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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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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 19, 2013 - 01:02pm PT
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When the rest of my class was still lounging in their senior year I had graduated HS and went right to work in NYC as an intern at a NASA subcontractor that published technical manuals.
I had a one room walk up in the East Village, and a landlord that didn't mind my music.
Once when my dad was in town he came to visit.
Now,.. I should explain; my dad was a rock star before the term existed.
He was like a Justin Beiber with a classical violin. He was selling out venues in Buenos Aires as a kid in short pants. In the mid twentieth century classical music was still the heavy hitter in the recording industry. My dad came to the US on tour, met my mom (who taught him english), was given one of the finest violins in the world, and did a series of tours.
As a kid I saw him mobbed for autographs.
But that started to change.
Elvis, then the Beatles, then all the others were making huge coin in the recording industry, and classical music fell by the wayside.
By the time he visited he was a teacher at U Mass.
I played him some Stones and the Allman Brothers Live (recorded at the Filmore only 7 blocks away).
His response was that the music was just a fad and would never last.
Sour grapes?
I last saw him less than ten years later.
I wonder how he would see things now.
He has a grandson that is a successful musician, but now the recording industry is turned upside down.
Butts in seats is where the money is.
A lot of his 43 records are out on disc.
He might be surprised to see teenagers into Led Zeppelin forty years on.
The Stones still have relevance.
And rock and roll will never die.
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Gary Carpenter
climber
SF Bay Area
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Oct 19, 2013 - 03:12pm PT
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[quote]God that was a bastard time, a bastard decade, the Sixties.
Peter that is so true!
Ed...Your playlist is worthy for a drive to the Valley
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hamersorethumb
Trad climber
Menlo Park, CA
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Oct 19, 2013 - 04:17pm PT
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Isolated vocals of Mick and Merry Clayton on Gimme Shelter. Jump to 2:30 mark to hear Merry Clayton's incredible solo.
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Dave Davis
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 19, 2013 - 04:44pm PT
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Thanks for the posts. Absolutely my favoritet Stones number and the version that Peter posted is also my favorite . Lisa Fisher just knocks my sox off. The look on Keith Richard's face after her solo says it all.
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Fletcher
Gym climber
The great state of advaita
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Oct 19, 2013 - 05:00pm PT
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Merry Clayton is amazing. Her vocals in this song have always given me the shivers. Then I saw Twenty Feet from Stardom and realized just what an amazing story lies in the actual recording of the piece. I highly recommend the film.
Eric
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Oct 19, 2013 - 09:26pm PT
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My feelings about this number vary depending on when and where I hear it. My brother witnessed the murder at Altamont, and he has reiterated details of the crime and the concert in detail many times over the years. Horrible, and a turning point in concerts unfortunately.
Every time I hear it, accounts of events are recalled with varying emotions. But, art is successful if it causes emotions, good or bad. So this number it pretty high up there.
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Oct 19, 2013 - 09:52pm PT
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Like most disasters it started with someone's idea and in this case to hire the Hell's Angles for "security" then came a collective endorsement.......yikes!
What an iconic song, I'll never forget the context in which it was inspired.
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Oct 19, 2013 - 09:56pm PT
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a naked lesson in art as it applied to the Vietnam War
No question. I'm thankful I was naive to those connotations for most of my life. Recalling that terrible era of history today is wrenchingly painful.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 19, 2013 - 11:24pm PT
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Wow Hammer, thanks for that!
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WBraun
climber
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Oct 19, 2013 - 11:28pm PT
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Altamont
I was there live and in person to witness the event.
1000 hitch hikers on I-580 afterwards was the competition to get back to the bay area.
18 wheeler flatbed stopped and we piled on it 50 people deep right in front of CHP who didn't even care.
Took me all the way to Hayward and the next ride home across the San Mateo Bridge ......
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Oct 19, 2013 - 11:34pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Oct 20, 2013 - 12:06am PT
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Well if the hells angels were hired, then somebody hired them, right? Who?
Did those looking for free stuff contribute?
In the Wake of Altamont: Who Hired the Hell's Angels?
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2010/08/in_the_wake_of_1.php
Driving back to the city in a hammering rain, I couldn't help recalling what somebody had remarked to Ralph Gleason early in the week: "There was no love, no joy at Altamont. It wasn't just the Angels. It was everybody. In 24 hours, we created all the problems of our society in one confined area -- congestion, violence, dehumanization."
I was living in Berkeley at the time and made the deliberate decision not to go out there.
In retrospect, it seems like a good choice.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 20, 2013 - 01:05am PT
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Two things.
1) I always thought the stones were playing Sympathy for the Devil when the angels offed Meredith Hunter. Was I, mistaken?
2) legend has it that that band that lived at 710 Ashbury street came up with the idea of having the Hell's angels there, though I've heard arguments on both sides of that.
Edit;
Both of which are addressed in z's link above that I didn't read first...um, consider this a clif notes kinda deal....
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 20, 2013 - 04:19pm PT
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The creation of Gimme Shelter
«Lounging with his guitar in a room decorated with Tibetan skulls, tantric art and Moroccan tapestries, chain-smoking and depressed at the thought of Anita being with Mick, Keith began to strum as lightening flashed across the London sky. «It was just a terrible f*#king day», he recalls in his memoir, Life, «this incredible storm over London. So I got into that mode – looking at all these people… running like hell.» Leaning on the same open chords that had become his signature, he crooned. «Oh, a storm is threatening my very life today». Sounded good. He continued to strum, added another line: «If I don’t get some shelter, oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away…»
Six months later, when the Stones reconvened to begin work on their next album, Let It Bleed, the song of ultimate doom Keith had begun that stormy day, now titled Gimme Shelter, was among the first he and Jagger began working on with producer Jimmy Miller.
