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Black Betty doesn’t ask permission.
She arrives loud, fast, and impossible to ignore—raw power wrapped in black, built to turn heads and leave everything else in the rearview.
Some legends are remembered.
Black Betty makes sure you never forget.
— Diablo Cipher
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This little sweetie showed up today, I'm calling her Elizabeth ❤️ #Rollei35S #BlackBetty
**New Signal Detected**
The Cipher Collective Podcast just dropped a new **Signal** — and this one hits like a runaway engine.
⚡ **Black Betty — decoded.**
Diablo Cipher takes a legendary riff and runs it through a modern amplifier: harder drums, darker tone, and the kind of raw momentum that refuses to sit still. This episode breaks down the signal behind the track.
#CipherCollective #DiabloCipher #BlackBetty #SignalPodcast #RockSignal #DecodeTheSignal
@youranoncentral.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiCEVl_9-MM
white supremacist are dreaming of old times. #blackbetty
Mentally, I woke up singing Ram Jam's version of Black Betty. https://song.link/us/i/216088341
...But...but why?
Ram Jam's Black Betty seems to be blowing up on TikTok among Gen Z types. The first time I heard it was in the late 1970s. I was in a chalet après-ski. While that might sound "bourgie", I grew up in Quebec and like everyone just skied in winter. There was a slope for every wallet. The one we went to regularly had a cheap ass pommel lift and was one slope that was pretty much a straight on suicide run into the aforementioned chalet. They trusted people to remember to stop before slamming into the cinder block walls painted wood brown. Anyway, I'm in the chalet and this one guy -- young, Fracophone AF, and probably spoke Joual -- dumps about $10 in quarters into the juke box and just plays Black Betty on a continuous loop. Good times. I will always associate that song with 25 cent steamés and weak hot chocolate.
And, man, the lead singer looks like every C64 BBS sysop I ever knew in the 1980s.
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#BlackBetty
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I liked this three a lot:
2013 version by the Melvins: https://melvinsofficial.bandcamp.com/track/black-betty
The Leadbelly version (date unknown – at least to me): https://yt.cdaut.de/watch?v=Fii6PX0-VXs
1986 version by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: https://yt.cdaut.de/watch?v=t22wGvzdi8g
#MelvinsAreVirus
#Melvins – Everybody Loves Sausages cd on #IpecacRecordings 2013
Melvins tribute to #Venom #Queen #TheScientists #DavidBowie #TheKinks #TheFugs #RoxyMusic #Divine #TalesOfTerror #PopOPies #TheJam #ThrobbingGristle and the guy that wrote #BlackBetty the blues traditional first credited to/by the legendary #HuddieLedbetter (#LeadBelly) and made world famous by the great #RamJam Hard Rockers.
http://melvinsofficial.bandcamp.com/album/everybody-loves-sausages
