Oh no, Johnny Cash's home is burning to the ground!!!!

[Sequoia]

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=3028001


Johnny Cash's longtime lakeside home, a showcase where he wrote much of his famous music and entertained U.S. presidents, music royalty and visiting fans, has been destroyed by fire.

Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, lived in the 13,880-square-foot home from the late 1960s until their deaths in 2003. Barry Gibb, a former member of the Bee Gees, purchased the home in 2006 and had hoped to remodel it and eventually write songs there with his wife.

One firefighter was injured in Tuesday's fire, authorities said.

"So many prominent things and prominent people in American history took place in that house everyone from Billy Graham to Bob Dylan went into that house," said singer Marty Stuart, who lives next door and was married to Cash's daughter, Cindy, in the 1980s.

[ret5hd]

1. Burnt, not burning...the ashes are cold by now.

[xultar]

3. BUHWAWAWA! I was like...OMG It's on fire again!

[Harper_is_Bush]

2. Saw this in the morning. I think it's appropriate.

So long as nobody gets hurt it's not a big deal, but it's fitting. JC would have approved.

[americanstranger]

4. Better it burn down than a damn Bee Gee live there.

That was Johnny and June's house. Period.

- as

[Sequoia]

5. Okay, but still....why didn't the house go to his children?

I knew a guy who told me that the Bee Gees sounded like a bag of cats and now when I hear their disco tunes, that's all I can think of. However, their 1960s songs were pretty good and eerie, like "I Started a Joke".

[dsc]

6. It was sold to the Bee Gees

so presumedly the kids got the money which was left.

[americanstranger]

7. I loved the early Bee Gees.

I can even enjoy parts of 'Saturday Night Fever.' But when they attempted re-doing 'Sgt. Pepper's,' they lost me forever. :)

The house may have gone to his kids - maybe they decided to sell it. I don't know what happened there.

- as

[KamaAina]

8. "I've been down in a burning ring of fire..."

...and it burned, burned, burned, and the flames went higher... :evilgrin: