One of the most revolutionary live performances of all time, no one had the balls to go into a place like this and put on a great show but Cash. What he did for prison reform in America will never been forgotten.
Hello, how are you doing. I believe you are staying safe. I'm Patti from California. I'm looking for a new friend and i saw you pic here. I hope you don't mind, thank you.
Having spent time in prison the song speaks to my soul, even if J.R spent no time behind bars, he certainly absorbed and felt that energy judging by the response of the guys
He redefined country music and made it relevant through this performance. Every genre has its geniuses and Johnny Cash was as great a genius musically as Bob Dylan or Frank Zappa.
I’m 85 now I was a young man back in 1969. I broke a man up in a street fight did some time in san Quentin. I was there in the back somewhere. Won’t ever forget the atmosphere!
I still can’t believe there used to be a time when a legendary singer could go to a maximum security prison ( San Quentin ) and play songs in front of tons of the most dangerous prisoners at the time and they were right in front of him. Want a legend..
I love Johnny Cash's voice. Looking at these men's faces, not knowing anything about them, whether their incarceration is justified or not, makes me realise they are, after all, human beings. This must have been a great event for them.
Incarceration is a feeling that is so hard to convey, people often overlook how it can change you for the rest of your life, the way the world moves on without you, it’s like your life is thrown into an oboulet
And most of those men that we see , eventually ended up getting out of San Quentin and went on to have kids and grandkids , and I bet they told them all the story of this memory. I bet it is one of the bestest memories they ever had.
The term GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) gets thrown around a lot these days, but Johnny Cash was without a doubt the GOAT! I’ll do everything I can to honor his memory. God bless the man in black
I used to live near San Quentin, in California. I worked in nursing homes for the developmentally disabled, in the Bay Area. I am now retired, and living in New Orleans, Louisiana. Another wonderful and lovely place to retire.
The world is a worse place since we lost Johnny Cash. The man was a 💯 fckn Legend. This planet needs people like JC. I'm from the UK, but shouldn't Johnny Cash's face be on Mount Rushmore. Thanks for everything Johnny 🙏🙏
@@amandajstar Not to sound pessimistic, I don't intend that at all. But I know a lot of folk, even me in some instances, feel our experiences that we learned from gave us wisdom, but left us with a hole in our hearts. Weak as in tormented, cynical, depressive. Even if we know right from wrong, and good from bad, we still hurt, and that's usually referred to as weakness
If this was the only performance that he ever made, it still would’ve been as epic. Notice how this kind of performance has never happened since. Coincidence? 😮
2024 still listening to Johnny Cash even though im in my 20s people say I have old soul and im from Africa Tigray that makes it even more complicated 😊 Johnny lives on for many generations to come 0:19
Earlier on in the performance Cash mentions how this was being filmed for TV, he goes on to say how the TV company will tell you what songs to sing and where to stand, but he then adds "but I'm gonna do what you (the prisoners) want and what *I* want" or words to that effect. So he probably didn't tell anyone that him and the band planned to play this one :)
An incredible masterpiece and one of the most powerful live performances ever. No trash talk, no gangsta sh*t, no autotune, no special effects, no fake fans - just a middle aged man in a plain black suit, sitting down, and playing guitar.
There'll never become another country musician like Johnny Cash. When I was a school kid, far from my home at 1967. I used to listen to the radio and I found Johnny Cash. I was homesick, but Johnny's songs helped me go on and study. Since then I have collected Johnny's recordings. Johnny and June have past away but songs will survive at the very arctic Finnish Lapland. Regards with love from Finnish Lapland.
One of the most iconic, heartbreaking and revolutionary songs ever. Goodebumps hearing the crowd cheering. Johnny sang their thoughts, made them laugh snd cry. Absolute legend. RIP Johnny.
Johnny Cash seemed to know how the inmates felt. Maybe from reading all thier letters. I will always like Johnny. May he R.i.p. because he had a hard life for many years.
This legendary artistic performance by Johnny Cash in San Quentin is one of the things that make me love the United States. respect and admiration from NW Italy.
