The 1973 Stax sessions are great.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3EHxFLhmgSGEBmJ7tFXwRz
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
I can still remember exactly what I was doing 40 years ago when my dad told me the news. Led to 40 years of musical joy.
― wtev, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/da/37/8f/da378f4558eeaa5f0aaf3bf139b63e6c.jpg
also hi Elvis! if he faked his death and has been living in a cave in Tibet for 40 years instead
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
đź–Ľalso hi Elvis! if he faked his death and has been living in a cave in Tibet for 40 years instead
Pretty sure that the nose had secret squirrel stash zones hence more puffy
― wtev, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyKWLmi3wPo
which reminds me i've been meaning to watch the above, "The Elvis Cover-Up" (1979) from 20/20 ABC News wherein a young Geraldo helped fan the flames of conspiracy
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
Seems to me 1969-1972 was a high point but 1973-1977 not so much
cosign
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 16:06 (six years ago) link
73-77 has its lows but some undeniable highs. Jungle room sessions.
― wtev, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
The angels called him home so that we were spared a Bono duet.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 16:23 (six years ago) link
Thanks, I needed an excuse to post this:
http://www.thetravelmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/JUNGLE-ROOM.jpg
― Josefa, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 16:26 (six years ago) link
Country funk is the best elvishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnunLJ_fH4
― barbarian radge (NotEnough), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
― Lucas With The Lydian F (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
I can still remember exactly what I was doing 40 years ago when my dad told me the news.
I was 15--can't say that I do. I was buying albums by then, but I'm pretty sure I didn't own a single Elvis album until I bought The Sun Sessions a couple of years later.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 18:49 (six years ago) link
It's coming closerThe flames are reaching my bodyPlease won't you help meI feel like I'm slipping awayIt's hard to breathAnd my chest is a-heavingLord have mercy,I'm burning a hole where I lay
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 23:01 (six years ago) link
Shoulda mentioned this! Don't totally agree w xgau's take, although do about"the knockout rockouts"---album is def worth looking for:
Scotty Moore/DJ Fontana: All the King's Men [Sweetfish, 1997]There's no rationalizing the success ratio of this tribute comp--I mean, gosh, Elvis Presley's original sidemen collaborate with artists who like them. I'd like to credit Scotty and D.J.'s groove, but with second drummers powering the two rockingest cuts and extra guitarists everywhere, let's just call it serendipity. Plus maybe--since Joe Ely, Steve Earle, and Raul Malo all benefit from not trying too hard--the kind of affable discretion that stays out of talent's way. The knockout rockouts are Cheap Trick's "Bad Little Girl," which sounds like great John Lennon, and Keith Richards and the Band's "Deuce and a Quarter," which sounds like great old roots-rock and also like nothing I've ever heard. And then there's Ronnie McDowell with that essential soupcon of Memphis-to-Vegas schmaltz. A-
― dow, Thursday, 17 August 2017 00:13 (six years ago) link
Any album on which a Cheap Trick song is a highlight is gonna be lost on me. I hate that band.
― grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 17 August 2017 01:19 (six years ago) link
Yeah but still the Keith / band track sounds like a must hear. Firing up slsk
― calstars, Thursday, 17 August 2017 01:43 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/l0jpqF1uolk
Marshall Crenshaw on bass, natch
― calstars, Thursday, 17 August 2017 01:50 (six years ago) link
What? Then what's Rick Danko doing?
― Lucas With The Lydian F (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 August 2017 01:54 (six years ago) link
Also bass. And a third guy on bass too.
― calstars, Thursday, 17 August 2017 01:58 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mJlcW3X4PQ
― Lucas With The Lydian F (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 August 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
how is this so greathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_UHZ_62GCI
― niels, Monday, 8 January 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
Happy birthday yesterday
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
^ great song I'd never heard. Some speculation that Bowie used it as a jumping-off symbol for his last work.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 15:36 (six years ago) link
I found the weirdest Facebook group recently.
https://i.imgur.com/JF7O5ss.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/6cS2H43.jpg
The weird part being not so much the website itself, but that there are so many altered photos of EP that someone felt obliged to start a Snopes-like site to combat them all.
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
Because, believe me, I really wanted to submit this one of Madonna getting an autograph to the Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same. thread.
https://i.imgur.com/N64KUXi.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
Thanks for the "Black Star" YouTube, that really is great
― willem, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
ha that picture is terrific, I am opting to believe it's true
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
http://alldylan.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Elvis-Bob-Cowboy.jpg
― Hadrian VIII, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
lol i love these
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
is this the thread where we post great videos of Elvis live? cause I can only find stuff on Youtube where he seems pretty drugged out
― niels, Thursday, 11 January 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
heh that's the best stuff. Polk Salad Annie '72 to thread
love the photos! long live the king
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 12 January 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link
Just yesterday I found a good one of an early performance of “Burning Love” in which he is still reading off the lyric sheet. Will re-search and post in a bit
― Before Hollywood Swing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 January 2018 02:10 (six years ago) link
One of the weirder connections of 70s rock is that drummer Ronnie Tutt was in the TCB! band backing up the King and then would also do gigs in the Jerry Garcia Band.
― earlnash, Friday, 12 January 2018 02:50 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7I4DfUGM4
― Before Hollywood Swing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 January 2018 02:55 (six years ago) link
i didn't realize how many shitty bootleg outfakes of "dark moon" there were
here's a good one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQAa4arQCIc
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link
Tutt was Neil Diamond’s drummer forever. (Might still be.)
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:38 (six years ago) link
Isn't there some story of the Memphis Boys initially being mumped up when Elvis came to American to record because Neil Diamond had been bumped?
― Before Hollywood Swing (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:45 (six years ago) link
from Elvis On Tour: You Gave Me A Mountainat this point he could sing anything & the way he goes SO big in the chorus with so little effort gives me chillshttps://youtu.be/yg9B6ciuAzg
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:45 (six years ago) link
Majestic
― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Friday, 12 January 2018 03:56 (six years ago) link
from Elvis On Tour: You Gave Me A Mountainat this point he could sing anything & the way he goes SO big in the chorus with so little effort gives me chillshttps://youtu.be/yg9B6ciuAzg🕸
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 12 January 2018 06:14 (six years ago) link
Thanks for that Burning Love clip James, hadn't seen that before.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 12 January 2018 06:16 (six years ago) link
The 1976 Birmingham concert is well worth checking out. He was so fired up and in good spirits.
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Friday, 12 January 2018 06:21 (six years ago) link
https://youtu.be/B7HdFF5w408Damn links!
good stuff guys, thanks!
interesting to see him in such a playful mood, laughing with that sly smile... I'm glad the musicians are also laughing and smiling, and it doesn't look like it's from anxiety
and then he's switching from playfulness to full on passion out of nowhere, really something special
sounds grrreat!
― niels, Friday, 12 January 2018 08:05 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GG9NBKur1Q
can't beat this kind of stuff
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 12 January 2018 11:19 (six years ago) link
This HBO documentary tonight looks interesting.
― Made in the Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 14 April 2018 12:11 (five years ago) link
And it turns out that it is interesting.
― Made in the Shadow Blaster (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 16 April 2018 00:06 (five years ago) link
good to know!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 16 April 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link
Will watch asap
― calstars, Monday, 16 April 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
Yall see this on Deep Cuts?
Just yesterday I was talking about Elvis's amazing cover of Bob Dylan's "Tomorrow is a Long Time," which was not only not a single, but was stuck on Side Two of the soundtrack to Spinout.http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=0VLpgttfEM0
---grawlix (unperson)
― dow, Monday, 16 April 2018 01:17 (five years ago) link