Quote from: DevPWhat's in those buckets? Could it be... cold water?

The way people are humping that corpse, I think a little cold water is in order.

Quote from: droogNot at all, my good man. Any particular person may have been a fan since childhood. It just seems that one day he's a singer and the next he's an urban legend.

I've never been a big fan myself. Some good songs, some really shitty ones.


Would you agree that most people posting here will identify as a 'gamer'?

Anyway, it's an observation without rancour, directed mainly at the urge to fetishize a real person. Man in Black – ooo, I think I'm getting wet.

I remember quite well when Ring of Fire was just out and all over the radio. That was 1963. Then again, I'm a fossil.

-clash

Whatever makes you feel like the special snowflake, droog.

I´ve been a Cash fan for a long time now, and I don´t see no reason to let you pee into that cornflakes-bowl o´ mine.

Would you prefer I over-love Mr. Cash via my secret hipster identity?

...I do get what you mean about over-fetishizing a musician, but I prefer passionate and true love of an artist to its opposite: a detached "meh" response into anything worthwhile or beautiful. The latter is clearly the worse hipster vice.

Quote from: droogI've never been a big fan myself. Some good songs, some really shitty ones.

Yep...I think I could say this for virtually all artists I listen to. I would probably say "bad" instead of "really shitty", but hey...I guess I weigh all the "good" songs and weigh all the "bad" songs.  After the weigh-in, I think that puts Johnny Cash in my good column.    

Quote from: droogThe way people are humping that corpse, I think a little cold water is in order.

Ah, things are clearer now! You're in the wrong neighborhood, you want "The RPGPundit's Own Forum" street, the house number is: "Why are you on his dick"?

I guess one man's "Humping" is another's "Heavy Petting" or something...

I was going to say Middle Earth wouldn't be very good  but then the thought of a Fellowship that was made up of:

Johnny Cash
Nick Cave
Mike Ness
Tom Waits
Merle Haggard
Jim Heath
Jon Spencer

With John Wayne as the Gandalf role would kick all amounts of ass.

(I was going to add Shane McGowan but then I'd be infringing on some copyrights...)

Personally, I think John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Yul Bryner, and Johnny Cash would be the greatest NPC group of all time.

Quote from: Zachary The FirstPersonally, I think John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Yul Bryner, and Johnny Cash would be the greatest NPC group of all time.

Oh, MAN.... testosterone overload. That's concentrated awesome there.

So, who would they take on - Mexico?

All of it. At once.

Quote from: MoriartyI was going to say Middle Earth wouldn't be very good  but then the thought of a Fellowship that was made up of:

Johnny Cash
Nick Cave
Mike Ness
Tom Waits
Merle Haggard
Jim Heath
Jon Spencer

With John Wayne as the Gandalf role would kick all amounts of ass.

(I was going to add Shane McGowan but then I'd be infringing on some copyrights...)

The Fellowship made out of the crew from the Wild Bunch .

"Travel to Mount Doom and throw the Ring in?"

"Why the hell not."

Regards,
David R

Quote from: SettembriniWhatever makes you feel like the special snowflake, droog.

I´ve been a Cash fan for a long time now, and I don´t see no reason to let you pee into that cornflakes-bowl o´ mine.

I gotta say I'm kinda with droog on this one; I don't get the Cash bandwagon at all. I remember him as being somewhat more interesting than other country artists of his generation, but not someone I was ever really interested in. He spends a couple decades being mostly irrelevant, and suddenly a "Cash is cool" train comes along and everyone jumps on. Didn't much care for him then, don't much care for him now, don't know what the fuss is all about.

(yeah, even I can see "Hurt" is decent, but I haven't heard anything else from the new recordings that to me is worth a second listen, and I'll take NiN's original over Cash's cover anyday.)

Shitheads.

I was a big Johnny Cash fan long before Hurt; and I've got to say its a lot harder now, because everyone assumes you're just being on the bandwagon. Its like what it was like with Cigars during the late nineties when everyone was smoking cigars, or smoking a churchwarden (long-stemmed pipe) after the Lord of the Rings movie, everyone assumed you were one of the joiners and not someone who was into it long before it was cool..
I actually stopped smoking churchwardens around that time.

RPGPundit

Cash was cool for me, before American Recordings.
I´m not even such a big fan of them. They have some heavy shit in it, but St. Quentin is the best recording of north american music whatsoever.
I love every version of Cash, but Columbia & Sun years are the grandest.

There´s is nothing like St. Quentin, though.

The hipsters all go for AmRec and Folsom. And miss the truly great stuff.

So go away, hipster-buster sophomore droog!
There is no one here for you.

Quote from: RPGPunditI was a big Johnny Cash fan long before Hurt

Uh...  Not to look too far out of the loop...

Hurt is the new album, right?

Quote from: SettembriniSo go away, hipster-buster sophomore droog!
There is no one here for you.

Actually, at least one person has – sort of – agreed with me. But let me make my point clear.

'Jumping on bandwagons' doesn't really concern me. It's just a kind of snobbery to assume that everybody should have been into everything since you were. I remember a lot of this sort of attitude in the 80s.

Likewise, if you like Cash's music, no problem. I'm not a fan myself, but I like various things that other people don't like, so....

But the thing I find concerning is the mythologising of a guy who, in the end, was a guy who dressed in black, took lots of drugs and drank lots of booze, left his wife and daughters, and had a successful musical career.

He wasn't even much of a badass. He got thrown in the slammer a few times for drugs, and that's about the size of it.

What's so inspiring? Are we so desperate for heroes?