They saw what happened at Altamont and Riverfront and said, “Something else.”
With nine victims now proclaimed dead, investigators are still trying to piece together what happened at Travis Scott’s Astroworld horror show on Nov. 5. In the late 1960s, as many have pointed out in the days since this mass casualty event, people also died at American festivals—most famously Woodstock and Altamont, both staged in 1969.
his numbed feelings: “We’re not going to let a little thing like that stop us.” These were the effects of the dehumanization of arena rock, separating stars from their audiences.At the time of the Who tragedy, there grew a burgeoning punk rock movement that would flourish. This new version was more suburban than the earlier urban manifestations of punk in places like Los Angeles, New York City, and London. It was a younger movement, sometimes referred to as “hardcore punk.
One of the most articulate “spokespeople” of punk in the 1980s was Mike Watt, the bass player in the band the Minutemen. Some thought the band’s name referred to the American Revolution; others to the fact that their songs clocked in under a minute. But Watt explained that it also referred to arena rock venues where rock stars appeared “minute”: tiny and far away. He wanted the effect of a Minutemen show to be the opposite: intimate and communal.
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