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[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also, the Devil accepted defeat despite the fact that there were no judges to determine the winner.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Johnny was just so good that even the devil couldn't challenge it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Johnny is the best that ever was.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Actually, the devil demonstrated considerable skill with his fiddle. Johnny himself admitted he was pretty good. This poster needs to read the Bible.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I actually like the devil's breakdown better than Charlie Daniels, but music is subjective like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

steve ouimette has a fucking sick metal cover he did for guitar hero 3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah if you listen to the song the devil actually played a better song IMO, it always confused me how Johnny won.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I think the devil lost on purpose; the devil gets Johnny's soul by making him commit the sin of pride, not by winning the competition.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

Whatchu mean your Bible ain't got the Gospel accordin' to Charlie? You one of them freaky-deaky Catlicks? Come on down to the First United International Church of the Resurrection of the Lost Cause and we'uns gonna show you how to praise the Lord CORRECTLY!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I think the "read the bible" was kind of a shot at evangelicals that say that shit all the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Well one good story deserves another.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

The fiddle itself is a handicap too, gold is an awful material for an instrument.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Book of John, for those curious /s

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He was just trying to get rid of that awful solid gold fiddle. What’s the use of gold in hell?

[–] [email protected] 71 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Liquid, plasma and gas are even worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

After the diamond industry goes under maybe debeers'll start pushing the plasma gold wedding ring

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

We already do. You'd know if you weren't so poor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It would be really soft, so if you ever drop it, the sound would be completely wrecked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (5 children)

and it would be heavy as fuck. if you held it by the neck it would probably bend. and you couldn't tension the strings.

probably a pretty shitty fiddy

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No way, devil won that shit hands down

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He used a full band! That's cause for disqualification.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Johnny didn't read the fine print

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We’re not even sure Johnny could read.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I can't find the full bit, but John Oliver is on team devil. ~hes not playing power chords, he brought a live band, his chorus is even better!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=673VdjXHWGs

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

Johnny committed the sin of Pride when he said that he's the best, and the sin of Greed when he coveted that gold fiddle.

The Devil got what he wanted as soon as Jonny accepted the bet.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall"

Lucifer was cast out due to pride.

Johnny said, "Devil, just come on back if you ever wanna try again I done told you once, you son of a bitch, I'm the best there's ever been"

The devil didn't lose, not in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Traded his soul for a golden fiddle and the right to say he beat the devil in a fiddlin' contest. Pretty cheap, as souls go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

"Oh no, you beat me, whatever shall I do! Anyway, see you in a few decades. Enjoy your earthly possession while you can!"

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Devil probably just wants to keep it interesting, it's not exactly like the stakes were very high for the Devil

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I would like to subscribe to your blog

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Good guy satan: Gives people knowledge and then acknowledges when they're better than him at something.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hmm, so I'm basically Satan as a parent when I give my kids compliments? I guess it's time to get a pitchfork and make it official.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

That's... kinda the whole point. If the devil challenged me to a writing-your-name-in-the-snow contest, I might try it. If he challenged me to Fortnite, I'd just laugh at him.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The devil lost because he was using a fiddle made of gold.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But this way he gets your soul plus kage as a bitch

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

At this point, he can have JB

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I mean with all the souls he's been through I figure he's just having fun with it at this point. Why not a fiddle contest? Maybe the next soul I'll do a doodle contest!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Good enough for government work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Not even a band of demons can quite fully hide the inferior shredding on that fiddle faddle.

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