Were you carrying your NPR totebag with a sack of shit for Johnny and June to sign?
Hey ass!
First of all I don’t have an NPR tote
But no...I wish...a guy who subsequently became a very good friend (I didn’t know him then) was at show and he says Johnny stuck around talking to people, introducing people to his wife! I could have met Johnny Cash...doh..but realistically Cash May be one of the few guys I wouldn’t trouble for an autograph... I don’t think you mess with the man in black
this was in the days I didn’t have a clue...I was so young and green..clueless. I was lucky to be able to get my hands on a ticket and get to a show on time!!! the idea Johnny Cash would stick around to talk to me would have seemed ridiculous...
Pretty sure Sidehatch and I would have fled to Virginia right after show! I was still freaked by DC..although we liked Asylum on U St
A few years later I did procure a legit signed Live at Folsom Prison..
Yeah Mick Fleetwood was standing, towering, right behind me to the left of sound booth but a few feet up
I always cite this show as my favorite but maybe it makes more sense to say in my top 10...I don’t recall that much
Cash played a lot in 96/97 then he got sick and old real fast..the hard living caught up with him...and he was pretty much off the road with a few exceptions
The club had only opened four months prior! I don’t know how many shows I had seen at new 930 prior to the Johnny Cash
I kind of can’t believe it’s been 25 years..half my life...since that show...in 96 I was still drinking little..so it’s not likely I drank too much..highly unlikely actually... not sure why I have few recollections of show other than the Johnny cash revue style of show with June Carter and John Carter Cash..and the train video behind him and fact he had a big band and didn’t play anything I think solo like on the record
Oh and $27.50 was a bargain!!
Not too long after this Chuck Berry played the 930 and I balked at going cause it was $50... which was expensive but still a fantastically huge mistake...like I said: I didn’t have a clue
The cigarette smoke must have been nasty at this show!! I still can’t believe one could smoke during concerts... of course I miss it but on the other hand it would get nasty... I don’t think most people chain smoked or anything cause when you smoked the smoke would virtually attack the people around you.. I mean if you were standing still and having a five minute cigarette that smoke could really bother people
