Actually, the devil demonstrated considerable skill with his fiddle. Johnny himself admitted he was pretty good. This poster needs to read the Bible.
The story of the devil and the fiddle is not in the bible.
It’s from the song “the devil went down to Georgia” from Charles Daniels.
The song is quite popular so references to it in popular culture are common. But that’s all it is. A story
I actually like the devil’s breakdown better than Charlie Daniels, but music is subjective like that.
Yeah if you listen to the song the devil actually played a better song IMO, it always confused me how Johnny won.
The trick was actually that Johnny joined the competition in the first place. I reckon folks’ll get mighty suspicious and jealous when you’re lugging around a golden fiddle.
We hear about Johnny’s triumph, but I suspect that the story plays out in the devil’s favor afterwards. He just wanted to make sure that this fantastic fiddler was at the center of the mayhem - taking a musician meant to spread merriment and turning him into a tool for chaos, maybe even rending him from this mortal coil in the process.
He shows up in Oh Brother Where Art Thou doesn’t he?
Devil probably just wants to keep it interesting, it’s not exactly like the stakes were very high for the Devil
be Satan
immortal being
so bored 👿
challenge mortals to contests for their souls
give them stupid garbage as prizes
can’t even actually collect sold souls!
just hope they turn into arrogant, debaucherous assholes after “beating the devil”
plan successful 😈
inspired a few kickass rock songs too
Good enough for government work.
He was just trying to get rid of that awful solid gold fiddle. What’s the use of gold in hell?
I dunno why the robot devil specified “solid” gold-- the original song just said gold. You can make violins out of metal, so theoretically a gold one could work.
It would be really soft, so if you ever drop it, the sound would be completely wrecked.
Solid gold as opposed to gold plated.
