Sounds as good today as it did back in 1968. Can it really be 56 years? And the Stones had so much more to come in those 56 years too. Thanks Scott and Lee.
Both Mick and Keith are now in their 80s and still touring and releasing records. Just goes to show that, at 80 years of age, you may be too old to be President but you're never too old to rock n roll.
that is a mystery that needs more investigating... they've lived this long and they are still making quality music.... 6 decades of music? and still going? and the lyrics of this song together.... hmm.... lol
It’s a moot point whether they are still making quality music. The last album was terrible and there hasn’t been a really good one for a very long time.
I'd suggest going back and checking all the lyrics. They are brilliant and littered with historical references. The song will mean more to you and you'll appreciate the song even more. I bought the album when it first came out and I'm definitely not sick of hearing it. The sound of a great song is that it never grows old!
i bet this went over like a lead balloon to a certain group of folks back then lol i can only imagine the headlines. this is great. the stones are awesome.
Grew up with the Beatles and Stones. Liked the very early Stones, but with Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed I became a mega fan. Those two albums are just awesome.
And the string of greatness certainly did not end at Let it Bleed. Two more gems of equal or maybe even greater significance followed with Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street, both incorporating the stellar playing of Mick Taylor, by far the best lead guitarist the Stones ever had!
This is an ironic song, and a warning. The Devil is not a scary figure with horns and forked tail, he's a "man of wealth and grace". and he's with us every day. He urged the Romans and Israelis on when Jesus had his "moment of doubt and pain ", "rode a tank, held a general's rank" in the Nazi onslaught, ".when the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank". Mick is saying don't look too far away for him, he's all around us, encouraging every evil or callous act, and all too often he presents in a slick and attractive package;)
We live in strange times when people your age are listening to, appreciating, and realizing that the music made by people your grandparents or great-grandparents age is better than anything made in the last 45 years. I was fortunate enough to grow up during this musical renaissance.
Let It Bleed & Beggar’s Banquet albums are the best ! I’ve had those albums since they came out & treasure them 🔥🥰. Also another great Stone’s song is Route 66 🥰☮️🇨🇦 Thanks love watching your reactions to music that my generation has been blessed with 60’s 70’s !!
Sympathy for the Devil is a 6:30m history lesson. Wouldn't be surprised if any history or religion teachers or professors have ever used it as a jumping off point.
I've heard "Beggar's Banquet" countless times since the day it came out. I've never grown tired of it. This was the leadoff track - the whole album is fantastic.
He introduces himself in the song: "Just call me Lucifer 'Cause I'm in need of some restraint". It is just Lucifer introducing himself and remembering all his testifying throughout history
Mick Jagger will always be the definition of cool to me and I love the vibe and irony of some of their songs like this one. Apparently he stopped doing drugs in the late 70s, but his bad boy reputation persisted. Monkey Man is another great ironic song. Thanks for playing.
Some of the best music ever was created in the 60s and early 70s before record labels and promotors took over and suppressed the creative freedom the early bands had. By the late 70s record companies decided which song would be released as a single and get airplay, and that song is usually nowhere near the best the album has to offer. That's why it's so important to listen to the deep cuts, so many gems that you will never hear if you stick with the hits. By the end of the 70s, it became formula rock, and a lot of it sounds the same, also the focus became less on talent and more on promoting stadium concerts. There was still good music, but the creative freedom of the 60s and early 70s can't be beat.
Hard to believe I saw them sing this again this last May in Vegas and Seattle. Stage was lit up red, Mick coming out in a long jacket, great percussion. Awesomeness. My 1st time was in '75 and a few more in-between.
i'm glad you enjoy the channel, my friend.. i enjoy discovering all of this new music SO much... it has been a godsend for my head. the stuff i was listening to before this channel was keeping me in a depressing cycle... this era was the best for music.
I just listen to everything on CD. Fortunately I have CD players in my cars. I have never listened to the radio in my cars for the last 25 years. All garbage.
You missed the meaning of the song entirely. It's the Devil singing, narrating his presence throughout major disasters in history! Go back and listen carefully!
