Who first used the Devil Horns HM Salute?

[GreenBayLA]

Chaim Witz? aka Sham Witless?


Ronnie James Dio?


Or John Lennon?!?!?!?

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=32936

[kissfan1976]

Gene's hand gesture is supposed to be "I LOVE YOU" in sign language.

[Hardrock69]

No, it was a sign meant to ward off the Evil Eye. Traditional Italian thing. Hundreds of years old. So yes....at the very least, it was Dio's Grandma.

[Green Manalishi]

This is the great debate amongst the old school Devils Horn music circles .
There is substantial evidence that ...get this ...George Clinton and Parliament -Funkadelic was rockin' the Devil Horns way back in the early '70's .
Personally , I like the P-Funk mobs ...cool music indeed....

[lesfunk]

All I know is that Jerry Garcia invented "The Shocker"

[Ruprecht]

i did not know gene invented those bad ass horns,

[Dave's Bitch]

So, what's the difference in Gene Simmons holding the thumb out or Dio tucking it in? Nothing?

Thumb out has been more adopted by the Emo culture

[GreenBayLA]

Couldn't find Dio's grandma

[GreenBayLA]

Oh yeah Coven
However, beating Simmons and Dio as rock n' roll cornuto originator is the psychedelic-occult band Coven. In 1969 Coven not only posed for the back of their album Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls making the "sign of the horns" (the "correct" way, not the Karana mudrā), but they included a poster of them at a Black Mass making the gesture as well. Also on the Witchcraft Destroys album: a 13 minute recording of a full-length "Satanic Mass." And so we come full circle to the Illuminologist claim of the sign of the horns gesture being a promoter of Satan (even though the mano cornuto, as well as the Karana mudrā, was supposed to repel demons instead of glorifying them).

http://thedaily23.blogspot.com/2010/04/is-sign-of-horns-hand-gesture-satanic.html

[GreenBayLA]

All I know is that Jerry Garcia invented "The Shocker"

You sure about that?


Not using da ring finger

[GreenBayLA]

I'm learning a lot!

[Va Beach VH Fan]

No, it was a sign meant to ward off the Evil Eye. Traditional Italian thing. Hundreds of years old. So yes....at the very least, it was Dio's Grandma.

Yes, the "malocchio", or bad eye....

[lesfunk]

Hmmmm....

[Seshmeister]

First time I saw it was in old Spider-man comics...

[Seshmeister]

That's the only time I've seen Anne Wilson do it.