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The idyllic lives of musicians living in the Canyon were shattered with the Charles Manson murders in August 1969. The brutal deaths of actress Sharon Tate and others sent shockwaves through the community, instigating a palpable sense of fear and mistrust. Suddenly, the open-door culture that once defined the area transformed into a desire for privacy and security; the free-loving hippie ideals began to crumble.
In the wake of this tragedy, tensions reached a breaking point at the disastrous Altamont Free Concert, where violence erupted leading to multiple deaths. The spirit that had once resonated through the canyon is marked as forever altered, beginning a new era of insecurity and skepticism towards the hippie movement itself.