Recently on TV interview in which Ringo was asked about the famous Candlestick Park last ever concert show in 1966 and he said that: “…what was also great, beside we played really well, was that we met Johnny Cash. He came to the gig.”
According to Larry Kane, the meeting took place the year before at the Cow Palace in San Francisco:
The Beatles gave two performances at the Cow Palace in San Francisco on this day. It was the 10th and final stop on their 1965 tour of North America.
A press conference was held at Cow Palace between the matinee and evening concerts. The Beatles were also visited backstage by Johnny Cash and Joan Baez.
The Beatles performed their standard set of 12 songs at the concerts: the shorter version of Twist And Shout, followed by She’s A Woman, I Feel Fine, Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Ticket To Ride, Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby, Can’t Buy Me Love, Baby’s In Black, I Wanna Be Your Man, A Hard Day’s Night, Help! and I’m Down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHNXQ18Z9TI
54. Lend Me Your Comb — The Beatles, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, George Harrison, Paul McCartney
December 5, 2016
This week, we return to the “Million Dollar Quartet” and take our own deep dive to investigate two figures well-known to the Beatles: Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins. We theorize on the distribution of Sun Records throughout Europe in the fifties, how many times Carl Perkins was in the studio with the Beatles, and solo encounters between one or more of these rock icons. In one show, we manage to touch down in New Jersey, Hamburg, London, Jamaica, Tennessee before returning home to Houston.
And Paul on working with Johnny Cash (fragments also used on the podcast link):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpG5eYgjnJQ
I have found this (poor quality) clip of John’s famous car journey through London with Bob Dylan in ’66. Cash (a big friend of Dylan’s of course) is mentioned right at the start of the clip and John gives a thumbs up and references “Big River” – one of my favourites from Johnny’s early repertoire….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV6qqE8aGlg
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Sources
“https://www.beatlesbible.com/1965/08/31/live-cow-palace-san-francisco-2/”
One of my favorite moments during the Twickenham sessions (i.e. the “Get Back” sessions from the first few weeks of January 1969) is when Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr rave about Cash’s “At Folsom Prison” album and how insane it sounded to them, particularly the way the prisoners were reacting (or as Ringo re-enacted it, “‘Tell ’em Johnny!!'”)
I only wish that Paul and Johnny would have done some music together . It would have been epic