It's cute how people who revere this man hate modern music because of "lip syncing" when the same thing is clearly the case in this video.

They lip synched the cons, too?

Everything before the song starts is real but the song itself and canned clapping are obvious edits.

Action Replay Nick: It's cute how people who revere this man hate modern music because of "lip syncing" when the same thing is clearly the case in this video.

It amazes me how many people have yet to realize that lip synching is pretty standard on television and has been for 50 years. Ashlee Simpson wasn't the first. Also if a live album ain't a bootleg, it probably ain't really live.

I had trouble hearing the song over the sound of Johnny Cash being unbelievably overrated and inexplicably worshipped.

Not lip-synched.

Angel of Death: I had trouble hearing the song over the sound of Johnny Cash being unbelievably overrated and inexplicably worshipped.

I'm having trouble hearing the worthwhile comments over the mewling of the smegmaphile who came in to a Cash thread to piss on the Man in Black.

Besides changing the face of American music, the man made Elvis look like a scrawny hemophiliac girl-child on substance-consumption and property damage from rage-incidents alone. (And I like Elvis.) We worship him because he reminds us that before the modern world begat worthless lumps of of simpering, stillborn womb-scrapings such as yourself, this world was trod upon by giants. Also, he performed a Vatican-verified miracle: he made me actually enjoy a NIN song. (Hurt)

Oh, and Boy Named Sue is such a kick-ass jam that your mom recently requested it take a paternity test. I'm not holding my breath in your case, but if you have any siblings who are exceptionally bad-ass, this could be the explanation.

Perhaps you could enlighten us with a couple of musicians/pop culture figures more worthy of our awe?

/Tell 'em that God's gonna cut you down.

Well, yeah, all that, Navin - but was he lip-synching?

Angel of Death: I had trouble hearing the song over the sound of Johnny Cash being unbelievably overrated and inexplicably worshipped.

liquidlen: Well, yeah, all that, Navin - but was he lip-synching?

Hahahaha - well put. Personally, I don't much care. Film and sound recording technology weren't then what they are today, and if the sound quality quality on the live performance was crap, what else would they do but dupe in a studio track?

The difference between this and Miss Simpson's lip-syncing is that Johnny could sing. He could sing real good. This is a demonstrable fact, given that the same state of sound technology when he began his career ruled out the kind of studio magic that allows us to pretend that Ashlee (did I spell that right? I think there's another 'e' and maybe a little star in there somewhere) can make pleasant sounds come out of her mouth at will.

And A.R. Nick - it's a fallacy that those of us who enjoy some Johnny, or Waylon, or Dylan, or Elvis or the Boss, hate all "modern music." It's just that we have, well, good taste. But people who enjoy dross like Ashlie*e (I think this is right) seem to have more sway with the people who do the picking and choosing of 'talent' to be recorded these days.

Now walk the line and keep walking it 'til you're off my lawn.

frostus: I do believe that is American Sign Language for:

THIS

Wish I'd thought of that. Picture, 1000 words, etc.

Great poet, great farking lyrics, John you are deeply missed. I hope you are in the heaven you believed in, rocking that joint.

Hell, I like Sun Ra, Johnny Cash...you know, all the classics.

Johnny Cash was (is) a national treasure. We will not see the likes of him again.

Lord I hate the music business these days. If he came along now, as great as he was, we'd never have heard of him.

frostus: Angel of Death: I had trouble hearing the song over the sound of Johnny Cash being unbelievably overrated and inexplicably worshipped.

this pic ftw

J.R. Cash the original bad a$$. The man was a true innovator and a great artist.

Too bad many poser's did not jump on that band wagon until after that movie came out.

Quite a few of this so-called pop country "artist" could learn a thing or two from the man in black.

"So when this Day was ended
I was still not satisfied
For I knew ev'rything I touched
Would wither and would die
And Love is all that will remain
And grow from all these Seed;

Mother Nature's quite a Lady
But you're the one I need
Flesh And Blood need Flesh And Blood
And you're the one I need. " ~ J.R. Cash

"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"

RIP

It's difficult to explain to someone who doesn't understand what's so great about Johnny Cash what's so great about Johnny Cash. I started this post with the intention of doing so, but I simply cannot.

