The Movie: Gimme Shelter (1970)
What Is It?: Calling
this genuinely disturbing and rather frightening document of an outdoor Rock
festival gone horribly wrong the anti-Woodstock
is an understatement. Even though music isn’t really the point of Gimme Shelter, there’s still a lot of
great Rolling Stones music—not that that’s any consolation.
Why Today?: On
this day in 1969, the Altamont Free Concert took place on
California’s Altamont Speedway.
