In case you missed this:
BBC Radio 2 are broadcasting a documentary on December 5 and BBC 4 are showing Gimme Shelter on December 11:


From the Radio Times
I'll do my best to record and upload this.


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"



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yeeeeeeeeeah please record -_-

Thanks for the heads up and your offer to try and post this recording. As an American, I would hate to miss out on hearing this show.

Greetings from the Jersey Shore.

Looking forward...

There's a streaming player for bbc 2. Anyone that remembers should be able to here the broadcast. Just remember to do the time math. St. Louis is -6 or -5 GMT so thats 16:00 or 17:00. Los Angeles would be 14:00 or 15:00.

Thanks for the information.

Here's the link
[www.bbc.co.uk]

Select the Listen live BBC iPlayer. Works great.

CBII



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Huey Morgan tells the story of the Rolling Stones' 1969 Let It Bleed tour, a milestone in rock history that defined an era, and its tragic finale at the Altamont Speedway.

The band's previous tours had been brief, incandescent sets played to mostly screaming teenage girls. But as the 60s grew to a close, the Stones' music had evolved. They played longer sets, which charted their influences by including tracks by their blues heroes, and as Bill Wyman said; "for the first time the audiences were actually listening to what we playing".

1969 was the year of the free rock festival. The Stones' Hyde Park concert in London in July was followed a month later by Woodstock and, as their Let It Bleed tour rolled triumphantly across America, the Rolling Stones decided to end the decade with a massive free concert to thank their US fans for their continuing support.

The concert, held at Altamont Speedway in the scrublands of Northern California on 6th December, was meant to be the West Coast's answer to Woodstock but the event turned out so differently, some believe it signalled the end of the peace and love era. It was badly organised, Hell's Angels were providing security, and trouble started early on. Four people died including a young black man who was stabbed and kicked to death, at the front of the stage, as the Rolling Stones played Under My Thumb.

The programme features contributions from those who were on the road with the Stones on this groundbreaking tour including Mick Jagger's personal assistant, Georgia Bergman; the tour's business manager Ron Schneider; production manager Chip Monck; tour manager Sam Cutler; journalist Michael Lydon; photographer Ethan Russell; director Albert Maysles; and the Guardian's Eamonn McCabe.

Shedding Hippie Blood provides a fascinating insight into what Rolling Stone magazine at the time called "the biggest rock tour music has seen". It was a tour that defined an era with The Stones basically inventing stadium rock as their ground breaking journey unfolded. But it also represented the dark side that had emerged from a counterculture without control, conscience or conviction.


[www.bbc.co.uk]

CBII is quite correct, this should be available for all to listen to.


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Bump!
On now!
[www.bbc.co.uk]


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

As promised, here's tonight's programme.
This is an Mp3 which you can listen to and/or download here:
altamontdocumentary.mp3 - 38.87MB MP3

altamontdocumentary1.rar - 299.29MB Flac

Rapidshare link for MP3:
[rapidshare.com]

The progamme can still be listened to via the BBC website for the next seven days here:
[www.bbc.co.uk]


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Thanks!

Thanks a lot!
CrazyMama

thank you kindly, Deltics!
very interesting to hear the assorted recollections, and there are lots of well-told bits
(Sam Cutler seems to have forgotten that it was at Hyde Park that he first called the Stones
the greatest rock & roll band in the world ... but it's easy to "transplant" the story)



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many thanks

Thanks Deltics

HMN

.... YA SHOULD OF BEEN THERE................ NO EXCUSE WOULDNT BE ACCEPTED....

thanks

Flac file now added by request.


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

why oh why zshare... unfortunately I can't download it cause it drops connection all the time. any chance of repost on rapidshare or any other service?

I'll see what I can do. MP3 or Flac?


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Thanks



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mp3.

thank you for replay link. listening now.

Rapidshare link now added by request


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Hi,

thank you.

Ya-Yas

My pleasure.


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Thanks a lot!!!

Thank you very much

love the way sam cutler calls the dead a bunch of cowards, and you know what he is right, they were the only chicken shits of the whole bill of performers

Listened to the first 20 minutes of this and it is a must for 69 tour fans...The BBC did a great job and got comments from the players who were there.

This is a great listen for all Stones fans...thanks again for uploading this Alan!!!!

They still get it wrong... we did not hire the Angels as security or bouncers!!
I think that the BBC show was very well done..and here's a link for the next few days for their player and progam
[www.bbc.co.uk]