I’m listening to this song live on Apple Music and here as well but damn make me sad to think all these people already passed away or just about but they had the joy to hear his voice thousand of lives that been in those prison walls man ik it their own fault but damn just to know I’m free makes me happy and blessed
What a man what a humanitarian what a artist rip June and Johnny I can't think of Johnny without June to J r and Roseanne and all the cash Carter family thank you for these videos they don't make men like your dad anymore no putting on airs just johnny
My God,I love it when he sings"San Quentin I Hate Every Inch of You"and all the boys kick off.Brilliant.I was watching a documentary about Johnny where he comes over to the u.k.he travels up to Scotland to trace his ancient family lineage.He goes to Edinburgh and even sees the streets named Cash Lane etc.
If you pay attention Cash is wearing basically what they are wearing, letting them know he is just another one of them for that evening, such a genius.
2 years in jail in Italy. San Quentin & folsom prison blues are my therapy. Thank you for those wonderful songs! That means so much for me. I also play guitar and sing and, recently I learn to play and sing those songs... Everytime is a therapy for my wellness. I Love johnny
Not quite right. Merle was in San Quentin from 1958 to 1960. This is 1969, by this time Merle Haggard was already a country star with multiple #1 albums and singles. The story is true, just 10 years before this and not recorded.
@@marquettegloves9907 Google "When did johnny cash first perform at san quentin?" Answer: January 1, 1958 . San Quentin is where Cash played his first-ever prison concert on January 1, 1958-a concert that helped set Merle Haggard, then a 20-year-old San Quentin inmate, on the path toward becoming a country music legend. www.history.com/this-day-in-history/inmate-merle-haggard-hears-johnny-cash-play-san-quentin-state-prison#:~:text=San%20Quentin%20is%20where%20Cash,becoming%20a%20country%20music%20legend.
@@michaelalando @Michael Alando yeah, but this particular performance was 1969, not the one that Merle Haggard would've seen which is what they're saying
2024 still listening to Johnny Cash even though im in my 20s people say I have old soul and im from Africa Tigray that makes it even more complicated 😊 Johnny lives on for many generations to come
Saw GFR in Schweinfurt Germany late summer of 1971. Free concert for military and dependents. Humble Pie opened up the show. I was 14 and brother was 17. What a show!! Anyone else there ?
This song is so so so good. I can't even imagine the hell people went through at this prison. Insane powerful people who brought human beings to this hellhole.
One of the few songs that makes me cry. Nobody else stuck up for those guys who were behind bars. They might have done horrible things, but people deserve a second chance, and shoving them in prison and treating them like dirt is no help to anyone. Johnny was one of the few who stuck up for them. R.I.P.
Just took a break from listening to politics clicked on JC there will never be any comparison to this man! JC the man in black May you rest in peace your music will live on forever!!❤❤
I even became a hit in the Netherlands after it was translated into dutch and sung by a guy called Alias Berger the hit is called 'veenhuizen' which was a famous Dutch prison at one time
TheNomis1994 Bro how could there not be footage and also how is there not footage of Johnny proposing to June? I know it was a long time ago but you’d think there would be a camera somewhere
![Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash • “Jackson” • 1968 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]](/img/n.gif)
This man walked into San Quentin and performed a song utterly trashing San Quentin and the entire prison system. Absolutely legendary.
that's called pride fucking with you
@@robertbrass6255lol alright Marcellus.
He f*ckin did. Legend.
He did it… and all of them had a nice time inside of that walls …..legend
Johnny trashed San Quentin and the prison system
Still listening to the legendary man in black in 2024 !
❤
🙏❤
Good for you! I've been listening since about 1957, when I was five years old.
Same bro same
Same and im plaing his songs on my guitar to
Johnny keeps posting from Heaven, and that’s just fine by me.
Just goes to show that even death cant stop him from making music
@Lum Not sure I regret when I'm born but I would sure like a time machine.
Ain’t no grave holding Johnny down
John isn't dead, he's just at his true home with Jesus.
Amen!
