Nah, I'd rather merge it with the existing thread.jester47 said:(moderators, move this if you want)
Cash was the Man. Everyone from PJ Harvey and Nick Cave to just about any country act worth talking about was influenced by him.JoeBlank said:When I read Cash had been released from the hospital over the weekend, with no details of his condition, I had a bad feeling. Suspected he had gone home to die. His wife passed not too long ago, and I think he lost the will to keep going.
Ritter is a shock. I was finally starting to respect the guy, after Slingblade and some of his more recent stuff.
Tarrasque Wrangler said:And now all three are gone. Some kid will never discover these storytellers, these poets of the downtrodden and the lost. They'll know about rebellion; cash-strapped record execs and MTV's cynical programmers know that leather, tattoos and bad grammar will always sell. But I'm afraid no teenager will know what it is that they're rebelling against.
Tarrasque Wrangler said:I used to write a music column for my school paper. This was back in the early 90s, when bubblegum punk was just arriving as the flavor du jour. I'd get these tapes from 16 year olds who put on a Johnny Rotten sneer and thought that they were rebels. Forget about raw talent, which was usually lacking. Not one of them had the intellect, the attitude, the sheer cojones of what I remembered as the real rebels of my youth. And at the time, all three of them were walking the Earth and waiting for some kid to discover them.
And now all three are gone. Some kid will never discover these storytellers, these poets of the downtrodden and the lost. They'll know about rebellion; cash-strapped record execs and MTV's cynical programmers know that leather, tattoos and bad grammar will always sell. But I'm afraid no teenager will know what it is that they're rebelling against.