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In my last previous post here, had Rolling Stones song, "Sympathy for the Devil," and I've been wanting to write more about dictators and totalitarianism and how / why miscellaneous penny-ante crackpots such as Hitler, Mussolini, Saddam Hussein, bin Laden, and the like ever get into "Power" and manage to get a bunch of people killed on planet earth.

However, by Friday I'm generally a little too tired for dictators, so will have to work on that next week.

Meanwhile, an interesting discovery: when I look for Rolling Stones songs on You Tube I tend to gravitate toward original album cuts, or live performances from sixties and seventies -- I don't know, going back further feels like getting closer to the source, or something -- I seem to shy away from more recent performances.
But -- found this: if you're on Google, & type in "Sympathy..." song title and hit enter, two You Tube uploads are presented there -- the first one an album cut, and the second one reads, "The Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Devil (live) HQ" -- that one is
Not from either the Sixties or the Seventies,
and it is a
Great.
Performance.
Well worth viewing.
Uploaded by "MOROCKKO2"
One of the Comments says the performance is from 2007.

I think rock stars who've lasted that long carry with them a maturity and sensibility of -- "I'm fortunate to still be around and be able to do this, and to draw this audience who want to hear my music." It isn't chaotic / casual / somewhat drugged, as performances in 60s may have sometimes been. These people are Grown-Ups. And they're giving the Best Interpretation of the Song that they can come up with, using All Their Energy and, one can imagine, serious preparation and rehearsal.

Im - pressive.
Mick Jagger "acts" a song, similar to Tina Turner.

And like -- you can go back to a 1968 or 69 performance of this song in Hyde Park -- I saw that one and -- while I'm usually a person who says, or thinks, "Ooooh I wish I was born earlier so I could have BEEN THERE!" (I've had a nagging feeling my whole life that I was missing Something by not being old enough to really Live the 60s) -- still, watching the confusion etc. during that Hyde Park concert, if I'm being honest, have to admit it may have been better that I missed THAT particular show. Some freaky behavior. Yikes.
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