UGH: (on VH1's '7 Ages of Rock') David Fricke (Rolling Stone guru) just declared "Sympathy for the Devil" to be 'a blues' that's 'about the devil.' I mean, I suppose it's too much to expect him to contravene the usual rock-n-roll narrative by pointing out Jagger's drawing on Bulgakov, but man, the song is a samba first, moreso than a blues.
Kim, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong there.
Also, Roger Daltrey is not a valid source to articulate how revolutionary The Who were. Sorry.
UPDATE: Sweet fancy Moses, they're putting Pink Floyd, the Velvet Underground and David Bowie together. One of these things is not like the others...
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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