25 years later, Johnny Cash fan searches for lost photo with music legend
Frank Davis is on a quest to search out proof of his first, and solely, encounter together with his idol, Johnny Money.
It was Good Friday in 1993 when the musician from St. John’s bumped into the Man in Black on the RisePEI airport.
A stranger with a digicam snapped a photograph of the pair, however 25 years later, Davis nonetheless hasn’t seen the picture and he is hoping the facility of social media will reunite him with the thriller photographer.
“The lady who took that image could possibly be dwelling on the following avenue from me or she could possibly be in Timbuktu. You haven’t any manner of figuring out,” mentioned Davis, who put a name out on Fb over the weekend. “I do know it is a very long time, that is 25 years, so the probabilities are fairly slim, however it’s on the market anyway.”
Davis is a large Money fan, so when The Highwaymen got here to RisePEI in 1993, it was a chance he could not move up.
The day after the live performance, Davis needed to return dwelling for work, however his spouse stayed behind to go to her sister.
“The very last thing that she mentioned to me as I left the lodge room was, ‘Depart the digicam with me as a result of I need to take an image of [her sister] Susan’s child.'”
That is how Davis ended up camera-less in entrance of Money on the arrivals terminal.
When Davis observed him standing alone on the sidewalk, “I nearly ran over folks getting off the bus,” he mentioned with amusing.
“Once I walked as much as him, I mentioned, ‘Man I have been ready a very long time to shake your hand.'”
Davis requested a lady who was standing close by to take {a photograph}, and handed her his enterprise card so she may ship it to him.
He believes she used a movie digicam, however aside from that, he is aware of nothing about her.
“Possibly she has that image, possibly she misplaced the enterprise card and has usually puzzled, ‘My god, I by no means received that image to that man. I’m wondering who he’s.'”
Over time Davis has puzzled, too. Nevertheless it wasn’t till he heard a couple of fellow Newfoundlander who was reunited together with his grandfather’s championship boxing belt that he turned to social media for assist.
Davis has been taking part in music since he was a young person, and often performs Johnny Money songs at open mics round St. John’s.
“Johnny Money, you recognize, he was simply one other nation music singer, however he was totally different than the others. He had a distinct philosophy on life,” he mentioned.
And what actually irks him is that he has a good friend who additionally occurred to fulfill Money.
“He retains telling me about it, and he has a giant image hanging over his mantle piece of him and Johnny Money, so I mentioned, I’ve received to get my image!”
