To anyone who has heard Tenacious D's "Tribute" to the Greatest Song in the World, and Charlie Daniels' "Devil Went Down to Georgia," you no doubt see the parallels between the two sung about incidents.
One thing that sucks big time for Jack and Kyle of Tenacious D in their encounter with the demon is that basically you have a couple of guys down on their luck, minding their own business, walking along a road. Then all of a sudden some sort of hell vortex opens and a demon appears and makes the request that the duo play him the greatest song in the world! Wow, is that all you want bro? The consequence for anything less than the greatest song in the world, if you believe their story, is that the demon will eat their souls. And you thought your band instructor was hard. Thankfully, Jack and Kyle are no lackies in the impromptu song department and managed to pull off the feat.
Contrast Jack and Kyle's encounter with Charlie Daniels' tale "Devil Went Down to Georgia." There the Devil is courteous enough to make the proposal - not a demand, mind you - that if Johnny is willing and can best him in a fiddle playing contest, Johnny will get a shiny fiddle made of gold. What's that go for on the market, 12 mil?
I'm going to go ahead and say that the demon needs to take a lesson in fairness from the Devil on this one. I'm not suggesting that the Devil making Faustian deals for mortals' souls is something that earns him a prize for decency. But at least Johnny was given the opportunity to control the destiny of his own soul. Deal or no deal? Johnny, being a significantly better fiddle player than me, and apparently more of a gambler, took the deal. But at least he made the choice. Personally, I would've been worried about who the judges were in such a contest. Music is a pretty subjective thing, after all. But I digress.
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