They're Red Hot 1936 - ROBERT JOHNSON (Ragtime Blues Guitar Legend)

[KRxN11]

The one of a kind HRH Robert Johnson, without whom the world would be culturally and musically and linguistically idiomatically impoverished. Every once in a blue moon, the Creator sends us an angel to show us the way, the modus operandi, le maniere a fait. The musical lexicon he authored is so exponential as to be incalculable. krxn11

[saintfan07UK]

love this song! everyone pretty much knows the story of the crossroads so the picture that features in this video is a little creepy if you look closely at the top of the guitar anyone else notice the face?

[daddygreenjeens]

this song makes me do the Charleston

[ENEMENCIO123VISION]

666

[cifuentesricardo90]

Look I love rhcp version but try didn't write it at all maybe they went back in time or something I dunno but this version is way to slow :(

[TheGojira84]

@cifuentesricardo90 does every song have to be fast? this is actually on of Robert Johnsons fastest songs too.

[AndreasC81]

RHCP has a record called Under the Covers which includes this song by Robert Johnson. Just search Wikipedia if you don't know about Robert Johnson.

[xxxnickrhxxx]

@AndreasC81 The Chili peppers cover this song on blood sugar sexmagik

[AndreasC81]

Everybody who doesn't know about Robert Johnson, shame on you. He was one of the originators of Blues- music and has inspired virtually every blues-guitarist after, Eric Clapton being obe of them.

RHCP didn't write this, they covered it. Fire is another cover by them, it was originally written by Jimi Hendrix, also Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder along with a whole bunch of others.

[RumbleFiish]

rhcp did this first ;D

[DeathMetalTim32]

Tosin Abasi all the sudden makes so much more sense..

[tholian1515]

Flesh your trippin!

[caesarcerf]

indeed. that's about AS hot as tamales can possibly get!

[waysup605]

I love that vintage sound.. This. Is perfect. Thank you.

[FleshHungryFiend]

pathetic cover of an exquisite RHCP song......this shit sounds like its 80 years old

[pescadomaligno]

@FleshHungryFiend i fucking love you dude :D

[bram07021993]

@FleshHungryFiend I think and I hope you are kiddin :P

[perjamesbond]

@FleshHungryFiend troll detected XD

[rockandopera]

@FleshHungryFiend you're kiddin, don't you?

[FleshHungryFiend]

@rockandopera I'm not kidding bro. Who's this Robert Johnson mah fucka? Nigga be recordin' dis shit on a dollar store voice recorder to make it sound old thus manufacturing the illusion that he wrote the song? Hell naw nigga. Da red hot pepperz wrote dissssssssss shit!

[inkwellsfolly]

@FleshHungryFiend come on man you must be joking this song has been around long before any of the red hot chili peppers were swimming around in there fathers ball sake!Robert Johnson is a legend the red hot chili peppers are not and never will be even close to the status of Robert Johnson! I'm sure if any of the peppers read your comment they would tell you themselves how absurd it is.

[CremLaCrem]

@inkwellsfolly let's not get ahead of ourselves

[inkwellsfolly]

@CremLaCrem yeah ok man your right,I guess in 100 years people will be saying "the red hot chili peppers are the corner stone of rock music and the bed rock of which the music of today was built,Robert who?Robert Johnson?Who the hell is Robert Johnson?"

LOL

[FadedSTEELERSfan]

@inkwellsfolly lol i can't believe people are arguing that RHCP wrote this , i love and play rhcp and hendrix , and i know that they covered songs and this was one of them . there is nothing wrong with covering a song but damn people are dumb

[FadedSTEELERSfan]

@inkwellsfolly but wait you just said RHCP will never robert , that may be true but thats because they became so much bigger than him 100 years from now they will remember flea before robert johnson and you know that ain't too bad . 

[therunningtap]

@FleshHungryFiend i lol'd

[caesarcerf]

it is a great song, he is playing very well - and yes, the intro proves Johnson could play other than Blues style very well.

... No he did NOT write this song.

[Leonisthehunter]

@caesarcerf I think you'll find he DID write it. It's been covered a few times over the years but it's definitely his originally.

[ConcreteElevators]

whats he saying?

