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Thread #102685   Message #2083126
Posted By: GUEST,reggie miles
21-Jun-07 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Robert Johnson/'devil' in picture?
Subject: RE: Folklore: Robert Johnson/'devil' in picture?
Nice lookin' Gibson he's posed with. Does that mean Gibson guitars are of the Devil? (cue scary music and wolf howling in background) Or do you simply have to sell your soul to the Devil to be able to afford one? Maybe the Dark Lord himself works for Gibson.

That Lloyd Loar character who worked for Gibson was kind of a strange fellow. And just how did he manage to tweak their instruments to make them sound better? Maybe he was infusing evil spirits directly into them and forcing them to enslave every owner of every Gibson instrument!

He was a saw player too! Here's an picture of his personal instrument case. See his saw in the lid? Lloyd Loar's musical saw
That seals it for me. Anyone that wields the eerie timbre of the unruly blade betwixt their knees to create that kind of spooky sound is either the Devil himself or one of his evil minions. Just take a look at the blank, lifeless, haunted expression on the poor face of Marlene Dietrich Yup, you know she's been possessed by the same terrible demonic saw spirit as Lyoyd.

More findings to support this...if you add up all of the numbers of the numerical positions of the letters in the name Gibson as they fall in the alphabet G-7, I-9, B-2, S-19, O-15, N-14, 7+9+2+19+15+14 it equals 66 I think we're onto something here. (cue scary music, wolf howling in background, lightning flashing, and thunder claps crashing).

I suppose their new catch phrase might be, "Get Possessed! Get Gibson!" Or, "Can thousands of possessed souls be wrong? Buy Gibson!" How about, "Want to play like the Devil? Need a Hellhound on your trail? Pros know the Devil's in the detail! Why settle for anything less than full demonic possession? Every Gibson guitar purchase is fully guaranteed to include your very own personal demon or hellhound. Make your mark on the enclosed contract and return it promptly."