Waylon Jennings DEAD
 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2002Feb13.html

It was all about drinkin and fightin. Next to Johnny Cash, he was the fucking man.

Fuck! That ain't right!

doesn't happen often, but I agree with [Labret]

I'm going to have to break out the old Waylon and Willie stuff and maybe even crack open "16 Greatest Hits"

Never heard of him.

Pretty soon all of the Highway Men will be gone. This is a sad day. The new coutry has some good stuff but nothing that compares to these gays. :(

I think he was Bob Denvers Band Partner.

an American original, RIP Waylon.

Nz

Bob Denver or John Denver?

Yeah, Waylon was a great singer. I remember the days of being young listening to my mom jamming his music, talk about a flashback.

R.I.P. Waylon

Im downloading his music off Morpheus now to see if he was any good.

Wow, unbeliebable.

On the same page with Labret

This sucks

You guys who dont know who he was..He was the voice in "DuKes of Hazzard" and sang the theme song that might ring a bell. Also escaped death once by giving up his seat on the plane that Buddy Holly went down on,he was the bass player on that tour.

how on earth did that character become cool enough to have brett's last name?

That's about right...country is filled with nothing but a bunch of pretty boy fags...LOL

God damn just watch how those fuckers dance...no wonder they're always gay bashing...trying to protect their cover.

eros

Before anyone gets their panties in a wad...I like Jennings, Nelson and Cash...but the new guys are a bunch of fags...lol..I was just having fun with Aaron's Freudian slip :D

Bob Denver was Gilligan!

http://www.allposters.com/images/77/039_63376_a.jpg

:)

everyone knows I'm really into the extreme hardcore metal, punk, etc. but I'm also huge on the old school country:
Johnny Cash (kind of the punk rock cowboy)
Waylon Jennings
Merle Haggard
Marty Robbins
Hank Snow
Johhny Horton
Willie Nelson (recntly saw him in Vegas, still one of the best all around performers/musicians out there)
Tom T Hall
Roy Clark (arguably one of the best all around musicians of all time, forget his Hee Haw days, he plays 10 instruments and plays them all well)

all pure musicians and and great songwriters....

The day Johnny Cash passes on is the day I'll probably be away for the computer for awhile...with endless Johnny in the cd player all day long

Sykk took the words right out of my mouth.

Any country singer born in the last 30 years needs to be silenced.

I think we are all forgetting another great country western singer.
George "No Show" Jones : )


eros

you're right my bad...and he's also a party animal to boot...gotta love the old cowboys who drank, raised hell, got into fights, etc.

they could teach these gangsta fucks a thing or two about bringing the noise ;)))

I never ever thought I would see Tom T Hall posted on GFY...especially by SykkBoy :-) What a refreshing site. I don't listen to much stuff that's even remotely country now, but you do have to give respect where it's due. Shit, all of these guys tought me a lot growing up.

These guys were all hardcore...telling it the way it is...and changing a lot of rules in their day...they were recording with Elvis and Buddy Holly before rock and roll existed, they were having fun at the start of it all.

It is a sad day. And like Aaron said, the Highwaymen will all be gone soon. It really sucks...

I have a very hard time believing that I made that typo. I tried to edit it after seeing your post. Thanx for locking us out of the edit feature after an hour John.

This is a sad day.. i learned how to drink to this guys music ;-(((

Grew up listening to his music with my father and grandfather..
it sucks ass

IMO there never has been and never will be a better country
star than Johnny Cash but Waylon Jennings is undoubtablely
a close second.

That sucks ass. I like Techno, and I like hard stuff... And I hate new country, but Waylon, and Cash and the boys get my respect. I like the old-school country quite a lot.

RIP Waylon, I hope they've got lots of H where you are.

Cheers,
Backov

this comes as a HUGE surprise to me.... since I didn't know he was even still alive.

I can not believe that no one mentioned David Allan Coe.

Waylon was among a select few for sure.

hmm, I'd have to add Kris Kristopherson to the list as well...

Backov, my harddrive puked that had that flier, I'll make up a new one and send it over :)

On-top, hell yeah, my old punkband used to cover "Sneaky Snake" from Tom T Hall as well as "Ring Of Fire" from Johnny Cash and "Dang Me" from Merle Haggard...and I just got done listening to "Big Iron" from Marty Robbins...

and Dr. Dre needs to take a listen to Johnny Cash who brags in a song "I shot a man, just to watch him die" that's hardcore ;)

willie and waylon and the boys were the rebels. they were anti-country in a world of lorretta and conways...y'all don't know shit about country music

sigh...

