You guys should do a video on the voice actor for Wakko from The Animaniacs. He was sued by Def Leppard because they thought he stole their vocals. Turns out, he’s just an amazing impersonator and had to prove it in court.
Legend has it he sold his soul to the devil to play so well. I bet the devil's catch to the deal was that "yeah you'll be the best of all time, but no one will ever know you in your lifetime so you can't make any money off it."
@@bpwatcher2719 Crowley didn't become king of hell until around season 6, so he would still have been the king of the crossroads and would've had a great chance of making that deal with Robert Johnson
My dad loved, loved his music so I grew up listening to him Jesse Cook, Nitin Sawhney and Oliver Schroer. Oliver is another who can make a violin do things I've never heard done before.
He could play with his ring and pinky fingers smsimiltaniously with the other fingers it's hard to do but that was his technique similar to playing a banjo
My favorite weapon ever is cavaliere in dmc 5, its literally a demon motorcycle that also acts as two buzzsaws and the combos are smooth as hell, you can just spam or wait until it saws all the way through and your next attack has crazy sparks and blue lightning. The only downside is it is so op you can't finish a combo on anything but a boss
He supposedly sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads of hwys 49 and 61 in clarksdale ms. A few miles from my house, also roughly 5 miles from the childhood home of Muddy Waters
He was a poor black man in the south during one of the most segregated times of American history I mean he probably made it or at least structured it differently
Even though I'm 3 years too late, I figured someone would appreciate this bit: Portuguese guitarist Carlos Paredes was also know for playing in a way that sound like two people. So, in a way, Robert's legacy lived on!
I recently saw some kid sound like 2 separate guitars but it was just him. He also knocked his guitar for the drum sound at the same time. He was so good that Simon Cowell said that he had been waiting for someone to show expertise like that. But from what you see, it is 100% just that kid killing this guitar.
robert johnson was from the missisipi delta and had mentors like son house. The rumor that he sold his sold for guitar skills is that a big black man took his guitar tuned it and handed it back to him at midnight on the crossroads.
In voodoo culture the gatekeeper to hell that acts as a messager between the mortal plain and the underworld papa legba Is depicted as a large black man either finely dressed or wearing a straw hat smoking a pipe waits at a place called the crossroads in their faith. I just find it interesting the similarities.
He was born in Hazlehurst and died in Greenwood, Mississippi. There are some other things we know about him. He married an older woman who had a son named Robert Lockwood who was only 4 years younger and was pretty chill about Johnson putting his johnson in his mum and the they became friends. Lockwood lived to 91, so some of what we know might have come from him.
I knew you guys that sold his soul to the devil as soon as I saw the pic of the video.. ah Robert Johnson the man who gave his every lasting light just to be the best guitarist
the interesting thing about the way paganini played music in his grave, besides the obvious, is that according to legend he played everything backwards. you see he was de-composing
People had the same reaction to Chet Atkins' recordings: "Who's the other guitar player?" It's called fingerstyle playing. Players who master it play rhythm and melody at the same time.
If we're talking OP weapons, you have to mention the Tau Cannon from Half Life. I knew a couple kids growing up that would see you run by a window from across the map, charge the gun, time your running down the hallway and one shot you through the wall.
I mean he is kinda one of the greatest ever. When he could do what is still today seen as extremely difficult. And there was no one who could teach him how to do that. He had to figure out everything by himself.
ATOM K I agree he’s one of the greatest as a guitarist, but it was the whole package: singing, writing and playing that made him so amazing. Something happened to him that’s for sure, even supernatural.
Quinton Kirk I feel a hint of sarcasm, and that’s fine, but there’s something more you’re not getting from this. Many many people are good players and practice their asses of, but this is something different. You believe what you want, I hear it in the recordings. That doesn’t come from mere practicing, that’s beyond... Let me hear you have that feel and emotion and that otherworldliness from practicing. No bueno!