Good advice - this is written from Lucifer's point of view and you were talking over when his name was mentioned. It is worth giving it a listen and looking at the lyrics.
@@davidwalsh7128 yeah, that practice pretty much stopped at the end of the '60's. There were a few non-album singles by a few UK acts in the early ''70's, but for the most part it finished when the ''70's started.
Keith's best riff on all the Rolling Stones songs. Though, on the live version of the song from "Get yer ya yas out" he is equally as good. And the song of course one of the best ever, inspiration from "The Master and Margarita" by Michael Bulgakov.
As a few others have mentioned, two other great versions of this song that you want to check out are: 1) the live video version from The Rolling Stones' Rock & Roll Circus, which is nearly identical to the studio version, but has that live energy that sometimes gets lost in the studio. Also you get to see Nicky Hopkins playing piano, Rocky Dijon playing congas, Charlie playing the samba beat at the opening, and Mick going all-out in his performance. 2) the live audio version from Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, recorded at Madison Square Garden in late 1969. It's a more straight rock & roll version with great guitar solos from both Keith and Mick Taylor. Plus the whacked-out chick at the beginning who yells, "Paint It Black.......Paint It Black........Paint It Black, you devils!"
The great Nicky Hopkins, of course. He’s all over this album. Notice how the song is based on piano and bass, with drums and congas doing a bossa nova. Guitar is just solo and fills. This album is when they became The Rolling Stones. The Establishment had tried to crush them and failed, and they weren’t afraid anymore.
By this time they usually kept Brian Jones in a soundproof booth and pretended to record his efforts but actually just ignored him. It's sad to have a friend or someone close go off the deep end and you can't really help them. It happens and it's not a pleasant experience.
He was relegated to stoned maraca playing when they played the live version of this at the Dec. 1968 Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. He’d be thrown out of the group 6 months later for being too “drugged up” to get a visa when the band wanted to tour this album in 1969 and would be found dead in his swimming pool on July 3, 1969. He’d just bought the former house of the author of Winnie the Pooh in Nov. of 1968, the month before the Rock and Roll Circus.
I saw The Rolling Stones at the Syracuse Carrier Dome N.Y. in 1989, AWESOME show. After the show there was a light rain falling on all the ladies wearing their Stones Logo tongue/lips T-shirt and it became the biggest Wet-T-Shirt show with Mick’s lips licking most all the women. It was awesome. This song is a crowd favorite. I consider the Rolling Stones as the second greatest rock band of all time, only behind The Beatles.
I love the live version from "Get Yer Ya Yas Out" Gotta give it a listen. That whole live album is so good. Also check out the version from Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Mick is singing AS “the Devil” outlining historical events he instigated and was at, but also having the Devil indict US! “I shouted out Who killed the Kenndys, when after all it was YOU and me!”! So just lay low n be humble if u ever meet the devil or else risk being savaged!
Great reaction of a great song. Another great one is Midnight Rambler. There’s many great versions of MR but my favorite is the original one from the Let It Bleed album. The Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out version is also great.
what were your pre notions? In the 1960s they came right out of american blues (Muddy Waters, etc). Saw them 43 years ago, at a staduim in Phoenix, they seemed like they had been around for ever even then. Still doing stadiums. Underrated vocalist
Lee I think your first listen is caught up in the music… and I understand why! It’s awesome!! But in order to fully appreciate the song you really do need to look at the lyrics… the brilliance of this track is in the edgy point of view and the way the message is delivered. Provocative and sassy. In a way, it’s an “insider” point of view that encourages the listener to think and figure it out like a puzzle until he gets to the verse where he says “Call me Lucifer”…. This is Mick taking on the personae of the devil… Inspired from reading “The Master And Margarita” as only he can pull off. What they do best!!
