Rolling Stones-Gimme Shelter at Altamont

[@MrREEMMAN]

The rawest and best performance of Gimme Shelter ever. Every member of the band is to thank for this one, Keith's guitar is sounding dirtier and deadlier than it ever did, the tone he's getting out of that guitar is absolutely ferocious, sounds like its going to crack every bone in your body. Bill Wyman's bass is launching a deep and murderous vibration cutting through the music. Charlie is smashing his drums like he had never done before, the symbols crashing almost every beat is amazing. Mick T's guitar sounds like a banshee whaling over the top of every other instrument and Mick Jagger is screaming like it's the last song he's ever going to be able to sing... it's chilling, not many songs and performances can capture a time and a place quite like this particular performance. I'd normally say this song is heaven on earth but this is hell on earth and I wouldn't have it any other way!!

[@SheepOfVengeance]

Great comments, Will. I love all those elements that you describe so well. This is what Glory is.

[@AtomicMushroom1]

+Will Pape Love Your comment!

[@puplover7991]

+Will Pape Best description ever!

[@onyx59]

+Will Pape Mick sings with such desperation. This version is one of the reasons I watched the DVD about six times.

[@conorlarkin8808]

+Will Pape mick taylors guitar rocks

[@ryanarch9934]

The Stones were at there absolute peak. Keith Richards driving riffs, Bill Wyman killer base Charlie Watts banging the hell out of the drums, Mick Jagger singing his heart out and Mick Taylor's lead guitar just raw and powerful what a hell of a time

[@jamescooke-i7p]

The absolute best version of this song. One of the all-time great rock songs.

[@williamsuper213]

THE greatest version of Gimme Shelter. The Stones at their best with Keith the mastermind and driver of this raw, raucous version! Killer

[@MrGaditana]

Best Verion 9 . september 1973 Empire Pool

[@williamsuper213]

@@MrGaditana Andre, thanks for the tip! I subscribed to your channel.

[@ryanarch9934]

Mick Taylor was also the mastermind, his playing is powerful beyond any other the stones ever had.

[@williamsuper213]

@@ryanarch9934 Ah, a real Stones fan. Each era of Brian, Mick and then Ronny had such different things going on. Did you know that Brian in Ruby Tuesday was inspired for the recorder music by some composer from the 1600s…

[@ryanarch9934]

@@williamsuper213 yes sir and I didn't know that. Your right though they made some great music with all three guitarists, totally transenended time. The era of Mick Taylor was sadly short lived. The time period truly captured the Stones at a peak and a very explosive time in history.

[@juergenstrauss5672]

The stones never did that again...absolutely the best Version ever...i love IT.?

[@alexbowman7582]

They never again played the Ya Ya’s sympathy solo but I guess that’s jazz.

[@smichaelb1980]

The ending of the documentary is as raw as it gets. Concertgoers straggling through the sunlight like survivors of a war,retreating in bleary disbelief from an experience they never envisioned happening...

[@JRC99]

Would you believe the footage is of them ARRIVING at Altamont? Though when it's nighttime, it does show them leaving.

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

Looks nightmarish, bad vibes all over that place

[@larryleitch3803]

I'm thinking about my generation, but the Altamount Speedway was the substitute site,as Tanforan Raceway ( not sure of the spelling) was the original planned site.

[@larryleitch3803]

@Gary Rhone What goes up, must go down 🔻⬇️. No harm, no foul

[@9999bigb]

It's a long, hard walk out of hell.

[@DANGMOE]

the bass appreciation is lovely

[@blondeboywilson9221]

That's clearly Keith on the lead

[@enricobarigazzi798]

Wyman's bass is a masterpiece in this performance, it dominates the background. Legendary and tragic concert at the same time.

[@rossfletcher22]

It gives me chills every time.

[@funme38]

This live version sounds like the end of the world. I love it.

[@enna1913]

That's because they were playing at the end of the world: Altamont.

