{"id":7706,"date":"2011-06-22T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=7706"},"modified":"2011-06-21T21:35:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T01:35:38","slug":"last-man-standing-sympathy-for-%e2%80%9csympathy-for-the-devil%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-sympathy-for-%e2%80%9csympathy-for-the-devil%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Sympathy for \u201cSympathy for the Devil\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Courtesy of Townsman geo.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Despite certain folks\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/takin-it-to-the-main-stage-lemgbeggars-b\/\" target=\"_blank\">reservations regarding the\u00a0status of <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/takin-it-to-the-main-stage-lemgbeggars-b\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beggars Banquet<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/takin-it-to-the-main-stage-lemgbeggars-b\/\" target=\"_blank\"> in the Stones&#8217; canon<\/a>, none would dispute the archetypal nature of its lead-off track, &#8220;Sympathy for the Devil.&#8221; After coming across a number of songs with a knowing wink back to the Stone\u2019s original, I&#8217;ve been thinking of putting together a mix of nuggets that mine this particular seam of classic rock gold: the descending chord sequence, the mutated Bo-Diddley\/Rhumba backbeat, the Jack Daniels fueled \u201coo-ooos\u201d, or anything else that constitutes an unambiguous reference to the original. I\u2019m certain that in the collective mind of the RTH cognoscenti, we could locate dozens, certainly enough to fill an 80 minute CD. Let\u2019s start with \u201cWay Down Now,\u201d by <strong>World Party<\/strong>.<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/02-Way-Down-Now.mp3|titles=World Party, &#8220;Way Down Now&#8221;]\n<p>Who will be the Last Man Standing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Townsman geo. Despite certain folks\u2019 reservations regarding the\u00a0status of Beggars Banquet in the Stones&#8217; canon, none would dispute the archetypal nature of its lead-off track, &#8220;Sympathy for the Devil.&#8221; After coming across a number of songs with a knowing wink back to the Stone\u2019s original, I&#8217;ve been thinking of putting together a mix <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-sympathy-for-%e2%80%9csympathy-for-the-devil%e2%80%9d\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}