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Baz gives a damn good interview and conveys his authentic passion about his projects extremely well. And he's over the moon about the number of people, including longtime Elvis skeptics, who are coming out of EPiC happy and having met a person they didn't really know before.

Baz is proud that he's giving Elvis the world tour he always wanted but in life never got.

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Now Baz is working on Joan of Arc.

We need to get the Stones on his list for his next full treatment.
Elvis
Joan of Arc
The Rolling Stones

Yeah, let's get that idea out there.

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runaway
EPIC: Elvis Presley in Concert - the movie

Beautiful footage, as if you were there yourself, of the great singer and showman Elvis Presley, born in Tupelo.

Some More great early musicians from my archive on vinyl:
Peetie Wheatstraw
Leadbelly
Big Bill Broonzy
Billy Holiday
Bo Diddley
J.B. Lenoir
Blind Willie McTell
The late Bill Williams
Frank Stokes

Beyond for their music and performances this is the thing I most appreciate the Rolling Stones for. I'm sure that eventually in my life I'd have discovered the great black bluesmen and women who were essential to the very existence of this music we love. But I have no idea how long that would have taken were it not for Brian Mick and Keith having learned about it and harped on the rest of us to learn about it too. It's in large part thanks to those guys that in my music collection I have, idk, 500? blues cds.

Thanks for The Stones I started digging in The blues and I'm still digging!

the BFI IMAX theater in London has added new dates, it is one of the best places in Europe to see the Elvis movie:

EPiC @ BFI London

Sidetracking:

Among the renowned rockers who were ignited a flame towards all things rock ‘n’ roll by Elvis in their young days are Jimmy Page and Robert Plant (in Jimmy’s Case, Scotty Moore’s guitar may have played as big a part as The King himself).
Led Zeppelin’s show highlight in 1970-1973 was the oldies medley bookended by Whole Lotta Love as the intro and coda, which was the main set closer before the encore. They played a number of rock ‘n’ roll and rockabilly classics in that section, e.g. Chuck, Eddie, Gene to name a few, but in terms of choices, Elvis came to the top. Of the bootleg recordings I have heard, their most Elvis-heavy medley is from Festival Hall, Osaka, 9 October, 1972.

Whole Lotta Love/Something's Got A Hold On Me/Milkcow Blues Boogie*/Lawdy, Miss Clawdy*/Heartbreak Hotel*/Wear My Ring Around Your Neck*/Going Down Slow/Whole Lotta Love
[N.B. the asterisks are Elvis songs or ones most famous by his covers]

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Inspired by this thread I picked up my old THE SUN SESSIONS vinyl from the attic and listened to it. First time for 30 years or so. Damn, as I recall it being like, that's great sounding stuff. The feel with the dynamics is simply incredible. With such archaic, simple elements, the atmopshere goes just so deep. I don't know what it was but with Muddy's 50's Chess recordings, sonically best sounding stuff ever done. Taking all the technological advancement ever since, that's just crazy.

I don't care a shit about king this or king that bullshit, but when it comes down to music and nothing but music - rock and roll - the stuff on THE SUN SESSIONS is a definitive argument by this dude and his friends. I do understand very well that for this very reason alone the generation of John Lennon and Keith Richards forgives whatever crap that man otherwise later did. (Naturally Chuck Berry is better and more important for them, but that's another discussion.)

I might listen THE SUN SESSIONS more often in future...

- Doxa



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RisingStone
Sidetracking:

Among the renowned rockers who were ignited a flame towards all things rock ‘n’ roll by Elvis in their young days are Jimmy Page and Robert Plant (in Jimmy’s Case, Scotty Moore’s guitar may have played as big a part as The King himself).
Led Zeppelin’s show highlight in 1970-1973 was the oldies medley bookended by Whole Lotta Love as the intro and coda, which was the main set closer before the encore. They played a number of rock ‘n’ roll and rockabilly classics in that section, e.g. Chuck, Eddie, Gene to name a few, but in terms of choices, Elvis came to the top. Of the bootleg recordings I have heard, their most Elvis-heavy medley is from Festival Hall, Osaka, 9 October, 1972.

