Celeste, was there every day, watching for the moments when Alan would turn around and give to her one of those intimate facial signals that recollect good times in bed, good meals eaten together, skiing (which he loves) and the hours of delicious whispering and joking and telling of secrets. The Altamont Free Concert took place just four months after Woodstock. Edit your search or learn more. I probably was a little excited talking to him.), The contrasts in Coxs testimony with what he reported over the phone to Burks pretty much decimated him as a witness. Paul Cox, 18, nervously told the court that he had seen Passaro stab Hunter twice (the autopsy revealed that Hunter had been stabbed five times). In 1948, in the year that Alan Passaro was born, on January 30th, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi by a member of a Hindu nationalist party who thought that Gandhi was too accommodating to Muslims. I saw Hunter fall down, and he was still being kicked on., Hunter said, I wasnt going to shoot.. As manager of this memorial you can add or update the memorial using the Edit button below. As the day went on, the crowd, which numbered some 300,000, descended into a madness fueled by drugs and alcohol. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. Family members linked to this person will appear here. Rolling Stone digs a little deeper into the events that led to the acquittal of 21-year-old Hell's Angel Alan Passaro. Jagger was singing Under My Thumb when the Hells Angels bravely moved quickly toward the gunman. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. Part of the movie was shown, without sound, to a jury trying Alan David Passaro, an Angel, on a charge of murder. Just one week before the trial began, on December 14th, they caught this valuable witness.When Cox took the witness stand he was wearing a double-breasted, dark-blue coat with brassy buttons and white twill pants slightly flared at the bottom: the kind of clothes the heroes of British light operas used to wear 30 years ago to produce a blithe yachting flavor. GREAT NEWS! I do care for a lot of the people because they are down to earth. The story was the focus of the 1970 film, "Gimme Shelter," and is also the focus of an urban legend that states that the song, 'Sympathy For The Devil,' was playing . All Rights reserved. He got into this ambiguous drama by telephoning Rolling Stone and unloading some of the horror and disgust that were jammed up inside him like hard turds. Passaro never went to prison. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128893580/alan-david-passaro. The established authorities consider an affair like Altamont to be different from an affair like the one in 1961, when Father Patrick Peyton, on behalf of a private organization, commanded lovely cooperation for his Family Rosary Crusade rally in Golden Gate Park. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. Personally, I was there to sit on the stage and listen and drink this beer that we were promised. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. An email has been sent to the person who requested the photo informing them that you have fulfilled their request, There is an open photo request for this memorial. It was a Harley-Davidson. A brat. There were 300,000 people in front of that stage that day, but it was so hard to get any eye witness, let alone keep him. I dont know shit about Belli.), Editors picks Then he was stabbed. He was whipping around the road in a car full of shit and a load of weed and a known prostitute. As for the show, here is how Robert Hatch, writing about Gimme Shelter in The Nation, saw Mick Jagger: He hits the crowd with his pelvis, flings his scarf around his shoulders, jabs nervously at his flowing hair, mouths like a woman in heat, jerks with an aggressive, staccato beat that is as explicit as an anatomy chart. She gave in during the last hour of deliberation. Sure, the Angels tie into the rock culture as far as the music goes. They tried me as a person. And where was the Alameda country health department? Even when he fell in love - and that was frequently - he was never submerged by disappointment. The attack that was caught on film and featured in the documentary Gimme Shelter, and Hunter died at the scene. They know theyre coming back. The prosecutor wanted to know if he saw Hunter stabbed. He reminded the jurors that Cox had described Hunter as straight like the rest of us. So, the defense attorney warned, in that euphoric state a man could fly through the air.. