― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jim M (jmcgaw), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Johnson's recorded work has become more widely heard since the Columbia double CD release. Some musicians have opined that the recordings run too fast. Johnson mainly used open tunings like open A and open E, and often used a capo to change the pitch of the song. This means that some passages would be played very high upon the neck of the guitar, which would make them very difficult to execute, or in some cases impossible to play at all (for example, the intro of "Walkin' Blues, which should be played on the 16th fret of a 12-fret-to-the-body-guitar). Some passages of Johnson's guitar playing sound constrained and not natural to the modern ear (as modern music would sound when it is sped up), and some of his vocals sound out of tune and robotic. When Johnson's music is slowed down (one article even suggests slowing it down as much as 20%), Johnson's music sounds more natural, his guitar sounds warmer and fuller and more in line with other recordings from the late 1930's. His voice becomes more expressive although it loses some of Johnson's trademark emotional "whine". Speeding up recorded music is common in popular music, as it makes music sound fresher and it adds punch and energy.
Is there a consensus on whether or not the recordings are speeded up? Has anyone ever heard them slowed down? This might remove the "Oliver Hardy" similarity Marcello mentions (but then it wouldn't sound like Robert Johnson :/ ).
― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
(TOP work!)
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo (onimo), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh fuck no, I've just twigged:
http://www.matadorrecords.com/images/matmos/matmosmedieval.jpg
(Drew, I am so so so so sorry)
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
(I can expect to hear from the Lincoln University library within a week then?)
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
rofl
― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
The photo of Johnson smiling is so fucking scary. Like he's not human or something. He's tensed up to an unearthly degree, there's that manic grin but his eyes look as if they're trying to look inside himself. His physical positioning is odd, like there's several different actions competing to be performed.
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.deltahaze.com/johnson/ :
http://www.deltahaze.com/johnson/johnson03.gif
Update- This photo is now debunked! The film rumored to feature Johnson is not him after all....
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYXDi5YxfbA
it's just someone shaking a camera over that picture!
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― the table is the table (treesessplode), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― ruby louise cunefare (maliciouslogic), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link
It's called BEING POSSESSED BY SATAN.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― the table is the table (treesessplode), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link
The shaky pic at 12 seconds is not Johnson. There are only 2 confirmed photos of Johnson and no video footage.
no video footage, oh well ; (
― ‘•’u (gear), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link
No, I don't think so. He was possessed by Satan. Besides, potography was just as efficient then as it is now. The reason there's so few potographs of Johnson is because his image didn't show up on the card most of the time, due to his possession.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Pleasant Plains /// (pleasant.plain...), January 10th, 2007.
Uh, what the hell are you talking about? Are you RETARDED?
He was NOT "POSSESSED BY SATAN". You'd have to be a cretin to think that.
He SOLD HIS SOUL to SATAN. That's very different. This also explains all the features I was talking about. Satan, however would leave him alone until his time came, at which point he would dragged down into the feiry pit of brimstone for ETERNITY.
Srsly, don't make shit up.
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 11 January 2007 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link
OMG, it's Moses!
http://images.southparkstudios.com/media/images/309/309_big_mo.gif
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:19 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i1.tinypic.com/2qc1kit.gif
― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link
That there is Death on his shoulder.
― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i16.tinypic.com/309hshl.gif
― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i14.tinypic.com/2gy4n5e.gif
― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i18.tinypic.com/4dfmof7.jpg
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Thursday, 11 January 2007 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, and 10-1.
WTF? Robert Johnson had a hellhound on his trail, not a fucking moose.
-- NickB (nic...), January 11th, 2007.
― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alan Bean (Alan Bean), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i14.tinypic.com/4grb85y.gif
Chtulu:
http://i14.tinypic.com/3ymzfap.gif
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/admin/wp-content/uploads/robertjohnson.jpgThird photo of Johnson surfaces — posing with Johnny Shines. http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/news-robert-johnson-third-photo-restored-by-getty-images.html
― Jazzbo, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
I remember when that VF piece ran. This restoration - I mean it really doesn't matter if it's RJ in the picture or not (seems definitely to be him, though), this is an incredible photograph. Shines's suit is A+ fuckin awesome and the expression on RJ's face is so young and beautiful. There's just...there seems a lot of feeling is this picture, to me.
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 1 February 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
liquid fingers
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 1 February 2013 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/05/exclusive-first-look-at-new-photograph-of-blues-legend-robert-johnson
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 21 May 2020 16:21 (three years ago) link