Gimme Shelter Page #2

Well, somebody tell me why I should

want to get this concert going.

[Belli] Are you trying to make it

so they can't do this?

No, I want it to happen,

but I'm not prepared to rebuild

my goddamn racetrack.

Will you come up and see

if you can work with me on this thing?

I'd love to work with you, Mr. Belli,

but are you working with Mr. Jagger?

I haven't met Mr. Jagger.

I've only met these other people here.

- Have you met Mr. Schneider?

- Yes, he's right here in the office.

All right, fine. He knows what

happened at our meeting this afternoon.

Then call me back

and with the thought...

see if you could come up

tomorrow morning.

- You and I can see what we can do with this damn thing.

- Okay.

All right, call me back.

[Schneider] There's no way to do

the concert except in that location.

As it stands now, you're gonna have

at least 100,000 kids there by Saturday.

You don't have any alternative.

The only thing you can do...

is to do an affidavit,

temporary restraining order

and talk to one of the judges.

So that brings us down to this.

Um, I'll call one

of the judges right now.

That's your only chance of

forcing these people to do it.

Now, don't scare off from these people.

If I were advising them,

I'd tell them to hide out.

[Chattering]

Because right when they're

coming out, you'll... sh-ta-boom!

- Yeah, but it doesn't come in till the solo.

- I know, I know.

- What is that?

- What?

- Stickin'out of your pocket.

- Cousin Minnie says,

"How delicious!"

[Laughter, Chattering]

I'm taking it home for Robert.

Y'all come back now, ya hear?

That's one more song.

[Recorder Rewinding]

That should be it.

I found it. I found it.

Anybody in?

Is my local groupie in?

[Chattering]

Hello, darling.

How are you?

When are the bags

coming up, Ronnie?

Stew's gotta get 46 pieces up.

[Indistinct]

[Applause, Cheering]

[Mick Jagger]

We're gonna do...

We're gonna do a slow blues

for you now, people.

## [Ends]

[People Applauding]

[Tape Rewinding]

You like that?

I like it.

[Indistinct]

This thing is going on. The Chronicle

is coming out with a story that it's off.

- This has been building up for a long time.

- Well, it's off and on.

- Everybody wants a piece of the pie.

- [Chattering]

All right, let's see

if we can get some facts...

to build together

on an affidavit here.

So we'll have that available and then

a very short order to show cause.

The sheriff wants to know who's going

to go to the bathroom and where.

They've got a nice little

bucolic community there...

They know practically when

every john is flushed...

and the orderly habits of the bathroom

of all of their, uh, voters.

[Woman On Speaker Phone]

Dick Carter's on the line.

He's offering us

the speedway at Altamont.

Hello, Dick.

This is Mel Belli for the Stones.

If they were to perform

in the speedway,

is the speedway open

so that they can be seen...

from the people that can't get in?

[Carter] I'm sure we can work

something out. I want the publicity.

You want the publicity?

Well, you take the publicity.

The Rolling Stones don't want any money.

It's for charity.

- So I'll take the money.

- All right. [Laughs]

All right.

Well, why don't I do this?

Why don't I talk

with these people here...

and then I'll get back with you...

and then if we

have to sign anything up...

and if you need any insurance,

which I'm sure you will want,

and all the rest of that stuff,

I'll work with you in the morning.

- Okay.

- I'll call you back later, after I talk with them, Dick.

Bye. He's offered

the Altamont Speedway.

- There's not enough room.

- There's not time to move it.

We got to tear down

a stage and the scaffolding.

The phones are in. The generators

are there. Everything is left to go.

It's anticipated that the amount of kids

now traveling across country...

you may have anywhere

from 5,000 to 20,000 kids...

starting to arrive sometime tomorrow.

They're all lining up at the airports

from as far away as New York.

- Now? You gotta be kidding.

- You have no idea what goes on here.

It's an amazing phenomenon.

It's like the lemmings of the sea.

- Mike Lang is on the line.

- [Belli] Yeah, Mike?

John says that he doesn't think

you can make it over there

at the Altamont Speedway.

- Do you want to talk directly to Mike?

- Yeah.

[Schneider] Mike, I got the impression

from everybody where you are...

that there was no way

of moving to that speedway.

[Lang] We can do it. Nobody wants to,

but if we have to, we can.

Just a quick question.

You were at Woodstock, and

you've now been to Altamont?

- Right.

- How does it stack up? Do you have the room?

I think we have the room, sure.

I think we can hold as many

people as want to come.

Can you change locations that fast?

We had a much bigger operation to change at Woodstock.

I don't think we'll have much problem.

We're just dealing with a free concert.

That's what we want to present.

And I think that's what the Stones

are up to. They want to play here.

Is this going to be Woodstock West?

Well, it's going to be San Francisco.

Do you have any special feelings

about this kind of a concert?

This spontaneous, free...

Well, it's not so much...

I don't think it's a complete concert.

The concert is just...

I think it's an excuse.

You know, because,

like, the thing is,

it's just like everyone coming

and having a good time.

The concert's like

the proscenium of a theater.

It's like an excuse for everyone to just

sort of, you know, get together...

and, like, talk to each other

and sleep with each other...

ball each other

and get very stoned...

and just have a nice night out

and a good day, you know?

- I mean, do you understand?

- I do.

It's not just like getting

up there and seeing...

the Grateful Airplane

and the Rolling, Rolling Dead.

[Laughter]

[Announcer]

And now, Ike and Tina Turner.

- [Crowd Cheering]

- Thank you.

[Woman] I don't know what they

paid for them... the costumes...

but is there any way...

[Continues, Indistinct]

[Chuckles]

[Applause, Cheering]

Good. It's nice to have

a chick occasionally.

[Applause, Cheering Continue]

Far out.

Sorry you had to wait.

[Applause, Cheering]

Whoo!

Oh, yeah!

Thank you kindly.

I think I busted a button

on my trousers.

Hope they don't fall down.

It's that jumping around.

I'll have to do it up again.

Whoo! You don't want my trousers

to fall down now, do you?

[Cheering Continues]

We're gonna...

We're gonna kiss you good-bye.

And we leave you

to kiss each other good-bye.

- Hello?

- Yes, Mel?

- Yes, we still have you.

- I got you in an echo. Think you can pick it up?

I'm practicing. I'm going on first

before the Rolling Stones.

Can we get you to pick up

the phone like before?

Well, what it is now, we're waiting

for Mr. Carter to come in.

But I've just had

a letter read to me...

where he said

that he very definitely...

wants the Stones

and the concert there.

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