Hunter, a black man, is in the center of the frame in a lime-green suit, his arm raised and holding what appears to be a gun, which grazes a long knife brandished by Passaro, a white member of the Angels, who had been brought on for festival security. For Hunter's older sister, Dixie Ward, the takeaway remains all too familiar. Approximately 300,000 attended the concert, and some anticipated that it would be a "Woodstock West". Should blame be shouldered by the outlaw motorcycle gang enlisted to keep order or by the Grateful Dead, who recruited them? Eric Saarinen, another cameraman for the Maysleses, was stunned when he saw the footage of Passaro working his way toward Hunter while everyone around him retreats from the gun. [5] At the concert, Lucas' camera jammed after shooting about 100 feet (30 m) of film. Eventually, Hunter returned to the car also. Greil Marcus, then 24 and a writer for Rolling Stone magazine, had seen them in action at an antiwar march in Berkeley. The movie also includes a playback of Hells Angels leader Ralph "Sonny" Barger's famous call-in to radio station KSAN's "day after" program about the concert, wherein he recalls, "They told me if I could sit on the edge of the stage so nobody could climb over me, I could drink beer until the show was over.". It marked an end - literally and spiritually - to a decade of cultural upheaval like no other. Gimme Shelter is a 1970 British-American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of The Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert. They weren't the only ones. The Rolling Stones were aware of the skirmish, but not the stabbing ("You couldn't see anything, it was just another scuffle", Jagger tells David Maysles during film editing). Bredehoft, who was standing next to Hunter and tried to grab hold of him when Passaro struck, is sure her boyfriend never intended to go after Jagger. As noted in Joel Selvin’s book, Altamont, the biker group was hired (for $500 worth of beer) ... the concert documentary film made by the Maysles brothers. "All right. ", "That's where it went wrong," says singer-songwriter-guitarist David Crosby. They were the only people who were strong and together. Sonny Barger, who also called into the KSAN forum, states: "We were told by one of the [other Hells Angels] clubs if we showed up down there [and] sat on the stage and drink some beer ... that the Stones manager or somebody had bought for us." "[35], The music magazine Rolling Stone, in a 14-page 11-author article on the event entitled "The Rolling Stones Disaster at Altamont: Let It Bleed" published in their January 21, 1970, issue, stated that "Altamont was the product of diabolical egotism, hype, ineptitude, money manipulation, and, at base, a fundamental lack of concern for humanity". Cinematically, the film lingers on the charismatic persona of Mick Jagger, who — like Tina Turner, David Bowie, Santana, and Sly & the Family Stone — symbolized the ethos of the era. He watched as tens of thousands of people filed in, and he noticed how little had been put in place to serve them. ”. In 2004 Australian electronic psych group Black Cab released their debut LP Altamont Diary, a concept album based on the concert and its cultural fallout. 'Deadly Day for the Rolling Stones'.
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