Whole Lotta Love/Something's Got A Hold On Me/Milkcow Blues Boogie*/Lawdy, Miss Clawdy*/Heartbreak Hotel*/Wear My Ring Around Your Neck*/Going Down Slow/Whole Lotta Love
[N.B. the asterisks are Elvis songs or ones most famous by his covers]

[www.youtube.com]

[appx: 1:45:00-2:14:05 (cut)/Elvis songs portion: 1:53:00-2:03:50]

I haven't heard the Osaka rendition - I'll do so, later - but I have always loved the medley that appears on Zeppelin's BBC Sessions release. I understand it's edited, but it contains a raucous That's Alright Mama and Mess of Blues. Led Zeppelin were all huge Elvis fans, growing up.

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Doxa
I might listen THE SUN SESSIONS more often in future...

I strongly recommend seeing EPiC. I assure you of getting another new revelation following your reassessment of The Sun Sessions. The film changed my recognition of his much ridiculed Vegas era.

"Those who have not seen the show and say it’s Las Vegas, well, they just don't know what Las Vegas is." — Bob Dylan (a remark to the criticism of his musical presentation of the 1978 world tour and the Budokan album)

Trivia: Wicked Game singer Chris Isaak often told that The Sun Sessions he purchased in Kyoto while he studied in Japan as an exchange student in the late ‘70s gave him an inspiration and acted as a catalyst for his future musical style (does anybody know he speaks some Japanese?).

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Big Al
Led Zeppelin were all huge Elvis fans, growing up.

Elvis tunes covered by Led Zeppelin on stage, rehearsals and sound-checks would make a long list. Most notably, A Mess Of Blues (tour ‘71), Let’s Have A Party (tour ‘72-‘73) and Baby I Don’t Care (tour ‘73) were played on semi-regular basis.

This is a really fun thread. I am glad Elvis is not forgotten and gets the attention he deserves. He was a comet rather than a shooting star. He was as original as Chuck Berry was, but for other reasons.

I really enjoy reading people's thoughts on Elvis' influence on the world and of course, on the Stones themselves. He did bring a lot of changes to our culture even this was not his intention.

Look forward to seeing this movie if if it will not be in an IMAX theatre.

My question is about Mick and Elvis:

Did Mick ever study Elvis' dancing/stage movements the way he said he did, I think, with James Brown and,
of course, Tina Turner? I know Mick's pointed out how rare it was for male singers to really move much onstage.

Saw the EPiC film yesterday, fantastic!



~"Love is Strong"~



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angee
My question is about Mick and Elvis:

Did Mick ever study Elvis' dancing/stage movements the way he said he did, I think, with James Brown and,
of course, Tina Turner? I know Mick's pointed out how rare it was for male singers to really move much onstage.

Saw the EPiC film yesterday, fantastic!

I think Jagger did a lot of copycat moves when they started out in the 60s. He did that for a long while but formed his own style during the 70s. More freestyle, not memorized moves. One of a kind!

Elvis' on stage moves are legendary. As a dude he brought sexuality by shaking his body in front of an audience and on TV like nobody else had done before. Suddenly Marlon, James, Frank looked a little stiff. Then Jagger came along, reinventing the game and suddenly Elvis looked scripted. His downfall; the Karate moves....

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rollmops
Elvis' on stage moves are legendary. As a dude he brought sexuality by shaking his body in front of an audience and on TV like nobody else had done before. Suddenly Marlon, James, Frank looked a little stiff. Then Jagger came along, reinventing the game and suddenly Elvis looked scripted. His downfall; the Karate moves....

Yep! And singing 'Old McDonald Had A Farm' in an undoubtedly terrible movie; not sure which one, though!

Might as well bring "the cape" as it is seen quite a lot in the movie. Maybe Elvis was channeling the American superhero thing with it. It is part of his personae on stage and also off stage. Joan Rivers has a great story about it:

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