Oh man….. you need to check out “Sympathy For The Devil Live” at the Rock & Roll Circus ! John Lennon & Yoko as well as members of The Who in the audience dancing to the Stones ! (Epic) you won’t be disappointed ❤️🔥🎸 also Eric Clapton & Mamas & Pappas members were there too (1968)
And don't forget the great version of John Lennon singing the Beatles song Yer Blues, with Eric on guitar, Keith on Bass and Mitch Mitchell (from Jimi Hendrix's band) playing drums.
"Mother's Little Helper" and "Streetfightin' Man" -- as long as you're on first albums, might as well include "She Comes in Colors". Back in the day, a lot of songs had melody and lyrics.
You should check out the live recording of this from “get yer ya yas out”. Same album/concert as the version of midnight rambler you reacted to. Great guitar solo’s from both Keith and Mick Taylor. The track sounds quite different live.
HIGH... I'd like to see you react to live performances from some of the legendary classic rock bands. I have seen over 300 shows since 1967. (70 years old) I have many bands/songs in Playlist you can pick from at my place. Have a Splendid Classic Rock Day
Altamont, a new music festival in Northern California, was the brainchild of the Rolling Stones, who hoped to cap off their U.S. tour in late 1969 with a concert that would be the West Coast equivalent of Woodstock, in both scale and spirit. Unlike Woodstock, however, which was the result of months of careful planning by a team of well-funded organizers, Altamont was a largely improvised affair that did not even have a definite venue arranged just days before the event. It was only on Thursday, December 4, 1969, that organizers settled on the Altamont Speedway location for a free concert that was by then scheduled to include Santana; the Jefferson Airplane; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; and the Grateful Dead, all in support of the headlining Stones. The event would also include, infamously, several dozen members the Hells Angels motorcycle gang acting as informal security staff in exchange for $500 worth of beer as a “gratuity.” It was dark by the time the concert’s next-to-last act, the Grateful Dead, was scheduled to appear. But the Dead had left the venue entirely out of concern for their safety when they learned that Jefferson Airplane singer Marty Balin had been knocked unconscious by one of the Hells Angels in a melee during his band’s performance. It was during the Rolling Stones’ set, however, that a 21-year-old Hells Angel named Alan Passaro stabbed a gun-wielding 18-year-old named Meredith Hunter to death just 20 feet in front of the stage where Mick Jagger was performing “Under My Thumb.” Unaware that someone had died, the Rolling Stones completed their set without further incident, bringing an end to a tumultuous day that also saw three accidental deaths and four live births. The killing of Meredith Hunter at Altamont was captured on film in Gimme Shelter, the documentary of the Stones’ 1969 tour by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, which opens with Jagger viewing the footage in an editing room several months later. In the years since, Jagger has not spoken publicly about the killing, for which Passaro was tried but acquitted on grounds of self-defense.
The Stones are legendary for reasons like this song. They are contemporaries of The Beatles. They had a harder edge than the Beatles especially in the early years, but they were friends, especially John and Mick. The Stones managed to stay together while The Beatles tenure was short-lived by comparison.
You got to listen to the Stones doing Heartbreaker or listen to my favorite Stones album, Their Satanic Majesties Request. That album was like the Stones answer to the Beatles’ Sargent Pepper.
If you're at all interested in rock history, you should watch the Gimme Shelter documentary sometime. It's about the Stones tour that culminated in Altamont. Took place at about this point in the Stones' career.
🌸 I think it helps if you're new to the song because it's so deep lyrically, to like read along with the lyrics it helped me when I was first trying to decipher the meaning of the song
He's singing the song Lee as the devil- take it first person, that that's the devil saying all those things in his lyrics A lot of historic events mentioned and the adversary is there orchestrating them according to the song.
Your commentary about the meaning of sympathy for the devil as a Christian was interesting. I'm Jewish and that whole understanding of the "devil' is so different. Thanks for sharing.
I appreciate the kind words. I’m not personally a Christian but I was raised in the church and studied many faiths. A lot of constants in every world religion. Some details are different or lost to the sands of time. Who knows. I know there is something greater then me directing things (I’ve seen it first hand) and I talk to it as much as I can. I don’t get answers back immediately but they do come eventually. Something out there is listening, I know that much. But I also know all of the BS behind religion and even worse , modern religion.
