Talk:Gimme Shelter

Michel Gondry
The award-winning director Michel Gondry made a video of GIMME SHELTER in 1998. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.140.144.97 (talk) 19:40, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Cover Versions
Tom Jones did a cover of this song as well. I don't have the reference here with me, but it should be easy to find. It is to be found, at least, on a 4 disc compilation of Tom Jones songs. It might have been a song he recorded with a "contemporary" band after the "Tom Jones revival" if I may call it like that, in which case it might already be listed here. I'm not sure whom he would have recorded this with if he did. 71.222.209.98 06:22, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

An absolutely superb version of Gimme Shelter was made by acoustic guitar player Michael Hedges (1953-1997) on the album Strings Of Steel (1993).

I would like this to be added to the list of cover versions.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges http://www.nomadland.com/Strings_of_Steel.htm

Tasuketai 20:47, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Needs a disambiguation note for people looking for the rockumentary here. Pipedreambomb 22:00, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

The page currently states that Ann Wilson covered Gimme Shelter on her solo album Hope & Glory, but this simply not true. There is, however, a live version on YouTube with vocals from her bass player in 1995. This is the only Ann Wilson version of this song I know of, and information stating otherwise should be deleted. Gypsywitch13 (talk) 01:44, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Hello everybody, I have no idea why a certain subculture is always left unmentioned when it comes to the topic of cover songs. Anyway, Impulse Manslaughter from Chicago, Illionois did a rendition of the song on their 1989 album 'Logical End'. See http://www.discogs.com/Impulse-Manslaughter-Logical-End/release/1031879 (track 4) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M561_YUvnsE

All best from Germany, Theo — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.130.224.182 (talk) 18:02, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

Lyrics
Who keeps deleting the link to the lyrics? And why, exactly? I'd like a good reason, because personally, I think lyrics are a pretty relevant and useful thing to have when it comes to songs.

Arsmith, 11:53, 14 December 2006 (UTC)


 * If you go back a couple of edits in the History of the article, you'll see that I deleted them last, with an explanation. i.e. that the link was dead and may well have been a copyvio in any case. I can see that the current link is live but the question of its status remains. Wikipedia has a hard-and-fast policy on reprinting entire song lyrics in an article, i.e. you don't do it (snippets are fine to illustrate a point, just as if you were quoting from a book in an essay or review). The question of linking to sites which reprint the lyrics and themselves may be in copyright violation is still debated - at the moment the consensus seems to be that it's okay to link to such sites as long as there's no clear evidence that the copyright owner is actively trying to have them removed - a bit wishy-washy IMO (see WP:SONG and discussion on its Talk Page). Personally I agree with you that linking to lyrics is useful for a song article, but the fact remains that most lyrics are copyright and are reproduced on the net without regard. Cheers, Ian Rose 00:18, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Altamont Free Concert
I would like a section added about the Altamont Free Concert disaster, which I understand was the topic of this song.

--Hippiepunkpirate 18:35, 26 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Uh, since the song had already been released when the concert took place, I think you'll find Altamont had nothing to do with the song's conception; rather they took the name of the documentary on the concert from the title of the song. Cheers, Ian Rose 23:11, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

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The plot of this song
Gimme Shelter might be about disasters, like killing, war and storms. 201.116.29.242 (talk) 17:12, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Might and is. Described already.--Figure19 (talk) 18:33, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Eliminating the "pop culture" section
in accordance with the proposal here. Stan weller (talk) 07:05, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

The Departed
Wasn't this featured in The Departed? That's a pretty notable fact given how successful that movie was. 208.253.155.193 (talk) 19:24, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
 * The song is featured in almost every Scorcese movie, see . Besides, there is a list of other movies where it was used, I think it's a good basement for "In Art" chapter, after checking. --Figure19 (talk) 18:35, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Solo guitarist?
Hi, I think the article should mention who played the guitar solo. Was it Keith Richards, Ry Cooder, Brian Jones, or Mick Taylor? Thanks for the info. 206.168.224.66 (talk) 17:24, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Which of the guitar solos? The original song includes some, and latter iterations features all the list. --Figure19 (talk) 18:33, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

Keys
Any musicologist know which keys it uses? I'd like to know. Tsinfandel (talk) 14:45, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

1998 Music Video
There is a 1998 music video directed by Michel Gondry, but there doesn't seem to be much about it in the article. -Mardus (talk) 21:27, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Turns out that Brad Renfro played in the video. (IMDb) -Mardus (talk) 22:59, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

I've added information about the music video, but the section needs more work, because it's very difficult to find a review of the video with a combination of the following keywords:. Gondry was the director of the video. -Mardus (talk) 00:13, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

Contested deletion
This template should not be speedy deleted as not being usefully employed and being either a substantial duplicate or hardcoded instance of another template, because if it weren't for this wikipedia page, I wouldn't be able to do my project. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2606:A000:FC0C:DA00:7D53:C83F:DE5B:39AF (talk) 03:36, 8 May 2017 (UTC)