Johnny Cash dead at 71.

[Fökai 0]

Just reported on CNN Headline News.

 

He passed away at Baptist Hospital in Nashville after 2 weeks of treatment for a stomach ailment.

 

 

 

Rest in peace, Johhny.

Edited September 12, 2003 by bravesfan

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Johnny Cash and John Ritter in the same few hours..

 

argh.

[Guest Choken One]

Another set of threes...but never has it been on the same day

[Guest The Grand Pubah of 1620]

Johnny Cash-Hurt

 

I think we all should watch this vidoe again today, in memory of one of the greatest music legends ever.

 

RIP-Johnny Cash

[bob_barron 0]

'Hurt' is one of the most amazing videos I've seen.

 

I enjoyed his music and he just seemed like a really cool guy.

 

RIP Johnny Cash

[Guest The Masked Avenger]

After I get off this computer, I will shine my boots, shave my face and shower. Then I will put on my black suit, my black shirt and my black tie and drink to Johnny.

 

Rest in peace, Johnny.

[Guest Bobby Cox is God]

Johnny was what country was supposed to be.

 

RIP Man in Black.

[WrestlingDeacon 0]

I actually had a bet with a friend that Johnny Cash would pass by mid-september. My cut off date was the 15th. It sucks so bad to be right. I knew he couldn't hang on much longer after June past. She was his soul and anchor in this mortal coil. I am sorry that Cash was unable to attend the MTV video awards a few weeks ago, as that would have been a fitting final appearance. The aging rebel who stood for what music should be reaching out to the younger, lost generation. I am a huge fan of his music and would suggest people who want to know the true power of Cash to not only pick up his last album, but the box set Love, God and Murder.

[Downhome 0]

The Man in Black goes home to be with his angel.

 

It's a rather intense story, the two of them, something you would see right out of a movie. I'm not shocked at all to see this, as we all knew it was coming. Still, it's horribly sad to see one of the greatest of all time pass away.

 

Johnny Cash wasn't just what COUNTRY music should be about...he was what MUSIC should be about.

 

The Hurt video will tell you everything that is missing from the music industry today.

 

Thanks a lot Johnny Cash, you'll never be forgotten...thanks.

 

Earlier this week my community, as well as anyone else who is familier with college football, lost a "legend" of our own. After 36 years of being the voice for our Clemson Tigers, he passed away.

 

So for me, at least, it's been that much WORSE of a week.

[Guest The Grand Pubah of 1620]

The Man in Black goes home to be with his angel.

 

It's a rather intense story, the two of them, something you would see right out of a movie. I'm not shocked at all to see this, as we all knew it was coming. Still, it's horribly sad to see one of the greatest of all time pass away.

 

Johnny Cash wasn't just what COUNTRY music should be about...he was what MUSIC should be about.

 

The Hurt video will tell you everything that is missing from the music industry today.

 

Thanks a lot Johnny Cash, you'll never be forgotten...thanks.

 

Earlier this week my community, as well as anyone else who is familier with college football, lost a "legend" of our own. After 36 years of being the voice for our Clemson Tigers, he passed away.

 

So for me, at least, it's been that much WORSE of a week.

Well-said DH. That was a great sentiment about a great man.

[Guest Crazy Dan]

RIP in Johhny Cash. You will be greatly missed.

[Guest Dave O'Neill, Journalist]

I'm listening to him right now, in fact he hasnt been off my stereo all day

[Stephen Joseph 0]

Was I the only one upset at the MTV for giving video of the year to Missy Eliot rather than the Man in Black. I mean, anyone could see how much more powerful and well-produced his "hurt" video was.

 

Yes, its a sad day. Cash was a legend for country music. But we can have one happy fact. The man in black rode out to the sunset on top of the world, he didn't just fade into obscurity like so many great legends.

 

My black shirt today is enough to remind me.

 

RIP

[Guest The Grand Pubah of 1620]

Was I the only one upset at the MTV for giving video of the year to Missy Eliot rather than the Man in Black. I mean, anyone could see how much more powerful and well-produced his "hurt" video was.

 

Yes, its a sad day. Cash was a legend for country music. But we can have one happy fact. The man in black rode out to the sunset on top of the world, he didn't just fade into obscurity like so many great legends.

 

My black shirt today is enough to remind me.

 

RIP

Yes I was extremely pissed that he didn't win. None of the videos that were nominated even belong in the same category as Cash and the Hurt video. But I have learned to accept MTV for the dumbasses they are.

[Guest TheGame2705]

Was I the only one upset at the MTV for giving video of the year to Missy Eliot rather than the Man in Black. I mean, anyone could see how much more powerful and well-produced his "hurt" video was.

 

Yes, its a sad day. Cash was a legend for country music. But we can have one happy fact. The man in black rode out to the sunset on top of the world, he didn't just fade into obscurity like so many great legends.

 

My black shirt today is enough to remind me.

 

RIP

I was upset too but not because I like Cash better. I just think that that wasn't the best video of the year or even her best video at all.

[Guest El Satanico]

The way I look at the MTV thing is...

 

At least MTV gave him recognition before his death. MTV giving him recognition and having MTV artists talking about him will open Cash up to new fans amoungst the MTV crowd. At Johnny's age a little gold statue doesn't mean shit, but the recogniton does.