@@L33Reacts Thanks for your response. I meant you talked about being brought up in a Christian household and so are perhaps more familiar with certain Christian concepts than I am as someone with a Jewish upbringing. In any case, I still have the Beggar's Banquet album and this is great song!
Sounds as good today as it did back in 1968. Can it really be 56 years? And the Stones had so much more to come in those 56 years too. Thanks Scott and Lee.
Both Mick and Keith are now in their 80s and still touring and releasing records. Just goes to show that, at 80 years of age, you may be too old to be President but you're never too old to rock n roll.
"I'd rather be dead than to be 50 and still singing 'Satisfaction.'" Mick Jagger
" Rock stars over 50 shouldn't show their face"...Grace Slick
that is a mystery that needs more investigating... they've lived this long and they are still making quality music.... 6 decades of music? and still going? and the lyrics of this song together.... hmm.... lol
Mick actually turned 81 today 🤘
It’s a moot point whether they are still making quality music. The last album was terrible and there hasn’t been a really good one for a very long time.
I'd suggest going back and checking all the lyrics. They are brilliant and littered with historical references. The song will mean more to you and you'll appreciate the song even more. I bought the album when it first came out and I'm definitely not sick of hearing it. The sound of a great song is that it never grows old!
One of the best written and most provocative songs in the history of rock and roll, by the greatest band in the history of rock and roll IMHO!
i bet this went over like a lead balloon to a certain group of folks back then lol i can only imagine the headlines. this is great. the stones are awesome.
@@L33Reacts I’m sure it still goes over like a lead balloon to that group of people. The individuals may have changed but the group still exists.
Grew up with the Beatles and Stones. Liked the very early Stones, but with Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed I became a mega fan. Those two albums are just awesome.
And the string of greatness certainly did not end at Let it Bleed. Two more gems of equal or maybe even greater significance followed with Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street, both incorporating the stellar playing of Mick Taylor, by far the best lead guitarist the Stones ever had!
@@Gordy63 Roger that!👍
This is an ironic song, and a warning. The Devil is not a scary figure with horns and forked tail, he's a "man of wealth and grace". and he's with us every day. He urged the Romans and Israelis on when Jesus had his "moment of doubt and pain ", "rode a tank, held a general's rank" in the Nazi onslaught, ".when the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank". Mick is saying don't look too far away for him, he's all around us, encouraging every evil or callous act, and all too often he presents in a slick and attractive package;)
Bravo that's correct 💯
The live version on Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out is incredible.
We did a track from that album and it was NUTS . What a live album. I will keep that mind thank you
@@L33Reacts Mick Taylor’s solos on that track are blistering
Or rock and roll circus.
This has got to be one of the Stones most famous songs. .... still sounds so good
Happy birthday Mick. So happy I got to see you in concert. You will always be the bad boys of rock. ❤😊
No shit is it his birthday?? So many coincidences happen like that on the channel lol I had no idea
@@L33Reacts it's a sign. 😝👍
Always a highlight of their live shows
The tone of the guitar is so unique. Keith just killed it on that song. And Nicki's piano carries the song.
One of the best rock songs of all time!
The Devil's like "I wasn't even in Dallas that day!"
😂
We live in strange times when people your age are listening to, appreciating, and realizing that the music made by people your grandparents or great-grandparents age is better than anything made in the last 45 years. I was fortunate enough to grow up during this musical renaissance.
A live performance of this is a must Lee. Pure theatre and superb musical talent. It’s a real show - Micks movement
🌸 so today is Mick Jagger's 81st birthday
Whoa. Cool.
@@rk41gatorand he is still rocking concerts
Keith Richards actually laid the bass down on this one.
Let It Bleed & Beggar’s Banquet albums are the best ! I’ve had those albums since they came out & treasure them 🔥🥰. Also another great Stone’s song is Route 66 🥰☮️🇨🇦 Thanks love watching your reactions to music that my generation has been blessed with 60’s 70’s !!
