 She was in the front row at the Altamont Festival when the West Coast scene came to a violent end during a set by the Rolling Stones.Other prominent figures from the 1960s, including comedian Jonathan Winters, English rocker Eric Burdon, Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison, Native American guitarist Jesse Ed Davis, blues legend Taj Mahal, and actors Brad Douriff from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and Teddie Markland from "Wanda Nevada", began showing up at her back door after Ming bought a house in Palm Desert in 1967.The now posh destination was still part of the desert frontier when Ming built her own studio there.