I had no idea who he was by name, I looked up him playing and remembered him from my History of Rock and Roll class. It was some of the first stuff we discussed and listened to.
Strange video game weapons and no mention of Ratchet and Clank especially the PS2 era ones. Known for bizarre weapon options. - the Groove a Tron, Chickenator (and variants) and Suck Cannon are among my favorites.
Accounts say the man couldn't play a lick then one day he turned up and was so amazing out of the blue. He went down to the crossroads and sold his soul. Before he died he he knew his time was coming to an end too. There are people who knew him that said he would talk about it but they didn't understand until after he was gone.
The dumbest video game weapon is the Fusion Sword used by Cloud from FFVII in the FFVII movie and the newer Square spin-off games. It is a ridiculous huge-ass sword assembled from six slightly smaller ridiculously huge swords...
Destroy all humans has a nice display of weird weaponry. I'm sad I don't have too much to add on the main story, just sounding like an idiot talking about video game weapons in such a good themed video
Preaching the blues up jumped the devil still my favorite song by Robert Johnson another theory of of his death was cyanide poisoning from a ex girlfriend who seen him with a different woman
Technically for a period of time he was 2 guitar players. He hooked up with a woman & ended up teaching that woman's son who after that period went by Robert jr. Lockwood. They would book multiple shows & Johnson would play one while Lockwood would play the other but both under Johnson's name.
They kind of used Johnson in O Brother Where Art Thou. Tommy, the character, is a direct nod at Johnson having sold his soul when the boys meet up with him at the crossroads, just before they all go sing and record their song at the radio station. It's a pretty straightforward reference too, except Tommy claimed the devil was a white man in that movie and he had gone there, to the crossroads that night, specifically to sell his soul for the ability to play the guitar. It's ironic since the "real" version of this story makes it sound like Johnson was duped into it, yet modern history tends to lean towards Johnson intentionally "selling his soul."
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando the little gun you cant get until after beating the campaign that shoots out the little blue furballs that you have to stop from eating the universe
@@ChristopherFonseka it turns out i may have just misremembered the game, im still searching but as of yet iv found nothing related to what i said, so my memory may be worse than i thought it was
It’s not that he was a monster technical shredder, it’s just that his music is really (really) hard to get your head around. It’s like he’s speaking another language. Paganini though, he’s easier to understand but absolutely brutal.
@@low-keyrighteous9575 by brutal, I don't mean the sound of the music, I mean playing it. There's hardly any time to breathe, you're just constantly up and down the neck, and stretching across the neck over four frets for harmonies, playing octaves and very fast runs in the melody. The music sounds beautiful and emotive, the hard thing is bringing that out on guitar, making the notes ring out, while actually working really hard and fast with your hands. You have to be gentle, but the pace is unrelenting. Like driving a F1 car. Brutal.
@@citizensnips2348 that made it a bit more comprehensible for someone like myself who may have held a guitar maybe 3 times total in my entire life . So basically what your saying is he was doing a whole lot with his hands and fingers by doing that he brought out a more in depth sort of sound ? Is that why they say he sold his soul ? Because they said he was somewhat horrible at the guitar and then he left , came back and was brilliant at it . Do you think it's strange someone who isn't good with guitars to maybe spend two years practicing and come out as good as this man was ? People say the amount of talent he had in the short of time span isn't possible , but if the man put in the work who is to say he couldn't have developed that talent within them 2 years ? Do you think there is some truth to him and the devil tuning his guitar at the crossroads ?
His story reminds me of the SNL skit where Garth Brooks wants to sell his soul to the devil to write a great song, so the devil appears played by Will Ferrell whose an awful musician but inspires the song anyways 😂
okay right, no one else will probably understand but as a scouser this video is the wackiest crossover I've ever seen. You're telling me that The Devil is Purpleaki
There was also a claim that he was poisoned by a jealous husband. I think there have been other guitarists who could do chords and riffs at the same time. Chet Atkins, I think, and Roy Clark both had been known to do some crazy shit. Perhaps I'm misremembering, but if neither of them could imitate Robert Johnson accurately, I'd have hard time thinking of anyone who could. I don't feel like digging in just now to find out...
