Cash'd Out
Cash'd Out
San Diego, CA
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| Status | Cash'd Out has a show coming up on 11/21/2009 at 08:00 PM @ Knitting Factory (fo... in Boise, ID http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/6852850 |
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Cash'd Out is the premier Johnny Cash tribute band in the world, bar none. Cash'd Out is the only tribute band endorsed by and linked to the official Johnny Cash website.
Bill Miller (owner of johnnycash.com and JC's best friend for 25 years) requested Cash'd Out perform at the opening of the Johnny Cash Exhibit at the Fender Museum. Not a bad compliment from the man who has lived and breathed Johnny Cash since first hearing him in 1969! Not only that, they bear a striking resemblance to Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Three!
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Cash'd Out Review
By Josh Board
Lots of tribute bands come down from L.A.to play here. But there's a local tribute band that I saw play their second and third shows after forming. They are called Cash'd Out, and they do a Johnny Cash tribute.
What blew me away was how much singer Doug Benson looked and sounded like Cash. It wasn't a big crowd at Buster Daly's in City Heights for their debut, but down the street a few weeks later at the Tower, the place was packed. Doug tells me, "Yeah, we can thank Mike Halloran for that. 949 FM mentioned the show four or five times."
Some tribute bands just rely on wigs and make up, but he just wears a black suit and pulls it off convincingly. I asked when he realized he sounded like Cash. "It was in San Felipe, BC. Someone had a tape of Cash that never came out of the deck. We were all singing. After plenty of Pacifico beer around the camp fire singing at 4:00 a.m., my friend Paul said I sounded like him. He said, 'Tell me a story about the mud and the blood.' We all laughed. That was seven years ago. For the next three years I was traveling for a fiber optic company in Europe and the States. Nights were lonely on the road, and I'd go to a bar and sometimes do karaoke. At least three people each time would say I ought to be in Vegas. I picked up a guitbox and taught myself some chords. I placed an ad in the Reader for a guitarist that sounded like Luther Perkins [Cash's guy in the early days]. Kevin Manuel answered the ad and became my guitarist. The first thing he said is 'You know you're playing everything in the wrong key, right?' And the rest, you might say, is just the beginning."
Stand up bassist Sean Glithero has been in the local bands PsydeCar, the Shepherds, and Color Blind. Kevin played in bands with Sean for much of the past 10 years.
When I asked about the drummer that was playing barefoot, the band sent me an email that said, "He's been in and out of prison for the last six years, and recently released on parole. He's not allowed within five miles of a bar, but we figure if we put a hat on his head the police just may not see him. We call him Barefoot Country Ken. He's always drunk as a skunk, even at practice. The fuzz will never know his real name."
When I get Doug on the phone he says, "A bunch of songs we can't do due to instrumentation. I need to learn harmonica for Orange Blossom Special. We need horns for Ring of Fire, and maybe some back up singers." I ask about the legalities of doing Cash material. "I think you can do anything live as long as you don't record it and sell it as your own. And Johnny even said in interviews, that he stole other peoples songs." And considering the fact that local band "Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash," were given an endorsement by Cash himself, no problems are likely to arise. I told Doug that Beatles tribute bands often look silly in their wigs and suits, and metal tribute bands look weird in the spandex. He responded, "I get nervous before I go on stage. I don't feel silly, since there's no spandex. Just a black suit and a pompadour."
I tell them for only doing three shows, I was completely blown away by how much they sounded like early Johnny Cash. Doug responded, "After our first show, a guy named Jeremiah approached and wanted us to write songs for an independent film he's producing called 'Gothic Cowboy.' And, I recently heard that Cash has a brother that lives in San Diego, and that he wants to see one of our shows. What an honor that would be."
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