#sam cutler

[hearmeknocking]

RECORD MIRROR. January 31, 1970

A lot of us insist on blaming The Rolling Stones for the tragedies that took place at the huge free concert. Mick testified that the Stones could not accept all the blame.

"Some people always have to pin the blame on others and it might as well be us, I suppose—but we just can't accept it. We were all in Alabama when the thing was organised by the same officials that have always organised San Francisco's free concerts. We wanted to be there to do all the planning ourselves, but that wasn't possible, so it was left in good hands. All we wanted was a great free day for everyone to have fun so the tour would end on a good note. The trouble is that people haven't learned quite the large yet. I wonder what would have happened if one of us was injured instead, I think we'd received far less criticism.

Some things were wrong with the layout of the show. We didn't need three hundred Hell's Angels to get boozed up before the show and then act as a security force. I guess you need some form of security, but when you bring in an army, that's the end."

[omg-hellgirl]

The human riff [Keith Richards] possessed the ability to fall asleep in any position anywhere and at any time, but once in a while he had nightmares.

Sam Cutler, You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones.

[moonlightmile12]

“Mick and Keith decided that they would live at the Stills house with me, and that initial rehearsals would be held in the place’s converted basement...Mick Jagger decided that Mick Taylor should live with us; he was new and needed a paternal eye kept on him".

Sam Cutler

[krispyweiss]

Sam Cutler, Former Tour Manager for the Stones and the Dead, Dies at 80

Sam Cutler, the former tour manager who worked for the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead, died July 11.

Cutler was 80 and had had cancer for “nearly a decade,” his family said.

“Many people from across our big, beautiful world crossed paths with Sam in his life, and many more formed timeless memories with him that are each beautiful encapsulations of the man that he was,” Cutler’s family said.

“Sam would want nothing more for his friends to continue to form timeless memories with whomever they meet, and to share those memories with him in the next life.”

Cutler tour managed the Stones through the disastrous 1969 concert at Altamont. He then joined the Dead’s organization, where he remained through 1974.

Though she met Cutler in 1969, Dead-family member Rosie McGee didn’t become friends with the “unique and complicated man” until 40 years later.

“I guess neither of us were what the other thought we were; and when our mature selves sat down and had a conversation, we found friendship,” McGee said in a statement.

“Rest in peace, power and wisdom, dear Sam Cutler. Many are thinking of you today, with love.”

Cutler, who dropped out of the music business, moved to Australia and became an author and a Buddhist, is featured in the films “Gimme Shelter” and “Long Strange Trip.”

“R.I.P. Sam Cutler - you were one of a kind,” former New Riders of the Purple Sage guitarist Michael Falzarano wrote on social media.

“You will be missed and remembered for all the wonderful and impossible things you did.”

7/14/23

[bluesrocknrollinstones]

Photos by Ethan Russell

[midnitcafe]

Life on the road for former Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead tour manager

Former Rolling Stones tour manager Sam Cutler left behind a life of massive hedonism to follow his dreams.

[austinkleon]

Some good bits from manager Sam Cutler in the Grateful Dead documentary Long Strange Trip. Check out his memoir, You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates.

[omg-hellgirl]

Mick told me he remembered being on tour in Australia, when they were all at Bondi beach, and Brian had swum so far out to sea that no one could see him. Brian was a strong swimmer, and it was simply inconceivable that he could have drowned in his own pool.

Sam Cutler, You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones.