Elvis himself was kind of a virtual drummer.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 21:39 (one year ago) link
You know who had the most fun with Elvis on stage?
Elvis.
― pplains, Monday, 18 July 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link
Skinny, fat, little or full-size?
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 21:46 (one year ago) link
Yes.
― pplains, Monday, 18 July 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
He always carried a wiggle.
Is it because of what happens on the road?
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 21:56 (one year ago) link
Thumbs up: “Beatles and Beards”Thumbs down: no Dewey Phillips
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 22:00 (one year ago) link
I mean we were thrilled about Elvis, but it wasn’t like doing Neil Diamond.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 18 July 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link
Thumbs down: no Dewey Phillips
They did show a DJ playing two records at once though, didn't they?
― pplains, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
Right, now I remember. And that was when we heard “Viva Las Vegas” turn into Vanilla Ice saying “check out my hook while my DJ revolves it.”
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
Or was it a certain sample from Beck’s “Where It’s At.”
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 12:13 (one year ago) link
That’s what happens to me, I can’t help it.
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 12:47 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkIiVux4keI
― L.H.O.O.Q. Jones (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 12:49 (one year ago) link
I’m pleasantly surprised at the movie. Definitely not a fan of Baz’s style and in the opening minutes with the hyperactive editing I thought I would hate it but it tones down considerably.
Final half hour or so shows there’s a better, very emotive movie somewhere in there. Austin Butler actually nails it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 21 July 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
OTM. Some of his sheepish guilty husband stuff reminded me of Heath Ledger in I'm Not There.
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 July 2022 15:32 (one year ago) link
Yeah I have to admit tears weren’t far by the end… the marriage breakdown, isolation, physical and mental degradation and the integration of real EP footage brought the movie to a strong final imo.
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 21 July 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
I used to think my dad was ElvisBut I haven’t told him that yetI haven’t told my dad either
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 July 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
Wow. Shonka Dukureh, the singer and actress who portrayed Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton in Luhrmann’s Elvis, has died.
― birdistheword, Friday, 22 July 2022 04:06 (one year ago) link
RIP. That was a good performance.
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 July 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
Came to post this for some reason:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOAbrFgCWPs
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 July 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
Kind of the CBGB version.
That electric bass solo is (fire emoji).
― o. nate, Friday, 22 July 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
Maybe not quite at this level but close.
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 July 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Here's some stuff I recently learned about The Sweet Inspirations that I guess I will post here. The original leader was Cissy Houston whose real name was Emily Drinkard, and at one point she had a group known as the Drinkard Singers managed by her sister, Lee Drinkard, or Arthur Lee Drinkard Warrick, mother of Dione and Dee Dee Warrick then Warwick who were also in the group, along with either Judy Clay or Doris Troy. At some point Cissy and Dee Dee formed The Sweet Inspirations with Syvlia Shemwell, Judy Clay's sister. Dee Dee went solo and was replaced by Myrna Smith and finally Estelle Brown was added. This quartet backed up Aretha, Dionne, Doris Troy, Judy Clay and many others. They joined Elvis's band for his Vegas shows but I believe Cissy left soon afterwards to start a solo career, make Myrna Smith the chief Sweet. Myrna later married Jerry Schilling (Elvis bought them a house) and perhaps was the only Sweet to sing on some of Elvis's studio recordings such as "Hurt." Jerry Schilling also managed or had something going on with The Beach Boys or Carl Wilson at some point so Myrna worked on some Carl Wilson records as co-writer.
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 July 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
Maybe I should just start a thread for that stuff.
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 July 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
https://www.elvisinfonet.com/myrna.html
After Elvis died my husband Jerry Schilling was working with The Beach Boys and in fact we were dining with the Colonel the very night that Dennis Wilson drowned.
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 23 July 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
Every time I've ever mailed or sent something as "Return to Sender," I think about the chorus to Elvis's hit in a non-stop loop.
― birdistheword, Monday, 25 July 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
(bring that up because that's what happened as I carried a mistaken package to the UPS store)
an all time hook
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 07:26 (one year ago) link
by Otis Blackwell! (with Winfield Scott)
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 07:28 (one year ago) link
Scotty Moore got a writer's credit on that?
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 12:13 (one year ago) link
Oh no, different guy.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
how has this pic not become a meme yet
https://i.imgur.com/wYkk0eB.jpg
― frogbs, Sunday, 31 July 2022 02:51 (one year ago) link
Think it must be because Loren and Mansfield were at the next table.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 July 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
Fun fact that I just learned from Andrew Hickey’s A History Of Rock Music In 500 Songs podcast: because Sun had a disc cutting machine in the early ‘60s, and Stax didn’t, if Stax needed an acetate they’d have it cut at Sun. The acetate for “Green Onions” was cut at Sun by Scotty Moore.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 31 July 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
Wait which episode was that, or are you going to make me listen to all 500?
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 31 July 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
It’s actually from the most recent one, in which he answers questions from listeners
― Josefa, Sunday, 31 July 2022 23:35 (one year ago) link
Recent Andrew Hickey talk here and elsewhere led me to find his on-target review of the Elvis movie: https://andrewhickey.info/2022/07/11/elvis-film-review/
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 August 2022 12:38 (one year ago) link
thx for posting- a good read! though uh he is VERY thorough lol“Now I should also take a moment here to address my non-conventional use of punctuation. I know it is common for a period to be used in a natural break but as you’ll see I prefer …”
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 August 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
That was interesting, this guy’s a good writer Fwiw, John Goodman isn’t really fat anymore
― Disarm u with a SMiLE (morrisp), Sunday, 7 August 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
yes! he’s pretty lean these days
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 7 August 2022 23:18 (one year ago) link
But also---wrinkled as hell, deflated-looking. And deflated-seeming, last time I could stand to watch The Connors. Like some older people I've known---
― dow, Monday, 8 August 2022 04:43 (one year ago) link
wow that’s a great review. thank you
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 8 August 2022 12:56 (one year ago) link
This fucking clip is amazing. I'm sure it's upthread somewhere but holy shit — not just the way the rhythm section (Jerry Scheff and Ronnie Tutt) go off about two and a half minutes in, but the way Elvis reacts to Tutt, grinning like he can't even help himself given what he's hearing, and then the way he plays with the backup singer a minute later, stalking across the stage at her like a goddamn tiger...just an unbelievable performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1g5tVGZhfk
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 8 August 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
Cool, thanks.Does he pretty much always say/sing “shove it up your nose” at that one point? Used to think that was a one-off but it seems to keep reappearing.
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 9 August 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
unbelievable confidence
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 07:23 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdYYcMH4dmw
― I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
The movie's gonna be on HBO Max starting Friday. Asked my wife if she had any interest in watching it with me, she said no, so I'll probably pass.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link
You don't know what you are missing.
― I’d Rather Gorblimey (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 August 2022 01:13 (one year ago) link