Johnny Cash - Heavy Metal

[brucebut1]

jbbutterfield says it's a guy clark song from way back,from the album "old friends"

[KBKirk]

...ain't nuthin' but about 170,000 pounds of steel....could be I love the way it feels....

..until one has experienced it, one never knows.....

[shotgunwillie68]

its so weird to see cash without a guitar..

[NOSFERATU904]

Heavy metal ain`t no rock n roll? Grunge and industrial must be though.:)

[Celtic44Wolf]

Just for anyone that don't know....A CAT D 10 is a 700 hp bulldozer. Drove a D 6 once....A D 10 is a huge earth moving machine!

[FalconPowerful]

I'm an operator of heavy earth moving equipment, a Johnny Cash fan (...and a metal head, lol)... I've gotta admit, after the 29 years that I've grown up listening to 'the man in black' (whether I liked it or not - thanks dad :-D ) this man just just keeps giving me more and more joy :-) ... Long Live J.C.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Koivlachance]

While Cashs musical influences lay deep within the roots of American country music, he was always open to new musical trends. In the mid-1980s he began to take an interest in heavy metal music, attending concerts by Metallica, Iron Maiden and Ozzy Osbourne, and spoke out against various attempts to censor rock music lyrics.

[JohnMcClainBaby]

@Koivlachance interesting. source on this?

[Koivlachance]

copy my message and search it in google :P

[jiggity75]

"Could be the money made, could be the power, could be the way I love the way it feels." every good dozer man feels that way.

[solarstar101]

he literally is talking about a vehicle guys lol not about the metal genre

[warfreak1980]

god damn,that voice of his...Johnny Cash was and will forever be the biggest of country/cowboy...he and David Allan Coe

[CashForGash]

0:34 mouthful :O, machine-gun lyrics lol either that or Johnny experimented with Rap :)

[mallamoozoo]

And i think he just mumbled something at 2:22 - heavy metal people dont do that!

[JohnnyCashShow]

@mallamoozoo

He says " Jim's doin' it now." He means his secound guitarist Jim Soldi.

[mallamoozoo]

Cool enough but i prefer heavy metal!

[MoMuk9]

cool trucker song by the master!

[diosoth]

You didn't listen to the lyrics. He's singing about a large vehicle... a large, heavy, metal vehicle.

[pansliwa]

the big old D-10 Caterpillar :D

[JoshRA]

so then whey does he awkwardly throw in that "heavy metal don't mean rock & roll to me" line in the chorus. What the hell does that have to do with a big machine!

[uglymoon78]

Because that big caterpillar is heavy metal for him, literally "heavy" metal, don't you see?

[JohnnyCashShow]

Great video! Thanks for posting!

[Voivodian89]

Johnny Cash will live forever in our hearts...

Thanks Master

[vortexspiral]

Cool performance. Thx for posting.

[moozikluvr]

this was recorded in 87?! wow! why wasnt this video on MTV? you know, right after the scorpion video& before def leppard. this is great stuff. "here i am, rockin like a d10 cat".....

[Riberaberubu]

who knew Mr. Cash invented heavy metal! and look where its going nowadays

[PlastikBlakLawnJocky]

lol, invented heavy metal

[Rushworshiper92]

heavy metal was around way before this time dude.

[toleboothprick]

Heavy metal originated off from the blues

[ringoffirejc]

Lovely song. Too bad more people didn't like his Mercury years as much as us true fans did.

[Jorjoh1]

this vidoe is so ghostly

[uglymoon78]

Jim Soldi is a wonderful guitar picker, complemented Wooton very well.

[Canonfotografen]

Really great!

Thanks for sharing.

[dzarna]

great, thx

[johnnycashjr1]

heyy man thnkx 4 all these vids u have...luv them

[uglymoon78]

This is exciting! Never saw him do this song live before. Is it from a taped show, or just a short clip?

[Endiman1980]

i have just some avi clips from Nashville Now's