Many Sykk, I couldn't agree with you more.

I thought I was the only weirdo that loved hardcore and classic country both. But it's not that unusual, really. The same raw power, honesty and painful truth can be found in both genres.

You've got a great list, I'll add only two more...

Hank Williams Sr.
Lefty Frizzell

Two hard livin' muthers that died way before their time and who were huge inspirations to all the great country singers that followed.

Nz

Damn, those all just bring back memories from being a kid. Everyone mentioned here has taught me a little about the meaning of life...

Tom T. Hall said it best..."Son, it's faster horses, younger women, older whiskey, and more money."

Uh yeah, nice coke habit, too :(

like I've said, these guys nowadays know nothing about "being hardcore" ;)))

and yup, forgot Hank Williams Sr. and Lefty Frizell....depending upon my mood, I might even toss a little Eddie Arnold into the cd player or MP3 player ;))

but no goddamn Slim Whitman ;))))

who in the fuck is waylan jennings?

i used to beat up this ghetto kid in NY names Waymon Yearby, are they related?

lol


this is some damn good cristal!

It was man music for men. Drinkin, fightin, workin, and fuckin. And all the bullshit they each bring into your life.

Its like blues for pissed off white guys.

man don't diss the Slimsky!!!

Nobody can do the Indian Love Call like yodeling Mr. Whitman!!

Eddie Arnold, excellent. Any chance for some Jim Reeves?

Nz

You are oooooold school. Thats like my Grandmother old school. Bad ass.

LoL! That's a pretty good description...

Indian Love Call? Is that what they're calling that high pitched screaming coming from the jailhouse shower room now?

I saw Slim's son a couple years ago...looks and sounds just like his dad...can't quite hit the high notes like his dad though

I can handle Jim Reeves

in fact, I enjoy country bars (the ones with the old stuff on the jukebox) those little cowgirls are fucking hot in their tight little jeans and denim skirts... ;)))

I made a new friend.

Nz:thumbsup

you're not getting my BudLight ;)))

Shit !!! I thought that was a pic of Oscer :1orglaugh

Nobody mentioned CONWAY TWITTY ???

WTF ?!?

Ya! And no Charlie Rich? Can't forget the "Silver Fox"

Btw, speaking of Johnny Cash, he once proposed to my mom many many a long year ago, when he toured through her hometown of Fort Frances Ontario. True story, I coulda been CD Cash. Hey, that's not a bad company name!

I webmaster for a local alternative-country singer, and he's got some original pics of Waylon, Jesse Colter, Roy Clark, Mickey Gilley and Johnny Cash and quite a few other old country greats too. Check out http://www.electricrecordings.com and click on "pics"
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And he died on my birthday. Can this week get any crappier?

RIP, Waylon.

old thread

but i hung out with the widow tonight, along with a friend of hers at Dos Gringos in Scottsdale

cool lady...my friend trains her and she met up with us at the bar...talked for a few hours with her

great lady, really nice...good outlook on life

He was supposed to be on the plane that ended up killing Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper.

"Jennings? big break came when he joined Holly's band, and one of the turning points in his life and storied career was his decision to give up a seat on the ill-fated flight that took the lives of Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper on Feb. 3, 1959. That fateful evening has been referred to as ?the day the music died,? the symbolic end of 1950s rock 'n' roll." (http://www.halloffame.org/news/archi...n-mg-0202.html)

I saw Johnny Paycheck (who also died not too long ago) when he was doing a military club tour - I saw him in Rota, Spain, the last stop on the tour. A couple of the women in the crowd I hung out with caught somebody's eye and we ended up in the Fleet Reserve club (kind of like a Navy VFW) in Rota after hours. The last thing I remember of that night was Johnny Paycheck and some Spainard who could sing just about every song Johnny Cash ever wrote, singing "Ring of Fire."

Paycheck was doing his latest single, which had just started to climb the charts back home. It was "Take This Job and Shove It." It went over VERY well at the NCO Club, let me tellya ...

I fly a starship across the Universe divide
And when I reach the other side
I'll find a place to rest my spirit if I can
Perhaps I may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply be a single drop of rain
But I will remain
And I'll be back again, and again and again and again.

Godspeed, Waylon.

Goddamn. That's sad. I grew up country...people say that, but I really did, no shit. Cut N Shoot, Texas. I'm listening to Waylon right now, in memory. :(