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. Wonderful. Burke: Why did you strike at Hunter with a knife?. He was a notorious member of the Hells Angels biker gang. The event is best known for . KnowledgeNuts.com would like to show you notifications for our latest post and updates. Now I dont know if you think we pay fifty dollars for them things, or steal them, or pay a lot for them, or what. A panel of 60 persons was called to the courtroom of Alameda County Superior Court Judge William J.Hayes in a courthouse that looks like a half-ruined wedding cake, and is located on the shore of the only pretty thing in downtown Oakland, Lake Merritt. This story is from the April 1st, 1971 issue of Rolling Stone. I think maybe a 71 PX. The legendary motorcycle group Hells Angels fight with pool cues during the Altamont Free Concert by John Springer Collection via Getty Images. All photos appear on this tab and here you can update the sort order of photos on memorials you manage. DONATE, Before the money moved in, Kings Cross was a place for born-and-bred locals, clubs and crime, See what really went on during that time in NYC's topless go-go bars, Chris Stein 's photographs of Debbie Harry and friends take us back to a great era of music. . Learn more about merges. Alan and Celeste got themselves a nice, two-bedroom house in San Jose. New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Index, 1901-2016. It might be said that they overdid their proving because the superstar they were hired to defend had raised a great turmoil of ambivalent vibrations in the crowd. A number of prospective black jurors were excused by Judge Hayes because they admitted they could be prejudiced in favor of the gas chamber. In the process, you know what, some people got hit. Celebs Wiki John Burke, as prosecutor, felt up against the wall. Donald B. Ayer, Asst. So I told them to back up so we can get this fire out. I stuck it [the knife] in the ground, cleaned it off.. By the time I got to Hunter he had already been stabbed. If you think youre too short, you might do some attention-getting things to show the world youre not a nobody, and to show the cops (who have to be, by law, taller than average) that you can stand up to them. Alan Passaro died in 1985 after drowning in the Anderson Reservoir in Santa Clara County His death was labeled suspicious, but has gone unprosecuted In 2008, . Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. He died on 29 March 1985 in Morgan Hill, California, USA. , register or subscribe to save articles for later. He died on March 29, 1985 in Morgan Hill, California, USA. This gun, like the witnesses, did little or nothing for the prosecution. Rolling Stones Recorded a New Song With Paul McCartney [1] Claiming self-defense, he was acquitted of the . Alan Passaro was born on 23 August 1948 in Farrell, Pennsylvania, USA. His initial charge was met with a beating from the bikers, who chased him back. Passaro was acquitted. who tried the case. But we had them at the suggestion of the Grateful Dead. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. DAVID A. PASSARO: After 9/11, President Bush got on national television, and said, not only are we going to go after the terrorists, but we're going to go after those that harbour the terrorists . Mostly, a little bit to the side of the stage so that people who were there didnt have to move back too far. In a book that became to be known as 'The People of the Abyss' London described the time when he lived in the Whitechapel district sleeping in workhouses, so-called doss-houses and even on the streets. Along with Ronnie himself and his, "It is time for art to flow into the organisation of life." . (Fuck, Im going to do a year just for my tattoo. He glanced at the blue, yellow and red rondel on his left forearm: the grinning skull with a heart-shaped eye, under a winged helmet. Rolling Stones to Release All-Star 50th Anniversary Show as Live Album. Thats the difference.. The Altamont Festival brings the 1960s to a violent end (Rehabilitation for what? I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer, At the end of October 1959 in the basement of 39 Gerrard Street - an unexceptional and damp space that was once a sort of rest room for taxi drivers and an occasional tea bar - Ronnie Scott opened his first jazz club. (Its enough to drive a man to read a psychoanalyst. Cox pointed to the table where Passaro was sitting with his lawyer. We want to hear it. Walker stood up and asked him why he had taken off the windbreaker jacket hed been wearing. Just a scared punk.). Are you sure that you want to delete this photo? This story is from the February 18th, 1971 issue of Rolling Stone. His death was labeled suspicious, but has gone unprosecuted. Passaro was charged with murder, but acquitted on the basis of self defense. Alan Passaro was not guilty. 0 cemeteries found in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, USA. We ended up getting a great law and order jury, said John Burke, the deputy D.A. They jury agreed with the defence that hed acted in self-defence. Alan David Passaro, Defendant-appellant, 624 F.2d 938 (9th Cir. She said he used to go around at Christmastime and make spare change by painting nativity scenes on gas station windows. The ambiguity of his sex, the spectacle of raper and victim in one body, threw the witnesses into convulsions of excitement., Mick Jagger stops performing at the Altamont Rock Festival at Livermore, California, Dec. 6, 1970, while Hells Angels cross stage during melee to help fellow motorcyclists. 