Gimme Shelter Page #4

It's anticipated that the amount of kids

now traveling across country...

you may have anywhere

from 5,000 to 20,000 kids...

starting to arrive sometime tomorrow.

They're all lining up at the airports

from as far away as New York.

- Now? You gotta be kidding.

- You have no idea what goes on here.

It's an amazing phenomenon.

It's like the lemmings of the sea.

- Mike Lang is on the line.

- [Belli] Yeah, Mike?

John says that he doesn't think

you can make it over there

at the Altamont Speedway.

- Do you want to talk directly to Mike?

- Yeah.

[Schneider] Mike, I got the impression

from everybody where you are...

that there was no way

of moving to that speedway.

[Lang] We can do it. Nobody wants to,

but if we have to, we can.

Just a quick question.

You were at Woodstock, and

you've now been to Altamont?

- Right.

- How does it stack up? Do you have the room?

I think we have the room, sure.

I think we can hold as many

people as want to come.

Can you change locations that fast?

We had a much bigger operation to change at Woodstock.

I don't think we'll have much problem.

We're just dealing with a free concert.

That's what we want to present.

And I think that's what the Stones

are up to. They want to play here.

Is this going to be Woodstock West?

Well, it's going to be San Francisco.

Do you have any special feelings

about this kind of a concert?

This spontaneous, free...

Well, it's not so much...

I don't think it's a complete concert.

The concert is just...

I think it's an excuse.

You know, because,

like, the thing is,

it's just like everyone coming

and having a good time.

The concert's like

the proscenium of a theater.

It's like an excuse for everyone to just

sort of, you know, get together...

and, like, talk to each other

and sleep with each other...

ball each other

and get very stoned...

and just have a nice night out

and a good day, you know?

- I mean, do you understand?

- I do.

It's not just like getting

up there and seeing...

the Grateful Airplane

and the Rolling, Rolling Dead.

[Laughter]

[Announcer]

And now, Ike and Tina Turner.

- [Crowd Cheering]

- Thank you.

[Woman] I don't know what they

paid for them... the costumes...

but is there any way...

[Continues, Indistinct]

[Chuckles]

[Applause, Cheering]

Good. It's nice to have

a chick occasionally.

[Applause, Cheering Continue]

Far out.

Sorry you had to wait.

[Applause, Cheering]

Whoo!

Oh, yeah!

Thank you kindly.

I think I busted a button

on my trousers.

Hope they don't fall down.

It's that jumping around.

I'll have to do it up again.

Whoo! You don't want my trousers

to fall down now, do you?

[Cheering Continues]

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