March 2019
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Episode
62 of See Hear Podcast is ready for your earholes. Tim, Sticky (Fingers) and
Maurice delve into the documentary about disaster that was The Rolling Stones'
free concert at Altamont Speedway on December 6, 1969. The Stones were finishing
up their first American tour in 3 years....hugely successful artistically
coming after two of the greatest albums in their back catalogue, Beggars
Banquet and Let It Bleed.
The
tour infamously ended in tragedy when a San Franciscan chapter of the Hells
Angels were hired by the Stones to provide security for the payment of $500
worth of beer. From 2019, this does not look to be world's best business
practice....needless to say, things didn't go well. Members of the audience
(and Marty Ballin of Jefferson Airplane) were beaten by the Angels, they had
contempt for the band they were supposedly guarding, and by day's end, Meredith
Hunter, a concert goer was pronounced dead after being stabbed by a member of
the Angels.
David
and Albert Mayles and Charlotte Zwerin were looking to make a bog standard
documentary about the Stones' US tour of 1969....instead, their cameras
captured events that many have said kicked the idealism of the 1960s to the
curb.
We
discuss the way the drama of the film is presented, other films featuring the
Rolling Stones as subject matter, the image of the band as opposed to the
reality, and whether they learned anything as a result. Who was complicit in
Meredith's murder? Be aware some of the subject matter may be a little distressing.
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