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Gimme Shelter
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Sun Dec 18
4 pm
Gimme Shelter at Times Cinema
The flip side to Woodstock, the 1970 concert film Gimme Shelter revealed the hangover that followed the hippie bacchanalia only four months earlier, and brought a decade to a grim conclusion. In December of 1969, an ill-planned free concert featuring Jefferson Airplane and the Rolling Stones was staged in front of 300,000 people at Altamont Speedway in California. Put in charge of security, the Hells Angels spent much of their time brutalizing attendees. On top of that, bad acid circulated in the crowd, and the audience-reaction shots could be inserted into a George Romero movie without anyone telling the difference. The event reached its tragic end when a Hells Angel guard stabbed a spectator, an incident replayed before an ashen Mick Jagger in the final scene.
Times Cinema 5906 West Vliet Street, Milwaukee, WI
The flip side to Woodstock, the 1970 concert film Gimme Shelter revealed the hangover that followed the hippie bacchanalia only four months earlier, and brought a decade to a grim conclusion. In December of 1969, an ill-planned free concert featuring Jefferson Airplane and the Rolling Stones was staged in front of 300,000 people at Altamont Speedway in California. Put in charge of security, the Hells Angels spent much of their time brutalizing attendees. On top of that, bad acid circulated in the crowd, and the audience-reaction shots could be inserted into a George Romero movie without anyone telling the difference. The event reached its tragic end when a Hells Angel guard stabbed a spectator, an incident replayed before an ashen Mick Jagger in the final scene.
Updated 12/12/2011
