I here ya. I'm from the south & people think I'm racist just because I love this show & Lynyrd Skynyrd. They made some great music that's still being heard on radio today! They are my all time favorite band & I've been blessed to see em many times & I also like Johnny Paycheck as well. And I also love the Platters, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, & a lot of the Motown sounds. And that doesn't make me racist, it makes me SMART because I have a good ear when it comes to great music & great talents like those I just mentioned. But you gotta remember, we now live in a nation of whiners. If people whine enough, they get their way. Sad really. Myself, I loved the Dukes & I loved watching Daisy. lol That said, this was just a show. And how people can whine or be offended by it, is anyone's guess. Why can't people just simply watch the show or simply STFU about it. Like I said, this country has become a country of whiner's anymore. Whine enough about something & you'll get your way. I'm about half tempted to get the whiner's some cheese to go with all that whining. WAHHHH, WAHHHH. Sounds like a broken damn record. sigh.......................
@@adriankeene571 That's great to here! Music is universal & should be heard by all. I have a few seasons of the Dukes on DVD too. I have the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, & 7th seasons along with the Dukes in Hollywood & the Duke Reunion on DVD as a double feature. When at last count, I had 10,000 DVD movies in my collection. After that, I gave up counting them all, because it got to be too damn many & I can't count that high anyway. lol
+Brian C Anyone who brought back "The Dukes of Hazzard" would have to write out the following actors: Sorrell Booke Denver Pyle James Best. Unless I'm mistaken, they're all deceased.
I am with you there if it wasn't for the networks wanting to be politically correct and break the 10 commandments then this show would be on TV still. you know the networks act as though it would be an abomination if they would put a show on TV that is not only entertaining but educational that is fun for the whole family to watch.
It would never work. The anti-American liberals, Muslims, BLM, and ANTIFA crowd would be offended by it. Maybe if you removed the confederate flag from the general Lee and replaced it with the ISIS flag, made Daisy an unmarried welfare breeding coke whore mother of six, made uncle Jesse a pedophile, and Bo & Luke both transgenders. Perhaps then, it would be acceptable to them.
I assumed the same thing happened in Paychecks case. I remember hearing once that we almost lost Johnny to his respiratory condition several years before he actually passed, I heard he was in a hospital in Nashville, so I sent a card and prayed like crazy the he would recover. His music meant more to me than I can even describe in words. I am not judging him, I have had my own demons in my lifetime... I just simply wish he was still here. I understand addiction and am not condemning him for it..
I got to see Johnny Paycheck in concert at Hodag Country Festival in Rhinelander, Wisconsin back in 1994 or 95. Past his prime then but an amazing show.
Saw JP and his band at a small resturant in Nashville circa 1997..I can honestly say that this performance was on of the best live performances I've ever seen..His singing & command were seriously amazing.
Johnny and Sharon Rae paycheck were my friends when they lived in dawsonvile GA. We moved Johnny to Nashville in 2000 and he got real sick and passed away in 2003 at only 64! But not before he got to sing one more time from his death bed with Daryle sinletary . old violin! He was a real country outlaw. He didn't even like the doctors to tell him how to live! Lol.RIP DONALD E lytle.
Too me, Boss's reactions were the best parts of this whole scene... My brother and I would laugh for hours watching that... !! (along with everything else on the show)
The celebrity speed trap During the show's second season, the show's writers began flirting with the idea of incorporating a "celebrity speed trap" into some of the episodes, as a means to feature top country stars of the day performing their hits. On its first couple of instances, the "Speed Trap" was featured early in the story, but for most of the cases, it was featured in the last few minutes of an episode, often used when the main story was running too short to fill episode time. The "celebrity speed trap" feature was essentially similar: Aware that a big-name country star was passing through the area, Boss Hogg would order Rosco to lower the speed limit on a particular road to an unreasonable level (using a reversible sign, with one speed limit on one side and another, far lower, on the back), so that the targeted singer would be in violation of the posted limit. The singer would be required to give a free performance at the Boar's Nest in exchange for having their citations forgiven; the performer would then perform one of their best-known hits or other popular country music standard, while the Dukes, Boss, Rosco, Enos, Cletus, Cooter, and other patrons whooped and hollered in enjoyment of the performance. More often than not, the performer would give a sarcastic parting shot to Boss and Rosco. Singers who were featured in the "speed trap" segments were: Hoyt Axton Donna Fargo Freddy Fender Doug Kershaw (on the original soundtrack) The Oak Ridge Boys (twice) Roy Orbison Buck Owens Johnny Paycheck (lip-syncing an original recording) Mel Tillis Dottie West Tammy Wynette Waylon Jennings (the show's narrator) Honorable Mentions: Mickey Gilley, Loretta Lynn
Loretta and Waylon did not get caught in the speed trap at all. They were all connected to the episodes. Mickey was at the beginning but he said if it wasn’t for Roscoe’s speed trap he wouldn’t have been there.
Loretta Lynn wasn’t caught in the speed trap. She had been kidnapped in the episode. Late in the episode she performed at The Boar’s Nest as a goodwill gesture.
It was so funny how Boss Hogg got mad everytime Johnny Paycheck said "Take this job and shove it" I watched the Dukes of Hazzard when I was a kid. It was one of my favorite shows.
I never even knew who he was until i watched tales from the tour bus. I listened to him play old violin...it was so sad i started to cry. Im so glad he got well at the end.
Words to that song are so true. Great song by a great singer. Was a bonus seeing Denver Pyle, Sorrel Brooke and James Best. Roscoe was my favorite on the Dukes. The movie version of the Dukes was pretty good. No offense to any of the movie cast, I like Burt Reynolds but no one can ever replace Sorrel as Boss Hogg. R.I.P. Sorrel and Denver.
All you'd have to is have Luke running the farm, Bo helping Cooter out while Daisy runs the Boars nest with some descendent of Boss Hogg causing trouble for a pair of young Duke cousins, who are supposed to be helping Luke out on the farm. Give them their own car, and have The General only come out hear and there to make it special. (you can even side step the elephant in the room by having the 01 on the roof as most racing leagues mandated roof numbers by the end of the 80s)
having a connection of sorts with paycheck hearing the stories of him and his band members due to his bass player is my sons god father and growing up listening to him gives me so much appreciation of him and his music
I'm not judging him at all. I LOVE Paycheck! I feel bad that he didn't quit sooner... I miss seeing him. My comment came from shock of seeing him so strung out here. I don't judge him at all, in fact I was one of the ones who wrote letters to him while he was in prison. I ALWAYS knew that he had a talent that was very special. In fact, I also am one of the ones pushing to have him recognized by the country music hall of fame. You just judged me without even knowing who I was or what I meant...
I loved watching The Dukes of Hazzard I loved the action and real car stunts I also love the country music used and I have all 7 seasons and both Reunion movies
I miss the Dukes of Hazzard what a shame that it's not on Tv anymore but thank God for DVR I have several shows recorded and there ain't a darn thing cancel culture can do about it they should cancel Rupaul drag show and put the Dukes back on tv
It's adorable as you know that's a word Denver Pyle would've never said in his life. I love how he puts his hand over his mouth. He was a wonderful man.