YOU’RE IN FOR A TREAT!!
My favorite stones track!
p dub whats up bro. good to hear from you. yeah this shit was amazing lol i heard the intro before in movies but the rest... nah. amazing track
Sympathy for the Devil is a 6:30m history lesson. Wouldn't be surprised if any history or religion teachers or professors have ever used it as a jumping off point.
This song is mostly about Mick. The brilliant lyrics and one of his greatest vocal performances.
It is a massive track from what I think is probably their best album.
I've heard "Beggar's Banquet" countless times since the day it came out. I've never grown tired of it. This was the leadoff track - the whole album is fantastic.
love the way you react to my old music. same way we reacted to it when it first came out.
I love Bill Wyman's bass playing, but this was Keith on bass.
He introduces himself in the song: "Just call me Lucifer 'Cause I'm in need of some restraint". It is just Lucifer introducing himself and remembering all his testifying throughout history
Strongly recommend the live version on the Get Yer Ya Yas Out album.
I’ve actually done a track from that album… we are more then due for another
Happy Birthday Mick Jagger !!! 81 today!!!! Rock on dude!
You need to read the lyrics. This whole album is great.
Mick Jagger will always be the definition of cool to me and I love the vibe and irony of some of their songs like this one. Apparently he stopped doing drugs in the late 70s, but his bad boy reputation persisted. Monkey Man is another great ironic song. Thanks for playing.
Some of the best music ever was created in the 60s and early 70s before record labels and promotors took over and suppressed the creative freedom the early bands had. By the late 70s record companies decided which song would be released as a single and get airplay, and that song is usually nowhere near the best the album has to offer. That's why it's so important to listen to the deep cuts, so many gems that you will never hear if you stick with the hits. By the end of the 70s, it became formula rock, and a lot of it sounds the same, also the focus became less on talent and more on promoting stadium concerts. There was still good music, but the creative freedom of the 60s and early 70s can't be beat.
YES! Superb Stones track, that percussion is infectious. Keep up the great reactions Lee.
Hard to believe I saw them sing this again this last May in Vegas and Seattle. Stage was lit up red, Mick coming out in a long jacket, great percussion. Awesomeness. My 1st time was in '75 and a few more in-between.
They still got it aye?? That’s amazing to hear. I’d love to see them…
I miss the music our local rock station once played. I turn now to reactors like yourself to enjoy them. Thank you.
i'm glad you enjoy the channel, my friend.. i enjoy discovering all of this new music SO much... it has been a godsend for my head. the stuff i was listening to before this channel was keeping me in a depressing cycle... this era was the best for music.
I just listen to everything on CD. Fortunately I have CD players in my cars. I have never listened to the radio in my cars for the last 25 years. All garbage.
Love it, my favourite Stones album, still got mine👍
A history lesson and a statement on mankind all wrapped up in an incredible timeless song .
You missed the meaning of the song entirely. It's the Devil singing, narrating his presence throughout major disasters in history! Go back and listen carefully!
Good advice - this is written from Lucifer's point of view and you were talking over when his name was mentioned. It is worth giving it a listen and looking at the lyrics.
i literally talk about lucifer for 3 freakin minutes in the recap are you kidding me lol yall are wild
@@L33Reacts🌸 you're doing great, Lee..... just let it roll off your back, baby
Different people will hear different things on a first listen, and not necessarily what you want them to hear.
@@russallert True but the lyrics in this song come right out front with the meeting it’s not like it’s a Dylan song
Keith on bass in this one.
Belive it or not but that is keith tearing it up on the bass.
First song on the album that began their "Imperial Stage" (quote from British Rock journalist)...
Technically, the Stones imperial age began a few months earlier with the single release of "Jumpin' Jack Flash".
@@davescurry69 Would have been on Beggar's Banquet but for silly 60's British tradition of keeping singles released in same calendar year off albums.
@@davidwalsh7128 yeah, that practice pretty much stopped at the end of the '60's. There were a few non-album singles by a few UK acts in the early ''70's, but for the most part it finished when the ''70's started.
the rolling bones... greatest rock n roll band still rolling, Happy Birthday to Sir Mick Jagger!
