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the rolling stones gimme shelter | Year: 1970 Classification: Music Video - Pop/Rock Directed: - Albert Maysles - David Maysles - Charlotte Zwerin Actors/Actresses: - Mick Jagger - Keith Richards (II) - Mick Taylor - Charlie Watts - Bill Wyman - Ike Turner - Marty Balin A day of Peace, Love and Understanding - it's not. An amazingly gripping spectacle where at times you want to look away and you can't. The documentary's completely mesmerizing final 30 minutes highlight the Altamont Concert of 1969 which shows the literal "Death of Innocence" of large rock concerts of the "Love Children" era. One follows the 1969 Rolling Stones concert tour from city to city and, unlike modern movies, we see and hear a song played through all the way from beginning to end. Interwoven between the masterful musical performances is the development of the details for the final "free" concert in San Francisco including the incorporation of the "Hells Angels" as security. Even if one is a Mick Jagger fan, he/she cannot help but be struck by the amazing phoniness of Jagger as he spiels the same "ad libs" at the same spot in each of the concerts on the tour; and also be amazed at his total naivete at the Altamont Concert when he thinks that people are going to actually listen to him and do what he wants them to do just by telling them. And when the final scene is played out, we realize that the Hells Angels have indeed done the job they were asked to do. They stopped a person who pulled out a gun near the stage from using it. Whether it was drawn to be used against them or Mick Jagger, we will never know. the late 1960s, without the rosy spectacles Despite the bad sound and grainy film quality, this is a riveting, brutal documentary that focuses on the 1969 free concert at Altamont Speedway that was envisioned by the Rolling Stones as a fun time for everyone to "get it on", and ended with chaos and someone being killed, which is shown in the film. With the Hell's Angels in charge of security, and a vast crowd in a senseless and often aggressive drug induced stupor, watching this evolve is like looking into the abyss of the damned. The mid and late '60s were not the flower-power love generation years some remember through rose-tinted lenses, they were very often violent and hateful, as anyone who saw the rabble "express themselves" at the 1968 Democratic Convention can attest. There are people who blame the outcome of this concert on the Hell's Angels, but this film proves that they were only a part of the problem. There is also much pretension: Guys in suits trying to be hip and cool, and Melvin Belli, the celebrity attorney of his day, making sure he gets his 15 minutes of camera time. The Rolling Stones (at this point Mick Taylor had replaced Brian Jones, who had died in July of that year) seem to be out of place in dealing with their fame, and trying to "act the part", as well as being in a fog of substance abuse. Mick Jagger is the one that appears to be the most "in control", and he tries his best to bring calm and order to the concert crowd, to no avail.<BR>There are short sequences of other groups, like the Jefferson Airplane, and musically, perhaps the best part in the entire film is Tina Turner, as she sings "I've Been Loving You Too Long" all the while using the microphone as a substitute love interest.<BR>Total running time is 91 minutes. All or in part, the songs performed by the Stones are:<BR>"Honky Tonk Man"<BR>"Brown Sugar"<BR>"Gimme Shelter"<BR>"Jumpin' Jack Flash"<BR>"Love in Vain"<BR>"Satisfaction"<BR>"Street Fighting Man"<BR>"Sympathy for the Devil"<BR>"Under My Thumb"<BR>"Wild Horses"<BR>"You Gotta Move" Angels Not to Blame/The Truth is Shown !! Everyone shold not be on the Angels ass. They did what they were hired to do - protect the stage from idiots " who shoudn't have been there, zapped out on the drugs some of them could not handle".There were a few great musical moments at Woodstock, but it was the "peace and love crowd" and the promoters were just money hungry freaks. The Rolling Stones have always had a dark side, and just because a few hippie types couldn't handle the scene, it has gone down as the "end of the Sixties". Well, my dear friends, the sixties were a time of change, but the rot had set in way before Altamont. I know, as I was there. Where are all the "share the world, wealth, and love" folks now? Sitting in places they protested, greedy and nothing like they were in the Sixties, towing the line like their parents and others they wanted to overthrow then. Greed, greed, greed. That's where the "peace and love" generation is now, not caring about their "bros and sisters". Power to the people my ass. 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