[@rodrodriguez7032]

An end to an end 1960s

[@Methilde]

@@rodrodriguez7032 Poor Stones, why does they have to carry the end of the sixtees on they shoulders, so many others reasons, maybe they were just ahead.

[@joescott6178]

@@Methilde Good point. I vote for Sonny & Cher.

[@MysterySp0t]

🤣🤣

[@eparg8059]

The best way to describe this one : DIRTY 'N' BEAUTIFULL . Like Rock'n'Roll . At the same time.

[@donlufkin271]

that is my bread van you see for a few moments on video . brought 50lbs of rice delivered the night before. parked as dead centered middle of the property. sat on top and watched the madness. despised mick for causing additional tension. having been to most festivals as a native bay area boy, it was sickening to watch the end of love. I can remember family dog, avalon ballroom, etc. when there where 60 or so of us enjoying some of the best young talent to preform. Chilling in the haight, the end beatniks in north beach, and transition from folk music to rock. The best club in mu opinion Family Dog on the great highway, after concert bon fire on the beach. pura vida

[@dsfddsgh]

Man has any rock band ever been as raw as the Stones were back in 1969? Love it.

[@JohnnyramonepopIggy]

the stooges 😛

[@LeoDreweryMusic]

Led zeppelin

[@deepfield23]

one of the most powerful rock songs ever made. just awesome.

[@thomasgallagher7092]

The darkest and most haunting version of this song they ever did Bill’s bass is plowing through the mud

[@tmo4330]

And bass turned up! I like the 69 tour. Mick played rhythm on many tracks. That was soon to be changed as Mick was miles above Keef. And Keef was GREAT!

[@whitneymacdonald4396]

I love the rawness of this version. Great post. Thanks. Killer bass line.

[@user-lh8rb5wx6q]

oh found it again. I think this is the best take ever and for so many reasons. It is chilling. It is more than music.TY for providing.

[@hazysativa3045]

This is the rollin stones. My dad was there in the afternoon and left once the PA was rolling. He worked with the dead for many years. In 2 years I would be born on Stinson beach.

[@SheepOfVengeance]

@ 18 seconds, the rumbling, thunderously buzzing bass... Ah... I put this baby on repeat and listen to it for hours.

[@m.eastville8596]

Best song ..in my opinion.. of The Stones. I recently heard this song in a documentary about the Vietnam war and I was 16 again. 50 years later and nothing has changed, nothing. So we still need this song.

[@smichaelb1980]

THE best version of this song that ever existed. It sounds like the end of the world,and that's the whole idea. Goodbye peace,love and hippie bullshit. The end of the Innocence.

[@jsmith469]

They were mourning Brian

[@marysepradet6162]

the Stones were my idols since I was 14, and in 1964, I was 16 and I heard they would pass by a small village in Germany, near Francfort, we went hitchhiking with a friend up to this place ... and I effectively saw Mick jumping at 10 meters from me , in this small " public room" (don't know the English word for it ) ... this was long before they got known around the world ! when I see the price of their concerts nowadays, and also what they became all ... I realised that youth is the best gift you can get, but when it is over, it is over ! we went there hitchhiking, did not think of the risk ... OMG !

[@bentodd2975]

Moody and magnificent.....simply the greatest roll band in the world. God speed and the Rolling Stones baby

[@trewsdetroit5]

I can't even begin to imagine how fresh Let It Bleed sounded in 1969. My Mom saw them on this tour when they played Olympia Stadium in Detroit. I was born 20 years too late for this tour damnit!!!!

[@MoMo-nj2oc]

Trews Detroit your mom sounds cool: would do anything to see the Stones in their heyday, 1969 tour was their their best

[@larryleitch3803]

Hey dude... you actually didn't miss anything as far as freaks needing to catch another free concert. It was brother, against brother,, sister against sister. A gathering of the love generation at their best. The obstacles in obtaining peace with. 300* thousand people are enormous. The Stones appearance in live was cool 😎, pacified the crowd. But there were so many downers, you would have been pissed 😡. I had to find a ride home after. I.e. better than walking.