[Guest stardust]

In the hour and a half to two hours I watched MTV today, I saw the "Hurt" video four times, and MTV News also had a special report about Cash featuring an interview Kurt Loder did with him on August 20th, during which Loder asked him where he thought we went when we died. It was kinda eery, to hear Cash talking about death like that, just a couple of weeks ago.

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

He had given up the fight back in May when June died. It was only a matter of time before he was going to die. He knew it. He's happier being with June, and without pain. No one should be sad because he wanted it this way.

[cynicalprofit 0]

Johnny Cash was one of the good guys, he will be missed.

[Guest cobainwasmurdered]

RIP Johnny.

 

Heaven just got a little tougher.

[Guest The Grand Pubah of 1620]

Here is a great acticle about Cash from the Atlanta Journal Constitution paper from this morning. It's a great read.

 

Nashville --- Johnny Cash dressed for a funeral most of his life.

 

On Friday, Cash was gone and Nashville was draped in black.

 

"It's sad," said Montreal native Lois Menary, 65, as she stood outside the Ryman Auditorium, home of the original Grand Ole Opry, late in the afternoon. "He was just so down to earth. There was only one Johnny Cash. No one else was like him. Even my mother loved him."

 

Cash, 71, an "outlaw" in the buttoned-down world of country music, died early Friday morning from complications of diabetes. Throughout the day his music was played in honky-tonks and on the radio in a town that had come to embrace him.

 

At the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, where he was inducted in 1980, Cash's plaque was draped in black, the flag flew at half-staff and visitors signed a book of remembrances.

 

"The thing to focus on was how vibrant his career was, right up until the last day," said museum director Kyle Young.

 

Cash's music is up for four awards from the Country Music Association in November. He was recently celebrated by the MTV generation for the video and song "Hurt," a Trent Reznor tune that he made utterly his own. And he had been furiously recording new music for the past four months.

 

"His last album ['The Man Comes Around'] was as powerful as anything he ever did," said a black-clad Andy McLenon, a clerk at Ernest Tubb Records on Broadway, where Cash performed many times on the in-store stage.

 

A candle burned at a makeshift shrine inside the front door. The marquee outside read simply: Johnny Cash, 1932-2003.

 

Across the street, Jason Jordan, 28, who plays guitar in a country band, took requests during a three-hour show at the Second Fiddle, most of them for Cash tunes. "We played 'Folsom Prison' and 'Ring of Fire,' each one about six times."

 

Jordan's spiked hair and nose ring may not fit the stereotypical image of a Nashville musician, but he, like almost any Nashville picker you could find, has been a lifelong fan of "the Man In Black." "Both my parents are musicians," he said, "and I don't ever remember not hearing Johnny Cash."

 

Mike Slusser, a street musician playing the mandolin for tips on Broadway, suggested that Cash, renegade or not, represented the heart of the country music tradition, a tradition that will miss him badly.

 

"The word icon is thrown around a lot," he said, "but it can't apply to anybody any better than it does to him."

 

While some Nashvilleans were subdued by the news, the streets of downtown were hopping with conventioneers and tourists. Only the ubiquitous television news trucks, with their microwave snorkels in full extension, hinted that an era had passed.

 

In the meantime, news of Cash's death echoed around the globe.

 

In Atlanta, Georgia State University radio station WRAS-FM played a steady stream of Cash's music. Disc jockey Walter Colt said Album 88 was just giving its listeners what they wanted. "We've been getting so many requests for him, " said Colt, 35, "especially 'Hurt' and 'Personal Jesus.' "

 

Cash was the rare singer from his era to transcend generations, Colt said.

 

From Hawaii, fellow "outlaw" Kris Kristofferson said by telephone that Cash "defended me and inspired me and he got me started on the road to being a success at what I do. He was the first person to put me on stage --- at the expense of his own show.

 

"When June died it was the hardest thing he ever faced in life," said Kristofferson, referring to Cash's wife and soulmate June Carter Cash, who died in May. "I can't help but think he's at peace now."

 

Daughter Rosanne Cash was at her father's side when he died, said her agent, Danny Kahn. Funeral services, still in the planning stages, were sure to be open only to family members, Kahn said. "Due to how recent June's funeral was and how open it was," he said, "the family felt that it was too much to go through that again."

 

Rosanne Cash released an album in March called "Rules of Travel," which includes a duet with her father, "September When It Comes," a song about failing health, frailty and age. Somehow the daughter named the month her father would pass, and put it in the title.

 

"She knew something that she didn't know she knew," said Kahn.

 

Many in Nashville spoke of Cash's love for his wife, the daughter of Mother Maybelle Carter, of country music's legendary "first family."

 

June Carter Cash helped pilot her husband through calamities from drug addiction to the capricious changes in the music business that caused his star to fade in the 1980s, only to brighten again in the 1990s.

 

Young, of the Country Music Hall of Fame, said that Cash may have thrown himself into writing new songs as a way to cope with his wife's death.

 

Yet, suggested Matt Powell, manager at Ernest Tubb Records, music must not have been enough to cushion the blow.

 

"What could kill Johnny Cash?" he asked.

 

"Drugs couldn't kill him. Car crashes couldn't kill him. Alcohol couldn't kill him. He died of a broken heart."

[Ted the Poster 0]

I look at it this way. With June back by his side, Johnny-- along with Elvis and the Duke-- can show everybody up there how to really have fun. The Man In Black will live forever.