[8mile2010]

this guy fucked up the end of blood sugar sex magik.. damn

[ratstompmusic]

this is the best music there is! if you love raw blues you might like Rat Stomp :)

youtube.com/user/ratstompmusic

Our song Reckless Woman and Searching the Forest have a Delta blues style with slide guitar and fingerpicking

[MusicOfIan]

Thumps up if you here because of loaded

[LionheartMachinima]

Sale, Manchester?

[TheAmAzInGReeffe]

Loaded anyone ?

[AnAmazingForehand]

Clean.

[SwamiEpstein]

Man, this song has been covered by so many artists. Says a lot, doesn't it?

[daisleyj]

You are stupid , a complete fuckwit.

[siddey1]

@MikeLamb24 That nearly made me piss myself, I swear XD

[sichi11]

oh fucking great

[MikeLamb24]

This is good, but this dude just ripped off the Chili Peppers. They did this song on their album Blood Sugar Sex Magic. Don't get me wrong, this is good for a rip off though I think

[gogogadgetspoon]

@MikeLamb24 trololololol

[Tttribe1]

@MikeLamb24

I just fell off my chair :D

[guitarmasta718]

@MikeLamb24 ..... get your facts right.....

[guitarmasta718]

@MikeLamb24 im sure RHCP wernt around in 1930's

[Rosadoh]

@MikeLamb24 your a fucking idiot.

[balisticpenguin]

@MikeLamb24 Great job making yourself look like a total dick, hahaha.

[waluigithecool2]

@MikeLamb24

Laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh.

[demondude323]

@MikeLamb24 motherofgod.....

[washogskinz]

I've seen this style of music called "Hokum". While not pure 100 Percent Delta Blues like "Malted Milk", It does use the Rag chord progressions. Compare this to Arlo Gutherie "Alice's Restaurant". What say you?

[Poetaster7Movement]

Judge by the results.日本よ、東北よ、僕らは、そんなに弱くないから­。

[entombedns]

Cual serán más ricos? Los tamales de Chincha o los tamales de la tierra del gran Robert?

[WalecznyChasyd]

Might seem simple but I always fuck the rhythm up. 13/8 according to Wikipedia. The chords are fairly easy to play but when you turn ton he metronome usually something

doesn't match..

[TehChuckeh]

@WalecznyChasyd Definitely not 13/8

[jlhyz2]

@WalecznyChasyd it's in 4/4 but it's fast. You can count it in 4/4

[SpMeKP]

Blast from the past.

[yeahyeahyaha2]

BSSM

_Robert is awfullless

[LaetAngustia]

Questo pezzo è formidabile!

LaetAngustia ha un post su Robert Johnson...

visitate il nostro canale...

[ozzyhead73]

it is a little different than his other recordings so i can understand why some people dont think this is him, but i think when he talks in between the verses it sounds like him from his other recordings! great song!! all modern rock n roll comes from robert johnson and his blues contemparies!!! this music will be around hundreds of years from now!! timeless!!!

[beno2367]

chili peppers! woot!

[DeathLeftHid]

@beno2367 This is the Original, RHCP just did a cover.

[buffalobilly]

there are still historians who think this is not Robert Johnson cause it's so different than his other recordings

[polymath7]

@buffalobilly Those "historians" are idiots.

"...it's so different from his other recordings"

His other recordings consist of a mere twenty-eight songs. This is the only of his extant twenty-nine that is in 4/4 time. And?

To draw such a conclusion conclude from such a small sample size, on the basis of mere tempo, is both musical and inductive idiocy.

This not so very *different* from his other recordings, it's faster.

[1stHokageSama]

@polymath7 actually Robert Johnson was a master of playing many different styles of music including ragtime and country slide guitar. Its only in his 1936 recordings that he mostly plays delta blues style. When he was a travelling musician he would mostly sing the pop songs of his time for money much like buskers of today sing songs people know not their own composed songs. So yes he was a master of ragtime blues that's what his contemporaries would have known him for playing when he performed

[TheAngryCommentsGuy]

Probably the simplest Johnson song.

[suckmynose000]

@TheAngryCommentsGuy Simple is best.

