Gimme Shelter

[Announcer] Everybody seems to be ready.

Are you ready?

[Crowd Cheering]

For the first time

in three years,

the greatest rock 'n'roll band

in the world, the Rolling Stones!

- The Rolling Stones!

- [Crowd Cheering]

[Mick Jagger]

We're gonna have a look at you.

We're gonna see

how beautiful you are.

Whoo! All right!

## [Electric Guitars]

Oh, New York City, you talk a lot.

Let's have a look at you.

Let's have a look at New York City.

[Crowd Cheering]

Whoo!

Well, all right!

[Cheering Continues]

Welcome to the breakfast show.

Whoo!

Yeah!

[Crowd Cheering]

Thank you. Whoo!

Thank you.

We're just gonna wake up.

[Cheering Continues]

[Mick Jagger]

Well, all right!

Charlie's good tonight,

isn't he?

I think you really...

you really dressed up tonight.

Aren't they?

We'd like to see how you look.

Can we see how they look?

Let's have a look how they look.

Come on.

Oh, wejust want

to see how they look.

Ohhh, we couldn't see you!

We couldn't see you.

It's really hard

to see this together, isn't it?

It will take time.

- What?

- Eight weeks.

Eight weeks.

Eight weeks.

Do you think you can

do it that quick?

This gives us the freedom.

All you guys watching us.

We may only be on you

for a minute,

then go to almost anything.

This is Stefan Ponek,

KSAN Radio, San Francisco.

Well, the Rolling Stones' tour

of the United States is over.

They wound it up with a free

concert at the Altamont Speedway

for more than 300,000 people.

There were four births, four deaths

and an awful lot of scuffles reported.

We received word that someone

was stabbed to death...

in front of the stage

by a member of the Hell's Angels.

Nothing's confirmed on that.

We were there.

We didn't see it,

but we did see a lot.

We want to know what you saw.

Our phones are open.

We'd like to hear from you. What

was the Altamont free concert like?

[Man] The Angels did as they saw

best in the difficult situation.

As far as I'm concerned,

they were people who were here...

who tried to help

in their own way.

- Right? You know?

- Hmm. Right.

If people didn't dig it,

I'm sorry.

[Ponek] That was Sam Cutler, one of

the organizers of the free concert.

I think we've got one of

the Hell's Angels on the line.

Sonny Barger.

Have I got that right, Sonny?

- Yeah.

- Okay, what's up?

[Sonny] I didn't go there

to police nothing, man.

I ain't no cop. I ain't never

gonna pretend to be a cop.

And this Mick Jagger, like...

[Beeping]

Put it all on the Angels, man.

Like, he used us for dupes, man.

And as far as I'm concerned,

we were the biggest suckers for

that idiot that I can ever see.

And you know what?

They told me...

if I could sit

on the edge of the stage...

so nobody would climb

over me, you know,

I could drink beer

until the show was over.

That's what I went there to do.

But you know what?

When they started messing over

our bikes, they started it.

I don't know if you think

we pay $50 for them things...

or steal them

or pay a lot for them or what.

Ain't nobody

gonna kick my motorcycle.

And they might think because they're

in a crowd of 300,000 people...

that they can do it

and get away with it.

But when you're standing there,

looking at something that's your life,

and everything you've got

is invested in that thing,

and you love that thing better

than anything in the world,

and you see a guy kick it,

you know who he is.

You're gonna get him.

And you know what? They got got.

I am not no peace creep

by any sense of the word.

And you can call them people

flower children and this and that.

Some of them people

was loaded on some drugs...

that it's just too bad

we wasn't loaded on...

because they come running up the hill,

yelling, "Aaaah," and jump on somebody.

And it wasn't even always

jumping on Angels.

But when they jumped

on an Angel, they got hurt.

[Slams Down Phone]

[Scoffs]

Well done, Sonny.

I think I remember him.

Do you?

No, I'm not certain.

I don't really remember

what he looked like.

There was a couple of them

before we went on.

They were really very nice,

you know? A couple of them guys.

It's just, uh...

I don't know.

I mean, the way they cleared the path,

for instance, was incredible.

Were you there? Was you in the party

that had to be led to the stage?

- My goodness.

- I saw what they did, yeah.

That was insane.

What did they do?

Well, it's just the way

they did it, you know?

It's very, very...

'Cause before that,

I didn't really think there

was anything going on, you know?

Really. I didn't hear anything

'cause we were right at the side.

Oh, dear, what a shame!

KSAN Radio here. The violence at

Altamont was completely unexpected.

The Rolling Stones had performed

for overflow audiences...

without incident in major cities

across the United States.

[Applause, Cheering]

Okay, roll it.

Whoo! Yeah!

[Crowd Cheering]

Thank you.

Well, all right.

Well, all right!

Well, all right!

Well, all right!

- Whoo!

- [Laughing]

[Woman] Are you any more satisfied

as far as your career goes?

[Laughter]

Do you mean sexually

or, or philosophically?

- Both.

- Yeah, we're more satisfied now sexually, aren't...

[Laughter, Chattering]

How about philosophically

and financially?

Financially dissatisfied,

uh, you know.

Uh, sexually satisfied,

philosophically trying.

- Rubbish.

- There's a question here on the right.

[Man] I read in one of the

papers that you'll be giving...

a free concert in San Francisco.

We are doing a free concert

in San Francisco.

- When?

- On December 6.

And, uh, the location is not

Golden Gate Park, unfortunately,

but it's somewhere adjacent

to it which is a bit larger.

It's creating sort of

a microcosmic society, you know,

which sets the example

to the rest of A merica...

as to how one can behave

in large gatherings.

This is Mel Belli,

the lawyer in San Francisco.

Uh, I'm-I'm talking

for the Rolling Stones.

We've got their managers

and their principals here.

I've just heard that you've

offered them your speedway...

for their performance

on Saturday, is that right?

- [Man On Speaker Phone] That is correct.

- This is an open phone so we can all talk on it.

What I'm trying to find out

is what we can do to do this concert.

For the last 36 hours, I've stood

my organization on its ear, Mr. Belli.

I don't know anything about this.

I'm coming in late and trying

to straighten something out.

So tell me exactly

what it is without...

Yeah. My first area

of policy concern:

I do not want this gesture...

on the part of Mr. Jagger...

to cost me five cents.

If a blade of grass is torn down,

they are going

to build it up again, you know?

I was involved in Woodstock.

I've represented rock groups,

and I've been involved,

both as an attorney and

as an executive, with festivals.

No matter what anybody tells

you, they're a pain in the ass.

[Belli]

Don't turn me into a proctologist.

Just tell me what I can do here.

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