One of the most revolutionary live performances of all time, no one had the balls to go into a place like this and put on a great show but Cash. What he did for prison reform in America will never been forgotten.
Hello, how are you doing. I believe you are staying safe. I'm Patti from California. I'm looking for a new friend and i saw you pic here. I hope you don't mind, thank you.
Having spent time in prison the song speaks to my soul, even if J.R spent no time behind bars, he certainly absorbed and felt that energy judging by the response of the guys
His push for the civil rights of indigenous people too. Cash was such a warm, decent man
He redefined country music and made it relevant through this performance. Every genre has its geniuses and Johnny Cash was as great a genius musically as Bob Dylan or Frank Zappa.
Actually prison concerts were quite popular before this.
he knew he was no different then those men in prison. another sinner. truly the man walked the walk. Christ like.
He never served a prison sentence. Despite landing in jail seven times for misdemeanors, he was held only one night each time. --> Google
I’m 85 now I was a young man back in 1969. I broke a man up in a street fight did some time in san Quentin. I was there in the back somewhere. Won’t ever forget the atmosphere!
thats genuinely sick
Did you meet Tex Watson?
cap
I still can’t believe there used to be a time when a legendary singer could go to a maximum security prison ( San Quentin ) and play songs in front of tons of the most dangerous prisoners at the time and they were right in front of him. Want a legend..
they respected him. 99% of prisoners are only situationally dangerous
Shows that each one of them is human and respected Cash massively for what he was willing to do for them
B.B King played a few legendary concerts at prisons (Cook County and San Quentin).
I'm 89 now and when I saw this it was surreal. Johnny cash I love you your made my jail time 10 x easier
I love Johnny Cash's voice. Looking at these men's faces, not knowing anything about them, whether their incarceration is justified or not, makes me realise they are, after all, human beings. This must have been a great event for them.
exactly
Incarceration is a feeling that is so hard to convey, people often overlook how it can change you for the rest of your life, the way the world moves on without you, it’s like your life is thrown into an oboulet
And most of those men that we see , eventually ended up getting out of San Quentin and went on to have kids and grandkids , and I bet they told them all the story of this memory. I bet it is one of the bestest memories they ever had.
You'd really dig Colter Wall then.
@@DerekDaly92 yeah and also how he was reading the lyrics on a sheet of paper on the top portion of the guitar
The term GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) gets thrown around a lot these days, but Johnny Cash was without a doubt the GOAT! I’ll do everything I can to honor his memory. God bless the man in black
My name is Sam Quinton and my uncle used to sing this to me as a kid lmao
If I could like this comment twice, I would 😂
What an awesome uncle.
Sam Quinton I hate every inch of you.
Lol you lie!
1:44
I used to live near San Quentin, in California. I worked in nursing homes for the developmentally disabled, in the Bay Area. I am now retired, and living in New Orleans, Louisiana. Another wonderful and lovely place to retire.
The world is a worse place since we lost Johnny Cash. The man was a 💯 fckn Legend. This planet needs people like JC. I'm from the UK, but shouldn't Johnny Cash's face be on Mount Rushmore.
Thanks for everything Johnny 🙏🙏
No wonder the inmates:and so many of us loved the man in black. Purely a legend !
I would have been Leary of drinking water after singing San Quentin. Lol. The man in black was freakin awesome
This is how you save souls. Not by preaching but by understanding. Johnny Cash did more good with this song than 100 preachers.
1969 I was 15 now I'm 66 and rediscovered Johnny Cash. The man is a legend.
22 and I love Johnny Cash since I was six.
"And I'll walk out a wiser weaker man" That line always sticks with me.
I dunno about weaker. Wisdom can give strength, too.
@@amandajstar Not to sound pessimistic, I don't intend that at all. But I know a lot of folk, even me in some instances, feel our experiences that we learned from gave us wisdom, but left us with a hole in our hearts. Weak as in tormented, cynical, depressive. Even if we know right from wrong, and good from bad, we still hurt, and that's usually referred to as weakness
@@whitehorse8558 Good point well made, W.
