Polk Salad Annie... A Gator's got your granny...
That's it.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 10:36 (seven years ago) link
RIP Scotty Moore, by proximity alone one of the most important guitarists of the 20th Century:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA5HErVE9oI
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 01:03 (seven years ago) link
That right there really is the end of an era at last.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
He was only about 3 years older than Presley. I always had the sense that Scotty and Bill were a decade older. Bill was, but both of them were raised in a pre-rock 'n' roll world, so it makes sense that they'd read a generation older when standing next to the first of the new breed.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 10:54 (seven years ago) link
RIP Scotty, those Sun singles made a lot of people pick up guitars for the first time
― Brad C., Wednesday, 29 June 2016 13:59 (seven years ago) link
RIP Scotty. They don't come much more god-like in the annals of rock and roll than that. Here was the man who played guitar on "Mystery Train." Jesus. I'm glad we had him around all these years.
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
RIP! i read that sam philips bio last month, and it is crazy the amount of sheer happenstance/good luck went into those Presley Sun sessions. just change one tiny element and it wouldn't have worked.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
It's crazy how they found that feel. "Mystery Train" ain't hard to learn to play, but it's nigh on impossible to do it justice.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
i have said this a bunch of times elsewhere but I love the joy on Elvis's face in the 68 Comeback Special - he loves being back with the guys again. grinning & wooping, throwing to Scotty for the killer solos
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 16:43 (seven years ago) link
Yup. I love the part in the Comeback Special where Elvis tells some story about how Old Scotty almost never said anything and then one day leaned over and said "Can you play that 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy'?" Or something to that effect.
― Frankie Teardrop Explodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 23:42 (seven years ago) link
Haven't seen in twenty years, memory may have shapeshifter a little over that time.
― Frankie Teardrop Explodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link
Ha, found it on Vimeo. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2sn6ss
― Frankie Teardrop Explodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 23:58 (seven years ago) link
Kind of gives an idea of when Elvis might have died had he not been so tortured.
― calstars, Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
I love the joy on Elvis's face in the 68 Comeback Special - he loves being back with the guys again. grinning & wooping, throwing to Scotty for the killer solos
I saw excerpt about the '68 Special from some Elvis book that revealed that his leather suit had to be dry cleaned quickly between the two 'sit down' shows. According to one of the cleaners, they inspected it for any problem areas before cleaning, and found semen in the crotch...so yeah, The King was really happy to be back with the old gang.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
sounds apocryphal
― calstars, Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:07 (seven years ago) link
can I be excused to listen to Marie's the Name?
― calstars, Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:08 (seven years ago) link
Please
― Frankie Teardrop Explodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:10 (seven years ago) link
Love the switch between the two bass parts (acoustic and twangy electric) on that one.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
What was the story about "You're So Square (Baby, I Don't Care" again? That Bill was comfortable playing the electric bass so Elvis finally just grabbed it and played the intro, I believe.
― Frankie Teardrop Explodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
Dude couldn't play shit. C F G Am at the most
― calstars, Thursday, 30 June 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
Bill?
― Frankie Teardrop Explodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 30 June 2016 01:05 (seven years ago) link
Big E
― calstars, Thursday, 30 June 2016 01:06 (seven years ago) link
r.i.p. scotty, the elvis sun sessions are one of those things that will just sound awesome forever
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 30 June 2016 07:17 (seven years ago) link
RIP!i read that sam philips bio last month, and it is crazy the amount of sheer happenstance/good luck went into those Presley Sun sessions. just change one tiny element and it wouldn't have worked.― tylerw, Wednesday, June 29, 2016 3:41 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― tylerw, Wednesday, June 29, 2016 3:41 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I just finished the Guralnick Elvis bios not too long ago. Even his first meeting with Scotty and Bill... I knew how it would end, but still worried he was going to blow it.
I just love that imagery of Elvis, Scotty, Bill, and Sam Phillips crammed into one car, with Bill's bass strapped to the roof, and driving from show to show all over the South. Now they're all gone. RIP
― Ex Slacker, Friday, 1 July 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
Really in a "Moody Blue" mood lately. great song
Is the 70s masters box set worth seeking out and digging into?
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
Really in a "Moody Blue" mood lately. great songIs the 70s masters box set worth seeking out and digging into?
100%
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
The FTD Jungle Room sessions is great late Elvis.
