- published: 11 Apr 2016
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A backstage pass is an employee pass which allows its bearer access to employees-only areas at a performance venue. They are most commonly associated with rock music groups.
Such passes are usually a laminated paper worn on a lanyard, or on chain link or key chain holder at the belt, or a simpler "stick-on" applied to one's clothing. Plastic or paper wristbands may also be used. However, some elaborately designed backstage passes have been used by Bill Graham Productions/Winterland, Beaver Productions and many other regional and local promoters. To deter counterfeiting, passes often include holograms or color-shifting properties.
Also, at any one concert or event there is about some 200 to 400 backstage passes available at any one event. Again, mainly these are for the performers, stage crews, roadies, security guards, performer's agents. Sometime relatives or close friends of performers, stage crew, promoters, etc. will get backstage passes to concerts. Some fans get the idea and are misinformed that if you get a backstage pass you get to meet directly with the performers and go to backstage parties. Unfortunately, this is hyped up as so by tabloids and certain fictional TV shows using backstage passes in situations in their sketches trying to make it more interesting to get high ratings for these programs.
Johnny "J.R." Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and author, who was widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide. Although primarily remembered as a country music icon, his genre-spanning songs and sound embraced rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, folk, and gospel. This crossover appeal won Cash the rare honor of multiple inductions in the Country Music, Rock and Roll and Gospel Music Halls of Fame.
Cash was known for his deep, calm bass-baritone voice, the distinctive sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, a rebelliousness coupled with an increasingly somber and humble demeanor, free prison concerts, and a trademark look, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black". He traditionally began his concerts with the simple "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash", followed by his signature "Folsom Prison Blues".
Backstage pass
Backstage pass
When all the Punk bands
All sound second hand
I will still be loving you
When Johnny Rotten
Has been forgotten
I will still be loving you
When you're bored with Anarchy
You will still be special to me
You have been around
With every band in town
And all the Rats in Boomtown
You've had all The Jam
Even Paul's old man
In their brand new Mercedes van