The film is from Altamont Free Concert, December 6, 1969 when the guy Meredith Hunter got killed after pulling a shotgun from his inner jacket, with 2 stab wounds to the back, and 1 above the ear, inflicted by a Hell's Angel's blade, as depicted in the 1970 "Gimme Shelter" film, below. See the Hell's Angel's accounts below in the Wikipedia article, plus the set list, etc..The audio, or music, is from the "Get yer Ya Ya's Out!" lp, recorded at Madison Square Garden 28/11/1968, released 1 Feb. 1969
ROLLING STONES - Sympathy For The Devil
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith
I was 'round when Jesus Christ
Had his moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed his fate
[Chorus]
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game
I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the Czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank, held a general's rank
When the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game
Fought for ten decades for the gods they made
I shouted out, "Who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all, after all it was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reach Bombay
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game
Oh yeah, get down heavy!
[Guitar Solo]
Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name, oh yeah
But what's confusin' you is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails, just call me Lucifer
Cause I'm in need of some restraint
So if you meet me, have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste
Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name
But what's puzzling you is the nature of my game
[Instrumental outro with scatting and ad-lib vocals]
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL - BEWARE THE REMIXES - Neptunes + FatBoy Slim versions
Beggars Banquet released (1968)
This song is sung in first person form, with Mick Jagger playing no one else but Satan himself. He documents events through history that could be seen as “works of the devil.” The Rolling Stones took some serious heat for singing a song from the devil’s perspective, but the point of the song is more about the flaws in mankind. It was never intended as devil worship.
What did the devil cause after all of these things?


Who sang the background vocals?
Altamont Free Concert
Altamont Speedway Free Festival | |
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Genre | Rock and folk, including blues-rock, folk rock, jazz fusion, latin rock, country rock and psychedelic rock styles. |
Dates | December 6, 1969 |
Location(s) | Altamont Speedway, California, U.S. |
Founded by | Jorma Kaukonen, Spencer Dryden, Grateful Dead[1] |
Attendance | 300,000 (estimated)[2] |
Contents
[hide]Jefferson Airplane/Grateful Dead-centered background narrative[edit]
Rolling Stones/Grateful Dead-centered background narrative[edit]
Security[edit]
Situation deteriorates[edit]
Death of Meredith Hunter[edit]
Reactions[edit]
Set list[edit]
Santana[edit]
- "Savor"
- "Jin-go-lo-ba"
- "Evil Ways"
- "Conquistadore Rides Again"
- "Persuasion"
- "Soul Sacrifice"
- "Gumbo"
Jefferson Airplane[edit]
- "We Can Be Together"
- "The Other Side of This Life" (During the playing of this song Marty Balin was beaten by one of the Hell's Angels)
- "Somebody to Love"
- "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds"
- "Greasy Heart"
- "White Rabbit"
- "Come Back Baby"
- "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil"
- "Volunteers"
The Flying Burrito Brothers[edit]
- "Lucille"
- "To Love Somebody"
- "Six Days on the Road"
- "Bony Moronie"
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young[edit]
- "Long Time Gone"
- "Down by the River"
- "Sea of Madness"
- "Black Queen"
- "Pre-Road Downs"
The Rolling Stones[edit]
- "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
- "Carol"
- "Sympathy for the Devil" (stopped then resumed, due to numerous fights in vicinity of the stage)
- "The Sun Is Shining"
- "Stray Cat Blues"
- "Love in Vain"
- "Under My Thumb" (stopped and abandoned as Hunter is killed, then re-played in its entirety; violence subsides for remainder of concert)
- "Brown Sugar" (debut live performance of the song; studio version recorded only 2 days earlier in Muscle Shoals, Alabama)
- "Midnight Rambler"
- "Live with Me" (naked woman seen in the film attempting to climb onstage actually occurs during this song)
- "Gimme Shelter"
- "Little Queenie"
- "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
- "Honky Tonk Women"
- "Street Fighting Man"
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ^ Grace Slick, a Biography, Barbara Rowes, p.155
- ^ ab c "300,000 jam musical bash". Chicago Tribune. December 7, 1969. p. 1, sec. 1.
- ^ "Rockfest jams freeway traffic". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. December 7, 1969. p. 2.
- ^ ab c "Biggest rock concert ends". The Bulletin. (Bend, Oregon). UPI. December 8, 1969. p. 7.
