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The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter 1969-11-28 Altamont Speedway Free Festival

Hi Folks ive chopped the video down so i could upload,, this is a great documentary !

The Altamont Speedway Free Festival was an infamous rock concert held on Saturday, December 6, 1969, at the Altamont Speedway in northern California, between Tracy and Livermore. Headlined and organized by The Rolling Stones

Approximately 300,000 people attended the concert, and some anticipated that it would be a "Woodstock West." Filmmakers Albert and David Maysles shot footage of the event and incorporated it into a documentary film entitled Gimme Shelter (1970). The event is best known for having been marred by considerable violence, including one homicide and three accidental deaths: two caused by a hit-and-run car accident and one by drowning in an irrigation canal. Four births were reported during the event as well

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Added: Dec-6-2009 Occurred On: Dec-6-1969
By: bandit1200
In: Arts and Entertainment, Other Entertainment, Other
Tags: Rolling Stones, Gimme Shelter 1969, Altamont Speedway, Free Festival, hells angels
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  • good stuff, haven't seen this a loooooooonnnngg time

    Posted Dec-7-2009 By 
    FTE (263.56)

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  • Rape, murder, it's just a shot away.

    Is it bad that I take glee in the hippie experiment ending in violence?

    Posted Dec-7-2009 By 
    Small_axe (584.42)  

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  • Bonus points if you can upload the Stones doing "sympathy for the devil" at a rock n roll circus with John Lennon in the audience.

    Posted Dec-6-2009 By 
    cougar58 (197.64)

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    • Geez, even the Stones admit they sucked in that broadcast. Thats why it took 20 years to finally be released. The Tull lipsync was the final straw.

      Dirty Mac however saved the day!

      Posted Dec-7-2009 By 
      smyle (4505.44)

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  • Great post! From 40 yrs ago...wow!
    voted!
    Good job on your vid compression too.

    Hells Angels can be a real buzz kill.
    Highlight of this concert was Marty Balin getting punched in the face by a Hells Angel... lol!

    Posted Dec-7-2009 By 
    smyle (4505.44)

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  • One of my all time favorite songs...Great post!

    Posted Apr-19-2010 By 
    ghastlyghost (26920.50)  

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