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<I walked the line>
09-12-2003, 11:42 AM
It's started already..... the man is only dead a matter of hours and already the "page" has gone out in the station..... "If anybody knows of a local connection to Johnny Cash can you please call the newsroom"

Some days...... I just shake my head.
Wideangle
09-12-2003, 12:41 PM
Had a chance to meet Cash when I worked in
Memphis years ago. They had a Sun records
reunion with Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis,
and Carl Perkins. Hard to believe that Jerry Lee
is the only one left alive. Can never remember
a coherent soundbite from him...Cash was cool..
no big ego thing going on...One thing about
our biz, if your in it long enough, and meet enough celbs, you remember who was an asshole,
and who seemed pretty nice and normal to you..
BluesDaddy
09-12-2003, 01:12 PM
What can you say about Johnny Cash? The world has lost a great musician. I'm gonna listen to "The Sun Years" on my way to shoot football tonight.
<midwesterner>
09-12-2003, 02:14 PM
I don't mean to sound like a jackass, but I'm a little more bummed by John Ritter's death today.
photog1199
09-12-2003, 02:57 PM
Just got back from shooting our local angle on Johnny Cash. Talked to radio DJ that met him a couple of times, then we talked to the sheriff of Walker County, GA. that arrested him back in 1967. Cash credits that sheriff for getting him off drugs. It should turn out to be a great story.
<CJ>
09-12-2003, 03:05 PM
I'm calling the station right now- I listened to Cash a few times and watched John Ritter on TV!
<C St. SW>
09-12-2003, 08:06 PM
Originally posted by Wideangle:
Had a chance to meet Cash when I worked in
Memphis years ago. They had a Sun records
reunion with Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis,
and Carl Perkins. Hard to believe that Jerry Lee
is the only one left alive.... Those were the days weren't they Griff? It is hard to believe that Jerry Lee has outlasted them all when he was always the sickest and has been just outside St. Peter's gates many times and pulled through.

I always remember Carl P. as a pretty good guy. He was always nice around me.
<Buck>
09-13-2003, 01:57 AM
I don't see what is wrong with trying to localize the story IF indeed there is a good local angle.
(Sin)ical
09-13-2003, 06:25 AM
What a sad summer it's been!
June Carter Cash, Bob Hope, Barry White, Warren Zevon, John Ritter, and Johnny Cash were all great entertainers. :(
<I walked the line>
09-13-2003, 10:39 AM
Well Buck, that's the whole point, when you are thousands of miles away and in another country it just doesn't make any sense.
<Buck>
09-13-2003, 02:29 PM
No, I'm just saying IF there is a tie. You don't know until you look.