way; instead, a variety of factors contributed to the tragedy . </P> <P> The Rolling Stones' member Keith Richards was relatively sanguine about the show, calling it "basically well - handled, but lots of people were tired and a few tempers got frayed" and "on the whole, a good concert ." </P> <P> In 2008, a former FBI agent asserted that some members of the Hells Angels had conspired to murder Mick Jagger in retribution for the Rolling Stones' lack of support following the concert, and for the negative portrayal of the Angels in the Gimme Shelter film . The conspirators reportedly used a boat to approach a residence where Jagger was staying on Long Island, New York; the plot failing when the boat was nearly sunk by a storm . Jagger's spokesperson has refused to comment on the matter . </P>

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