Photo that kinda looks like Robert Johnson, bidding starts at $795,000.00

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Or the fact that he probably had to hold that pose/rictus for quite a while. Potography was bit less efficient back then. It is a rather disturbing picture, though, yeah.

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

I stand corrected.

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

It's called BEING POSSESSED BY SATAN.

-- 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

Dude should get one of his buddies to start the bidding, so we can all see what this actually goes for.

― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 11 January 2007 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

There's an evil skull face on the wall above the guitar in that smiley photo.

― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:10 (seventeen years ago) link

it's a bit triangular, isn't it?

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

ph34r my drawing skillz

http://i1.tinypic.com/2qc1kit.gif

― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link

^^ just to show where I mean ^^

That there is Death on his shoulder.

― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I see another one on his other shoulder. It has timmy mallet/elton john type glasses, and a big smile...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i12.tinypic.com/2vni9mv.gif

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Yours can also be the almond-eyes-type grey alien head, if you squint a bit (but I can't to almond and alien headshapes in Paint)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

(you know, this one: http://galactic.to/azb9152a/grey_1.jpg)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link

No, the other shoulder. Right next to his hat!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link

That must be the real Satan, because I can't see him at all :-/

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link

You mean here?

http://i16.tinypic.com/309hshl.gif

― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:01 (seventeen years ago) link

The devil is in the details...

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:03 (seventeen years ago) link

This reminds me of all the weird things we used to spot in the hide of the camel in the old Camel cigarette boxes.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

WTF? Robert Johnson had a hellhound on his trail, not a fucking moose.

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

That's an evil satanic goat!

― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I just spotted the Virgin Mary on the left of the goat!

― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i10.tinypic.com/40danw0.gif

― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link

he's one haunted motherfucker

― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:12 (seventeen years ago) link

SMILING WITH FEAR.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link

hang on a bit...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Partial evil imp thing on left of Jesusmum

http://i14.tinypic.com/2gy4n5e.gif

― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

poor bastard never had a chance

― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:31 (seventeen years ago) link

OH NO!!!

http://i18.tinypic.com/4dfmof7.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/200701/robert_johnson.gif

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a big octopus/dr. zoidberg/tentacle mouth type thing with one big eye to the right, hanging off his guitar (headstock is in front of its forehead) but I'm too frightened to draw it :-(

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Lots of evil little eyes on his guitar next to his right hand

― onimo (onimo), Thursday, 11 January 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Bad decor is responsible for so much demonic evil its not funny.

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Thursday, 11 January 2007 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/353822848_c3c93ae9ab.jpg?v=0

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I stand corrected.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

This is one of my favourite all-time threads now!

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

OK just cause I've got to hear it now I'm throwing a few tunes into Audacity. I'll put a few slow versions up here in a few if anyone's curious.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

He'll probably sound like Muddy Waters...

― Alan Bean (Alan Bean), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

The grey alien:

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

(ok, the alien is the one Onimo first saw - sorry)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Can someone stick all of these on one picture? :-)

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

six years pass...

http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/admin/wp-content/uploads/robertjohnson.jpg
Third 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

seven years pass...

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

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