2011年10月10日星期一

I was among the top five guitarists in there

I was taking a leak, and he walked up beside me with a flask of wine underneath Cheap Rosetta Stone his coat and said, "Haggard, you want a drink of this wine?" Those were the first words he ever said to me, but I had been in awe of him since I saw him play on New Years Day in 1958, at San Quentin Prison, where I was an inmate. Hed lost his voice the night before over in Frisco and wasnt able to sing very good; I thought hed had it, but he won over the prisoners. He had the right attitude: He chewed gum, looked arrogant and flipped the bird to the guards — he did everything the prisoners wanted to do. He was a mean mother from the South who was there because he loved us. When he walked away, everyone in that place had become a Johnny Cash fan. There were 5,000 inmates in San Quentin and about thirty guitar players; I was among the top five guitarists in there. The day after Johnnys show, man Rosetta Stone V3, every guitar player in San Quentin was after me to teach them how to play like him. It was like how, the day after a Muhammad Ali fight, everybody would be down in the yard shadowboxing; that day, everyone was trying to learn "Folsom Prison Blues." Then when my career caught fire, he asked me to be a guest on his variety show on ABC. He, June and I were discussing what I should do on the show, and he said, "Haggard, let me tell the people youve been to prison. Itll be the biggest thing that will happen to you in your life, and the tabloids will never be able to hurt you. Its called telling the truth: If you start off telling the truth, your fans never forget it." I told him, "Being an ex-convict is the most shameful thing. Its against the grain to talk about it." But he was right — it set a fire under me that hadnt been there Rosetta Stone Chinese before.We knew hed been sick, and wed thought he was going to die so many times over the last couple years — if you want to get really serious, hed been near death for decades. Johnny Cash lived in constant, serious pain: On a scale of one to ten, it was somewhere around an eight for the last eight years of his life. He dealt himself some terrible years where he didnt do the right things. He didnt eat right, so his bones got brittle; his jaw broke during some dental surgery and never healed. He lived as an example of a man in pain, going from one stage of bad Cheap Rosetta Stone V3 health to another, but he held his head up the whole way.

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