True Films 3.0 - Kevin Kelly
True Films 3.0 - Kevin Kelly
True Films 3.0 - Kevin Kelly
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Gimme Shelter<br />
Woodstock gone bad. With poor planning this free Rolling Stones concert<br />
in 1969 spun out of control. Given the rampant drug highs, a quarter<br />
million kids, the presence of the Hells Angles as guards, and the Rolling<br />
Stones own “Sympathy for the Devil,” it is amazing that only one person<br />
was murdered in the chaos. This classic documentary offers two things:<br />
footage of the young Rolling Stones in concert at their peak, and a lesson<br />
of the underbelly of self-organization – when anarchy takes over.<br />
By David Maysles,<br />
Albert Maysles, and<br />
Charlotte Zwerin<br />
1970, 91 min.<br />
Available from Amazon<br />
Rent from Netflix<br />
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Mick Jagger struts for<br />
the crowd. A free Stones<br />
concert brought out<br />
hundreds of thousands in<br />
a quickly assembled city<br />
(left). The audience was<br />
ready for a really mellow<br />
time, and happy drugs<br />
were part of what they<br />
expected. But the Hells<br />
Angels were not. Two of<br />
them beat an unfortunate<br />
guy who wanted to get on<br />
the stage with baseball<br />
bats (above).