[@trewsdetroit5]

@@larryleitch3803 The only inconvenience my mom always talked about was getting elbowed in the ribs, on the main floor, for one of the roses Mick tossed into the crowd when she saw them in Detroit maybe two weeks before the Altamont gig.

[@larryleitch3803]

Because of the change in ( location) the original site being in the South Bay area, so they threw up Sound platforms surrounding the Altamount Speedway, where they proceeded to jam...once porta-potties and assembled the stage.

[@larryleitch3803]

Sorry about the inconvenience of Mick... comes with the territory. Give her a big 😘 kiss.

[@Hessulo]

everytime I started youtube I have to listen this few of times LOUD... this kind is pretty rare - sometimes bands gets better (after 200 gigs) group of people and everyone is necessity to the piece, bass drums vocals guitars so nailed

[@lipelim2545]

Bill Wyman's monstrous bass makes this version the best version of all.

[@dasboot-yp7xv]

Something with this song clicks. Can't explain it. Just nails things down tight. Rock and roll at its best.

[@robparker2497]

It’s called, ‘Boy ! You better start playing your asses off . . Or else ! You’ll get got !’

[@Maryonpark]

Wyman's bass sounds grimy and bleak. Fitting for that particular night.

[@Imsuchaliar]

I've always wondered if the (probably shaky) electrical setting at Altamont made the amps overload or something, that night. Wyman's bass had a very special tone indeed at Altamont - and it so totally fits...

[@devinthierault]

@@Imsuchaliar probably using a smaller amp than normal? My guess would be it's just the amount of electricity going on on the stage like you said.

[@hutchieboy5]

Gimme shelter is the best Rock song ever written. It is just as poignant today as it was in 1969.

[@nunyabeeswax3936]

Saw Gimme Shelter at a drive -in movie when it first came out. Had the Stones and Jefferson Airplane mostly.And saw the violence therein the movie.

[@guitarguy5]

Badass still in 2021...

[@MDOurMD]

While the album cut is the great standard for this song, this recording captures the disjointed era perfectly. Those were dangerous times and nobody conveyed that better than the Rolling Stones, and this recording is proof of that.

[@ZikoHendrix]

Bill Wyman everybody. Hands down to the man.

[@grimefighterstoo]

This was the greatest concert I ever attended. I was a young Air Force man away from base to attend.

[@yoga4u283]

Do you still remember it well?

[@louisvaillancourt4716]

How can you not just love this song! Freaking awesome !!

[@bretoff]

This is the cleanest example I have ever heard of this live Altamont version, this is gold, love the raw mix, 12/6/69; lots of 6's in there in some form or fashion, also this day was my 6th birthday, go figure; hope some copyright nazi doesn't get this great piece of history yanked - thanks jaggermorrison......

[@TheRelentlessness]

happiness, anger, fear all intertwined among these ppl who attended. hell on earth but the music was heaven. wish I were there.

[@unvoce]

@jaggermorrison2010 I was at Altamont, close to the left side of the stage. Mick was hard to see as the stage was surrounded by Angels There was a commotion in front of the stage, but no one new what happened. Mick was yelling "...kewl it guys, kewl it". We read the next day about the stabbing and murder. A full moon hung low in the sky directly overhead, and as dusk came hundreds of fires burned sinisterly across the barren valley. Woodstock's doppelgänger.

[@dasboot19801]

Raw, rough. Fits their experience at Altamont. Fitting end, to a fitting time, A time of overindulgence, and capricious behavior.. We accomplished nothing. We survived, nothing more. Next up, Iraq, financial meltdown, etc.. A doomed species does not learn. Gimme Shelter, or I'm gonna fade away.

[@DecimusIunius]

The one word: "Altamont," is a rebuttal to all utopian visions, to those with ears to hear.

[@gimmeshelter1969]

Extraordinarily dark and menacing song. I guess that's why I have f-u-c-k-i-n-g loved it for at least 41 years...

[@ket366]

Keith Richards is fantastic in this performance, this is the best live version they ever did. I know many people like the 72-73 that featured the long Taylor solos but they can't match the power of this one.