Johnny Cash is the only person to have ever died during my lifetime, family included, whose death really affected me. I had a day of mourning. Not an official day of mourning or anything(I'm not weirdo), but just a somber day. I still can't listen to (There'll Be)Peace In The Valley(For Me) without getting misty for old Johnny. He was a giant among men. I truly hope that he has found his peace.

Too bad that clip was from the repeat. The crowd reaction was a lot more fun the first time they heard it, three minutes before.

There's this lame Internet meme that keeps popping up where people dismiss any opinion anyone else has as being "cool" or "hip" or "following a crowd." I mean, look at any Obama thread lately. It works the other way, too: there's a Starbucks thread where people are accusing those who dont' like Starbucks of being "hipsters".

Please, grow up. You know nothing of the motivation for why some does or doesn't like something. Pretending that you do is lame.

Navin R Johnson: I'm having trouble hearing the worthwhile comments over the mewling of the smegmaphile who came in to a Cash thread to piss on the Man in Black.

I'm not really in the mood to play Internet Tough Guy today.

If you said something else in the rest of your post that was interesting or intelligent, I didn't get to it.

Back to the lip-synching thing: this was footage from a concert. Johnny Cash played for an hour. The Statler Brothers, The Carter Family, and Carl Perkins were also there.

Lip-synching is the sensible alternative when you've got an untalented performer, a performer doing a single tune that really doesn't merit investing time in rehearsal/sound check/sobering up/getting an actual band, or a performer who can't really sing well because of the importance of gyrating with a snake at the same time. NONE of these things were hapening at San Quentin. The performance was not lip-synched.

If you really want to assert anything, it could be stated that the real genius of Johnny Cash was pausing, IN THE TRACK HE SYNCHED TO, for crowd noise/applause. That's some quality synching there, Lou.

/if you were trolling, I give it a 10/10 and dannit get t'is 'ook out of ny yip

Genghis Khan would have been 781 this year.

Angel of Death: Navin R Johnson: I'm having trouble hearing the worthwhile comments over the mewling of the smegmaphile who came in to a Cash thread to piss on the Man in Black.

I'm not really in the mood to play Internet Tough Guy today.

If you said something else in the rest of your post that was interesting or intelligent, I didn't get to it.

Ironic that your Fark handle is also a Hank Williams tune, don't you think?

/Angel of Acne would be better

cryptozoophiliac: Ironic that your Fark handle is also a Hank Williams tune, don't you think?

Only if you assume that I dislike Hank Williams because I dislike Johnny Cash, but I know you would never assume that because you're not a tremendous idiot. Right?

Action Replay Nick: It's cute how people who revere this man hate modern music because of "lip syncing" when the same thing is clearly the case in this video.

If I'm going to listen to live recordings, I'd prefer to hear what the musicians actually played at the show, but rerecording the musical tracks after the film is shot /= lip syncing.

Come on people! Some Weezer-looking douche from florida writes a negative comments and you guys are off writing 30 pages eulogy. The man in black is a legend, comments like that should equal: water, duck, back ect..

And wait a minute here: I can't watch vids here but if this is from the folsom show it was a totally live performmance,no? I'm confused what you guys are talking about?

The only thing that matters is that Man in Black is the original and one of the greatest embodiments of cool that the world has or will ever see. Glitches on one recording do not even begin to discredit the simple legacy that is Johnny Cash.

The smoke didn't kill Johnny. The drink didn't kill Johnny.
The junk didn't kill Johnny. And the women didn't kill Johnny.
Was it the road? I don't know. Was it rock and roll? I don't think so.
But God, God, God...would never...kill...Johnny Cash
He had a train to catch.
He had a date with death
And we've all got a train to catch.
-Sage Francis

Just as a side note I believe Merle Haggard was in attendance at that very concert.

/the more you know

T.rex: i came here to see how quickly some original genius would paste the pic of Johnny giving the finger. 9th person in.

