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> That seems a wee bit excessive to me. It was a very different, more flamboyant and volatile, era. Recently watched "Gimme Shelter" a documentary about the f
by crispyambulance 5y ago
> That seems a wee bit excessive to me.
It was a very different, more flamboyant and volatile, era.
Recently watched "Gimme Shelter" a documentary about the free concert at Altamont in 1970 that ended with someone in the Hells Angels (which had been hired for security!) stabbing a concert-goer to death. This film, according to some, documents "the end of the 60's" and marked the beginning of a much meaner era. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidchiu/2019/12/03/altamont-at-50-the-disastrous-concert-that-brought-the-60s-to-a-crashing-halt/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidchiu/2019/12/03/altamont-a...).
"Gimme Shelter" (the film) captures the band personalities in a really preceptive way. Watts is pensive and brooding, Jagger is mercurial and far-removed from Earthy reality.
- grawprog 5y agoNot the song that was actually playing during the stabbing, as the urban legend goes, but, I still think the Altamont show has one of the best versions of Sympathy for the Devil. So raw sounding and you can hear the crowd starting to get riled up and stuff.