Now, this isn't particularly insane, not is it in a videogame, but in a text adventure game, which is called lone wolf saga or Kai chronicles (can never remember which). And it's this sword called the sommersword. You get this at the end of the second book in a series with I think 16 books, and it's the best weapon in the game in all of them. It gives +8 attack and double damage to undead. Now, another sword, which your character is "reluctant to give up, as you have never handled a finer blade" gives +6 to attack. Also, some of the strongest enemies you fight in the game are undead, meaning the double damage is a massive buff. Also, this item has other properties, such as giving you get out of jail free card if someone attacks you with magic, because it can just absorb all of it, and insta killing certain encounters because it can just shoot holy Lazer beams of fire and destruction. It's so powerful, in later books they have to actively try and nerf the thing, such as in one encounter if you use it then you just get insta killed, and just by taking away the thing in as many scenarios as possible, because if you did have it it would just make everything a cake walk.
I mean the terms "shredding" and "mastering" are a little bit of hyperbole. Check you some Steve Vai.... That's Shredding and Mastering hehe. Watch the movie Crossroads. It's the same story as Robert Johnson and features him (kinda). Also stars The Karate Kid, Ralph Machio. It;s the best shit ever :)
It's an open tuning... and the dude finger picked the whole time... it's not a mystery or anything. nearly every single song has the same riff as well.
he was a horrible guitarist until one day he went to the crossroads and the devil was all like see at 27 Works cited: crossroads documentary on netflix
It's crazy that because he was black we have no idea about his life, nobody cared enough to document it. If Niccolo Paganini's entire life has several documentaries, and he was way before Robert, goes to show how shit racism has really fucked history.
He was an absolute rubbish guitar player until he met and was taught by a guy named Ike Zimmerman. Zimmerman died in the 1960's but as far as I know, nobody asked him about Johnson. Zimmerman never made any recordings, though he performed widely in Mississippi. His daughter has said some of his tunes were those of her father. The idea of Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil may have come from him having teaching sessions in a graveyard with Zimmerman.. The original guy who was supposed to have sold his soul to the devil was Tommy Johnson who used to drink Sterno also known as Canned Heat. It's where the band Canned Heat got their name from.
I mean he was cool and all but there are a lot of guitarists that have surpassed him in ability and could easily be mistaken for whole bands, if you actually listen to his music it's fairly simple compared to some modern songs.
But think about it; a man mastered the instrument in 2 years, my dude didnt really that much, or maybe even any advice of how to work a guitar, was able to play riffs and chords about the same time, and didn't really have any fame (until larer on) since he was in the early 20th century, where segregation is still huge. I gotta say, with all those hurdles, he really is a genius guitarist.
Been playing for 8 years and I can tell you shredding metal songs usually is technically easier than Robert Johnson because of his unique use of rhythm and finger picking chord progressions over solos WHILST singing. It ain't easy
You guys should do a video on the voice actor for Wakko from The Animaniacs.
He was sued by Def Leppard because they thought he stole their vocals.
Turns out, he’s just an amazing impersonator and had to prove it in court.
Thank you for adding to my deep reserve of wonderfully random facts. You Sir are a Scholar & a Gentleman
This has to happen.
That's crazy ... I grew up on that show
Legend has it he sold his soul to the devil to play so well. I bet the devil's catch to the deal was that "yeah you'll be the best of all time, but no one will ever know you in your lifetime so you can't make any money off it."
Brian Brock poor guy.
*Fiddle Intensifies*
At the crossroads. Never forget the legends say it was at a crossroads he met with the devil.
That concept was used in O Brother Where Art Thou!
