Johnny Cash RIP

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  1. sanariot

    sanariot Member

    Nov 19, 2001
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  2. Belgian guy

    Belgian guy Member+

    Club Brugge
    Belgium
    Aug 19, 2002
    Belgium
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    Club Brugge KV
    What a sad day for music...
     
  3. bert patenaude

    Apr 16, 2001
    White Plains, NY
    He'll be greatly missed. RIP.
     
  4. nancyb

    nancyb Member

    Jun 30, 2000
    Falls Church, VA
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    DC United
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    United States
    The Man in Black will be sorely missed. It's really hard to beat many of his tunes.
     
  5. Real Ray

    Real Ray Member

    May 1, 2000
    Cincinnati, OH
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    Real Madrid
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    United States
    There are always two lyrics that come to mind when I think of Johnny Cash.

    The first is the opening line "Jackson:"

    We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout.... Perhaps, the credo to anyone who's ever eloped.

    The other is from "Flosom Prison Blues:"

    I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.

    I was far more a fan of his lyrics than the actual music. He was one of those writers who really took it close to the bone as good as anyone one in the history of US music IMO.
     
  6. djwalker

    djwalker BigSoccer Supporter

    Jul 13, 2000
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    FC Dallas
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    Nobody, but nobody, could sing a song about prison, trains, redemption, or shootin' your woman down like Johnny Cash.

    There's no eye for an eye, there's no tooth for a tooth.

    I saw Judas Iscariot carryin' John Wilkes Booth.
     
  7. GringoTex

    GringoTex Member

    Aug 22, 2001
    1301 miles de Texas
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    He put the dick back in dixie and the cunt back in country.
     
  8. Dante

    Dante Moderator
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    Nov 19, 1998
    Upstate NY
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    He'll be sorely missed :(

    RIP
     
  9. dub77

    dub77 New Member

    Mar 28, 2002
    in denial
  10. dfb547490

    dfb547490 New Member

    Feb 9, 2000
    The Heights
    Never knew much of his music, but I loved his style. RIP :(
     
  11. BakedAlaskan

    BakedAlaskan Member+

    Feb 28, 2002
    Ancho-RAGE,Alaska
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    The coolest intro to any concert...EVER!!!"Hello...I'm Johnny Cash"and then just starts playing.Fuckin' classic.Let me just say that every rock star that goes to jail or trashes a hotelroom is just wishing/hoping/trying to be like Johnny Cash.One bad ass,cop fightin' son of a gun.How many other artists had prisons on their tour schedule?His family and Michael K. have my condolences.

    REST IN PEACE
     
  12. bungadiri

    bungadiri Super Moderator
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    Jan 25, 2002
    Acnestia
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    The guy would jolt you even if you were watching him on TV. I heard a report several weeks ago saying that he'd responded to June's passing (4 months ago) with flurry of creative activity and that folks were surprised at his vitality. I wonder what it meant.
     
  13. Red&Black

    Red&Black Member+

    Aug 30, 2001
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    johnny cash is my favorite all time singer and too me the most important american artist of the postwar period.

    i will greatly miss him. he has been a huge influence on my life.

    johnny cash always stood for the oppressed and exploited, many will miss him as a champion.
     
  14. skipshady

    skipshady New Member

    Apr 26, 2001
    Orchard St, NYC
    Indeed.

    I didn't listen to Cash until I got to college and I was working in a restaurant kitchen. Sunday brunch shift was the good ol' boy shift and they usually played Nashville country, which I hate, but they mixed in some old goodies every now and then.
    The first time they put it in a Johnny Cash CD, I was sold. Great voice, greaty storyteller. There won't be another like him.

    - bungadiri: are we to expect one final album? That's what it sounds like.
     
  15. Scoey

    Scoey Member

    Oct 1, 1999
    Portland
    First live concert I ever saw was Johnny Cash. The man was a hero.
     
  16. Aguilas Del America

    Oct 28, 2002
    Nido de Coapa
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    *@#*@#*@#*@#
    damn i still cant believe it
    :(
    R.I.P.
     
  17. yellowbismark

    yellowbismark Member+

    Nov 7, 2000
    San Diego, CA
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    Club Tijuana
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    United States
    I can't believe it. I loved that guy, man.

    Rest in peace.
     
  18. MeridianFC

    MeridianFC Member

    Jul 26, 1999
    Washington, DC USA
    The Man In Black
    Johnny Cash

    Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
    Why you never see bright colors on my back,
    And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
    Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.

    I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
    Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
    I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
    But is there because he's a victim of the times.

    I wear the black for those who never read,
    Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
    About the road to happiness through love and charity,
    Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.

    Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
    In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
    But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
    Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.

    I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
    For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
    I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
    Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

    And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
    Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
    I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
    Believen' that we all were on their side.

    Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
    And things need changin' everywhere you go,
    But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
    You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

    Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
    And tell the world that everything's OK,
    But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
    'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.
     
  19. nicodemus

    nicodemus Member+

    Sep 3, 2001
    Cidade Mágica
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    PAOK Saloniki
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    United States
    We'll miss you CASH. We love you CASH.

    I'm so glad I got to see him in concert.
     
  20. yellowbismark

    yellowbismark Member+

    Nov 7, 2000
    San Diego, CA
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    United States
    Can someone post that picture of him flippin' the bird?
     
  21. Dante

    Dante Moderator
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    Nov 19, 1998
    Upstate NY
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  22. Dyvel

    Dyvel Member+

    Jul 24, 1999
    The dog end of a day gone by
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    Leeds United AFC
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    Ireland Republic
    An American original.

    This has been a rough year in music.

    RIP
     
  23. Dyvel

    Dyvel Member+

    Jul 24, 1999
    The dog end of a day gone by
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    Leeds United AFC
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    Ireland Republic
    San Quentin


    San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me
    You've hosted me since nineteen sixty three
    I've seen 'em come and go and I've seen them die
    And long ago I stopped askin' why

    _
    2. San Quentin, I hate evry inch of you.
    You've cut me and have scarred me thru an' thru.
    And I'll walk out a wiser weaker man;
    Mister Congressman, you can't understand.

    3. San Quentin, what good do you think you do?
    Do you think I'll be different when you're through?
    You bent my heart and mind and you may my soul,
    And your stone walls turn my blood a little cold.


    4. San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell.
    May your walls fall and may I live to tell.
    May all the world forget you ever stood.
    And may all the world regret you did no good.
    San Quentin, you've been livin' hell to me.
     
  24. pething101

    pething101 Member

    Jul 31, 2001
    Smyrna, Ga
    Club:
    West Ham United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    They dont make them like Johnny Cash anymore.

    RIP.
     
  25. rokstedy

    rokstedy Member+

    I love commieball
    Apr 20, 2001
    Northwest Orange County
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    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I just got in to his music this past year. I got a 3-CD best of & a tribute CD (Dressed in Black). I really dug his music. Rest in peace, Mr. Cash.

    I can't forget the day I shot that bad bitch down.
     

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