"San Quentin may you rot and burn in hell!" Johnny Cash, looking resolute and a bit nervous on a stool with his guitar, sang those words for the first time on Feb. 24, 1969, to a raucous crowd of denim-clad men inside San Quentin State Penitentiary, pausing to strum an extra bar until the cheers died down. "San Quentin," written for an album recorded that day, is a high point in live albums, prison music and sticking it to the man. The record went triple platinum and marked a peak in Cash's career.