Keith's best riff on all the Rolling Stones songs. Though, on the live version of the song from "Get yer ya yas out" he is equally as good. And the song of course one of the best ever, inspiration from "The Master and Margarita" by Michael Bulgakov.
His best lead. Best riff JJ Flash!
It actually wasn’t Bill Wyman who played bass, Keith Richards played bass as well as the scorching solo
One of my favourite Rolling Stones songs. Loved their stuff in the 60s and early 70s. Great.
This has always been my favorite RS tune. Classic.
As a few others have mentioned, two other great versions of this song that you want to check out are:
1) the live video version from The Rolling Stones' Rock & Roll Circus, which is nearly identical to the studio version, but has that live energy that sometimes gets lost in the studio. Also you get to see Nicky Hopkins playing piano, Rocky Dijon playing congas, Charlie playing the samba beat at the opening, and Mick going all-out in his performance.
2) the live audio version from Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, recorded at Madison Square Garden in late 1969. It's a more straight rock & roll version with great guitar solos from both Keith and Mick Taylor. Plus the whacked-out chick at the beginning who yells, "Paint It Black.......Paint It Black........Paint It Black, you devils!"
@@russallert And, still another would be at Hyde Park, when Mick Taylor joined. A bad performance, by then, at least, is almost non-existent
Obviously love this song. When Mick Taylor joined the band, he added one of his best solos Get Yer Ya Ya s out version
The great Nicky Hopkins, of course. He’s all over this album. Notice how the song is based on piano and bass, with drums and congas doing a bossa nova. Guitar is just solo and fills. This album is when they became The Rolling Stones. The Establishment had tried to crush them and failed, and they weren’t afraid anymore.
Keith plats the Bass on that number
By this time they usually kept Brian Jones in a soundproof booth and pretended to record his efforts but actually just ignored him. It's sad to have a friend or someone close go off the deep end and you can't really help them. It happens and it's not a pleasant experience.
He was relegated to stoned maraca playing when they played the live version of this at the Dec. 1968 Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. He’d be thrown out of the group 6 months later for being too “drugged up” to get a visa when the band wanted to tour this album in 1969 and would be found dead in his swimming pool on July 3, 1969. He’d just bought the former house of the author of Winnie the Pooh in Nov. of 1968, the month before the Rock and Roll Circus.
@@genegarrett3372 It's even more sad that, given the legendary substance abuse of Keith, et al, Brian is the one you didn't want your parents to meet.
I saw The Rolling Stones at the Syracuse Carrier Dome N.Y. in 1989, AWESOME show. After the show there was a light rain falling on all the ladies wearing their Stones Logo tongue/lips T-shirt and it became the biggest Wet-T-Shirt show with Mick’s lips licking most all the women. It was awesome. This song is a crowd favorite. I consider the Rolling Stones as the second greatest rock band of all time, only behind The Beatles.
Used to cover this one in my band.
Another fine classic !
There are 124 "woo woos" in the song.
So, 248 "woos"?
Influenced by "The Master and Marquerita " .
The point of the song is the devil saying he’s been around since the beginning of time and that he’s taking the blame for everything humans do now.
Happy birthday to Sir Mick Jagger who turns 81 today. React to Bite My Head Off with Paul McCartney on Bass
But you see that's why we have such a huge library of Great music and musicians. We can go back anytime we want.
There's footage of the band recording this (One to One)...Keith is indeed on bass...Bill is on shakers!
For some reason the album credits didn’t mention Keith doing it but if you go to the song page on wiki it has him. I guess someone was confused lol
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Priest would arrange his homily around this song which made us want to listen more closely
Now I’m playing my Hot Rocks vinyl.
Thanks a lot 😂😂😂
Brilliant and historically accurate lyrics.....Happy Birthday Mick! (7/26)
That stinging guitar as counterpoint to the vocal still gets me after all these years. I don't know why nobody ever seems to mention it.
