Albert Maysles - Filming The Rolling Stones in Gimme Shelter: the murder at Altamont (30/97)
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2017
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Albert Maysles (1926-2015) was known for his important documentaries on Muhammad Ali, Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles. He pioneered the documentary style known as Direct Cinema and helped create techniques still used in modern documentary production and in reality TV. [Listeners: Sara Maysles, Rebekah Maysles and Tamara Tracz; date recorded: 2004]
TRANSCRIPT: We later on made a number of music films, getting into each project in a different way. In 1969 we made a film that came to be called "Gimme Shelter" with the Rolling Stones. We got into making that film when the Stones were making their first tour of America. They were already in Los Angeles before they'd come to New York. And my brother and I got a call from Haskell Wexler, the famous cinematographer and, on his own, a very good filmmaker as well. And apparently he had been talking to the Stones but had not made a deal to make the film and so he was calling us to tell us that we might want to meet them and with the possibility of making a film; that they would be arriving the next day at the Plaza Hotel in New York. So we went to the Plaza Hotel, knocked on their door, started chatting with them. Neither one of us really knew them or their music but from what Haskell had spoken of them they sounded quite interesting and- interesting enough so that on meeting them we found out that the next evening they would be performing in Baltimore, which would give us a chance, if we went to Baltimore, to- to sit in on their performance. And we did. And of course we agreed that this would be terrific subject matter. But we didn't want to just make a concert film and so when we returned and started filming them in Madison Square Garden- two days of that- we were convinced that if we stuck with them there would be more than just a concert film. And so what eventuated over the next few days was that- was a trip with them to Muscle Shoals in Alabama where they recorded some of their music which we filmed as they were recording it, and at Altamont, the famous Rock Concert where some 300,000 young people attended, many of them on drugs, attended by- a concert attended by a number of Hell's Angels- Just about everything turned in a direction completely the opposite from- what we experienced with The Beatles, who were just these innocent guys, up and coming, full of enthusiasm and, and everything positive about their experience. But things turned sour with violence and bad drugs and finally there was a moment where a Hell's Angel, bearing a knife, and a black young man by the name of Hunter- Meredith Hunter- the Hell's Angel wielding this knife, came down on Meredith Hunter, killing him. And it's not something that we could have prevented and said- and so while I was on the stage and not- and not able to see the, the murder which took place just to the left of the stage and out of my view, my brother fortunately was on a truck with another camera person at that time and was able to film that event. So it became a turning point in the film itself. 
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We need to see the unseen footage! Its like a gold mine waiting to be discovered.
they need to release the footage of midnight rambler from msg (if it exists which i really hope it does)
@@lennycann3334 I saw a clip of Keith playing that song at MSG in 69, he was really in a groove. Eyes closed & head moving up and down stuff. I think in was on the 25X5 documentary.
@@mcqueenfanman Thats awesome i'll see if i can find it
Sam Cutler's book has a harrowing description of the event and its aftermath, well worth a read.
They need to release the full concert!
Listening to this guy is like watching grass grow.
What Albert leaves out of his recollection is the fact that Meredith Hunter had already rushed the stage and had been stopped and now rushes the stage again with a revolver that was pointed at the people on the stage. This is when the Hells Angel took him out.
Also that before that he was abused by them and was waving the gun in retaliation/protection.
I don't know that he left that out on purpose. He was going off of his recollection of the event to which he admitted that he didn't see it unfold
This was an event that started out with good intentions but went on a downward spiral.
If you´re being threatened by a bunch of extremely violent thugs, you might pull a gun just to try to save your life. And if you´re getting killed in the event, legally it´s not murder. But in any other sense, of course it is murder.
"Poor black boy" Meridith Hunter was brandishing a loaded gun and could have easily started shooting at the Stones. Imagine what would have happened with that crowd if one or more of the Stones got shot? It would have turned into mayem. Hundreds, maybe thousands would have been injured. There would have probably been many fatalities. You don't pull a gun in a crowd of 300,000 stoned, drunk fools and especially in front of the Angels. Actually, things turned out very well under the circumstances.
Are you defending Merideth? He was heard saying that he was going to shoot Jagger And really it doesn't matter if the gun wasn't loaded as brandishing it, which he clearly did, in a crowd like that, in front of the Hells Angels would be suicide. And it was. The Angel did his job.
I believe you.
clarkewi then again..if you happen to be not the swiftest..or a headstrong brother feeling his oats..brandishing a heater and you see Angels stomping heads all day..odds are that gun will come out at some point.
is called Black Privilege, being the victim even when you are the assailant
They had been picking on him all day for being with a white girl.
0:25 not their first tour of the States, but a big one after a number of years of not touring.
These two Maysales brothers and man named Wadleigh at woodstock is the only reason any of us(practically) knows anything about life back then.when these brothers took footage of folks freaking out or enjoying this drug, that drug, bad acid- you know they took a bunch of shit . because this type of behavior was hated at the time.hats off!
Brian Jones wasnt long dead...
The myth continues... Meredith Hunter pulled a loaded gun out.
In other words, Meredith Hunter went to a music concert with a loaded gun, and was speeding off his face.
The angel was acquitted on the grounds of self defence.
Listening to this man you would think it was cold blooded murder.
What on earth is going on?.
If you are black do you get some sort of free pass?.
Most politically coddled group of people
Albert Measles stabbed Meredith Hunter.
As he was pointing a gun people.
With a gun in his hand