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Sat, 16 Oct 2010 17:51:12 +0000

[...] Urban Legend callback: “Sympathy for the Devil” is not the song that the Rolling Stones were playing when Meredith Hunter was killed as many Christian leaders tried to feed to America’s youth to prevent them from listening to their music. [...]

By: rpgibbs

rpgibbs — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:38:48 +0000

Hi, Brian. I’m a longtime reader of Comic Book Legends Revealed and I really enjoy your new columns here.
I have one for your next music column: I’ve been hearing a rumor that the popular Canadian art rock group Godspeed You! Black Emperor were arrested at a gas station in the Deep South of the United States because an employee thought they were terrorists. There’s not alot I can find about it and all I can find on it on Wikipedia is a paragraph with references to two newspaper articles which do not mention the band name, only that they’re a band from Canada. I’m wondering if you can go in depth about it (and find out if its true) in your next column.

By: worstblogever

worstblogever — Sat, 16 May 2009 08:07:22 +0000

I think I saw a documentary about the Rolling Stone concert, and it seemed like they tried, maybe four times to try and play through “Sympathy for the Devil”, and kept stopping, as Mick was pleading with the crowd (and the Hell’s Angels) to stop the violence.

The look on Mick and Keith’s face, when the camera crew filming the show plays back the footage in slow motion, showing the exact moment when you can see “security” pull out knives… Mick’s just crushed that this went on at a concert he tried putting on for free. It’s harrowing stuff.

By: E Blitz

E Blitz — Sat, 16 May 2009 00:52:05 +0000

I’ve always taken the American Pie lyric:

Oh, and as I watched him on the stage / my hands were clenched in fists of rage. No angel born in hell /could break that satan’s spell. And as the flames climbed high into the night, / to light the sacrificial rite / I saw Satan laughing with delight / the day the music died.

to be talking about Hendrix burning his guitar at (I think) the Monteray Pop Festival. I could be wrong since the song is totally open to interpretation, but that’s how I’ve always thought of it.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:38:35 +0000

Ah, I see what I did there – I wrote 1953 for Tiffany’s instead of Holiday. Thanks!

By: jefcon4

jefcon4 — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:04:41 +0000

Breakfast at Tiffany’s came out in 1961. Roman Holiday was in 1953. Thought you were off a bit so I Wiki’d it. I know it doesn’t affect the story of the song but hope it helps none theless.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:01:39 +0000

Ha!

Even after you pointed out that there was a typo, I didn’t see it at first!

Corrected now. Thanks!

By: OptimusShr

OptimusShr — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:10:07 +0000

“However, amusingly enough, lead singer and songwriter Todd David Pipes actually wrote the film about a DIFFERENT Audrey Hepburn film”

Bit of a typo there Brian.