Checked out Gimme Shelter, the documentary about the 1969 Altamont Speedway Concert put on by the Stones. Wow. Holy shit!

The movie is a bad, bad trip mixed in with totally kick ass music the whole way through....from start to finish.

When word got out about the free show, 300,000 kids from all over the country piled in their micro buses and converged. Two venues canceled and the end result was this hapahzardly thrown together, last minute arrangement where total hell broke loose. Literally.

The concert promoters, in their infinite and stony wisdom, decided to hire the Hell's Angels (and paid them with whiskey and beer) to keep the peace. It was a mess right from the start....got so bad the Angels called in reinforcements. From bad to worse to straight up evil the Angels went ape shit after the crowd, sick of their abuse, started fucking with the gangs' motorcycles.

In the end one concert go'er was murdered....three others died in other incidents. The ironic twist of fate, 4 babies were born.

Been really getting into the Stones recently. I was blinded by Hot Rocks for too many years and now I'm discovering how amazing their catalog is.