I’m currently at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, waiting for Garbage’s opening band to finish, but wanted to post part of a conversation I just overheard.
A guy was telling his friends about how he was at Hot Topic today when a classic Johnny Cash tune came on the PA. He told about the conversation he had with the young goth man in line in front of him, regarding how cool it was that Johnny Cash covered a Soundgarden song.
He told his friends about how he got to point out to the mistaken young goth that Soundgarden actually was covering Johnny Cash when they did the song Rusty Cage. He then proceesed to say “you shouldn’t talk if you don’t know what you’re talking about,” and there was much chuckling from his friends.
I have to say, it took every fiber of my being not to butt into this overheard conversation to point out the irony in someone who himself doesn’t know what he’s talking about saying that you shouldn’t talk without knowing what you’re talking about.
Johnny Cash did not write Rusty Cage, Soundgarden did, and I actually know what I’m talking about.
Anyway, back to the opening band.
