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The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]
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Genre | Special Interests |
Format | DTS Surround Sound, Color, Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Dolby |
Contributor | Ike Turner, Bill Wyman, Keith Richards (II), Charlotte Zwerin, Jerry Garcia, Grace Slick, Tina Turner, David Maysles, Charlie Watts, Albert Maysles, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor, The Rolling Stones See more |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 1 |
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Filmmakers Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin show the Rolling Stones' 1969 California concert. With Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Item model number : Relay Time: 91 min
- Director : Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
- Media Format : DTS Surround Sound, Color, Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Dolby
- Run time : 1 hour and 31 minutes
- Release date : November 14, 2000
- Actors : The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards (II), Mick Taylor, Ike Turner
- Subtitles: : English
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS 5.1)
- Studio : Criterion Collection
- ASIN : B00004YZFR
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #9,236 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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1. Don't use the Hells Angels as stage security because they will do a thorough job of keeping people away from and off the stage as long as there's plenty of free beer for them to drink. Whoever was responsible for hiring the HA should have been prosecuted for all bodily injuries inflicted to any innocent concert goer due to their very violent crowd control tactics. Talk about a foreseeable risk. I wish I could have been there though.
2.Do not pull out a gun and shoot at the stage when the Oakland and Frisco chapters of The Hells Angels are in charge of security because there are astronomical odds that you will not live to attempt another shot. Meredith Hunter was clearly killed in self-defense.
3. Marty Balin should not have thrown a tambourine at some Angels and then jumped off the stage into the crowd to fight with them. His own stupid decisions led to him getting knocked out. Did he really think that he would be treated differently than anyone else once he challenged an Angel ? I know that some rock musicians of the time were treated like gods by the fans, but come off of it.The Jefferson Airplane were from San Francisco and were well acquainted with the Hells Angels at this time, so he had to have known better.
4.Paul Kantner should not have mocked the Hells Angels at all, let alone over a microphone in front of 300,000 people. This only served to add fuel to the fire and caused an immediate and predictable response. What was he thinking ( see comment #3 ). It was a good thing that Grace Slick showed some common sense and tried to diffuse the tension or Kantner could well have received a beating as well. What an arrogant moron. At least The Rolling Stones were from England and thought the American Hells Angels were just like the English version of the MC. The Jefferson Airplane knew exactly how they could be in certain circumstances, so there was absolutely no excuse for Balin's and Kantner's actions.
4. Keith Richards has got guts and plays a mean guitar. He could have got stomped due to his challenging an Angel in front of the crowd and the rest of the club as well. He knew there was a movie being made too, so his beating would have embarrassingly been caught on film.
5. Mick Jagger's ego took a beating before ( literally ), during, and after the concert. You could clearly see as Jagger sang Under My Thumb amid all the chaos that a H.A. member was glaring at Mick with a disgusted look on his face. This Angel appeared to just want an excuse to pummel Jagger.
6.The Hells Angels officers should not allow prospects and hang-arounds to help with crowd control while brandishing pool cues because they are going to use them to try to impress everyone.This will really tarnish your public image and lead the majority of society to deem your club as a violent, criminal menace even though you claim that you are not. It's hard to argue with the film footage of the beatings.
7. Sam Cutler came across as complete jerk and someone should have popped him one.
8. Drug use played a huge role in this tragedy. Some Angels actually can be seen attempting to reason with these intoxicated, out of their mind people to no avail. I hate to say this but some people got exactly what they asked for when they annoyingly persisted to climb out of control over fans, the Hells Angels, their motorcycles, and other security personnel to get up on the stage, which I'll agree with Sonny Barger was negligently built in height. Maybe the fact that they had to change the concert site so quickly had something to do with this obvious error in judgement on the part of the people in charge.
7. Sonny Barger knows how to make a cool entrance. I wonder if he knew they were filming the concert? If not, he seems to have a good sense of style.
8.Terry the Tramp loved to dance to The Rolling Stones music and looked cool doing it.