The at stax set is excellent
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB74JaVoWLA
20/20 The Elvis Cover-Up (1979)
Excited to find this documentary. This is referenced a lot in an Elvis conspiracy book "The Most Incredible Elvis Presley Story Ever Told" by G.B. Giorgio.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
Anything new in that special ? I like the vintage feel but the content is pretty well-trodden at this point
― calstars, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 01:16 (seven years ago) link
Just echoing above: the '70s masters box is fantastic, and so is the recent Elvis at Stax 3CD set.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
YES. it is my favorite of the three box sets. it's addicting. i spent one week listening to nothing else and i regret nothing.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 02:45 (seven years ago) link
'70s box set also the only way to hear "elvis country" without the interludes afaict
― he mea ole, he kanaka lapuwale (sciatica), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 05:02 (seven years ago) link
Some of the tracks yes but not all from the album. Plus the versions on the box set are not necessarily the album masters. However the box is one of the few places where you can hear the interlude song in full (I was born 10000 years ago)
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
I'd not heard the 1968 semen anecdote before. What's the source? (of the anecdote not the semen obv)
― For bodies we are ready to build pyramids (wtev), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
'I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago' also available on the Legacy Edition of Elvis Country.
― Austin, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
It's also on the 90s reissue as a bonus track
Re: The Semen story--It was in some Elvis bio that got reviewed in Blender in the early/mid-00s. They ran an excerpt w/the anecdote alongside a still from the special wherein Elvis has this very goofy look on his face and a caption speculating that perhaps that moment was when it happened.
― Kenneth Without Anger (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
Oh man...."An Evening Prayer" from He Touched Me, take 3
Back-up singer proposes way to sing the closing "Amen...."
Elvis: Good Idea. Now get your ass back in the room.Back-up singer 2: It's easier just to do it the other way.Back-up singer 3: It's easier to do it the other way.Back-up singer 4: It's easier to do it the other way.Back-up singer 3: We like the other way.Elvis: We're not looking for easy ways.
― Hadrian VIII, Sunday, 21 August 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
RCA just dropped their own version of that collection: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22213-way-down-in-the-jungle-room/
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 August 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
Ah, that most have been what showed up in my Release Radar on Friday.
― Deneb on Ice (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 21 August 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
Finally reading Guralnick's Last Train To MemphisBarely begun and already teared up
so good
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 20 April 2017 05:28 (six years ago) link
this seems to have rattled a few cages.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/16/millennials-elvis-presley-legacy
― piscesx, Friday, 19 May 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
idk, i feel like it's a very statistics-driven piece and i dont disagree but it's kinda ignoring the reality of what elvis has become
I dont think i really started buying elvis albums until my late 20's or early 30's when i realized on my own that it wasnt just nostalgic hits my mum liked that i heard growing up, that there was a whole world of stuff that was pretty cool
frankly i dont think he's been an artist for the "youth" for a long time, decades even
im not mad about it
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
agreed, and anyway good music endures, esp. in a digital marketplace that obviates the choice of one artist's work over another. It's not like Elvis is gonna go unheard.
― Hadrian VIII, Friday, 19 May 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
my feeling about the article is that the argument it makes is probably pretty much right -- but, yknow, who cares. i don't think elvis's greatness should be judged by how many millennials are listening to him on spotify. his place in american culture is secure and isn't going to vanish just because we aren't experiencing an "elvis moment" the way we arguably had a bowie moment last year.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 19 May 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
my sense is that he's falling into obscurity slightly faster than his contemporary musical icons
― calstars, Friday, 19 May 2017 21:57 (six years ago) link
That article is "true" but also completely wrong. It pertains to Elvis the business not Elvis the artist. He has one of the richest outputs out there so as long as there are music heads around he'll be fine.
― gospodin simmel, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
well, it pertains to Elvis the Baby Boomer messiah.
― sexualing healing (crüt), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:08 (six years ago) link
Elvis the interpreter vs Elvis the songwriterHave to go interpreter right? I mean, an American Trilogy.
― calstars, Friday, 19 May 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
how many songs did he even co-write? maybe a dozen?
― sexualing healing (crüt), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
according to a snap YouGov poll of 2,034 British adults, a hefty 29% of 18- to 24-year-olds said they had never listened to an Elvis song
lol wow you've proved a specific demo of British 20 somethings don't care about Elvis
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 May 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link