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Love in Vain
2 December 2009 4:54 AM, PST
f Woodstock was the cathartic high of 60s rock concerts, then Altamont was the bum trip. Criterion's Blu-Ray release of Gimme Shelter, the 1970 documentary about the Rolling Stones show that brought the Summer of Love to a violent end, is a reminder of how delicate and unlikely that hippie miracle dramatized earlier this year in Ang Lee's rosy-cheeked Taking Woodstock really was.
Altamont–which descended into chaos, leaving four spectators dead–represents the dark side of rock the Stones had tapped in to with hits like "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Paint it Black." But it's fair to say Mick & Co. didn't see this one coming. It was a free concert at a desert speedway in Marin County, and the Stones hired the Hell's Angels to handle their security. At first, it seemed like a good move: the 300,000-plus fans, many of them high, were doing all sorts of unpredictable things.
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