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Gimme Shelter

dev@hard
July 25, 2007
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If you’ve never heard about the Altamont incident before, this this isn’t the documentary to explain it to you. But if you have, this will definitely illustrate it for you a bit. With no narration, Gimme Shelter is a collection of interviews and footage from the famous show. If this doc had been made in present day, it might have been titles ‘Hippies Gone Wild’. In a move that the doc fails to explain, and I’ve never quite heard any good reason why this happened, the Hell’s Angels as security just seems like a really poor idea. No matter what. However, I’m torn by the stigma that this concert created- do free concerts always mean that there’s extra riff raff that wouldn’t be there otherwise? I don’t know–I’ve been to some high dollar shows where there’s been a pretty scuzzy audience.

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