Johnny Cash Has Died

KFWB Los Angeles | 09/14/03

[kingu]

Breaking news announced at top of news: Johnny Cash has died today.

[Revolting cat!]

I've loved Johnny Cash so much, I'm going to hate all the tasteless, bombastic, self-serving tributes to him we're bound to be subjected to all over the idiot box.

[oyez]

"Ghost Riders in the Sky" brought my attention to Cash when Iwas a kid. That music mill putting out Cash, Robbins and Jones was rather impressive to me.(Elvis who?)

[Revolting cat!]

Listen to his Sun Records stuff, listen to his very early Columbia Records albums...

[John W]

I know,just like Johnny's version.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Good answer xzins!

[jodorowsky]

I was just finishing up my college radio show this morning, running the board for the news, who announced it. All three of us in the studio gave a simultaneous "WHOA!..."

...followed by thoughts of the tribute albums that will soon be overflowing the mail room ;)

Billy Beck has a good tribute up. Here's an excerpt:

Together with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis, he was one of the four seminal hillbillies who came into Memphis out of the woods and weeds, laid their hands on American music, and changed it forever...

[gcruse]

I spent my adolescence learning to perform Cash's material. One of my favorites not mentioned so far was Rock Island Line -- gotta ride it like you find it, get your tickets at the station for the Rock Island Line.

I wandered backstage at a Norfolk Cash concert to get an autograph and stepped right into the middle of a family feud. June asked me to get out of there, which I did. Heh.

[Scenic Sounds]

"Oh, I may be right and I may be wrong
But you're gonna miss me when I'm gone."

He had such a great voice, too, didn't he?

[gcruse]

Yes, his voice was unique. I think he bottomed it out at times in 'I walk the line,' though. Or maybe my sub-woofer was tuned too high to pick him up. :) Cash is one of the reasons my son is named John.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

With all due respect to Larry Hovis, I don't think he counts. The three I mentioned were/are still celebrities.

Zevon had a top 20 album and an VH1 special on this month
Ritter has a hit TV show
Johnny Cash just one an MTV video award

Larry Hovis, while funny on Hogan's Heroes, wouldn't count along these three.

And who's Edward Teller

[gcruse]

"Ritter has a hit TV show "

Which was a spin off from 'Man Abut the House,' a British sitcom wherein the guy was always trying to bed the gals. Ritter's role was feminized to gay city to save the American sensibilities. Imagine a guy chasing gals. Shudder. An insipid teleplay perfectly cast with an insipid male lead. Ritter was awful to watch, but RIP anyway.

[My Favorite Headache]

Hopefully not the John I am thinking about...

[jpl]

I may be a free man, but I've really got the Folsom Prison Blues today. R.I.P., Man in Black.

[MeekOneGOP]

He didn't want to live without June ...

I'm sure that is right. A sad day for the U.S. We lost a legend today.

[conservababeJen]

Rest in peace with The Lord, Johnny
:(

[JustPiper]

When we saw him the other day I knew he wasn't long for this world, RIP! But when I heard 54 yr. old John Ritter died I am so bummed ;(

[radiohead]

Good on you, EV. Thanks for the tribute.

I saw the 'Closer' video a couple of weeks ago. I was crying then and I'm crying now. My son thinks I'm nuts, but I just really liked Cash. I knew he wouldn't last long after June died.

Very sad. God bless you, Mr. Cash.

[Tax-chick]

And who's Edward Teller

Nuclear physicist? Atomic bomb? I had no idea any of those guys was still alive; combination of radiation and smoking was a killer.

[Denver Ditdat]

Nuclear physicist? Atomic bomb?

Yep.

I had no idea any of those guys was still alive; combination of radiation and smoking was a killer.

If they shortened Teller's life, then he was destined to be a very old man indeed. He died at 95, and was quite active until recently.

[Denver Ditdat]

And who's Edward Teller

A nuclear physicist, and along with his ideological opposite Robert Oppenheimer one of the best known of those who worked on the Manhattan Project. Teller is also know as "The Father of the Hydrogen Bomb", and a leading proponent of SDI, or the "Star Wars" system.