- ^ Ortega, Tony (2010-08-24). "Viewing the Remains of a Mean Saturday Village Voice December 18, 1969". Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2012-07-01. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ "Altamont Rock Festival of 1969: The Aftermath", Livermore Heritage Guild Journal, January/February 2011
- ^ ab c Bangs, Lester; Brown, Reny; Burks, John; Egan, Sammy; Goodwin, Michael; Link, Geoffrey; Marcus, Greil; Morthland, John; Schoenfeld, Eugene; Thomas, Patrick; Winner, Langdon (21 January 1970). "The Rolling Stones Disaster at Altamont: Let It Bleed". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ Lydon, Michael (September 1970). "An Evening with the Grateful Dead". Rolling Stone.
- ^ "Disaster at Altamont: Let It Bleed". Rolling Stone. 21 January 1970. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ ab c d Burks, John (7 February 1970). "Rock & Roll's Worst Day". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 14 March 2008. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ "Altamont Rock Festival: '60s Abruptly End", Livermore Heritage Guild Journal, March/April 2010
- ^ Grace Slick, Biography, Barbara Rowes, pp. 155-157
- ^ Inside History of the Grateful Dead by Dennis McNally - Broadway (August 12, 2003) ISBN 0-7679-1186-5
- ^ ab c d e f g h i Curry, David. 'Deadly Day for the Rolling Stones'. The Canberra Times. December 5, 2009.
- ^ ab The Rolling Stones et al. (1970). Gimme Shelter (DVD released 2000). Criterion.
- ^ ab Sragow, Michael (August 10, 2000). "Gimme Shelter: The True Story". Salon.com. Archived from the original on April 28, 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
- ^ "The Rolling Stones". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 4 November 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ ab c Miller, James.Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947–1977. Simon & Schuster (1999), pp. 275–277. ISBN 0-684-80873-0.
- ^ ab McNally, p. 344
- ^ KSAN post-Altamont broadcast, December 7, 1969. 90-minute excerpt from the original four-hour broadcast, taken from the Gimme Shelter DVD, found on YouTube 2017/01/01.
- ^ "Ever since Ken Kesey had invited the motorcycle gang to one of his outdoor LSD bashes, the bikers had been widely regarded as noble savages, barbarians, perhaps, but the best imaginable guardians for the gates of Eden. And at Monterey, a splendid time was guaranteed for all," James Miller, Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947–1977 (1999), 275–76.
- ^ Booth, Stanley (2000). The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones (2nd edition). A Capella Books. ISBN 1-55652-400-5.
- ^ The Capital, April 20, 1970
- ^ Osgerby, Bill (2005). Biker: Truth and Myth: How the Original Cowboy of the Road Became the Easy Rider of the Silver Screen. Globe Pequot. p. 99. ISBN 1-59228-841-3.
- ^ Perrone, Pierre (2008-12-05). "Obituary of Baird Bryant". The Independent (UK). Retrieved 22 April 2011.
- ^ Lee, Henry K. (2005-05-26). "Altamont 'cold case' is being closed: Theory of second stabber debunked by Sheriff's Dept". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
- ^ "Movie of Slaying at Rock Fest Is Key Evidence in Coast Trial". The New York Times. 10 January 1971.
- ^ "Investigators close decades old Altamont killing case". USA Today. 2005-05-26. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ Mark Hamilton Lytle (2006). America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon. Oxford University Press. p. 336. ISBN 0-19-517496-8.
- ^ "Ill-Fated Altamont Is A Far More Fitting Symbol Of The '60s Than Glorified Woodstock". Hartford Courant. 2009-08-09. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
- ^ "Rolling Stones at Altamont BBC 2 Seven Ages of Rock". BBC News. 1969-12-06. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ Robert Christgau (July 1972). "The Rolling Stones: Can't Get No Satisfaction". Newsday. Robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ Richard Brody, "What Died at Altamont", New Yorker, March 11, 2015.
- ^ Bollon, Mathieu; Lemant, Aurélien (2013). Blue Öyster Cult: la Carrière du Mal. Camion Blanc. pp. 43–47. ISBN 9782357792678.
- ^ ab Gleason, Ralph J. (August 1970). "Aquarius Wept". Esquire. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
- ^ "[The Maysles] relied for their effects on molding found material, not spending time and money -- which they didn’t have much of at Altamont anyway -- devising a reality 'spectacular'." Michael Sragow, ""Gimme Shelter": The true story". Salon, August 10, 2000.
- ^ "Jagger 'escaped gang murder plot' BBC March 3, 2008". BBC News. 2008-03-03. Archived from the original on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
Sources[edit]
- "The Hells Angels Brought Death to Rock and Roll's Worst Day". The Raven Report. 31 October 2016. Archived from the original on 16 November 2016.
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