Giving him a golden fiddle (that probably sounds bad) cursed his soul with greed
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gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 6 hours agoI’m pretty sure that CDB meant for the Devil’s solo to sound discordant and unmemorable. What I hear though sounds aggressive, passionate, and daring compared to Johnny’s “safe” catchy, melodic solo. Also they gave Johnny a call-and-response with vocalists so I’m not gonna hold the Devil’s backup band against him. Johnny was probably meant to be mocking the Devil by playing the same walkdown at the end, or maybe he just copied it. Either way the Devil gave up that contest way to easily.
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otacon239@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Given the Devil’s history, he really should have had him sign a legally binding (and easily misinterpreted) contract in blood and he would have had it easy.
Carl@anarchist.nexus 56 minutes ago
You’re correct about the first part. The intent was for the devil’s part to be technically correct, but discordant and forgettable.
The call and response was because they were references to other famous tunes. Fire On The Mountain was an old folk tune. House Of The Rising Sun was an old folk tune. Etc… They were meant to be familiar and melodic snippets that people from his area would recognize, to contrast the devil’s forgettable solo.