Lydon

I really liked "The Rolling Stones - At Play in the Apocalypse" because it was written from a reporter's perspective. Lydon is especially aware of his surroundings while at this free concert in San Francisco, he is required to be attentive in his career. I liked how he provided specific details about the number of people attending and the mood and conditions of both the crowd and the bands. It was interesting how he explicitly connected the rowdiness of the attendees to their shared generation of the post baby boom. Lydon is thorough in his observations, as he makes classifications and presumably experiences the show without using drugs. I was confused about the role of Hell's Angels in this piece. I thought that they got along well with the hippies because they were both parts of the counterculture. Why were they so aggressive and violent toward random concert goers?