Literally the plot for the supernatural episode that they showed a clip of
Sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads
probably Crowley, since Lucifer was in the cage
Game Night Crowley is king of hell hes not gonna waste his time he’ll send a lackey
@@bpwatcher2719 Crowley didn't become king of hell until around season 6, so he would still have been the king of the crossroads and would've had a great chance of making that deal with Robert Johnson
I was going to say that
@@quintonkirk285 its....a story..you dumb nut.
Even his song has that idea lol
“And as the owner of big Wagers incorporated”
Wonderful moment of using ones position of power
The most OP gun was in perfect dark for n64. It was a one shot kill, see through all walls, shoot through all walls, and auto target!!
My goodness, was the Farsight broken.
I forgot about that. God what a stupidly broken gun
I think you just forgot to remove hacks
@@sintraficusgeneralof5thbat922 it wasn't hacked lol.
My dad loved, loved his music so I grew up listening to him Jesse Cook, Nitin Sawhney and Oliver Schroer.
Oliver is another who can make a violin do things I've never heard done before.
I want to hear Robert Johnson play at doom's gate on a pimped out version of doof warrior's guitar
He could play with his ring and pinky fingers smsimiltaniously with the other fingers it's hard to do but that was his technique similar to playing a banjo
My favorite weapon ever is cavaliere in dmc 5, its literally a demon motorcycle that also acts as two buzzsaws and the combos are smooth as hell, you can just spam or wait until it saws all the way through and your next attack has crazy sparks and blue lightning. The only downside is it is so op you can't finish a combo on anything but a boss
He supposedly sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads of hwys 49 and 61 in clarksdale ms. A few miles from my house, also roughly 5 miles from the childhood home of Muddy Waters
I'm just telling you the legend. I don't believe he really did. Its just good for tourism
Theres a pretty good documentary on robert johnson on netflix.
@Viktor Magnusson devil at the crossroads
He was a poor black man in the south during one of the most segregated times of American history I mean he probably made it or at least structured it differently
Even though I'm 3 years too late, I figured someone would appreciate this bit:
Portuguese guitarist Carlos Paredes was also know for playing in a way that sound like two people.
So, in a way, Robert's legacy lived on!
I think bucket head would have been the best example of an anonymous artist
I recently saw some kid sound like 2 separate guitars but it was just him. He also knocked his guitar for the drum sound at the same time. He was so good that Simon Cowell said that he had been waiting for someone to show expertise like that. But from what you see, it is 100% just that kid killing this guitar.
robert johnson was from the missisipi delta and had mentors like son house. The rumor that he sold his sold for guitar skills is that a big black man took his guitar tuned it and handed it back to him at midnight on the crossroads.
A man selling his sold is very desperate, i can't even sell my sale.
In voodoo culture the gatekeeper to hell that acts as a messager between the mortal plain and the underworld papa legba Is depicted as a large black man either finely dressed or wearing a straw hat smoking a pipe waits at a place called the crossroads in their faith. I just find it interesting the similarities.
Anyone know which crossroads?
Asking for a friend...😁
He was born in Hazlehurst and died in Greenwood, Mississippi. There are some other things we know about him. He married an older woman who had a son named Robert Lockwood who was only 4 years younger and was pretty chill about Johnson putting his johnson in his mum and the they became friends. Lockwood lived to 91, so some of what we know might have come from him.
11:26 I love the dubstep gun
When a new video brings you back to give props to Brad. Nice job Brad with the drawing
I knew you guys that sold his soul to the devil as soon as I saw the pic of the video.. ah Robert Johnson the man who gave his every lasting light just to be the best guitarist
Check out Peter Green's album The Robert Johnson Songbook from 2003, probably one of the best modern day interpretations of Johnson's work.
Don’t forget my hommie Charlie Patton, who could throw his voice around well.
If anyone is interested probably his best know song is "Sweet Home Chicago" A pretty standard shuffle till you start to pay attention.
