I wish Django was in real-world tune more often.

Al Watsky · March 2014

You guys might not be hip to the fact that sometimes stuff gets sped up or slowed down in the mixing and mastering process.
Especially in the days when there would be different speeds of machines that were doing the transfers.
Its easy to get pitch drift. Most of these things were done before digital tech or tuners every thing was its own reference point.
When tracks were transferred to tape for re release the tape speeds can be way different than the original disk . Its all relative , just retune your guitars , it just takes a second. :-B
Heck, I have old tuning forks that are off by a couple of cents to my strobe tuner. 438=A
Some folks tune to pitch pipes . Those things are always flat. The harder you blow the flatter they get.

Jazzaferri · March 2014

It's all relative

swing68 · March 2014

Spot on @Al Watsky about variable mastering speeds.

The one that really takes the biscuit for me is Robert Johnson's 'Preaching Blues', around G on the record. No way is the guitar tuned to DGDGBD though, it's a straight EBEG#BE open chord - can't be played otherwise.

But slow the track down to E and it becomes rather mundane in comparison to the amphetamine rush we're all familiar with.