... with Elvis?

Started by raxo, Mar 11, 2006, 06:00 AM

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pc31

maybe its a sam picture....taken by dick matthews....look at this one paul has his foot i think....
read about sams engagement party....

Kate

love those pics....thankx for posting them...I know I have them..... somewhere in various books....

pc31

wait and i will try to find it...the story...it mayb alan caldwells foot....

Kate

Elvis met the Beatles![/u]

thought I put this in for everyone who doesn't know......ha ha ha if there is such a thing....

Bobber

Quote from: pc31wait and i will try to find it...the story...it mayb alan caldwells foot....

Yeah, Rory insisted on being on the photograph too, so Paul grabbed his foot.

adamzero

Borrowed my brother's "Run Devil Run"--Paul's version of "All Shook Up" didn't shake me up.  It was competent, but Paul in 1997 ain't Elvis of 1957.  But then who is?  Or was?

It's weird how some versions of songs become definitive.  Like almost all Beatles versions of their own songs are the definitive versions.

I'm up in the air re. Blue Suede Shoes.  I love Carl Perkins, but I'm not sure Elvis didn't surpass him.  Anyway, Elvis's Sun Sessions and his first album on RCA is a masterpiece for me that stands right up there with the greatest rock'n'roll ever recorded.  It doesn't hurt to have guitarists like Chet Atkins and Scotty Moore.  And D.J. Fontana on drums.  Great Gawd-a-mighty!  

pc31

me and the fat elvis agree

raxo

Quote from: 345I got this out of a magazine=)


On the night of Aug. 27, The Beatles went to visit Elvis at his Los Angeles home at 565 Perugia Way.  Author Chris Hutchins was with them.

Elvis and his wife pricilla were sitting in the centre of a horeshoe couch in the den, hutchins said.  "He was wearing a red shirt and close-fitting black jerkin, the high Napoleonic collar rising above his sideburns."
"Priscilla was pure Hollywood starlet.  Her black bouffant towered above her forhead and she was heavily made up with thick black mascara, midnight blue eye-liner, red blusher and heartbreak pink lipstick.  She was wearing a figure-hugging cream jacket with long pants and there was a jeweled tiara on her head.

"Elvis rose to greet his guests, sun-tanned and outwardly relaxed.
"peering 'round the room like peter sellers and putting on an inspector clouseau accent to address his reluctant host, Jogn said, "Oh, zere you are!"

The Mersey river had finally run into the MIssissippi River and already I could see there were going to be some big waves.

There was a sudden silence as the record that was playing came to an end. No one spoke.

The silence became uncomfortable and then embarrassing.  Everyone looked at Elvis.

Nervously, he picked up the remote control and started changing the channels on the TV.

Throwing the device on the coffee table, elvis said, "If you guys are just gonna sit there and start at me I'm goin' to bed.  Let's call it a night, right Cilla? I didn't mean for this to be like the subjects calling on hte King.  I just htought we'd sit and talk about music and maybe jam a little."

"That would be great," Paul enthused, trying to save the situation.

Elvis ordered somebody to bring in the guitars.  Electric guitars are brought in and plugged into amplifiers which are scattered around the room, and a white piano is pushed into the center of the room.  Elvis picks up the bass guitar he has started to learn to play.

The party broke around 2 a.m., but there was a parting shot from John as we bundled each other out of the front door.  "Sanks for ze music, He said, adding sarcastically, "Long live the King."

As we walked to the car Colonel Tom Parker said to me, "Tell the fans it was a great meeting."

Jogn overhears this and laughed and sid, "Tell them the truth, it was a load of rubbish."




And there you go, how the Beatles met the king. Exscuse any typing mistakes etc. I typed it up in like 2 minutes and wasn't very careful hehe. Just thought Id bring that little bit of info to you=)

from here: http://dmbeatles.com/forums/m-1078757475/


alexis

I've read Georg'es description of the meeting somewhere in these forums that gave a very different picture ... he made it sound like they had a good time.

So much stuff we will probably never really know what happened.  I bet that they would have been tickled pink to be Elvis' Jordannaires for an evening. Of course Elvis might not have liked that.
I love John,
I love Paul,
And George and Ringo,
I love them all!

Alexis

The Swine

elvis is an overrated asshole.
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BlueMeanie

Quote from: 748elvis is an overrated asshole.

I totally agree Mr. Swine. I'll accept that he was an important artist and major influence until he went into the army. After that, he's finished. A lot of this of course, can be blamed on his manager who - when The Beatles were playing stadiums - thought that the peak of an artists career should be a residency in Vegas!

Kevin

Quote from: 483

I totally agree Mr. Swine. I'll accept that he was an important artist and major influence until he went into the army. After that, he's finished. A lot of this of course, can be blamed on his manager who - when The Beatles were playing stadiums - thought that the peak of an artists career should be a residency in Vegas!

I think pre-Army Elvis totally earns his status as a rock legend. For a few years he WAS rock and roll. His importance is beyond measure.
Post army - oh dear. When you hear about the Colonel refusing to let him tour, turning down offers for movies like Midnight Cowboy...
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BlueMeanie

Quote from: 185turning down offers for movies like Midnight Cowboy...

Blimey, I didn't know that. What an idiot. I don't know much about Parker, due to my relative non interest in Elvis; was he a naive idiot, or lazy, money grabbing, and exploitative? I guess his 20% cut from a tour would have been an awful lot more work that a 20% cut from a million bucks a week at Vegas?

Kevin

He was a major control freak. Maybe he was afraid of loosing power over Elvis. (whether Parker was Frankenstein and Elvis his monster is as debatable as the Epstein-Beatles thing.)
The most charitable thing to say (and I'm no expert) is that not all decisions were made with elvis's best interests at heart.
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