Review: "Just how weird can you stand it, brother, before your love will crack?"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 30, 2013
As it turns out, the Rolling Stones Concert in Altamont was the cracking point.  This single is the story of the tour of the United States that ended with the "free concert" at Altamont in which the Hell's Angels, newly counter culturally correct by Ken Kesey, killed a concert attendee yards from the stage.This piece is literate and sophisticated in describing a nearly incoherent stage in culture.  The descriptions of the principal playes, including the Stones and their entourage, are sharp and perceptive.Lydon, who had traveled with the band as a journalist (one of two), evokes the tense arch of the age of love as it broke under the violence of radical politics.  The sight of Mick Jagger at an earlier concert retreating upstage under the pressure of waving fists is chilling.  As he came forward to wave his own fist under pressure of the crowd, he broke the spell with the raising of his second fist in an enclosure of the moment.  A must read for those who remember, those who forgot, and those who never knew.Lydon