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Jagger: “Why are we fighting? Why are we fighting? We don’t want to fight at all. Who wants to fight, who is it? Every other scene has been cool. We gotta stop right now. You know, if we can’t there’s no point . . .” A lot of photographers kept right on taking their photos through the worst of it, right up close, without getting hassled. So did the movie crews, but then they had Angels for bodyguards.

Sympathy for the Devil.” They stopped in the middle. A skirmish had broken out at stage left. This was the knifing/stomping of Meredith Hunter, perhaps 25 feet from where Jagger pranced and sang, then stopped. To one observer 20 feet to Jagger’s rear, the glint of the long knives was clearly visible. So, if the Stones were looking, they saw it too. The same observer spoke with several others who were onstage (as did Rolling Stone), and none, except for the onstage Angels, claim to have seen a gun. The attorney for the Stones (and friends), Melvin Belli, was handling all his legal arrangements, he said. I ain't no cop, I ain't never going to ever pretend to be no cop. I didn't go there to police nothing, man. They told me if I could sit on the edge of the stage so nobody could climb over me, I could drink beer until the show was over. And that's what I went there to do. Several of the musicians who were there placed the blame directly on Jagger. “If I ever get that asshole up against the wall,” promised one San Francisco musician, “he ain’t never gonna walk away.” Meanwhile, scavengers are combing over the grounds for pop bottles they can turn in for deposit, and several have taken geiger counters out to the raceway to find change and valuables that were left behind.The film Gimme Shelter was criticized by Pauline Kael, Vincent Canby and other reviewers for portraying the Stones too sympathetically, and for staging a concert for the sole reason that it could be filmed, despite all the problems leading up to it. Salon's Michael Sragow, writing in 2000, said many of the critics took their cues from the Rolling Stone review, which heavily blamed the filmmakers for being part of a "staged event" so that the Rolling Stones could profit from making a "concert" film. Sragow pointed out numerous errors in the Rolling Stone coverage and added that the Maysles did not make "major motion pictures" in the traditional way; instead, a variety of factors contributed to the tragedy. [40] the repair expenses or a replacement product (identical or equivalent value) if your product is beyond repair, Lee, Henry K. (May 26, 2005). "Altamont 'cold case' is being closed: Theory of second stabber debunked by Sheriff's Dept". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on June 26, 2008 . Retrieved October 25, 2009. It may surprise many of the people who suffered Altamont to discover that they were, in effect, unpaid extras in a full production color motion picture. After talking with several ranchers, we discovered they’re too skittish to even think about importing San Francisco kids for clean-up.

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The Stones’ New York management apparently felt pressed to say something. But they were unable to get it together. A press conference planned for Friday following the concert (which attorney Melvin Belli was scheduled to attend, having booked a San Francisco-New York flight) was cancelled. A photographer who’d taken part in the Chicago demonstrations during the Democratic Party Convention felt the Chicago cops had been both more together when it came to applying force, and more reasonable. Capt. William Bradshaw of the CHP’s San Leandro station, complained that the CHP hadn’t been given enough time to plan for the event, and vowed to oppose any future festivals in that area. It was one of Sheriff Madigan’s men who killed James Rector in the People’s Park uprising in Berkeley this Spring. Gleason’s implication was that it was one of Jagger’s/Cutler’s/Grogan’s/Scully’s boys who’d offed Meredith Hunter. The air was dense with blame.

Hunter’s death, and the reportedly bleak mood of the event more generally, has become symbolic for the corruption of 1960s hippy idealism. The festival was separately chronicled by directors Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin for the film Gimme Shelter. His first reaction about the concert was, he said: ‘Man, I wish — I didn’t want it to be like this.’ And now he’s saying: ‘Well, look, there’s a lotta shit, but it was a concert, it was free, the kids did come out fantastically, and . . .'” By the time the Rolling Stones took the stage in the early evening, the mood had taken a decidedly ugly turn as numerous fights had erupted between Angels and crowd members and within the crowd itself. It’s just amazing. There could be no worse circumstance for making music, and the Stones are playing their asses off. Jagger is incredible. They all look like they’d rather be anyplace else. But it’s getting better and better. Driving, powerhouse waves of rhythm roll on and on. Jagger is opening up. At first, when he really was trying to cool everybody out, his performance was the epitomy of cool: restrained, distanced, but still — even with fear welling in his throat — deeply inside each song, laying it on us.They started building up a hype,” says Scully, “to be certain they’d get a lot of people, big numbers.” While charges and recriminations were flying, there were some people trying to see what we can learn from the Altamont disaster. For one thing, Wavy feels people had a whole wrong set of expectations about what it was going to be. What it was, as compared with what it might have been, is sad to ponder. The Dead were scheduled to play just before — and then, as the day wore on, just after — the Stones. But by the time the Stones had finished their set, the scene was too tense to risk stretching the day out any longer. That’s the way things went at Altamont — so badly that the Grateful Dead, prime organizers and movers of the festival, didn’t even get to play. When Cutler asked how they would like to be paid, William replied, "We like beer." [23] In the documentary Gimme Shelter, Sonny Barger states that the Hells Angels were not interested in policing the event, and that organizers had told him that the Angels would be required to do little more than sit on the edge of the stage, drink beer, and make sure there were not any murders or rapes occurring.

More and more time passed, and eventually it all came down to a big last-minute crisis. Scully and Grogan had been made to look foolish repeatedly, by starting to enter negotiations with San Francisco park and recreation people on various occasions, four, three and two weeks ahead of the scheduled December 7th concert date — only to withdraw without explanation. I think at one point we might have walked off stage, but that would have been a disaster. We just had to carry on and play the best we could. We played longer than we would have done because we had to keep stopping all the time. We still did a complete show. We must have been on stage for about an hour-and-a-half. It seemed like ages. The one-day thing sets up the fact that you gotta enjoy yourself, you know? Like you’re there and gettin’ sorta hard-pressed and it’s gettin’ later and later, and you gotta go home — and we can’t hear anything — well, let’s push our way up there and maybe we can hear a little bit and maybe see somebody and —”The name of the game is money, power and ego, and money is first and it brings power. The Stones didn’t do it for free, they did it for money, only the tab was paid in a different way. Whoever goes to see that movie paid for the Altamont religious assembly. A still from the documentary film 'Gimme Shelter', showing audience members looking on as Hells ... [+] Angels beat a fan with pool cues at the Altamont Free Concert, Altamont Speedway, California, 6th December 1969. The concert was headlined and organized by The Rolling Stones. The film was directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin. (Photo by Bill Owens/20th Century Fox/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Getty Images Barger also had a few words for people who “call themselves flower children. There is some of them lousy people ain’t a bit better than the worst of us, and it’s about time they realized it. They can call us all kinds of lousy dogs, and say that we shouldn’t be there. But you know what, when they started messing with our bikes, they started it.”