9. Annie Mae Bullock was smoking hot and I wish that I could have been that microphone and mike stand ( Sock it to me indeed ! ) Tina is also a better singer and performer than Mick Jagger and he clearly lets the viewer see this through a facial expression and some words he utters when he realizes that he now must follow her on stage in film footage from a previous concert on the tour ( Madison Square Garden I believe ).
10. In my opinion and not related to the movie, The Rolling Stones should have done everything humanly possible to keep Mick Taylor in the band. They have never sounded better than when he was playing with the rest of the group.They probably were the Greatest Rock and Roll Band of all time with Mick Taylor, instead of Ronnie Wood. The band sounds superb in this DVD.
All and all this DVD is not boring to say the least and contains some nice extra's. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in The Stones, Hells Angels, the events that led up to this tragedy, or the 1960s.
A simplified summary of "Gimme Shelter" is that it documents the Rolling Stones on their 1969 American Tour that culminates with a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California. The film starts with Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts (the Rolling Stones drummer) viewing the footage of the free concert; this is followed by a series of radio interviews of those involved with the free concert. Right from the start, you realize that something horribly wrong must have occurred at this free concert. But, just like a good book, the film immediately returns the beginning of the story, the optimistic and exciting start of the Stones' '69 tour ... forcing the viewer to see everything that leads-up to the impending drama.
As "Gimme Shelter" proceeds, we are treated with some excellent concert performances of that '69 tour (including Tina Turner's stirring, soulful and sexually-charged version of "I've Been Loving You Too Long"). The Rolling Stones appear to be in top form as they appear before sold out venues, complete with adoring fans jumping on the stage to get a piece of the superstar, Mick Jagger. Between the concert footage of the Rolling Stones tour, the viewer is given a "behind-the-scenes" view of the colossal effort involved in organizing the grand finale ... the free concert in California ... "Woodstock West". Additional footage of the band offstage and in-between venues displays the cool, arrogant nature of Jagger, as well as an incoherent and apparently drugged Keith Richards. It appears very clear that the Rolling Stones are only expected to show up for this scheduled free concert ... as they casually discuss this pending event, we see the organizers frantically trying to make the event a reality ... you immediately sense that it could be a disaster.
Once it the free concert is finalized ... at the Altamont Speedway ... the remainder of the film is devoted exclusively to that concert. Serving as a documentary of the times, the viewer is treated to seeing the migration of some 300,000 concert-goers to the Altamont Speedway ... a graphic and thoroughly entertaining display of drugs, outrageous attire, uncontrollable body movements and general lunacy. Then, the mood of the film becomes darker as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club literally takes over ... the crowd and the film. As the opening acts of the concert perform, the violence begins as bikers begin beating concert-goers, as well as the Jefferson Airplane's Marty Balin. By the time the Rolling Stones appear, it is night-time and obvious that it is the Hells Angels who are in control. As the Stones play their music, the crowd's vocal reaction to the violence drowns out the music and there are points where the band is forced to stop playing in order to try and calm the situation. Finally, when things appear calmer and the band begins playing "Under My Thumb", violence suddenly erupts again and tragedy strikes. At this point, we realize what the beginning of the movie was all about. The ending of the film clearly depicts the Rolling Stones fleeing the disaster of their free concert by cramming into a helicopter ... leaving their fans to fend for themselves in a sea of Hells Angel-infested waters ... an eerie and lasting impression.
"Gimme Shelter" is a must-see for any fan of rock music, the Rolling Stones or popular American culture. The footage is raw and entertaining ... it grabs a hold of the viewer and digs in. The Criterion Collection version of this film has greatly improved the visual quality of the original footage and offers a few extras that were not included in the original video release.
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Hilft dabei, die richtigen Antworten zu dem Altamont-Desaster zu finden.
Mooie natuurlijke transfer met de natuurlijk aanwezige grain erin, prima DTS soundtrack en interessante extra’s maken dit een essentiële aankoop ondanks de hoge prijs.
Amazon heeft het er niet bijstaan maar dit is een Amerikaanse Regio 1 release die NIET afspeelbaar is op je Europese blu ray speler, tenzij die is omgebouwd.