Open for forty years, Cat's Cradle has been a popular music venue in Carrboro, North Carolina.

On December 9, 1992, Ween performed there and recorded the set. The performance was released as a live CD entitled At the Cat's Cradle, 1992 on November 25, 2008 on Chocodog Records. Included with the CD is a bonus DVD of various Ween performances from that era.

During this time, Ween consisted of Dean and Gene Ween playing and singing along to a pre-recorded DAT tape. They thrived on upsetting the audience, challenging them with their performance-art stage presence while performing unusually well-written songs.

God bless 'em.

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Formerly located in Hendersonville, TN, the Johnny Cash Museum was at this location for many years. While Johnny Cash was alive, it housed many pieces of memorabilia from the performer's life. Cash's own mother, Carrie, worked at the museum for the last ten years of her life.

The museum is featured in the Johnny Cash video "Hurt", a Nine Inch Nails cover that was directed by Mark Romanek. The museum is shown after it had been closed and damaged by a flood- a striking visual metaphor for the dark, introspective lyrics to the song.

The Johnny Cash Museum has since been moved to Nashville, with a scheduled opening in the summer of 2012. The current land and buildings were sold by the Cash family to Hendersonville developer Danny Hale in 2007 for $600,000.

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On October 4, 1965, Johnny Cash was returning from Juarez, Mexico when he was arrested at the El Paso International Airport.

He was charged with importing and concealing 668 Dexadrin (uppers) and 475 Equanil (downers) tablets that he had stored in his guitar case.

Bond was set for $1,500.

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Built in 1892, The Ryman Auditorium was designed by architect Hugh Cathcart Thompson and funded by riverboat captain and saloon owner Thomas Ryman. Originally called The Union Gospel Tabernacle, it's original purpose was a multi-function church/tabernacle for the famed revivalist preacher Samuel Porter Jones.

The auditorium was renamed Ryman after his death in 1904. The popular radio show The Grand Ole Opry was broadcast at this location from 1943 to 1974 (until it moved to it's current location at the Opryland USA theme park outside of Nashville).

Johnny Cash first met June Carter here in 1956 during a show when they were both performing (Cash with the Tennessee Two and June with the Carter family).

In 1965, Cash was performing for the Grand Ole Opry when his mic stand broke. Upset, he dragged the stand across the floor lights, causing them to explode (some say he kicked out a few as well).

Cash patched up things, and later filmed The Johnny Cash Show for ABC from 1969 to 1971.

The Ryman Auditorium was placed on National Register for Historic Places in 1971, and was further designated a National Historic Landmark in 2001.

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Built in 1918, this 10-bedroom mansion in Laurel Canyon was where producer Rick Rubin recorded the Red Hot Chili Peppers for their album, Blood Sugar Sex Magik. After the success of the project at the location, Rubin bought the mansion and has recorded many albums here: RHCP's Stadium Arcadium, Audioslave's Out of Exile, The Mars Volta's De-Loused in the Comatorium, as well as many others.

Jay-Z recorded "99 Problems" here with Rubin for The Black Album in 2003.

The Mansion also served as the filming location for the 2nd season of Californication as the home of drug-addled über-producer Lew Ashby.

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