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Friday, April 13, 2012

Giants: Brian Wilson’s new ink—Johnny Cash

Meh. Just once I’d like to see someone get a Malcolm Yelvington tattoo.

Brian Wilson got a new tattoo over the winter.

You know that famous photo of Johnny Cash? The one taken during a sound check at Folsom Prison? The one where he’s sending a special, one-fingered message to the photographer?

Yep. It’s on Wilson’s calf. In remarkable detail, too.

So Wilson won’t need a knee-jerk response whenever he’s asked if he’s healthy. He can just point to his calf. Message received.

...Given what we’ve seen, I’d say sure. There’s every reason to be a bit skittish about Brian Wilson. But don’t be surprised if he finds a way to get the job done. Or if he points to his new tattoo when you ask him a question.

Repoz Posted: April 13, 2012 at 05:36 AM | 34 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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   1. Bhaakon Posted: April 13, 2012 at 05:53 AM (#4105426)
He walks the lineup.
   2. Adward Posted: April 13, 2012 at 06:23 AM (#4105427)
Man in Black Ink(3).
   3. Boxkutter Posted: April 13, 2012 at 07:39 AM (#4105433)
If you're going to write an article about a tattoo, one would expect you to accompany the article with a picture of said tattoo.
   4. Tom Nawrocki Posted: April 13, 2012 at 08:47 AM (#4105448)
Wilson looked terrible against the Rockies yesterday, and I don't just mean his played-out beard.
   5. Lassus Posted: April 13, 2012 at 09:14 AM (#4105460)
I am so tired of Johnny Cash.
   6. tshipman Posted: April 13, 2012 at 10:13 AM (#4105504)
I don't want to read another article about Brian Wilson until his ERA is under 2.

   7. Don't want the truth; just wanna see some dingers Posted: April 13, 2012 at 10:59 AM (#4105569)
I am so tired of Johnny Cash.


That's impossible. He's probably my third all-time favorite artist after the Beach Boys and Marvin Gaye
   8. Dangerous Dean Posted: April 13, 2012 at 11:00 AM (#4105570)
I will never get tired of Cash
   9. YR Misses Reggie Bars Posted: April 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM (#4105599)
Johnny Cash was awesome. Hate Cash, hate America.
   10. JoeC Posted: April 13, 2012 at 11:27 AM (#4105603)
I can see getting tired of Rick Rubin-flavored Cash. But you can always go back to the Sun era.
   11. A triple short of the cycle Posted: April 13, 2012 at 12:25 PM (#4105654)
Wilson looked terrible against the Rockies yesterday

Maybe he just needs to get rhythm.
   12. spike Posted: April 13, 2012 at 12:28 PM (#4105660)
Malcolm Yelvington was a terrific proto-rockabilly performer that I had the good fortune to meet in the cafe across from Sun studios back in the 90's. A very nice man, and I have always loved his music.

A fine take take on Stick McGhee's Drinkin' Wine Spodee-odee
   13. Lassus Posted: April 13, 2012 at 12:57 PM (#4105686)
Perhaps I'm tired of the cult of Cash, more accurately.

I would liken it to people being tired of the cult of Apple. I know he's great, but please, for the love of god, will everyone who thinks so please shut up about it for a day or so.

Personal, subjective, YMMV, no question.
   14. PreservedFish Posted: April 13, 2012 at 01:01 PM (#4105691)
There are an awful lot of people out here in SF who love Johnny Cash but have never listened to any other country music.
   15. robinred Posted: April 13, 2012 at 01:41 PM (#4105735)
Johnny Cash rules.

Sorry Lassus. But Cash was one of the first musicians I was aware of as a very small child and I love the guy.
   16. gef the talking mongoose Posted: April 13, 2012 at 01:44 PM (#4105741)
Malcolm Yelvington was a terrific proto-rockabilly performer that I had the good fortune to meet in the cafe across from Sun studios back in the 90's.


Lucky you! The couple of times I & an ex-gf were there about 20 years ago, we only saw a few German tourists. Or maybe they were Japanese; those Axis Powers people all look alike, y'know.
   17. gef the talking mongoose Posted: April 13, 2012 at 01:45 PM (#4105745)
I would liken it to people being tired of the cult of Apple. I know he's great, but please, for the love of god, will everyone who thinks so please shut up about it for a day or so.


Lassus is worse than Castro.
   18. Fred Lynn Nolan Ryan Sweeney Agonistes Posted: April 13, 2012 at 01:50 PM (#4105754)
There are an awful lot of people out here in SF who love Johnny Cash but have never listened to any other country music.

