Johnny Cash

Im a pretty big Johnny Cash fan, I probably got it from living with my grand parents, most of my friends think im weird (im 21 btw)
 
mctiny said:
But you can`t beat his involvement with Elvis and Bob Dylan in his earlier days, as well as the rest of the "highwaymen" ;).
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I remember thinking, when I saw the film, that the gig with Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee Lewis would have been the ultimate in awesome.
 
Arcade Fire said:
I remember thinking, when I saw the film, that the gig with Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly and Jerry Lee Lewis would have been the ultimate in awesome.
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According to George Kline who was one of Elvis's closest friends and knew Elvis from his high school days until his death, Jerry Lee Lewis was not even on that tour. That is one mistake they made and the other is the scene where Elvis tells Johnny to take some pills. Elvis never began taking 'drugs' until after 1958 when he joined the Army and was stationed in Germany.

But overall Geroge Kline say the film was a good one.

Michael
 
Ghuraba said:
According to George Kline who was one of Elvis's closest friends and knew Elvis from his high school days until his death, Jerry Lee Lewis was not even on that tour. That is one mistake they made and the other is the scene where Elvis tells Johnny to take some pills. Elvis never began taking 'drugs' until after 1958 when he joined the Army and was stationed in Germany.

But overall Geroge Kline say the film was a good one.

Michael
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At last!

Someone on here other than me knows his Elvis facts :cool:
 
Matblack said:
Is it wrong to like Panic at the Disco?
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No, it's just wrong to scoff at someone liking Johnny Cash when you think that Panic are the be-all and end-all of pop music. I'm quite partial to them myself, actually.

Off topic - I added you to MSN the other day, don't know if you've seen, but I wouldn't mind a chat.
 
Matblack said:
Is it wrong to like Panic at the Disco? :(

MB
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Showing some sort of intelligence of music and snubbing an artist that you (not YOU, obviously) haven't listened to before is just pathetic.
 
Arcade Fire said:
No, it's just wrong to scoff at someone liking Johnny Cash when you think that Panic are the be-all and end-all of pop music. I'm quite partial to them myself, actually.

Off topic - I added you to MSN the other day, don't know if you've seen, but I wouldn't mind a chat.
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Yeah I saw that I added you as soon as I got the request, I have been on today but its been a bit of a traumatic day (had to take the cat into the emergency vets :() I'll be around later :)

MB
 
My dad and his best mate took me to see Johnny Cash in the 70's and he was bloody awesome.
Later on around 87 I met a young lad of 18 who was an amazing musician in a heavy metal band.
I went to his house and rifled his record collection and tried to get into a cabinet which was locked.
I eventually made him open it and it was full of Johnny Cash albums and he was embarassed.
He had at least 100 albums and had spent a fortune on him.
We decided to record a country album together but since he only new metal I did all the instruments and backing vocals and he did the lead vocal.
its a bit poor but I was just learning how to use a Fostex 8 track reel to reel at the time -
Johnny Cash cover - Big River

Incidentally, my dads best mate who took me to see Johnny Cash had a massive collection of vinyl of the Man In Black.
One day he had a fire in his bungalow and it was gutted.
He walked in, saw his burnt cabinet with the Johnny Cash vinyl in and walked out crying his eyes out. He really wasn't bothered about anything else in the house.
Me and my Dad went in and looked if we could salvage anything and when we opened up the cabinet every album was OK.
The first and last album covers were slightly browned.
 
dmpoole said:
He walked in, saw his burnt cabinet with the Johnny Cash vinyl in and walked out crying his eyes out. He really wasn't bothered about anything else in the house.
Me and my Dad went in and looked if we could salvage anything and when we opened up the cabinet every album was OK.
The first and last album covers were slightly browned.
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That made me smile, there's no appropriate smiley, but that made me genuinely feel nice inside. Hope the guy was alright about them!
 
He's definitely got a lot of publicity of late. I remember at work, someone walked into our office and said that Johnny Cash had just died, and I said "Johnny Who? Was he the guy from the Sex Pistols?".

They looked at me as if I was mad.
 
Mr Spew said:
That made me smile, there's no appropriate smiley, but that made me genuinely feel nice inside. Hope the guy was alright about them!
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He cried his eyes out when he knew they were all OK.
Like I said, he wasn't bothered about anything else in the bungalow and a couple of years later he walked out on his wife and two young daughters and never had contact with them again. (how can a Dad do that?)
In fact, the husband of the woman he went off with contacted his wife and they ended up getting married.
Johnny Cash could have wrote an albums worth of tunes with his story.
 
Phnom_Penh said:
Im pretty sure you said that in the last thread about Johnny Cash :p. (Maybe not though).
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Quite probably lol, I can just about remember one awhile back.
 
I listed to the Nine Inc Nails version of Hurt and after the first half turned it off, Cash pwned their version
 
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