... with Elvis?

Kate · Apr 09, 2006, 10:03 AM

yep, gene is great - seen the vid on your webpage - classic!!!

just discovered my love for men in leather suits

...wink wink nudge nudge

pc31 · Apr 13, 2006, 05:43 AM

Kate · Apr 13, 2006, 01:34 PM

always loved that one marshall

The End · Apr 13, 2006, 04:16 PM

Quote from: pc31

Not sure about the pink caps though - Gene Vincent had a lot to answer for!!

pc31 · Apr 13, 2006, 08:04 PM

he would bopped you in the loo you la!!!!

The End · Apr 13, 2006, 09:11 PM

LOL

Yikes - that sounds TOO painful for words!!

pc31 · Apr 13, 2006, 09:14 PM

thats faron from farons flamingoes there in the middle...they said he weas drunk as cooter brown.....

pc31 · Apr 13, 2006, 09:15 PM

and ringo was still playing for rory storm......

The End · Apr 14, 2006, 11:10 AM

Who's the bird - looks like she's only got eyes for Paul!

pc31 · Apr 15, 2006, 05:33 PM

i think she is sitting next to john that is a cropped photo....i'll find the whole thing...bill harry wrote about that party i think.....

adamzero · Apr 15, 2006, 06:57 PM

The Beatles idolized Elvis--particularly John and Paul.  Elvis wasn't a writer, but he was a consummate performer and vocalist.  His greatest stuff is from the Sun Sessions--his Mystery Train and Blue Moon of Kentucky are incredible.  Some of the early RCA is great too, but by the 60s he was toast.  He couldn't reinvent himself.

In some ways, the Beatles were the perfect response to Elvis.  To his "hot" style and pelvis gyrations they played it cool.  The Beatles did their cowpoke kneebends and that was about it.  Though they could do rock shouters like Money or Long Tall Sally, there was always a little bit of irony, ice, to it.

As far as I know none of the Beatles ever covered an Elvis song.  Even on John's Rock and Roll album.  Maybe a bridge too far . . . ?

As far as the Elvis name, it's Norse.  All-wise.   El-vis.    I've always doubted that Vernon and his wife had Elvis explicitly in mind when they named Elvis and were probably thinking of the more popular Elvin and just sorted screwed up.  Or thought they could make it "better"--who knows.  I don't think Vernon Presley was a Norse language scholar or anything.   Elvis Aron Presley is his full real name.  They couldn't spell Aaron right either.

pc31 · Apr 16, 2006, 01:13 AM

paul has done elvis tunes(all shook up) as has ringo....at least the other two showed good taste and didn't cover elvis tunes....john did blue suede shoes but that carls song....
that pic al is in alan williams book i think....

Kate · Apr 16, 2006, 02:36 AM

I think they

were pretty disappointed when they met Elvis, cause he wasn't at all easy to talk with - that's my guess....well, at least with the

he couldn't share their experiences and the other way round.....though they adored him....don't think they did afterwards....take it that John invented all this little stories (jamming with Elvis) to make it sound more interesting than it ever was....

pc31 · Apr 16, 2006, 02:53 AM

aha...its a sam leach photo......

http://www.samleach.com/photos_beatles.html

pc31 · Apr 16, 2006, 02:54 AM

the all nighter....