Talk:The Devil Went Down To Newport

Thanks to mitcharf at Everthing2.com for composer info. --M. Fudd 22:47, 12 Dec 2005 (EST)

Hehe. I guess tmbw is Wikipedia now. Look at the description. [1] --Valerie 09:50, 9 Jun 2006 (MDT)

Looks like the youtube link is dead. Lucretius

Thankfully on a solo album, never has the devil sounded so unrock and roll in his life. If the Giants are the shitty beatles, this song is the equivalent of Lennon's luck of the Irish and McCartney's Mary had a little album. Terribly weak never has the lyrics "totally rocking" been anything but. Amazingly released as a single! (Mr Tuck)

The title is a take-off on The Devil Went Down to Georgia. The lyrics depict a surfing match between The Devil and The Lord. With rock 'n' roll in the background, they surf to comete for souls. God is finally able to trick The Devil by challenging him to hang ten: he is unable to do it, because his cloven feet only have four toes. --Pandastan 18:43, 16 Jan 2006 (EST)

Flans's guitar

Anybody know what happened to that guitar used in the video? I haven't seen it in anything recent and it looks really cool. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 01:44, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Jimmy Fallon?

Is that Jimmy Fallon waving at the camera? It looks like him, but mind you, the quality to this vid on google is kinda crappy. --dunklekuh81

Erm. Maybe Fallon looked different in the mid-90s, but I don't think it's him there. ~ magbatz

The Newport In Question

Was there ever any confirmation that this song actually IS about Newport Beach in California? That seems like baseless speculation to me, without any sort of citation to back it up. Newport, RI has a reasonable amount of surfing spots and also seems like it'd fit in more with the New England-centric nature of the group that originally wrote the song.