If this was the only performance that he ever made, it still would’ve been as epic. Notice how this kind of performance has never happened since. Coincidence? 😮
So good, he played it twice
RIP to the man in black. May his legend never die.
That guitar rift cuts right through you. It’s almost as though you can feel the despair in it, absolutely incredible.
Reminds of the same effect Hanks guitar would have. Like it personified sorrow
@@LarryGoggins000 100%. Makes you feel the words more so I think.
2024 still listening to Johnny Cash even though im in my 20s people say I have old soul and im from Africa Tigray that makes it even more complicated 😊 Johnny lives on for many generations to come 0:19
I wonder if Johnny knew how relevant his songs would be 50 years later
The faces of the inmates are haunting. Johnny clearly understood and cared about them.
Yeah but it surprises me that all the faces were white.
Didn't black people know about crimes back then ?
I will newer forget his guitar sound and his voice, so special, i loved his music when i was a kid and still loving it at 61 years old...?
Love Johnny cash all my life this song is ledgen thank s Johnny cash
❤. I Love You Very Much. Johnny Cash ❤❤❤❤❤❤
This is the most badass live performance ever lol
Metallica in Moscow
I saw Willie at the Outlaw Festival yesterday. What a pleasure he is still around and singing for us at 2024. Long life for the last Highwaymen.
He is definitely one of the few artists that will never be equal to the world. He is someone that every singer and musician should take as an example.
How this doesn't have many more billions of views and at least 35 million likes, is beyond me.
Johnny is the GOAT !!!!!
Who the hell gives a thumbs down to a legend?
Only Dickheads
Probably people who are looking for a not live version
Probably a accident
I hope
obviously has no taste in music
@@JK-gh9ej This is the only version of San Quentin, in live, and it's perfect like that
I honestly can't believe they allowed him to play a song like this about San Quentin at San Quentin. Like really, that's pretty amazing.
I know right? I can't believe they let him sing it there to the inmates. That's all kinds of awesome.
Maybe he didn't tell anyone beforehand. In fact, notice at the beginning it takes the inmates a second or two to react.
Earlier on in the performance Cash mentions how this was being filmed for TV, he goes on to say how the TV company will tell you what songs to sing and where to stand, but he then adds "but I'm gonna do what you (the prisoners) want and what *I* want" or words to that effect.
So he probably didn't tell anyone that him and the band planned to play this one :)
La musica può tutto
Music can do anything
They couldn’t have stopped him
They can’t keep him from playing what’s in his soul to play
God bless Johnny Cash. 17 years today he left this earth
The I walk the line movie I watch everyday
He just went home and left us his music to enjoy for eternity :)
Just about 21 years now 😢
Crazy to think this was 50 years ago, what a legend
Crazy to think he was only 37 that year.
It was longer than 50 years ago.
Suggestion,
Ring of fire
Written by his very talented wife.
June Carter cash.another legend.
F'ing Legend
An incredible masterpiece and one of the most powerful live performances ever. No trash talk, no gangsta sh*t, no autotune, no special effects, no fake fans - just a middle aged man in a plain black suit, sitting down, and playing guitar.
20 years gone today, rest in peace to one of the most iconic country singers ever ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥
This sends shivers down my spine. RIP Johnny Cash.
There'll never become another country musician like Johnny Cash. When I was a school kid, far from my home at 1967. I used to listen to the radio and I found Johnny Cash. I was homesick, but Johnny's songs helped me go on and study. Since then I have collected Johnny's recordings. Johnny and June have past away but songs will survive at the very arctic Finnish Lapland. Regards with love from Finnish Lapland.
Love from australia. Xo
Love and listening 2020 from quebec province🇨🇦🇫🇷
love
This was my first album when I was six years old. I would do my own rendition for my parent’s friends. I was a weird kid
I love waking up everyday to a piece of a Johnny Cash history posted in my sub box.
Wow, Johnny's pretty brave to sing that song in there! John P.
One of the most iconic, heartbreaking and revolutionary songs ever. Goodebumps hearing the crowd cheering. Johnny sang their thoughts, made them laugh snd cry. Absolute legend. RIP Johnny.