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Twowere killed by hit-and-run car accidents and one by drowning in an irrigation canal. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. We were told we were supposed to sit on the stage and keep people off, and a little back, if we could. After Sergeant Robert Donovan of the sheriffs office read the article in Rolling Stone, he and other detectives finally located Cox by finding the telephone number where the call had been placed; and persuading people there to lead them to this guy who has said, I saw everything. Cox appeared before the county grand jury in March of 1970 and later in a lineup identified Passaro as the guy he saw stab Hunter in the back. Donovan said they talked to 1100 persons and showed them photographs of possible suspects. Alan David Passaro (August 23, 1948 - March 29, 1985) was a Hells Angels member known for the 1969 stabbing of Meredith Hunter at the Altamont Free Concert during The Rolling Stones' set, as seen in the 1970 documentary film Gimme Shelter. He talked to one of their leaders about the gun and was told: Itll turn up on my porch one day. And it did (even though nobody knows for sure that it was Hunters gun). Im a violent cat when I got to be. Thats the way it looked from the D.A.s table. Id ask them if they meant joint.'. First I heard he was my lawyer was when I read it in Herb Caens column. OK, he says sheepishly, straight to camera, we cut.. They used the club for publicity for this movie of theirs. Its like a machine.. Try again later. He was lucky that Walker had spared him the full Angel treatment. I didnt like what happened there. Edit your search or learn more. Oops, we were unable to send the email. In this Dec. 8, 1969 file photo, the Rolling Stones perform at the Gimme Shelter rock concert at the Altamont Race Track in California (AP Photo, file). His was a very dramatic and active part of the picture., (Passaro expressed surprise that Belli had teamed up with him. One of Jensens investigators, Lieutenant Mark McDonough, finally located Bryant and subpoenaed him only three days before the trial began. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. 1980) Annotate this Case U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - 624 F.2d 938 (9th Cir. Belli said he had filed the suit on behalf of Passaro and expected to win a substantial amount in damages for using Passaro as a movie star without his consent. Cheetah briefly escapes enclosure at Omaha zoo. It doesnt really matter if he hurts me, because Ive been hurt before. Help us build our profile of Alan Passaro! Continuing with this request will add an alert to the cemetery page and any new volunteers will have the opportunity to fulfill your request. Sergeant Donovan testified that 12 days after the killing he had only one eyewitness (Cox). And you can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The event turned into a disaster when a member of the Hells Angels, who had been hired as security, stabbed a gun-toting audience member. March 1 (UPI) -- A person dressed as the "Ghostface" killer from the "Scream" franchise prompted multiple 911 calls in California, but police said the person was hired to promote the latest installment in the franchise. Learn more about managing a memorial . Edit a memorial you manage or suggest changes to the memorial manager. Thanks for your help! You have chosen this person to be their own family member. However, a close examination of the film revealed that Hunter had pulled a gun first. Walker asked him what happened to Hunter when he was knocked off his position on the speaker box a few feet away. . His conversation did not sound disoriented. What did Cox mean by agreeing with everything he said? Only after I had seen the film, the witness said, was I aware of the nature of the happenings. With Dave Maysles at his side, he had been on a quest for color, swinging his lens around to pick up, now Mick Jagger, now and then a naked man, or the hips or breasts or big-eyed glory of a stoned girl, or the very colorful Angels as they stood so intransigently planted on the edges of the stage, their Deaths Head jackets to camera. He likes his father a lot and the name of his four-year-old son is Michael Alan Passaro. Passaro was arrested and charged but he claimed self-defense and he was later accquitted. Four people died during violence at the concert, which was billed as Woodstock West and drew 300,000 fans. Hunter was black. 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