Gimme Shelter (1970)

Sonny Barger: Self

Quotes 

• Stefan Ponek : I think we've got one of the Hell's Angels on the line. Sonny Barger? Have I got that right, Sonny?

  Sonny Barger : Yeah.

  Stefan Ponek : Okay. What's up?

  Sonny Barger : I didn't go there to police nuthin', man! I ain't no cop! I ain't never pretended to be a cop and this Mick Jagger, like, put it all on the Angels, man. Like, he used us for dupes, man. And as far as I'm concerned, we were the biggest suckers for that idiot that I can ever see. And, you know what, they told me, if I could sit on the edge of the stage so nobody climbed over me, you know, I could drink beer until the show was over. And that's what I went there to do.

• Grace Slick : It's alright. It's kind of weird up here.

  Paul Kantner : Hey, man, I'd like to mention that the Hell's Angels just smashed Marty Balin in the face and knocked him out for a bit. I'd like to thank you for that.

  Grace Slick : There is - eh - other ways...

  Sonny Barger : Wait - is this on? If you talk to me, I'm gonna talk to you.

  Paul Kantner : I'm not talking to you. I'm talking to the people who hit my lead singer in the head.

  Sonny Barger : You're talking to my people. Let me tell you what's happening. You - is what's happening! Hey! Ho!

  [Hell's Angel's beating audience members with pool cues in front of the stage] 

  Grace Slick : No! No, stop it!

  Sonny Barger : You know what's happening?

• Sonny Barger : They started messin' over our bikes - they started it. I don't know if you think we pay $50 for them things or steal 'em or pay a lot for 'em or what. Ain't nobody gonna kick my motorcycle! And they might think that because they're in a crowd of 300,000 people, that they can do it and get away with it. But, when you're standing there, lookin' at something that's your life and everything you've got is invested in that thing and you love that thing better than you love anything in the world, and you see a guy kick it - you know who he is. You're gonna get 'em! And, you know what, they got - got!

• Sonny Barger : I am not no peace freak, by any sense of the word. And you can call them people flower children and this and that. Some of them people was loaded on some drugs. That it's just too bad we wasn't loaded on, because, they come runnin' off of the hill yellin': ahhh-ahhhh-ahhhh! You know and jump on somebody and it wasn't even always jumpin' on Angels. But, when they jumped on an Angel, they got hurt.