What song was Johnny Cash playing when he kicked out the footlights at the Opry?

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I gotta know.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

I hope it was his song about John Henry.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

i hope it was "who let the dogs out"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

O PRY?

― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

Roxy, have you ever read the story about how he beat his hands bloody while recording the "John Henry" track? He said he was so zoned out on pills that he didn't notice. I think this is in "Man in Black."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

srsly? never heard that. that's interesting.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

Johnny beat his hands bloody doing WHAT? Clapping them?

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:09 (nineteen years ago)

I think it was between songs, actually, at a show late in 1965. He was pissed about an equipment malfunction (and likely in a chemically altered state), and dragged his mic stand along the lights. Like most mythical events, it probably wasn't that dramatic when it happened.

― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hoodoo, he beats metal bars together on the song, which is about eight minutes long.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

He doesn't beat them all the way through, but there are several passages of it.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 24 August 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. I wonder if he beats his hands to a pulp, or just, like, got a blister.

"I told the whole world I got stabbed in the butt, but it was a toilet paper cut."

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 24 August 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

faced

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