[PopppaBlue59]

@TheAngryCommentsGuy Want to see it look really difficult? Watch me play.....

[TheOnewcomb]

they got the tune for Super Mario from the first few seconds

[halfsloppy7371]

This song blew my mind when I first heard it at 11.

[shinyrobotblues]

Too bad the recording quality was so undeveloped at the time...

[thenenini]

how can you dislike this?

[camthemancan]

I played this for my 1st daughter, many years ago and she loved it! It was a sweet thing to hear her tell me me to to play the "red hot"......man time flies. I will never forget her singing and dancing to this song!!!

[proudy97]

I'm 13, I know what music is, THIS is music. Robert is a legend!

[INSULINxJUNKIE]

@proudy97 There are other types of music than this... For instance their is cannible corpse.

[Hawgrox]

"I'm gon' upset your backbone put your kidneys to sleep, breakaway your liver and dare your heart to beat."

Now those are some HOT tamales!

[ghettobelmontes]

mmmm.... TAMALES.

[basketball4344]

funny



[4l4ddin77]

i've heard people say..."robert johnson is so overrated, hes only as popular as he is because of the devil legend. and he bit from other blues artists." Naw. i look at it this way. robert johnson is the embodiment of the blues. his songs bear the marks all the blues artists that came before him. blind willie, son house, charley patton, etc.. he was a blues child paying homage to the music that raised him. also, i consider roberts tunes to be some of the BEST fuckin' songs ever written.

[RogerRabbit94]

is this the guy who was said to sell his soul at the cross roads?

[xSoilderx]

What the hell are tamales? xD

[juansirs]

@xSoilderx a delicious food

[BluesTheDark]

This song is played in the ragtime style. He was a blues legend, doesn't mean he never played anything but... Absolute genius.

[Floipster]

You all gotta watch the RHCP version of this, it's MAAAAAAAAAAD!!!! This song really does sound like the Beatles' Her Majesty.

[BinkyTheRabbit]

@Floipster That's where I came from! It really is Crazy! I'm liking this one too. Blues is where it all started.

[tuulenkoti]

@Floipster i think youll find the beatles sounds like this.

[junegoiste]

this is like Her Majesty (Beatles)

[Gilligan346]

This is undeniable ragtime. Johnson could do it all. Doesn't this sound sped up to you?

[mcchuba3315]

This song makes me happy.

[austink1227]

He is a amazing guitarist he and Jimmy died at 27 along with Kurt Cobain

[tolosup]

@austink1227 yeah and Jim morrison and Janet Joplin

[zdragonforce]

@tolosup  and Brian Jones :)

[k0stil]

@austink1227

and Jimi Hendrix

[Brinah]

@austink1227 wow strychnine poisoning

[WeRockHard3211]

omg this rocks! i gotta cover it!

[fat8622]

this usally isn't my kind of music, but this is awsome

[XxtinctionxX]

red hot chilli pepers version is funny lol

[TheRudyGutierrez]

Thank you RHCP! Cuz of you I discovered this amazing musician!

[JacquelineGaertner]

happy 99th birthday!!!!!!, too bad he didnt get to live till' this day...

[jmfr030201]

@JacquelineGaertner but he is living on through his music, so basically as long as his music keeps playing, he shall never die

[vanbasten1988]

R.h.c.p. Rulez!!!.

I eat some tamales in some sundays.

Tamal with bread and coffee hmmm!!! yummy yummy!!!!

[1999californication]

Lol RHCP version from BSSM is much way way way way way better

[thirtycakes]

@1999californication woahhhh i love RHCP but.. please get off of the internet and never come back.

[J4rcig4L]

I love RHCP.. but I agree with thirtycakes, get off the internet. Without Robert Jackson, They're Red Hot by RHCP would not exist.. so please STFU, Robert is awesome..

[ToxicWerewolf]

He sold his soul to the devil and in return, was made the best guitarist in the world at the time. He died in 1938 at the age of 27 because his soul was due. RIP Robert Johnson.

