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| smokin_dave
Junior Username: smokin_dave Post Number: 41 Registered: 10-2002 |
We all owe a big thank you to "The Man In Black". One of the GREATEST songsmiths to ever grace our fair planet. So here's to Johnny Cash.May God Bless. (Message edited by Smokin Dave on September 12, 2003) | ||
| dela217
Intermediate Member Username: dela217 Post Number: 194 Registered: 6-2002 |
I also owe a big thank you to the man. He was quite an influence on me early on. Great songwriter indeed. | ||
| mica
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 1121 Registered: 6-2000 |
We were up late last night (poker night) and We listened to 2 Johnny Cash albums, and turned the music off at about midnight. I just read he passed away at 3 am eastern time. Wasn't it an amazing life and career? | ||
| lembic76450
New Username: lembic76450 Post Number: 7 Registered: 5-2002 |
Over the next days and weeks we will hear about all the great influences Johnny Cash had on all types of music, from rock to country to music for the Lord. But when all the hype quiets down have a listen to a tune called "Flesh and Blood". It will raise goosebumps. We lost a great American poet. My thanks to Mr. Cash Kenn Reynolds | ||
| bigredbass
Intermediate Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 154 Registered: 9-2002 |
As I live in Nashville, I was fortunate that a friend of mine got the gig slapping upright in the Tennessee Three with Johnny Cash for the last six years or so that he gigged (he finally quit playing dates about two years ago). It was a most prestigious and almost historic gig, and Cash treated his three musicians most graciously. He was one of them, not a hint of the usual band-as-hired-help crap that most artists pull on their musicians. In a town chock-full of horror stories regarding the boys in the band at the mercy of some ego'd out nut, this was my yardstick for who the great artists were. For that time on stage, they were in it together, playing MUSIC, not just slammin' out the hits, grab the check, hit the bus. Cash refused a bus, only charter flights to each gig, separate rooms in four and five star hotels, and little gigs like the Kennedy Center, for instance. He was one classy man. And a real man. I knew after his wife passed, he would not be long for this world. I hate that I was right. But he'd been in miserable health for the last two years, and he'd lived hard the rest of it. His music was like the best blues: He could make you touch achingly lonesome, lost spots in your soul, and realize the transcendence of the human spirit to live though it, cry through it, fight through it, and live to tell about it. Then dust off and go on. J o e y | ||
| zappahead
Junior Username: zappahead Post Number: 37 Registered: 10-2002 |
Johnny Cash was one of the few real American Icons left that are not a product but a real, living breathing Icon whose worth was based on the quality of the work he did rather than the millions he made or the hits he wrote. Very rarely have we seen a guy who could make ya laugh, cry and toss in some wonderful music to boot. Quite possibly the quintessential American singer/songwriter. I dont think Ive met anyone who doesnt have a favorite Johnny Cash song. To sum him up, my father, grandfather and myself were crushed at his death. Who has ever captured the imagination of a grandfather, father and son? |