I don’t care what anyone thinks but Big Wagner’s inc is perfect for the simple fact it’s owned by Mr Smallwood...it’s just perfect
Oh i thought this is about a guy who went to the woods and returned with amazing guitar skills
the interesting thing about the way paganini played music in his grave, besides the obvious, is that according to legend he played everything backwards. you see he was de-composing
I love that yakuza t-shirt!!!
"I'm gonna sound like such a nerd.." Well yes.Thats what Im here for.
Good old Robert Johnson brings back some good memories
People had the same reaction to Chet Atkins' recordings: "Who's the other guitar player?"
It's called fingerstyle playing. Players who master it play rhythm and melody at the same time.
Remember when the devil gave fry his hands?
If we're talking OP weapons, you have to mention the Tau Cannon from Half Life. I knew a couple kids growing up that would see you run by a window from across the map, charge the gun, time your running down the hallway and one shot you through the wall.
I always preferred his vocals and lyrics more than his guitar playing. He definitely not the greatest guitarist, but he is the father of rock n’ roll.
I mean he is kinda one of the greatest ever. When he could do what is still today seen as extremely difficult. And there was no one who could teach him how to do that. He had to figure out everything by himself.
ATOM K I agree he’s one of the greatest as a guitarist, but it was the whole package: singing, writing and playing that made him so amazing. Something happened to him that’s for sure, even supernatural.
Quinton Kirk I feel a hint of sarcasm, and that’s fine, but there’s something more you’re not getting from this. Many many people are good players and practice their asses of, but this is something different. You believe what you want, I hear it in the recordings. That doesn’t come from mere practicing, that’s beyond... Let me hear you have that feel and emotion and that otherworldliness from practicing. No bueno!
I've heard the same kinda thing about people thinking 2 people playing when it was only one about Chet Atkins. J.
I had no idea who he was by name, I looked up him playing and remembered him from my History of Rock and Roll class. It was some of the first stuff we discussed and listened to.
If you're going to talk about weapons talk about the BFG-9000, from the original Doom.
Strange video game weapons and no mention of Ratchet and Clank especially the PS2 era ones. Known for bizarre weapon options. - the Groove a Tron, Chickenator (and variants) and Suck Cannon are among my favorites.
Accounts say the man couldn't play a lick then one day he turned up and was so amazing out of the blue.
He went down to the crossroads and sold his soul.
Before he died he he knew his time was coming to an end too. There are people who knew him that said he would talk about it but they didn't understand until after he was gone.
The dumbest video game weapon is the Fusion Sword used by Cloud from FFVII in the FFVII movie and the newer Square spin-off games. It is a ridiculous huge-ass sword assembled from six slightly smaller ridiculously huge swords...
"I wen;t down to the crossroads"
My dad works 24 hours, I get yelled at for plying my guitar too loud
Watch the crossroads from 1986 I believe it has Steve Vai and others it's a great movie about blues and selling your soul
Thanks, I'll definitely check that out, I remember really liking some of Steve Vai's stuff back in high school.
Also stars ralph maccio (karate kid / cobra kai)
Eugene's trickbag is to this day one of the best pieces of music I think I've heard
Mr. Giggles I think was the unicorn. In the South Park game you could piss in the snowballs.
As far as funny weapons not from a game but I really enjoyed the fact that the weapons were people in soul eater.
he sold his soul at the crossroads...
That Kiryu T shirt is awesome
I reckon Richards made a Faustian bargain too. His body has about 50 more years before it realizes it's dead.
is the guitarist from O brother where art thou based off of robert johnson?
Destroy all humans has a nice display of weird weaponry. I'm sad I don't have too much to add on the main story, just sounding like an idiot talking about video game weapons in such a good themed video
Preaching the blues up jumped the devil still my favorite song by Robert Johnson another theory of of his death was cyanide poisoning from a ex girlfriend who seen him with a different woman
I loved the south park game, I had it for N64. Gameplay was as good as goldeneye.