[@timfennell1310]

Yeah, the Brussels Affair at La Foret is good - but this is in a category of its own.

[@paulrolo5154]

London sep 9 1973

[@racine1685]

How do you know it was Keith and not Mick who played the solo guitar?

[@timfennell1310]

@@racine1685 I read that Keith did leads for the first tour and let Mick play rhythm. I'll try to find it.

[@tmo4330]

@@racine1685 I can tell who played leed and rhythm on every song during the 69-73 live events.

[@ScaryGreyGhost]

Rolling Stones forever 👍👌🤟🎶☢️🎸🎤🎩🎙️💰🇺🇸

[@venkatasubramanianvenkatac1531]

They were quote literally performing for their lives

[@mikemin100]

The Stones best Rock and Band in the world

[@Treman262]

as good today as it was back then

[@carloseugeniocarlos4287]

the best live version everrr! furious and raw,powerful energy!

[@muzzilag0]

damn man, i just can't stop listening to this song, it has me hooked, im hypnotized by the song LOVE IT

[@carloseugeniocarlos4287]

the best live version ever! so raw and powerful!

[@MrGaditana]

That Bassline

[@vidiaugrafree]

This song is back in my head (for the first time as a youngling), with all the news of violence lately. There is a war, folks.

[@bluedragonlordofcardsandmu6134]

I was there and I was less than 5 feet from the stage. In the movie GIMME SHELTER when Marty of the Jefferson Airplane leaps into the crowd he knocks me over and that is about the time you can see me.

[@MrDavidpierson]

Will great description of the Stones playin their best .. just read this book on Altamont and the noted rock critic Greil Marcus decided it was a scary bummer, decided to leave, tripped in the dark, fell face in the dirt and heard Gimme Shelter pounding in the background and couldn't believe how good it sounded...

[@marcelocosmos490]

50 years before

[@JRC99]

So stripped down and raw. Perfect for the Hell that was Altamont.

[@guitarplayer2846]

Altamont was rock's darkest day. It closed the 60's with destruction and death. The greedy Glimmer Twins wanted to make a movie, hired the fucking Hells Angels, and watched as their fans were beaten by the thugs they hired. They took no responsibility for any of it. Richards planned this terrible idea with a friend of the Dead.

[@ten10strips85]

Guitar Player That's a bunch of bullshit, Hells Angels had been doing security in N. California since the very first outdoor festival when they escorted Jefferson Airplane to Mt. Tam, which was a week or so BEFORE Monterrey Pop. It all started when Kesey had them up to La Honda for a party, dosed everybody up and let the freak unfold. Very different politically, a shared outlaw spirit nevertheless developed between the Hells Angels and the Haight Ashbury freaks. Shared neighborhoods too. Jerry Garcia sums it up nicely in the documentary "Hells Angels on Wheels," I think it's called, from 1973 or 1975, thereabouts, look it up yourself if you give a fuck, I can't be bothered. Regard the cover artwork of the Big Brother and the Holding Company album. No bands trusted cops or wanted them at their shows. tl;drp: ~298,000 people had a good enough time at Altamont. AT NO TIME WAS ANYONE FORCED TO STAND RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE FUCKING STAGE WHERE THE HELLS ANGELS, AS SECURITY, WERE REQUIRED TO BE. The black guy drew a .22 revolver. He lunged toward the stage and was stabbed twice by a member of security. Had it been a cop, there likely would have been a fucking gunfight in the middle of the crowd.

[@Lindabran]

This is so fricken Cool to see all of us gathering for this Event!! We were the Luckiest Kids in the World...lol I think i was almost 18. We had the Flower Power.....and we were the Dreamers...................(definatley was doin some dreamin on THAT WEEKEND!!! lol.......................Was a Great Thing even with the Hells Angels.......Smokin Indeed!!!!...:-)

[@oldandintheway47]

This version is genius, love the harsh sounds of the instruments and lack of electronic drums and such. Also the Mick Taylor era was the best. In their book they all said they did not want him to leave.