Seems like it. Sad but true.
Although some years ago I caught a club show with Billy Lee Riley, and the place was packed. Wanda Jackson and Willie Nelson have done well recently here also.
   19. A triple short of the cycle Posted: April 13, 2012 at 01:58 PM (#4105761)
I can certainly see where Lassus and PreservedFish, as well as robinred, are coming from. In the original context, Johnny Cash was revolutionary and bad ass. Now, he is just a cliche.

I was into this local (S.F.) country bad a few years back, The McAllisters, but they called it quits. The Crosstops were fun too, though maybe not strictly country.
   20. Bob Evans Posted: April 13, 2012 at 02:05 PM (#4105773)
Personal, subjective, YMMV, no question.

Totally agree. Love me the Sun stuff, but jeez, where's the Eddie Cochran cult?
   21. JoeC Posted: April 13, 2012 at 02:24 PM (#4105800)
Personal, subjective, YMMV, no question.

Totally agree. Love me the Sun stuff, but jeez, where's the Eddie Cochran cult?


And George Jones was a bigger badass than Cash, with better songwriting and one of the great voices of the century. He's never really rocked, though, and he didn't hang out with Bob Dylan, and a lot of his badassery hurt people.
   22. Fred Lynn Nolan Ryan Sweeney Agonistes Posted: April 13, 2012 at 02:26 PM (#4105806)
Totally agree. Love me the Sun stuff, but jeez, where's the Eddie Cochran cult?

No doubt still marking April 16 by tracking down cab driver George Martin and beating him up.
   23. PreservedFish Posted: April 13, 2012 at 03:03 PM (#4105865)
I can certainly see where Lassus and PreservedFish, as well as robinred, are coming from. In the original context, Johnny Cash was revolutionary and bad ass. Now, he is just a cliche.


I wasn't making any type of judgement, just an observation.

I do understand where Lassus is coming from. I also understand why Johnny Cash has greater appeal for non-country types than does, say, Waylon Jennings. It's just a funny situation, that Cash is broadly recognized as an absolute master, but few of his influences, peers or followers are paid any attention to. (Among liberal coastal types, of course)
   24. spike Posted: April 13, 2012 at 03:52 PM (#4105943)
He's never really rocked, though,

Possum started out as a rocker for the Starday label, and did a number of rockabilly records as "Thumper" Jones.

I can never discuss George without directing folks to his greatest triumph of slant rhymes and metaphors - I've got an aching in my heart, and arson on my mind...
   25. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Griffin (Vlad) Posted: April 13, 2012 at 04:20 PM (#4105980)
Whatever it looks like, it's got to be better than Alan Belcher's Johnny Cash tattoo.

Even Johnny looks shocked by how badly that one turned out.
   26. spike Posted: April 13, 2012 at 05:04 PM (#4106057)
Good lord, that looks more like Darth Vader unmasked or Christopher Reeve post accident.
   27. Infinite Joost (Voxter) Posted: April 13, 2012 at 05:41 PM (#4106112)
I imagine that this is where we'll be with Bruce Springsteen in about thirty years: people fetishizing his authenticity, me coming to dislike an artist I used to love cos I'm so tired of his cult.
   28. spike Posted: April 13, 2012 at 07:40 PM (#4106225)
Why wait? I'm there now
   29. Infinite Joost (Voxter) Posted: April 13, 2012 at 08:02 PM (#4106239)
I wanna hear his Rick Rubin recordings before I get sad.
   30. PreservedFish Posted: April 13, 2012 at 08:36 PM (#4106253)
Man, some of those Rick Rubin recordings are terrible. His cover of U2's "One" is sometimes on rotation at my work, and is a source of reliable amusement.
   31. streak of perros Posted: April 13, 2012 at 08:49 PM (#4106259)
Johnny Cash >>> Beatles.
   32. Howie Menckel Posted: April 13, 2012 at 09:08 PM (#4106266)

Johnny Cash is the genuine deal, and no amount of misplaced fanboys can change that.

Don't hate the player, hate the game, as they used to say.

Johnny is the player.

His biography is great - one bizarre life circumstance after another, and he just rolls with it and never seems surprised by what's around the next corner. Actually, Willie Nelson's is a very different story but with that some amount of "how can one man experience so much crazy shiat."

   33. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: April 13, 2012 at 09:27 PM (#4106278)
Johnny Cash is one of the top musicians ever to get the shit beaten out of him by an ostrich. Arguably THE greatest.
   34. Karl from NY Posted: April 13, 2012 at 09:31 PM (#4106282)
If you're going to write an article about a tattoo, one would expect you to accompany the article with a picture of said tattoo.

I bet MLB wouldn't allow the picture online without their approval.

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