Johnny Cash what a great singer you are. Thank you very much for this song. Love from Sweden❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for you liked what I wrote
That was the voice of God and the biggest set of balls ever attached to a man singing!!! RIP Johnny 😞🙏💔
Johnny Cash seemed to know how the inmates felt. Maybe from reading all thier letters. I will always like Johnny. May he R.i.p. because he had a hard life for many years.
Johnny Cash went to prison 7 times. In total he served 1 week as they let him out after 24 hours each time.
Listen to Johnny Cash always, 2024, thank you Elizabeth
I love you Johnny cash
A Rockabilly Legend, R.I.P Johnny
This legendary artistic performance by Johnny Cash in San Quentin is one of the things that make me love the United States. respect and admiration from NW Italy.
I cant wait till I'm old and show my kids this masterpiece
same
Barbara Owens I’m a young teen who fell in love with his personality and music
Barbara Owens that’s being the same for me, he actually inspired me to learn the guitar!
I hope you won't disappoint
If they will understand sometimes i think that im the only kid that understand johnny cash
I'm surprised he was allowed to sing a song like that running down San Quentin - could start a riot!
I still get chills from this! RIP Johnny we miss you sir.🙏🏼
RIP? He's not dead lol.
@@Nikolak44_AJ_Epic Hes been dead for fucking 20 years.
He passed on in 2003, but for his fans he will never die.@@Nikolak44_AJ_Epic
@@Nikolak44_AJ_Epicclearly don’t know Johnny cash then cause he passed away in 2003
Cash was by far one of the best artists of all time. Back when Country music had meaning beyond trucks and beer
I appreciate that he’s wearing a shirt like the uniform
he's literally wearing a jacket like a blazer and the shirt he is wearing is light blue nothing like what the prisoners are wearing (dark blue)
This is literally one of the greatest performances of all time! Gave me chills
My dad was a CO during his visit to San Quentin prison 😮 he left the department of corrections in 1974.
And in this audience is another legend. His name is Merle Haggard.
I’m listening to this song live on Apple Music and here as well but damn make me sad to think all these people already passed away or just about but they had the joy to hear his voice thousand of lives that been in those prison walls man ik it their own fault but damn just to know I’m free makes me happy and blessed
I stood watch/guard duty at USN Treasure Island 1967, two hours a night, looking west the island San Quentin loomed large. Very cold metaphysically.
What a man what a humanitarian what a artist rip June and Johnny I can't think of Johnny without June to J r and Roseanne and all the cash Carter family thank you for these videos they don't make men like your dad anymore no putting on airs just johnny
They are all now free, in Heavens.
rest in peace, legend💀❤️🇺🇸
Club Sons of Anarchy 2019 “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:
At least he is in his true home with the Lord now 😢♥
Descanse en Paz. Gracias Johnny
Johnny Cash was my first real exposure to America. Legend.
From Germany.....my English is bad!!!cash is the best :-*
The most iconic line in music history: "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."
My God,I love it when he sings"San Quentin I Hate Every Inch of You"and all the boys kick off.Brilliant.I was watching a documentary about Johnny where he comes over to the u.k.he travels up to Scotland to trace his ancient family lineage.He goes to Edinburgh and even sees the streets named Cash Lane etc.
If you pay attention Cash is wearing basically what they are wearing, letting them know he is just another one of them for that evening, such a genius.
you want pure rage? just listen to cash's venomous attack against the infamous prison. cash's definitive live performance.
Absolutely fantastic
This is music history
RIP Johnny Cash
You will never be forgotten
The man in black… Hello my name is Cash.. Johnny Cash / he will never be forgotten.
20 years i was there.
My buddies pops was in San Quinton, he OD d in reno. Most my friends are dead ... RIP Robert Gallegos 3rd. Love you man
The Man in Black, RIP, say hi to June, Waylon, and Merle.
One of the greatest moments in the history of music.
There are not enough superlatives to describe just how good this is. Nuff said.
As an artist he was very near the top. He fought his demons who wanted him to fell. RIP JR
Outstanding!!! He'll be never forgotten!!!