Why would you want to use an awesome picture of the artist being discussed in the thread. How lame can you get... look at that tool posting relevant pictures.

go away... if you hurry you may be able to catch the 309 or maybe the orange county special

How many performers would do concerts in prisons today? And how many would empathize with the convicts?

I can't think of any.

Ahhh, Johnny Cash. The man who recorded 5 cool songs and hundreds of novelty songs, gospel hymns, and songs about choo-choos.

kungfu jesus with a side of lime, relevant? I'm sorry, but that picture will be posted in every fark Johnny Cash article no matter the content of the article.

I would've jumped on those trains you told me too, but Casey Jones stopped me on the one, and John Henry hadn't yet built the track for the other.

Sure do miss seeing Johnny and June. Too many country greats gone...Johnny, Conway, Porter, Waylon.

Too bad that a Beegee had to up and burn Johnny's home in a ring of fire.

Artist.

He showed all of the symptoms.

T.rex: i came here to see how quickly some original genius would paste the pic of Johnny giving the finger. 9th person in.

Blow me. That was posted in response to another douche being an asshole and I thought it was quite appropriate to let Johnny himself let that moron know what a twat he was being. You should probably scroll back up and let Johnny tell you the same thing.

/never claimed I was original or a genius
//just a guy who hates pompous assholes

wtf did he pull out of the cup or whatever?

frostus: That was posted in response to another douche being an asshole and I thought it was quite appropriate to let Johnny himself let that moron know what a twat he was being.

Wow. The Johnny worship apparently now extends to speaking on his behalf, or perhaps fantasizing that one is himself Johnny Cash.

Sorry, but Johnny Cash wouldn't have been reading Fark in the first place. He would have been having sex or drinking (or talking over a guitar and calling it "singing").

You're still super-cool in your own special way, though.

Angel of Death: Sorry, but Johnny Cash wouldn't have been reading Fark in the first place. He would have been having sex or drinking (or talking over a guitar and calling it "singing").

I don't actually worship Johnny Cash, but I do have the common sense to realize how talented he was. And you're right, he wouldn't be reading Fark. Once he heard how dismissive you were of his music he'd probably be kicking you in the balls.

/if you had any, that is

RIP, Mr. Cash.

Angel of Death: I had trouble hearing the song over the sound of Johnny Cash being unbelievably overrated and inexplicably worshipped.

YOUR FARKING WHORE MOUTH. SHUT IT.

Glad to see johnny still brings out the best in people

HellblazerPrime: Angel of Death: I had trouble hearing the song over the sound of Johnny Cash being unbelievably overrated and inexplicably worshipped.

YOUR FARKING WHORE MOUTH. SHUT IT.

Motherfarking THIS!

Why all the Johnny Cash hate in this thread? The man was a true giant. A man with tremendous charisma and talent. Someone in this thread said we won't see the likes of him again and we won't.

And oh yeah, that's not lip synching.

Angel of Death: frostus: That was posted in response to another douche being an asshole and I thought it was quite appropriate to let Johnny himself let that moron know what a twat he was being.

Wow. The Johnny worship apparently now extends to speaking on his behalf, or perhaps fantasizing that one is himself Johnny Cash.

Sorry, but Johnny Cash wouldn't have been reading Fark in the first place. He would have been having sex or drinking (or talking over a guitar and calling it "singing").

You're still super-cool in your own special way, though.

Angel, you lost. Get over it. You are excused from this thread.

/kthxbye

Actually, I think Mr. Cash might read Fark.

He'd write a song about a flaccid internet tough guy that insulted him in a forum, and about how he went to the fool's house that night, beat the everloving crap of him, then stole his woman.

:D

He'd call it, "Pick Up Them Teeth, Tough Guy.".

... and the big finale is Johnny winds up broken hearted because she's inflatable.

Great_Milenko: Ahhh, Johnny Cash. The man who recorded 5 cool songs and hundreds of novelty songs, gospel hymns, and songs about choo-choos.

Says the guy who got his screen name from an ICP album...

you lost your right to discuss music the minute you (apparently)decided ICP was "awesome."

jwhite33: How many performers would do concerts in prisons today? And how many would empathize with the convicts?

I can't think of any.

Public Enemy has.