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...things went terribly wrong. We can see hints of the impending disaster in some of the film's pre-Altamont footage: raging groupies attack Mick Jagger; backstage, suits furiously try to exploit the potential of the upcoming San Francisco concert at any expense (in one particularly chilling moment, one lawyer makes the ominous prediction, "It'll be like lemmings...
Gimme Shelter has a lot to offer the viewer: in addition to the incredible footage of Altamont and the infamous-almost unbearably brutal-stabbing caught on film, there's great concert footage from the tour: the Stones are at their raw and gritty peak and Mick Jagger gives a clinic in stage dominance. There's even prophetic footage of Tina Turner singing a duet with Ike Turner, their voices spasmodically oscillating between pure sexuality and brutal violence. We see great backstage footage and intimate shots of the Stones in the studio recording Sticky Fingers. We see the machinations...
...Mick Jagger...
...song and let it issue forth as a purely human statement. Dizzy Gillespie, speaking of Armstrong's role in the development of jazz trumpet, said, "No him, no me." They're words that could be spoken just as appropriately by singers as disparate as Tony Bennett and Mick Jagger...
Hard, for example, to imagine Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull putting on this week's Ladyfest, Olympia's six-day festival of female bands, artists and speakers, open to both sexes. Workshops range from guitar lessons to basic auto mechanics, "girls only." Besides Sleater-Kinney, other nationally known Olympia acts performing include Bangs (a blissful marriage of the Go-Gos and the Ramones), the Need, and the Gossip. The bands from out of town are also formidable (Cat Power, the Rondelles, Bratmobile), but it's no coincidence that it's happening here...