Technically for a period of time he was 2 guitar players. He hooked up with a woman & ended up teaching that woman's son who after that period went by Robert jr. Lockwood. They would book multiple shows & Johnson would play one while Lockwood would play the other but both under Johnson's name.
They kind of used Johnson in O Brother Where Art Thou. Tommy, the character, is a direct nod at Johnson having sold his soul when the boys meet up with him at the crossroads, just before they all go sing and record their song at the radio station. It's a pretty straightforward reference too, except Tommy claimed the devil was a white man in that movie and he had gone there, to the crossroads that night, specifically to sell his soul for the ability to play the guitar. It's ironic since the "real" version of this story makes it sound like Johnson was duped into it, yet modern history tends to lean towards Johnson intentionally "selling his soul."
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando the little gun you cant get until after beating the campaign that shoots out the little blue furballs that you have to stop from eating the universe
What gun is this?!
@@ChristopherFonseka it turns out i may have just misremembered the game, im still searching but as of yet iv found nothing related to what i said, so my memory may be worse than i thought it was
Imagine when Dante got the hat in devil may cry 5 and started dancing and nobody is watching
One of the first 27 club...and 22 20 is my favorite song
How do we not mention the dildo bat or the dubstep gun (upgraded) from Saints Row?
It’s not that he was a monster technical shredder, it’s just that his music is really (really) hard to get your head around. It’s like he’s speaking another language. Paganini though, he’s easier to understand but absolutely brutal.
Can you explain it more into detail, more about his music and what you mean by brutal ?
@@low-keyrighteous9575 by brutal, I don't mean the sound of the music, I mean playing it. There's hardly any time to breathe, you're just constantly up and down the neck, and stretching across the neck over four frets for harmonies, playing octaves and very fast runs in the melody.
The music sounds beautiful and emotive, the hard thing is bringing that out on guitar, making the notes ring out, while actually working really hard and fast with your hands. You have to be gentle, but the pace is unrelenting. Like driving a F1 car. Brutal.
@@citizensnips2348 that made it a bit more comprehensible for someone like myself who may have held a guitar maybe 3 times total in my entire life . So basically what your saying is he was doing a whole lot with his hands and fingers by doing that he brought out a more in depth sort of sound ? Is that why they say he sold his soul ? Because they said he was somewhat horrible at the guitar and then he left , came back and was brilliant at it . Do you think it's strange someone who isn't good with guitars to maybe spend two years practicing and come out as good as this man was ? People say the amount of talent he had in the short of time span isn't possible , but if the man put in the work who is to say he couldn't have developed that talent within them 2 years ? Do you think there is some truth to him and the devil tuning his guitar at the crossroads ?
5:51 So he was on some Rasengan shit
Turning foes into weapons... ERIS, GET OVER HERE!
His story reminds me of the SNL skit where Garth Brooks wants to sell his soul to the devil to write a great song, so the devil appears played by Will Ferrell whose an awful musician but inspires the song anyways 😂
Found a brad episode :D
Love the shirt
okay right, no one else will probably understand but as a scouser this video is the wackiest crossover I've ever seen. You're telling me that The Devil is Purpleaki
There was also a claim that he was poisoned by a jealous husband. I think there have been other guitarists who could do chords and riffs at the same time. Chet Atkins, I think, and Roy Clark both had been known to do some crazy shit. Perhaps I'm misremembering, but if neither of them could imitate Robert Johnson accurately, I'd have hard time thinking of anyone who could. I don't feel like digging in just now to find out...
Now, this isn't particularly insane, not is it in a videogame, but in a text adventure game, which is called lone wolf saga or Kai chronicles (can never remember which). And it's this sword called the sommersword. You get this at the end of the second book in a series with I think 16 books, and it's the best weapon in the game in all of them. It gives +8 attack and double damage to undead. Now, another sword, which your character is "reluctant to give up, as you have never handled a finer blade" gives +6 to attack. Also, some of the strongest enemies you fight in the game are undead, meaning the double damage is a massive buff. Also, this item has other properties, such as giving you get out of jail free card if someone attacks you with magic, because it can just absorb all of it, and insta killing certain encounters because it can just shoot holy Lazer beams of fire and destruction. It's so powerful, in later books they have to actively try and nerf the thing, such as in one encounter if you use it then you just get insta killed, and just by taking away the thing in as many scenarios as possible, because if you did have it it would just make everything a cake walk.