Keith, along with his guitar, also played the bass on this (and many Stones recordings).
The Circus Concert starring the Stones is the best way to react to this song. Lennon and Yoko are in the audience!
I love the live version from "Get Yer Ya Yas Out" Gotta give it a listen. That whole live album is so good. Also check out the version from Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Stones at their best
My favorite versions of this are on Get Yer Ya Ya's Out and Rock and Roll Circus.
Mick Jaggers 81st Birthday Today BTW!! 🎂🎉🎈♥️
Wow really? I picked the perfect day to do this one then huh…. Coincidences are wild around here 😂😂
@@L33Reactsabsolutely ❤
Mick is singing AS “the Devil” outlining historical events he instigated and was at, but also having the Devil indict US! “I shouted out Who killed the Kenndys, when after all it was YOU and me!”!
So just lay low n be humble if u ever meet the devil or else risk being savaged!
Great reaction of a great song. Another great one is Midnight Rambler. There’s many great versions of MR but my favorite is the original one from the Let It Bleed album. The Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out version is also great.
Lee33 - Who knew 1968 was so cool...LOL I turned 23 that year - I'll be 79 in September!
a wonderful year for music. other things in the world not so much im guessing lol
This one still makes me get up and dance and I’m 72! 🔥
what were your pre notions? In the 1960s they came right out of american blues (Muddy Waters, etc). Saw them 43 years ago, at a staduim in Phoenix, they seemed like they had been around for ever even then. Still doing stadiums. Underrated vocalist
Lee I think your first listen is caught up in the music… and I understand why! It’s awesome!! But in order to fully appreciate the song you really do need to look at the lyrics… the brilliance of this track is in the edgy point of view and the way the message is delivered. Provocative and sassy. In a way, it’s an “insider” point of view that encourages the listener to think and figure it out like a puzzle until he gets to the verse where he says “Call me Lucifer”…. This is Mick taking on the personae of the devil… Inspired from reading “The Master And Margarita” as only he can pull off. What they do best!!
The bass was played by Keith Richards on this recording
@@jrsinsf it sure was. I didn’t find out till after the song was over lol
@@L33Reacts Rumor has it that Keith was underwhelmed by Wyman's skills
Oh man….. you need to check out “Sympathy For The Devil Live” at the Rock & Roll Circus ! John Lennon & Yoko as well as members of The Who in the audience dancing to the Stones ! (Epic) you won’t be disappointed ❤️🔥🎸 also Eric Clapton & Mamas & Pappas members were there too (1968)
And don't forget the great version of John Lennon singing the Beatles song Yer Blues, with Eric on guitar, Keith on Bass and Mitch Mitchell (from Jimi Hendrix's band) playing drums.
Jagger was pretending to be the devil in the lyrics.
"Mother's Little Helper" and "Streetfightin' Man" -- as long as you're on first albums, might as well include "She Comes in Colors". Back in the day, a lot of songs had melody and lyrics.
You should check out the live recording of this from “get yer ya yas out”. Same album/concert as the version of midnight rambler you reacted to. Great guitar solo’s from both Keith and Mick Taylor. The track sounds quite different live.
Brilliant - for a more psychedelic side to the Stones, try She’s a Rainbow or 2000 Light Years From Home 😊
HIGH... I'd like to see you react to live performances from some of the legendary classic rock bands. I have seen over 300 shows since 1967. (70 years old) I have many bands/songs in Playlist you can pick from at my place. Have a Splendid Classic Rock Day
I appreciate it! I’ll check it out my friend thank you
Altamont, a new music festival in Northern California, was the brainchild of the Rolling Stones, who hoped to cap off their U.S. tour in late 1969 with a concert that would be the West Coast equivalent of Woodstock, in both scale and spirit. Unlike Woodstock, however, which was the result of months of careful planning by a team of well-funded organizers, Altamont was a largely improvised affair that did not even have a definite venue arranged just days before the event.