[Probov]

It's a nice mith, but i met a guy who learn't from a blues man who was thier when johnson first walked into a club and played, he was rubbish. Truth is he walked of deep into the delta and sat down at the door of a old blues man to rest, he took him in and tought him a little. He carried on and just learn't little by little of the really old origanl guys hanging about at the time. Johnson came back to the bright lights and ripped it up, old school but with his twist, sweet...

[RedCrayon45]

@ToxicWerewolf

Tommy Johnson, another badass blues legend, was the originator of the story about selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Robert Johnson pretty much copied the story but with greater success.

[MrMudneck]

well i know whrere i am goinmg when we invent time maschines hahah

[Floipster]

Genius! But He's not fucking Ragtime.

[Rolandvids]

@Floipster sure it got a ragtime hot dog circus kinda flavour get your hot dogs popcorn hot dogs pocorn why so mad brother its just music get your hot dogs popcorn peace check out roland duguay playing guitar all buyhimself with a cigarettte in his mouth just like robert johnson all buy himself and guess what he doent own a robert johnson record als checkout rolanvids peace brother

[cojago88]

@Floipster i think somebody is on their ragtime

[kassemir]

@Floipster well on this particular song he uses a Ragtime chord progression, but no for the most part he was a blues player blessed by the Devil =)

[yukikoforevernoise]

@Floipster Most of the really early Blues like this is in a Ragtime style because Ragtime influence EVERYTHING during this era, even classical music, so when people say Rag-Blues or something like this it is probably a bit more accurate than just saying Blues because Blues can mean a lot of things. A lot of good things and, unfortunately, a lot of bad things too.

[FFC159]

@Floipster no his general style wasn't ragtime. But this particular piece IS ragtime style.

[savagerabbit]

@Floipster

This song IS ragtime.

[TheOneartist]

@Floipster It's a ragtime chord progression, man. Calm down. It shows Robert Johnson had variety and was able to have fun.

[DanFindling]

@Floipster he doesnt play ragtime but that song is a ragtime blues one

[coach10brown]

@Floipster, how would he be ragtime? he isn't blues or jazz either. he plays blues, and in this case, as previously pointed out, ragtime blues.

[PhoenixMacabre]

@Floipster Apparently he is ragtime, just listen for yourself... Fucking duh... Just because you are a blues artist doesn't mean you can't play in other styles. Or are you to closed-minded to hear it??

[webusecom]

@Floipster calm down almost every mississippi blues recording of that time has ragtime elements

[Freethinker12341]

@Floipster ahha i thinks its amazing, you're right tho he's not ragtime, but its ironically one of his best songs i think

[jackmaster3000]

Robert Johnson vs. Leadbelly PLACE BETS NAO!

[Danman917]

Go away you

[jofussdean]

Great song

[CKblad]

i heard his mother had sex with the devil and hes a love child of that. oh and ermm hes got a macker penis ;P...

but sick song.

[NoriokoTheMagicSkunk]

Easy to learn the chords for this and play it to a satisfactory level.

But to play it like Johnson plays it, so cleanly and at that Tempo aswell as singing at the same time is only possible if you've played guitar for about 40 years.

Awesome musician, songwriter and singer.

[MrMudneck]

or if you go around playing guitar while your outside walking from town to town practicing.

[ShipperS7]

Unless, of course, you're Robert Johnson. Or John Frusciante.

[Pentagonshark666]

f*cking awesome,a true legend,

a big talent,of making music.

our time tresure of music.

[acousticelectricdude]

just amazing.

[Charlllz]

LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

[Yngblaz]

Everytime I hear this I can't help but tap my foot like a madman, love the chord progression and strumming style on this one. Those Hot Tomalies must have been damn Hot! haha

[dearmalika]

Esta musica hace revivir a los muertos!

Es fantastica!

[MexicanoINC]

This guy has the ultimate rock star legend! Supposed he sold his soul to the Devil so he could be the greatest blues guitarist who ever lived. That is a perfect way to be remembered.

[PewPewKaboosh]

"Hot tamales and they're red hot, yes she got'em for sale"

[MrMudneck]

she sleeps in the kitchen with her feet sin the hall. hahah what a great lyric.

[johnsilverlargo]

really outstanding video!

[famoussOne]

this is awsome!!!

[RagtimeDorianHenry]

pure ragtime-blues