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music we expect and hope that anybody will arrive at, it will bring sufficient for their own needs. That means drink of some sort or other and it means means food of some sort or other for the day. It will be a one day event. In other

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words, it will last for saturday at the end of that day, everybody will be expected to leave. No one will be expected to come to that site before then. Unless they have been specifically invited by the organizers simply because we could be well easily be swamped

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by a number of people who were the best intentions in the world arrived there. Mike, could we ask you first? You produce Woodstock? Is this going to be Woodstock West? Well, it's going to be san Francisco. You know, we need everything that one could possibly imagine.

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One needs for a one day pop concert in a rush. Now all I can ask is that people are responsible. I know that people are responsible and I know that people will want to help. We're in a town in America which has the best record of

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any town in America for getting on music. The speed with which it can happen in san Francisco is You know, 1000 mph. It's great. It was done 20 minutes later the next morning within two hours. This news conference at the office of the Grateful Dead was

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attempting to coordinate with another press briefing in the office of Stone's Attorney Melvin belli eyewitness reporter Belvin Davis has that story somehow, it seemed right that Attorney Mel belli should become involved in the maddening scramble over when and where the Rolling Stones will play in the

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Bay area. The principals gathered at Belize office to further clarify the situation but there was still confusion, separation through radio media and so on in an appeal which is being accepted overwhelmingly by the youth of the san Francisco bay area. They're going out to Sears point

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there of course admission is free, but what time you're going to open the gates to let them in there. What do you think it should be? seven a.m. The gates will be open but there's no charge at any time you've got an event there this evening.

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Yes, I'd like to have the cooperation of the press on this. I have three events we have to cancel out but I had a motorcycle event for tonight. Many stock cars tomorrow night and destruction derby for sunday that we'll have to postpone for one week. You're

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talking about a charitable event who benefits from this festival. Now who will be the charity on this one. First we have most definitely the concert is being done as a free concert right now. The consequence see it was for the Vietnamese orphans when it was over

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at Sears point and then when we got with the man who owned the film ways, he kind of made himself one of the Vietnamese orphans so we didn't go along with him this much does stand that if and when the situation did arise that any profits

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came out of it in any way, that right profits will go definitely to charity benefit the area of the youth of the area. And john James here is going to make a statement and you've met Dick carter here from the Altamont speedway. So let john go

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ahead and tell you from the Stones and from his group what they're going to do when it's going to be in all the rest of that will tell you his. Okay, Alright. Uh, john asked me to, to state on their behalf and let me give you

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the full title here, johnny James, he's the president of young american enterprise corporations and we're representing the, the artist side here trying to put this together. You know that we're not going to Sears Point, we are going over to the Altamont speedway through the courtesy of

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Dick carter and he's offered the speedway for this charitable event. There's not going to be any charge and the Stones or no one is paying anything. And again, before I forget it, you're going to have the Rolling Stones, you're going to have the grateful dead, you're

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going to have the jefferson airplane and john, who else? We're gonna have Crosby Stills nash and Young and terry Reid and about 20 other assorted groups, it'll start at 10 o'clock and it'll go how late the Rolling Stones will close the show. I understand at sunday

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there was only one man in the room who seemed to know what was going on and that was the Stones Man Ronald Snyder, commonly known today as Mr Big Yesterday. The location was to be at the Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma County, now the places at

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the Altamont speedway in Alameda County this morning, the undead, all the construction, which was now in the wrong place, you gotta go to the Altamont speedway is located some 70 miles from san Francisco on Route 5 80 halfway between Tracey and livermore from SAN Francisco or

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from Oakland. The route here is by route 5 80 but it's not. The freeway officials are concerned about. The Highway patrol is worrying about the last mile a small two lane road that is the only access between the freeway and the speedway. To make matters worse,

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just finding the access road is a feat in itself. Once off the freeway, there are 22 lane highways which lead to the access road, you can take Altamonte Pass Road off Highway 50 or patterson Pass road off highway five, if you choose the latter be sure,

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and turn right at the fork by the gas station. Otherwise you'll end up on patterson Pass overlooking the beautiful hedge, Hetchy aqueduct undaunted by these complex roots of vanguard of tomorrow's festival appeared at the speedway early in the afternoon, bringing the sound amplification equipment with them

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tomorrow morning, the bulk of the audience will arrive, estimated now it's somewhere around a quarter of a million people at four people to a car that breaks down to 62,500 vehicles, all trying to wedge into one parking lot in an attempt to avert this four bus

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lines A. C Transit, greyhound, East Bay and Bay cities will run shuttle services to the speedway provided that they turn right at the fourth by the gas station. Also, it's recommended that you take your own food and drink and as much as neither will be available

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unless last minute concessions are set up. Those choosing to spend the night tonight will have to fall asleep to the lullaby of a motorcycle scramble. It was scheduled far before the festival and will be held as planned Tomorrow. It becomes the exclusive domain of the rolling

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stones and their fans and probably so will highways 50 and five Dave Montes, eyewitness news at the Altamont speedway.