Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Midnight snow Fri & Sat: Gimme Shelter...
When you've finished with these (or, if you will, and I hope you won't, the Bullwinkle cartoons, Dr. Zhivago or Take the Money and Run--when Sleeper in Boston is so much finer), you can take in Gimme Shelter, midnight at the Orson Welles: the greatest rock movie ever made, by far. It's worth trying to understand Altamont--an incredibly powerful nightmare vision in this film--and the Stones perform throughout as only they...
...catchword for the show is chaos. The Who tumble up the stairs and onto the stage--unlit, save for a blinking reproduction of a Civil Defense fallout shelter sign. No ceremony, no circumstance, no introduction. There are four songs to warm up, Quadrophenia, then three more songs. The warm-ups are a smattering of history. And they are run off like copies--"Can't Explain," "Summertime Blues," "My Wife," and "My Generation." Their essence is a fifteen second repetition of those windmill chords Townshend has made famous. They succeed like calisthenics--Daltry twirls his mike, Townshend does his splits, Moon...
...trying to shelter him," Daly continued. "He tries to be available within reasonable limits of his time...
Unfortunately THE LATEST GAME (Why not?) did not merit a spare upper case letter, much less an inch of newspaper copy. The only good thing about the game, if you ask me, was my seat in the coveted pressbox. The shelter, located on the rim of the Bowl, was especially rewarding once the distant mist closed in and turned to drizzle towards the end of the third quarter...