2 years in jail in Italy. San Quentin & folsom prison blues are my therapy. Thank you for those wonderful songs! That means so much for me. I also play guitar and sing and, recently I learn to play and sing those songs... Everytime is a therapy for my wellness. I Love johnny
It’s hard not to feel those lyrics, very powerful
Fun fact: Merle Haggerd was an inmate at San Quentin at this time, and Johnny cash inspired him to start making country music.
..and president Reagan Pardoned him.
Not quite right. Merle was in San Quentin from 1958 to 1960. This is 1969, by this time Merle Haggard was already a country star with multiple #1 albums and singles. The story is true, just 10 years before this and not recorded.
@@marquettegloves9907 Google "When did johnny cash first perform at san quentin?" Answer: January 1, 1958
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San Quentin is where Cash played his first-ever prison concert on January 1, 1958-a concert that helped set Merle Haggard, then a 20-year-old San Quentin inmate, on the path toward becoming a country music legend.
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/inmate-merle-haggard-hears-johnny-cash-play-san-quentin-state-prison#:~:text=San%20Quentin%20is%20where%20Cash,becoming%20a%20country%20music%20legend.
@@michaelalando @Michael Alando yeah, but this particular performance was 1969, not the one that Merle Haggard
would've seen which is what they're saying
@@michaelalando ok so the first live was in '58 but in the lyrics he says he is in San Quentin since 1963. How is it possible?
2024 still listening to Johnny Cash even though im in my 20s people say I have old soul and im from Africa Tigray that makes it even more complicated 😊 Johnny lives on for many generations to come
The Magic That Is Johnny Cash ❤
@Johnnycashmusicworld You talking from Heaven or Hell ! 😅😅😅
Saw GFR in Schweinfurt Germany late summer of 1971. Free concert for military and dependents. Humble Pie opened up the show. I was 14 and brother was 17. What a show!! Anyone else there ?
This song is so so so good. I can't even imagine the hell people went through at this prison. Insane powerful people who brought human beings to this hellhole.
Johnny cash is the fucking man still to this day he might be up there shining bright but your an absolutely legend and elvis Presley
One of the few songs that makes me cry. Nobody else stuck up for those guys who were behind bars. They might have done horrible things, but people deserve a second chance, and shoving them in prison and treating them like dirt is no help to anyone. Johnny was one of the few who stuck up for them. R.I.P.
America is even less compassionate now, judging by the hullabaloo over Lesley Van Houten being released after 54 years.
Just took a break from listening to politics clicked on JC there will never be any comparison to this man! JC the man in black May you rest in peace your music will live on forever!!❤❤
Grande Johnny CASH suas canções e toda sua obra é atemporal. 🇧🇷Thank's
I even became a hit in the Netherlands after it was translated into dutch and sung by a guy called Alias Berger the hit is called 'veenhuizen' which was a famous Dutch prison at one time
The classic does not die, it becomes a legend.
HELLO, JOHNNY CASH ... I will be forever grateful to you.
THANK YOU
Great charisma, great voice ... He's the John Wayne of the music world.❤
I will argue that "I hate every inch of you" is the most beautiful lyric written in human history.
Let's not get carried away... lol.
Cash is king
It is, for me, one of if not THE greatest and most beautiful moment of rock history
He deserves so much love and Respect for bringing joy and temporary peace to the hearts and minds of people suffering. Rest in peace Mr. Cash.
I wouldn't mind a full release with video of his live performances in San Quentin & Folsom Prison. Maybe as a dvd?
It's not all relased yet. The only thing from folsom is the audio, which is on the album.
Translate Ghost lots of footage of Cash in the PBS documentary of Country Music-Ken Burns
TheNomis1994 Bro how could there not be footage and also how is there not footage of Johnny proposing to June? I know it was a long time ago but you’d think there would be a camera somewhere
I 2nd that! I'd pay good money for that one.
@TheNomis1994 False... The Legacy version of Folsom is a 2 CD, 1 DVD set. (2008)
When music was still good