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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 18, 2013 - 10:28pm PT
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A Jagger/ Richards masterpiece.
It stands the test of time.
Anybody catch that irish singer's version on the season closer of Sons Of Anarchy that Katy Sagal sang backup on?
Yeah, a storm is threatening
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Lord, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, yeah, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, yeah, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away, hey, yeah
Oh, see the fire is sweepin'
At our very streets today
Burnin' like a red coal carpet
A mad bull lost its way
War, children, yeah, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, yeah, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away, hey, yeah
Rape, murder, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Rape, murder, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Yeah, a storm is threatening
My very life today
A gimme, a gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, yeah, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, yeah, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away, shot away, shot away
It's just a shot away, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away, shot away, shot away
I tell love, sister, yeah, it's just a kiss away
I tell love, sister, yeah, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away, it's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
It's just a kiss away, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away, it's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away, kiss away, kiss away
Gimme shelter, yeah, gimme shelter,yeah
Gimme shelter, yeah, gimme shelter
Gimme shelter, gimme shelter
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Todd Eastman
climber
Bellingham, WA
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Oct 18, 2013 - 10:34pm PT
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Check the documentary "Twenty feet from Stardom" about the back-up singers on so many of the records of the 60s,70,and 80s. This song is featured in the story...
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Oct 18, 2013 - 10:36pm PT
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Altamont.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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Oct 18, 2013 - 10:58pm PT
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It's one of my all time favorite songs.
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Oct 18, 2013 - 11:02pm PT
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"Sticky Fingers" is pretty good too!
I was fortunate enough to attend a Halloween concert in Telluride where Anders Osborne and Karl Denson's Tiny Universe performed the album note for note . . . a really excellent adventure and outstanding show. The naughty nurse in the latex skirt was pretty awesome too.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 18, 2013 - 11:03pm PT
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TV, I salute yer good taste; it is an iconic ballad. Ranks right up there with "Nessun Dorma", n'est-ce pas?
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Andrew Barnes
Ice climber
Albany, NY
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Oct 18, 2013 - 11:32pm PT
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I thought Gimme Shelter was the name of an Alex Lowe testpiece in the Canadian Rockies.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Oct 19, 2013 - 12:09am PT
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"Gimme Shelter" the first two words out of my mouth when an unplanned bivy is imminent.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Oct 19, 2013 - 12:14am PT
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I always thought it was about shooting dope.
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BlackSpider
Ice climber
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Oct 19, 2013 - 12:22am PT
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Beautiful ice climb, Kevin Doyle and Tim Friesen were two of the greats.
Oh wait, this thread isn't about climbing?
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It's just a flesh wound...
Trad climber
Davis
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Oct 19, 2013 - 12:47am PT
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This brought me out of long-time lurk status for a first post.
Hudon wrote:"It's one of my all time favorite songs."
I attended a Mark Hudon slide show fall of 1980 or '81 at Sac. State (a double bill with Peter Minks-great show) and he used this song at the end of the presentation with just a bunch of random awesome climbing shots. As an 18 or 19 year old kid, it created quite a stoke. To this day, whenever I hear this song on the radio (unfortunately, it is the oldies station these days,)the hands get itching and I think of climbing--Can't help it, it became a Pavlovian condition for me. Thanks to the 'Stones for a great tune and thanks Mark for, um, over 3 decades of itching hands.
Dave Dinnell
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Oct 19, 2013 - 12:52am PT
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Thanks Ron. I had no idea what they were saying lo these forty some years. At least I had the feelings right.... Terrific and still full-powered. God that was a bastard time, a bastard decade, the Sixties.
Jim: that is the best by far, the live version. Got it on cue now.
I had this in 8-track and would play it all the time in my VW van back then in my peak years. It was one of several battle cries.
Wikipedia says:
"Gimme Shelter" is a song by the English rock band The Rolling Stones. It first appeared as the opening track on the band's 1969 album Let It Bleed. Although the first word was spelled "Gimmie" on that album, subsequent recordings by the band and other musicians have made "Gimme" the customary spelling. The Rolling Stones first played the song live at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO on 7 November 1969. Greil Marcus, writing in Rolling Stone, once said of it, "The Stones have never done anything better."[1]
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Deekaid
climber
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Oct 19, 2013 - 10:57am PT
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I tried to repost the one I accidently deleted and now I can't get it to link from liveleak. It shows a little more concert footage with a closeup of a Helly freaking out on something heavy...I have experienced the energy in that type of situation quite a few times and it is palpable and frightening.
edit; it was actually a fan that was freaking out on stage... I saw the Levi jacket and thought he was a prospect
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Oct 19, 2013 - 11:32am PT
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Nice post Ed H., .13+ at least.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Oct 19, 2013 - 12:23pm PT
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Best live version.
Dedicated to everybody with hearts and ears!*
Demonstrates that the man could play guitar and chew gum at the same time. Anybody know his favorite flavor?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
*All royalities to Muddy Waters' grandma.
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chappy
Social climber
ventura
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Oct 19, 2013 - 12:37pm PT
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It's the ring tone on my phone. Love that song.
Chappy
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