See Hear Podcast Episode 62 - Gimme Shelter

 Please allow us to introduce ourselves....we're a
podcast...of wealth (of information and opinions) and
taste....maybe.   Episode 62 of See Hear Podcast is ready for
your earholes. Tim, Sticky (Fingers) and Maurice delve into the
documentary about disaster that was The Rolling Stones' free
concert at Altamont Speedway on December 6, 1969. The Stones were
finishing up their first American tour in 3 years....hugely
successful artistically coming after two of the greatest albums in
their back catalogue, Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed.   The
tour infamously ended in tragedy when a San Franciscan chapter of
the Hells Angels were hired by the Stones to provide security for
the payment of $500 worth of beer. From 2019, this does not look to
be world's best business practice....needless to say, things didn't
go well. Members of the audience (and Marty Ballin of Jefferson
Airplane) were beaten by the Angels, they had contempt for the band
they were supposedly guarding, and by day's end, Meredith Hunter, a
concert goer was pronounced dead after being stabbed by a member of
the Angels.   David and Albert Mayles and Charlotte Zwerin
were looking to make a bog standard documentary about the Stones'
US tour of 1969....instead, their cameras captured events that many
have said kicked the idealism of the 1960s to the curb.   We
discuss the way the drama of the film is presented, other films
featuring the Rolling Stones as subject matter, the image of the
band as opposed to the reality, and whether they learned anything
as a result. Who was complicit in Meredith's murder? Be aware some
of the subject matter may be a little distressing.   You can
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