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#2 Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones
Keith Richards: it "started as sort of a folk song with acoustics, and ended up as a kind of mad samba, with me playing bass and overdubbing the guitar later. That's why I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned beforehand."
Reported fascination with Aleister Crowley lead to this samba with the dark one year after their album Satanic Majesties Request. Many connect this song to the death of Brian Jones and the concert at Altamont, where Hell's Angels working security beat several people senseless and then stabbed to death 18-year-old Meredith Hunter.
Marianne Faithfull who was part of the chorus that sang 'Whoo whoo' on the song was among those who believed that Jagger and the Stones unleashed dark forces on the world. "That frenzied power caused many of the casualties of the '60s,".
The line, "And I laid traps for troubadours who get killed before they reach Bombay" possibly refers to the notorious Thuggee cult, who worshiped Kali, the Hindu goddess of death.
Jagger had written “Sympathy” as “sort of like a Bob Dylan song”, he told Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner in 1995. But during recording, guitarist Keith Richards suggested its trademark samba beat. Jagger said this had “a tremendous hypnotic power… because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.”
Keith Richards: it "started as sort of a folk song with acoustics, and ended up as a kind of mad samba, with me playing bass and overdubbing the guitar later. That's why I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned beforehand."
Reported fascination with Aleister Crowley lead to this samba with the dark one year after their album Satanic Majesties Request. Many connect this song to the death of Brian Jones and the concert at Altamont, where Hell's Angels working security beat several people senseless and then stabbed to death 18-year-old Meredith Hunter.
Marianne Faithfull who was part of the chorus that sang 'Whoo whoo' on the song was among those who believed that Jagger and the Stones unleashed dark forces on the world. "That frenzied power caused many of the casualties of the '60s,".
The line, "And I laid traps for troubadours who get killed before they reach Bombay" possibly refers to the notorious Thuggee cult, who worshiped Kali, the Hindu goddess of death.
Jagger had written “Sympathy” as “sort of like a Bob Dylan song”, he told Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner in 1995. But during recording, guitarist Keith Richards suggested its trademark samba beat. Jagger said this had “a tremendous hypnotic power… because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.”