[@SirLuis_]

i feel so happy wen i hear Rolling Stones play

[@mightyturkeyneck3498]

This is easily my favourite live arrangement of "Gimme Shelter". Keef's guitar tone is just filthy, & Taylor is showing rare restraint in his lead playin. 🦃⚡🎸😵🦃

[@juergenstrauss5672]

Wonderful Version and great Video. A look back into the past and In a time, which will never come back. It's a pity, that the Altamont Festival became such a desaster. In memoriam Meredith Hunter !!! Rest in peace!

[@robparker2497]

Read ‘Altamont’ by Joel Selvin, came out in 2016 and IS the definitive book on the lead up and the reasons for the total ‘clusterfuck’ that was Altamont.

[@calbeatnik]

I was already there and asleep when this scene was shot. Arrived at about 4 am had been at Fillmore West the n ight before where I had taken in yet another Dead show and hitchhiked out to Fremont and the Altamont speedway for the Stones show that was spreading by word out front of the Fillmore when it let out.

[@wellisaythat]

Listened to the original and then listen to this for the first time it shocked me. Really great sound right from the beginning. Love the distortion.

[@chrisefthymiou8289]

end of the hippie dream. the 60s and death and disaster of altamont. the players in the dark. the stones.

[@RIDDYxMUSICH]

best version.

[@puplover7991]

RIDDY MUSICH Totally. It's diabolical.

[@mapearce1]

RIDDY MUSICH Without a doubt! This is the reality of the times! Only three years had passed since the US made acid illegal and really kicked into gear an unwinnable war. I was just a young teen back then,....powerful times.

[@DimebagDiamonDarrell]

100% Highway Murderers.

[@Asatorwraths]

Bill just Fucking kills it on bass loving it,

[@jacobmassey3897]

Bill, Charlie and Mick Taylor absolutely killing it.

[@briancrawford7981]

​@@jacobmassey3897well, keith richards is playing lead guitar.

[@carloseugeniocarlos4287]

the definitive best live version of gimme shelter,fucking fantastic!

[@ayansb]

"Due to the rumored bounty from the Hells Angels to have Jagger assassinated, Keith Richards carried a .38 caliber revolver during the next American tour in 1972." Haha, who doesn't love Keef?

[@teleguy5699]

Keef carried a revolver because of the drug houses he would frequent. His words.

[@philipmartin9035]

@@teleguy5699 damn hahaha crazy how he’s still alive tbu

[@teleguy5699]

@@philipmartin9035 It is!

[@ficticious2025]

He wouldn’t have been able to use it, while he was high on SMACK.

[@van_smeiter]

This has 55 years and s kick fucking ass power

[@mikesilva5085]

Some amazingly descriptive comments here from passionate fans who really appreciate this period of the Stones where their music was unfortunately framed by such a tragic day .

[@misterfrias]

That changeover at 00:18 always gives me chills.

[@David-k9e8k]

The best performance of this great song. Keith Richard’s lead guitar is dark and simple and Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts rhythm is so relentless. Mick Taylor’s rhythm guitar very much in the background. They just nailed it.

[@franksmusic2880]

That was an amazing supper raw version, I wish this was cleaned up and released. The 1969 tour was the best.

[@muzzilag0]

A brutal reminder of the world we live in. It doesn't matter if it is in 1969 or 2016. It will never change.

[@venturamichael50]

Mustafa Inal sad but true.

[@drivetone7942]

Screw you. :)

[@saulmoreno2389]

Raw. Greasy . Pure . Dirty . Best version of this song period

[@indioside376]

I did not know all those other acts appeared! Had I been a couple of years older I definitely would had taken that short drive. Great thorough accounting of that event.

[@alanepauline6390]

So bad i can't find it on spotify, it's my favorite version of this song

[@chrisefthymiou8289]

this to me is the best ever version of this classic. raw with mick tailors guitar wailing n howling. sums up the disaster of altamont and the end of the 60s.

[@mudb0ner]

That's keith wailing and howling my friend. 100%

[@MoMo-nj2oc]

Chris Efthymiou Mick Taylor was a fucking genius guitarist, and only 20 or 21 at this time

[@tonipetryctba]

melhor versão ao vivo, com qualidade de som.... vale conferir.

[@twstrchasr]

Fucking EPIC.. The Mick Taylor years were the absolute pinnacle of times for the Stone !!!

[@joerockhead3665]

Keith is the lead

[@carloseugeniocarlos4287]

The best raw version of this song!

[@TateHemlock1]

Happy 50th Anniversary Altamont!

[@carloseugeniocarlos4287]

50 years after and still fucking good! God bless the Rolling Fucking Stones!

[@asadal-din5723]

God bless the security they the Rolling Stones were antagonizing and urging to leave.

[@MrDjh66]

Gotta love that brand new Plymouth gtx in the beginning of the video

[@jamesreinolds3968]

the best gimme shelter ever powerful and raw

[@gammarey]

and the infamous Hells Angels providing security in exchange for 40 cases of beer. recipe for disaster but the show lives in infamy. great clip mickjim. thx

[@asmundukkelberg8741]

This particular version is one of the scariest pieces of music that I know.

[@jenniferjuniper97]

TAylor makes it cry at the"rape and murder" segment. Keith is the riff GOD!!l listen closely to those chords. Wyman is reallyfeelin the bassline. Imagine not having heard any rock or pop songs before in your life and you can understand the power of this band's sound.

[@primovid]

Awesome...thanks for posting this!! All happened about 50 miles from my house!

[@jaggermorrison2010]

for the most part of the 69 tour keith played lead but could be since altamont was the last show taylor had found his comfort zone in the band from 70 onward he played mostly lead

[@MarcusHarrisofficialmusic]

What a fucking Great performance from The Stones and most specially from Bass Monster Bill Wyman ❤❤❤

[@rattycunt6630]

Moody and magnificent ........simply the Rolling Stones!

[@puplover7991]

The Grim Reaper got together w/ Satan and created this version. The best!

[@ZikoHendrix]

pup lover Exactly ! That's what it is. Dont forget SFD too.

[@MrReymoclif714]

I bought the documentary and it is very detailed and tragic in it's depiction of the end of the innocence!Excellent song notwithstanding.

[@hanaleiroad]

the altamont version fit perfectly to the mood. Dark and heavy.

[@alexbowman7582]

Why didn't Bill play like that more often?

[@ficticious2025]

This is the best version. Bill weymans bass.

[@thiagocorrea2028]

Bill Wyman the beeeessssst Fucked Fucked ..and...Keff Richards fuuuuucked fucked amazing amazing solo 👏👏👏👏🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷🍹🍹🍹🍸🍸🍸

[@jacobmassey3897]

It's like a mass gathering of extras from a zombie apocalypse movie lol.

[@WadeMacKinnon]

@Dustylou If you look at the playing style and note choice, It's not Taylor. These leads are straight minor pentatonic. Taylor typically plays leads emphasizing chord tones, using not just the minor (or major depending on context) pentatonic scale, but notes from the full 7 note natural minor scale.

[@mikemin100]

The the best the greatest rock band in the world

[@telephonic]

mick taylor was supreme in the stones

[@robparker2497]

YNWA 😎👍🏻

[@thiagocorrea2028]

But who solos here and Keith Richards the guy🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷🍸🍸🍸🍹🍹🍹🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

[@scotshuthats5268]

Wow, had never seen this footage, way cool. Also have read the description, informative. Thanks Dude.

[@mobsid]

The Rolling Stones is one of those bands that sounds better at concert than in the album..

[@jaggermorrison2010]

i think Keith played lead on the 69 American tour and Taylor took over when they toured Europe in 70

[@williambeckham7703]

They switched it up. Keith had that loud amazing tone during that 69 tour. He had those big bad Ampeg amps. By the 70 tour he went to the more mellow Mesa Boogie amps.