You Can't Always Get What You Want
What:
You Can't Always Get What You Want: My life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and other wonderful reprobates
When:
Sam Cutler talks at Theatreworks, 14 Acland St, St Kilda on Sat Nov 8, doors 8pm
How much:
Around $35 for the book
Tickets to the talk $20 +BF from here
"The Rolling Stones free concert is finally going to happen tomorrow at the Altamont Speedway... Apparently it's one of the most difficult things in the world to give a free concert." You can hear the smarmy radio guy being smarmy about this San Francisco show in the trailer to the Maysles brothers' Gimme Shelter. Then you can hear another smarmy radio guy being smarmy after the concert because four people were killed including someone who was stabbed the death in front of the stage by a Hells Angel.
Well, it's all very easy to criticise when you're an acid freak 1969 Frisco radio host isn't it? But you weren't there. Sometimes I like to project myself into these scenarios and think things like, "Now, without a doubt I would have talked Mick out of the Altamont show soon as we realised the Grateful Dead's manager was an old preacher with high pants."
Sam Cutler's new book, You Can't Always Get What You Want, has poured ample fuel onto the fires of my rock management fantasies. He was actually the Rolling Stones' tour manager in 1969 and, as his book points out, he did a fine job. From punching the promoter in Oakland to getting the band out of Alabama in a snow storm. (Also, he was actually born in a crossfire hurricane.)
Format: Book
Motivation: Good with a whiskey in the bath
Keywords: the rolling stones, Rock
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