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Miller argued there was something missing from Gimme Shelter, something that would turn good into great.
They found what they were looking for in 20-year-old Merry Layton. … She laughingly recalls how she was about to go to bed when she got Jack Nitzsche’s call: «It was almost midnight. I was pregnant at the time and I thought, there is no way in the world I’m getting out of bed down to some studio in the middle of the night».
But her husband, jazz saxophonist Curtis Amy, talked her into it. «I’m wearing these beautiful pink pyjamas, my hair was up in rollers. But I took this Chanel scarf, wrapped it round the rollers so it looked really cute, went to the bathroom and put on a little lip blush – ‘cos there’s no way I’m going to the studio other than beautiful!» Throwing her fur coat around her shoulders, she turned up at the studio «ready to work». She admits to being somewhat nonplussed when she read the lyrics Jagger handed to her. «I’m like, «Rape, murder…?» You sure that’s what you want me to sing, honey? He’s just laughing. Him and Keith.
They began the session, and the effect was instant. «You listen to the original tape you can hear Mick whooping and hollering in the background,» Merry says.
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It became the most praised album-only track in the Stones canon – «The cleverest amalgam of powerful sounds the Stones have yet created,» reconed International Times. «Ecstatic, ironic, all-powerful, an erotic exorcism for a doomed decade,» claimed Newsweek – it also became the emblem of the moment when the 60s dream flared into the 70s nightmare.
Mick Wall in Classic Rock 188
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Deekaid
climber
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Oct 20, 2013 - 06:13pm PT
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Jay bro I believe it was sympathy for the devil which is one of many strange aspects to the incident
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 20, 2013 - 06:38pm PT
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Bleeding STones!
Beefheart bones!
(Apathy House being shelter for The Flames in Pacific Groove.)
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Risk
Mountain climber
Olympia, WA
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Oct 20, 2013 - 08:38pm PT
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My brother says it was Sympathy for the Devil at the time of the murder.
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Pretty obvious something bad happens during this.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Oct 20, 2013 - 10:56pm PT
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I read it was during "Under My Thumb".
The Angel was acquitted after a review of the footage which shows Meredith Hunter pulling a gun.
Regardless...
"One way or another, this darkness got to give."
Great song, fascinating history, and some nice shares here.
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Deekaid
climber
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Oct 21, 2013 - 11:10am PT
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There were multiple incidents during multiple songs but I think Jefe is right.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Jan 17, 2014 - 12:21am PT
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Beautiful ice climb, Kevin Doyle and Tim Friesen were two of the greats.
yeah, no doubt. Has this even seen a handful of subsequent ascents?
not a Stones fan, per se, but this is strong,
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Jan 17, 2014 - 09:14am PT
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Ed H! Nice finds, I'm going to listen to them all tonight.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Jan 17, 2014 - 11:06am PT
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Speaking of the ice climb Jeff and Alex Lowe backed off it 3 or 4 days before Kevin and Tim climbed it. They said it was too thin. Local boys do good.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2017 - 11:44am PT
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fiftieth anniversary bump
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Sep 21, 2017 - 04:17pm PT
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Ed with Grand Funk Railroad.....man
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yanqui
climber
Balcarce, Argentina
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Sep 21, 2017 - 04:42pm PT
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Great song! The definitive Vietnam War era song (along with "Run Through the Jungle"). Enjoyed Ed's list of covers.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Sep 21, 2017 - 06:26pm PT
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TV, what is your dad's name? Does he have any CDs in circulation?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 21, 2017 - 06:53pm PT
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Meredith Hunter was killed during "Under My Thumb".
Still glad I stayed away and studied that weekend.
Great song, inspired Bob Dylan to write this one according to Townes van Zandt.
Bob studied all his stolen LP's to learn "slide" for it. Anyone recognize him? It was sorta pre-1976 approximately.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 22, 2017 - 12:54pm PT
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My dad was Julian, and yes there are numerous CDs out there. I have 8 or 9.
I never had the patience and devotion to truly appreciate classical music, but then when I was getting into rock music his recording career waned and he grew to resent more modern music. He could fill Carnegie Hall with music with just the sound of his violin and felt that using amplifiers was "cheating".
Long after he died his Stradivarius was put on display in the Metropolitan Museum where my trilingual mother was employed as a guide. It was called The Emperor because 200 years ago somebody named Bonaparte owned it. The "Hundred Greatest Violins" show was one of the museums biggest draws. There were lines 4 blocks long waiting to get in.
Anyway they had my mom stand by it. At one point she sighed and confided in a coworker, "For 15 years I told him not to leave that thing lying on the bed."
These days I am more into the music of his grandson, Jaron (named for me and him).
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Trashman
Trad climber
SLC
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Sep 22, 2017 - 06:51pm PT
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His(Julian's) music is even on Apple 's music service, quite the collection, have to check it out some time.
Thanks for the reminder(and vid of Merry, Ed). Great way to get a new perspective on an old favorite.
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