Posted on 01/09/2006 2:19:02 PM PST by ShadowDancer
I always thought the Grateful Dead hired the Hell's Angels for $500 in beer to do the security,since they had some association with them.The Stones just took the heat,cause they were on the stage when the murder took place.Playing Sympathy for the Devil didn't help matters much.
Remember earlier that day, however, when Marty Balin from Jefferson Airplane busted an Angel's nose.
The Dead didn't play Altamont. It was the Jefferson Airplane that had the Hells Angels connection, I believe.
Wasn't it the other way around?Grace Slick announced the Hell's Angels had knocked her lead singer out cold?
Yup, Balin was out cold for a while..
Have you ever seen "Gimme Shelter?"The Dead were there,at least Garcia and Bob Weir.They might have not played that night,but were shown arrived at the concert.
I didn't say they weren't there. Anyway, I'm watching it now btw!! Mick Jagger just got hit by a fan......
The Dead actually were a house band for the Hell's Angels or the Angels always showed up at the shows for years.That might have been to harass all the hippy deadheads who the Angels despised.
The concertl included the Rolling Stones and other bands including the Grateful Dead , Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Ike & Tina Turner. Not everybody's performance was in the film "Gimme Shelter".
It wasn't the 60's finest moment but then again, nothing lasts forever.
i don't know.... i'm bummed that i don't know.
It sure gave us a taste of what the seventies were going to be like, didn't it?
Fifty-four/6'1"/195lbs and pass the Army PFT every year on my birthday. My oldest is 30 and UI can bury most of his friends in just about anything (not him though, he's in pro shape).
The standing, I can do. It's the lips that'll drop me.
The "Reverend "Jackson?
Bingo!Garrett Morris did a funny skit about it on Saturday Night Live.Playing a seemingly uptight Black leader,"You say black girls just want to have sex all night,Mick Jagger?If that's what you say,tell me this Mick Jagger!.....Where are they?Can I have some phone numbers?
Grace probably had somethimg to say on the matter, but it was Paul Kantner who made the comment recorded in the movie.
According to Sonny Bargers' autobiography, the Angels showed up for the chicks and the dope.
Rock Scullys' book backs up the account.
Sure did.
I think Santana performed at Altamont too.
Been a long time since I saw the movie.I could have swore it was Gracie baby.
The Angels seemed to hate the "long-hairs",hippies,etc, but were buddies with the Airplane,Big Brother,Janis, etc. Odd.
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