poster on linen The Rolling Stones in GIMME SHELTER 1970 LINENBACKED "B&W Style"

Original 1970 poster for film on Linen Backing. One sheet size (27×41 inches) in GOOD+ to VERY GOOD Condition, nicely backed. A restored poster that display signs of use. The poster has a vintage, age-appropriate appearance with light edge and fold wear. The poster has received restoration to fold wear, small tears, pinholes, creases, and tape staining in the borders. Touchup and light airbrush application has corrected the majority of the issues making this a wonderful display piece. Linen border is 1-2 inches outside poster border. FAST and SAFE DELIVERY a Certainty. Part of a gallery of more than ONE THOUSAND LINENBACKED and more than 30,000 un-restored original rare paper items being offered for the first time to the eBay community. ALL PHOTOS of Rare Paper are ACTUAL ITEMS being sold. Please, ask questions before purchase, we will do our best to oblige you. “The music that thrilled the world … and the killing that stunned it!” – When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco’s Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade’s dreams into disillusionment was immortalized in this film. A documentary on the Rolling Stones’ 1969 US tour and the tragic events that concluded it. We see footage of their concerts and of them making the Sticky Fingers album in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. However, the main focus of the film is on one concert – Altamont Speedway, outside San Francisco, 6 December 1969. A free concert, it is the Stones’ idea and it was meant to be the Woodstock of the West (Woodstock having occurred four months earlier). Other bands performing included Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Ike and Tina Turner, Crosby Stills Nash and Young and Santana. However, it is far from being the peace and love of Woodstock. Part of the problem is that the Stones hired the Hells Angels as security. The other problem was that a large portion of the crowd were high on drugs. Friction ensues. During the Stones’ set, Meredith Hunter, high on methamphetamine and armed with a gun, makes a lunge for the stage and is stabbed to death by the Hells Angels. The peace and love era of the 60s was over. Performers include Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, The Rolling Stones, Marty Balin, Sonny Barger, Melvin Belli, Jack Casady, Dick Carter, Mike Clarke, Spencer Dryden, Sam Cutler, John Jaymes, Chris Hillman, Paul Kantner, Jorma Kaukonen, Gram Parsons, Grace Slick, Tina Turner, Jerry Garcia, Michelle Phillips, Ian Stewart, Michael Lang, Albert Maysles, David Maysles. BEHIND THE SCENES TRIVIA : After viewing concert footage, police identified Alan Passaro, a local Hell’s Angel, as the man who stabbed Meredith Hunter. He was arrested and charged with murder. At his trial, closer examination of the footage showed that Hunter had pulled a gun before Passaro pulled his knife. Passaro was acquitted on grounds of self-defense. The only way police were able to determine that Meredith Hunter was the one who had the gun was his brandishing of the firearm in front of a woman with a white shirt, which allowed for the outline of the weapon to be made out on camera. If not for this single frame, Alan Passaro would have likely been charged with murder. Besides Meredith Hunter, three other people died at Altamont; two people died in a hit-and-run car accident, and a man fell into a ditch and suffocated. A rough demo version of the classic “Brown Sugar” is heard in the sequence detailing The Rolling Stones stay at Muscle Shoals. According to ‘Bill Wyman’ in his book on his days in the band, the Stones performed the song for the very first time in front of an audience at Altamont. Besides “Brown Sugar”, two other songs that were unreleased at the time are heard during the scenes filmed at Muscle Shoals. They were “Wild Horses” and “You Got to Move”. Those songs, along with “Brown Sugar” would be released on the classic “Sticky Fingers” album that came out two years later in 1971.