It was only on Thursday, December 4, 1969, that organizers settled on the Altamont Speedway location for a free concert that was by then scheduled to include Santana; the Jefferson Airplane; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young; and the Grateful Dead, all in support of the headlining Stones. The event would also include, infamously, several dozen members the Hells Angels motorcycle gang acting as informal security staff in exchange for $500 worth of beer as a “gratuity.”
It was dark by the time the concert’s next-to-last act, the Grateful Dead, was scheduled to appear. But the Dead had left the venue entirely out of concern for their safety when they learned that Jefferson Airplane singer Marty Balin had been knocked unconscious by one of the Hells Angels in a melee during his band’s performance. It was during the Rolling Stones’ set, however, that a 21-year-old Hells Angel named Alan Passaro stabbed a gun-wielding 18-year-old named Meredith Hunter to death just 20 feet in front of the stage where Mick Jagger was performing “Under My Thumb.” Unaware that someone had died, the Rolling Stones completed their set without further incident, bringing an end to a tumultuous day that also saw three accidental deaths and four live births.
The killing of Meredith Hunter at Altamont was captured on film in Gimme Shelter, the documentary of the Stones’ 1969 tour by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, which opens with Jagger viewing the footage in an editing room several months later. In the years since, Jagger has not spoken publicly about the killing, for which Passaro was tried but acquitted on grounds of self-defense.
Yep, the devil is singing…..please allow me to introduce myself……Pretty deep song when you carefully listen to the lyrics.
Actually, that's Keith on bass.
The Stones are legendary for reasons like this song. They are contemporaries of The Beatles. They had a harder edge than the Beatles especially in the early years, but they were friends, especially John and Mick. The Stones managed to stay together while The Beatles tenure was short-lived by comparison.
"Jumpin Jack Flash" it's a gas
You got to listen to the Stones doing Heartbreaker or listen to my favorite Stones album, Their Satanic Majesties Request. That album was like the Stones answer to the Beatles’ Sargent Pepper.
One of their best. Dig that piano by Nicky Hopkins.
bass played by Keith Richards
If you're at all interested in rock history, you should watch the Gimme Shelter documentary sometime. It's about the Stones tour that culminated in Altamont. Took place at about this point in the Stones' career.
🖤🖤🖤 So if you meet me, have some courtesy
Have some sympathy and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I'll lay your soul to waste
Your biblical analysis is really compelling that was extremely interesting your take.❤
🌸 I think it helps if you're new to the song because it's so deep lyrically,
to like read along with the lyrics it helped me when I was first trying to decipher the meaning of the song
Have you played “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”? Has a boys choir in it and is a classic. And we are still the biggest fans.
In your new path you are appreciated more. Well done.
i appreciate that my friend thank you :)
He's singing the song Lee as the devil- take it first person, that that's the devil saying all those things in his lyrics A lot of historic events mentioned and the adversary is there orchestrating them according to the song.
i see that! thats so cool. interesting way to write lyrics and of course mcjagger knocks it out of the park.. thank you for another great pick scott!
Are you a movie buff? You can watch this movie on UA-cam. It was Michael Mann's first film, called "The Jericho Mile." It uses this song brilliantly.
Your commentary about the meaning of sympathy for the devil as a Christian was interesting. I'm Jewish and that whole understanding of the "devil' is so different. Thanks for sharing.
I appreciate the kind words. I’m not personally a Christian but I was raised in the church and studied many faiths. A lot of constants in every world religion. Some details are different or lost to the sands of time. Who knows. I know there is something greater then me directing things (I’ve seen it first hand) and I talk to it as much as I can. I don’t get answers back immediately but they do come eventually. Something out there is listening, I know that much. But I also know all of the BS behind religion and even worse , modern religion.
@@L33Reacts Thanks for your response. I meant you talked about being brought up in a Christian household and so are perhaps more familiar with certain Christian concepts than I am as someone with a Jewish upbringing.
In any case, I still have the Beggar's Banquet album and this is great song!
Album track only Lotta play on FM, not AM
Yup too many wimps only listen to top 40 garbage AM Radio same short bland songs every 15 mins