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Checked out the movie yet, gang? I did, or tried to (can`t make myself sit still for that long).
I have a question about the scene in which the Tennessee Three are making thier first cut in the recording studio. Luther Perkins is shown with a guitar that has a bag of sorts on the back and sides of it. Was this a shield of some sort that they needed to reduce feedback or somethin`? Maybe you older guys may know.
Yeah, I`m a die-hard Johnny Cash fan.

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Don't know about the guitar but I sure loved the movie.

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Joe Beaver
Maker of Sawdust

didn't noticed the guitar, but sung Cash songs for a week!!

-- thanks for the tip -- I just got back from Blockbuster and thought about renting it -- next time. I was having trouble visualizing Resse Witherspoon as June Cash..

I saw the movie but cant really remember that scene all that well, it figures that a luthier would glean that from the movie, though .
I was a little confused by the ending of WTL, it seemed like an odd choice to end it on that scene and leave out the 70's, and onward. It seemed more like a story of Johnny and June than a bio-type picture, which is Ok but not what I was suspecting.
Cheers
Charliewood

[QUOTE=Anthony Z] I was having trouble visualizing Resse Witherspoon as June Cash..[/QUOTE]

Reese is a great June Carter. The only difference I could see is Reese sings a little better. Hope that doesn't offend anyone but it is my honest opinion
Great Movie!

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Joe Beaver
Maker of Sawdust

Yeah, the story line started to get a little off track from the way I remember it, but we gotta remember that I was born in `63 and was pretty young to really relate the goings on, aside of what I heard Dad talk about. I do remember trying to sing along with "The Whirl and The Suck" though. That`s off of the album "From Sea To Shining Sea" for those who don`t know.

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The scene that struck me as the most disturbing was the bathroom breakdown where the Martin met it's demise. It just seems criminal to me to destroy a guitar in that manner, or any really! Double hex on the Garth video where he and another player "high-five their guitars. Shameful! Liked the movie, though. Not traumatized.

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DES - Shepherd, MI

Coe, maybe the bag was because those cowboys wear such big belt buckles.

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Coe, I can't help you either. But it was one of my all time favorite movies. I was born a little late ('69) and I grew up in a pretty strict house where "that type" of music wasn't listened. (sidenote: you sould have seen the look on my mom's face when I brought home my first KISS album)
Anyway, I heard many interviews about the movie and it was not intended to be about Johnny per say but rather the relationship between he and June. Which is why is stops so abruptly at a peak in his career.
I bought the soundtrack and admit that I actually like Jauqain Phoenix's (sp of his first name?) singing a bit better. He doesn't sliiiiiiiiiide into the notes as much as Johnny did.
But one song wasn't on the soundtrack and I don't know the title to find it anywhere else. Maybe someone can help me. It played during the closing credits, June and Johnny are singing it together, sort of a back and forth song, and June calls Johnny a "long legged guitar pickin' man". That cracked me up. Anyone know what song it is?

Thanks for starting this thread Coe! It reminded me that I had bought the DVD a couple of weeks ago at Sam's and still hadn't watched it.

Watched it last night and thought it was a pretty good flick.

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Dave Rector
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I have watched it too and reminisced about the good old dayswhen we could have a glimpse of one of his shows, what a legend! I probably learned my first guitar chords because of him, like many of us i'd believe!

I really liked the movie, especially the quality of the acting. I'm old enough to remember most of his career. I remember listening to "Ring of Fire" while my dad and I were cutting and hauling firewood deep in the woods.   I also remember, very clearly, the day Johnny was arrested for smuggling drugs inside his guitar.

Ron

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Hi Paul, I think the name of that song you are talking about is called (Jackson). and that was a good movie.
                       Red

How can that be possible? Did you say chord(S)? As in plural? Then you didn't learn them from Johnny 'cause he only knew one.

Yeah, should have said i had learned to play my first notes though i still can't read any ! After 26 years of playing by ear i think i'm gonna pay for some lessons, playing by ear is not only hard on your ears if you strum your guitar with 'em like Rod true says , it's also a pain in the butt to pick up yer glasses from the floor when the string gets too far behind you ear!

Paul, the song is called...ready...?

Long Legged Guitar Pickin' Man.

Iknow, it was right on the tip of your tongue!

Here's the lyrics.

Long Legged Guitar Pickin' Man

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thanks wes!

So out all you luthiers, a stuck-in-wannabe-mode, done nothing by way of building guitars, hack at playing guitar (although not a half bad singer), shop rat welder like me was the only one bothered by the exploding Martin! I guess my wife is right.....I'm wierd!!

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DES - Shepherd, MI

Darin, I'm sure it was a stunt double.

Ron

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Ron Wisdom

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PHEEEWWWW!!!!

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DES - Shepherd, MI

It was actually a newer Martin and it coincidentally just exploded, just like all the other ones I fixed this winter
Evan

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Hey Coe,
I ain't seen the movie yet but I was wondering if what you are talking about is the Leather Covers that a lot of those guys used on their guitars.

Luther Perkins, Earnest Tubb, Elvis, Waylon Jennings, to name a few that used the covers. They were cool for the time and helped protect the guitar. I don't know if there was another function for them or not.

[QUOTE=Darin Spayd] So out all you luthiers, a stuck-in-wannabe-mode, done nothing by way of building guitars, hack at playing guitar (although not a half bad singer), shop rat welder like me was the only one bothered by the exploding Martin! I guess my wife is right.....I'm wierd!! [/QUOTE]
Darin, except for the welding part, our profiles seem pretty similar, and though I haven't seen WTL yet, smashing guitars has bothered me since Pete Townsend of The Who made it popular, so you're not alone. Man, I could have USED those guitars!!! On the other hand, it does make room for new ones, so maybe it doesn't bother the people that are building them, as much.