I played the South Park game alot. When it came out me and my friend sayed up all night playing it,
Mate, I need that shirt
I mean the terms "shredding" and "mastering" are a little bit of hyperbole. Check you some Steve Vai.... That's Shredding and Mastering hehe. Watch the movie Crossroads. It's the same story as Robert Johnson and features him (kinda). Also stars The Karate Kid, Ralph Machio. It;s the best shit ever :)
They might make a movie about him
hes johnny from devil went to goergia
How can they talk about Weird Guns in Gaming and not even mention Ratchet and Clank?
Is that a sippy cup?!
Buckethead has this title now.. amazing work.. Soothsayer check it out.
I f@cking LOVED the South Park game. Not many bring it up.
It's an open tuning... and the dude finger picked the whole time... it's not a mystery or anything. nearly every single song has the same riff as well.
didnt Rockstar recently add a character into Red Dead 2 Online inspired by Robert Johnson
My headteacher was a large black man. He once gave me a guitar to play. I didn’t. I now regret this
he was a horrible guitarist until one day he went to the crossroads and the devil was all like see at 27
Works cited: crossroads documentary on netflix
Good video but Robert Johnson’s devil didn’t give him the guitar he tuned his guitar
Why is it always the devil? Why is it never "Jesus touched him and then he could play like an angel"?
Nicole Paganini actually had to play in front of a priest twice or was it the pope?
He sold his soul to play the guitar
But have you Read the manga about it
Vincent van Gogh.
As if u didn't include destroy all humans at the end
is this guy the reason chuck berry wrote jonny b.good
I expected Lindsey Buckingham.
Me too!
What about buckethead tho
It's crazy that because he was black we have no idea about his life, nobody cared enough to document it. If Niccolo Paganini's entire life has several documentaries, and he was way before Robert, goes to show how shit racism has really fucked history.
He's the guy that sold his soul to the devil to be the best at guitar.
@@quintonkirk285 oh fuck off already! Go protest something, snowflake.
Have they done a video on the God-Emperor of Mankind yet?
29 songs and 2 pictures not 4 and 30
He was an absolute rubbish guitar player until he met and was taught by a guy named Ike Zimmerman. Zimmerman died in the 1960's but as far as I know, nobody asked him about Johnson. Zimmerman never made any recordings, though he performed widely in Mississippi. His daughter has said some of his tunes were those of her father. The idea of Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil may have come from him having teaching sessions in a graveyard with Zimmerman..
The original guy who was supposed to have sold his soul to the devil was Tommy Johnson who used to drink Sterno also known as Canned Heat. It's where the band Canned Heat got their name from.
One man a one devil😈
Call him cotton eye joe because
where'd he come from? where'd he go?
I mean he was cool and all but there are a lot of guitarists that have surpassed him in ability and could easily be mistaken for whole bands, if you actually listen to his music it's fairly simple compared to some modern songs.
But think about it; a man mastered the instrument in 2 years, my dude didnt really that much, or maybe even any advice of how to work a guitar, was able to play riffs and chords about the same time, and didn't really have any fame (until larer on) since he was in the early 20th century, where segregation is still huge. I gotta say, with all those hurdles, he really is a genius guitarist.
Been playing for 8 years and I can tell you shredding metal songs usually is technically easier than Robert Johnson because of his unique use of rhythm and finger picking chord progressions over solos WHILST singing. It ain't easy
Not to mention, it had never been done before.
Is it because he was black? 😅😉
Americans were not exactly raising people like him up when he was alive.
Cool
Lul
:)