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08-02-02 08:30 AM

Lazy Bones

Sixties Stoned to death

By MIKE BELL -- Calgary Sun

Most people consider Dec. 6, 1969 the day
the '60s were deflowered.

It was the date of the Rolling Stones' infamous
free concert at Altamont Speedway in front of
an estimated 300,000 fans.

Concerned over security, the band hired
members of the Hells Angels, who, with lead
pool cues and meaty fists, only served to
escalate the tension and ultimately the
violence.

When the show was over, four people were
dead -- including one stabbed to death by an
Angel -- and so was the notion that an entire
generation could come together and conquer
the world with peace and love.

The acclaimed documentary Gimme Shelter,
which celebrated its 30th anniversary two years
ago with a remastering and theatrical
re-release, is an unintentional chronicling of
that reality slap which came so cruelly on the
heels of what's considered that decade's finest
hour, Woodstock.

The film, directed by David Maysles, Albert
Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, was originally
intended to merely follow the Stones on their
U.S. tour to support the Let It Bleed album, and
consequently features a number of stellar live
performances of the band (not to mention a
performance by Tina Turner and her
microphone that is perhaps the most erotic
thing captured on film).

Stones fans will revel in seeing the band in its
dirty, hairy, bluesy prime.

But when the events at Altamont transpired, the
music and even the band, really, became
simply part of the larger story -- a raw and gritty
soundtrack to the story, and tragic figures in its
telling, respectively.

It's incredible how the filmmakers consciously
switched out of the passive observers mode by
having, all throughout the film, scenes of the
Stones in the editing room, watching footage
leading up to the tragedy and then the stabbing
itself.

At the start of the documentary, both the viewer
and the band know the film's end, and you can
see in their faces and their eyes how helpless
they were to stop the train from derailing -- the
sense of dread from the opening credits is
palpable.

Maybe it is manipulative -- Gimme Shelter was
denounced as a snuff film by some critics upon
its initial release -- but it's also unforgettable
and makes for truly compelling filmmaking.

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