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DoughboyUK
I tend not to compare to much as my mindset will never alter.
Im a Big fan of both...
More a dreamer and what if person...
3) if elvis had found a stones somg to cover...
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DoughboyUK
I tend not to compare to much as my mindset will never alter.
Im a Big fan of both...
More a dreamer and what if person...
3) if elvis had found a stones somg to cover...
Dough
...It would have been Mixed Emotions, IMO....
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DandelionPowderman
Let's correct the thread title to "Elvis Presley & Mick Jagger, the two greatest frontmen ever"!
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DandelionPowderman
Let's correct the thread title to "Elvis Presley & Mick Jagger, the two greatest frontmen ever"!
Someone mentioned Freddy Mercury as the greatest, so you have to add him too, at least.
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DandelionPowderman
Let's correct the thread title to "Elvis Presley & Mick Jagger, the two greatest frontmen ever"!
Someone mentioned Freddy Mercury as the greatest, so you have to add him too, at least.
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guitarbastard
elvis had a great voice and of course was important somehow. but he could hardly play the guitar and didnt write a song on his own. how can anyone call him the KING of rock n roll?? this title goes to chuck berry. when i travelled down the mississippi last year i was shocked how little attention the old (black) blues and rock and roll masters get. no street is named after them, no museum, nothing. but elvis is @#$%& everywhere. it's just so wrong!
You should have called me before you came! You obviously missed the Mississippi Blues Trail, the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale (and all the other Clarksdale sites), the guitar monument at the crossroads on Highway 61 where Robert Johnson supposedly met the devil, all the birth sites and grave sites, such as Sonny Boy Williamson's . . . And that's just in one small area of Mississippi!
But why no street names?? I wonder why.
Not many, admittedly, but there are some--John Lee Hooker Lane, McKinley St., plus Muddy waters has a Chicago street named after him.
Not many is an euphemism here. I guess it has something to do with the colour of their skin. A white man was needed to bring the black music to the attention of the mass of white people.
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DandelionPowderman
Let's correct the thread title to "Elvis Presley & Mick Jagger, the two greatest frontmen ever"!
Someone mentioned Freddy Mercury as the greatest, so you have to add him too, at least.
Freddie who? He's nothing without his short micstand, and he never growled
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JuanTCB
But yeah, the only person that could give Mick a run for his money was Elvis at his prime ('56-'58, '68-'70).
How about Little Richard (who Jagger "borrowed" from) and a few rock gods - Plant, Daltry, Morrison, Hendrix and Mercury?
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guitarbastard
elvis had a great voice and of course was important somehow. but he could hardly play the guitar and didnt write a song on his own. how can anyone call him the KING of rock n roll?? this title goes to chuck berry. when i travelled down the mississippi last year i was shocked how little attention the old (black) blues and rock and roll masters get. no street is named after them, no museum, nothing. but elvis is @#$%& everywhere. it's just so wrong!
You should have called me before you came! You obviously missed the Mississippi Blues Trail, the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale (and all the other Clarksdale sites), the guitar monument at the crossroads on Highway 61 where Robert Johnson supposedly met the devil, all the birth sites and grave sites, such as Sonny Boy Williamson's . . . And that's just in one small area of Mississippi!
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But yeah, the only person that could give Mick a run for his money was Elvis at his prime ('56-'58, '68-'70).
How about Little Richard (who Jagger "borrowed" from) and a few rock gods - Plant, Daltry, Morrison, Hendrix and Mercury?
Nope. James Brown and Otis are the only other ones that could come close. The guys you mentioned don't move crowds like the Mick/Elvis/Otis/JB crew. They don't have the right amounts of balls, heart, humor, and sheer talent.
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JuanTCB
Justin nailed it, but to pile on... I think Elvis' greatest impact was that he was the catalyst that made it all happen. Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard weren't getting into white living rooms without something happening first - and that something was Elvis.
Plus, the guy was a master interpreter, an original, visceral arranger, he had a hell of a voice, great moves, a sense of humor, and was one of the best-looking examples of humanity the world has ever seen.
It's kind of like what I think Keith said about the Beatles, regarding the British Invasion - "They opened up the door, we kicked it down."
But yeah, the only person that could give Mick a run for his money was Elvis at his prime ('56-'58, '68-'70). It really is apples and oranges, though.
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jpasc95
to bv (the king of the forum),
it's quite strange to change the title of the thread. I must admit that I don't understand.
was there an offense to someone ?
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tomcasagranda
Agree with DMay's post. Elvis has done some amazing cuts, and, to be honest, Mick couldn't scratch the surface of Elvis' vocals on Long Black Limousine. I'm sorry, but he was that good. Likewise, his versions of How Great Thou Art, be they 1966,1974, and 1977, show what a great singer he was.
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guitarbastard
elvis had a great voice and of course was important somehow. but he could hardly play the guitar and didnt write a song on his own. how can anyone call him the KING of rock n roll?? this title goes to chuck berry. when i travelled down the mississippi last year i was shocked how little attention the old (black) blues and rock and roll masters get. no street is named after them, no museum, nothing. but elvis is @#$%& everywhere. it's just so wrong!
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treaclefingers
I think they are/were both formidable.
And even though Mick is quite wiry and physically fit, I think in his prime, let's say 1968, Elvis would have kicked Mick's ass in the ring.
Elvis was a black belt after all. All Mick had was some James Brown moves.