I didnt like him so much...in 94...I began to dig some of his stuff!Now I like It more and more the early R&RSTYLE stuff!!!the heartbreaking(sometimes ballads)The Menphis album(any day now!!!!!!).The gospel stuff(so high!)..He was a right wing m f u c er buttta golden voice!!!And he gave M ali G GlAY his goat!!!!Phill lynot loved him to...some songs make me sick...but when this man was good he was...real glory!!!!He did a Beatles cover..he should have done a Stones cover and of course South bound!!!Elvis doing Wild Horses!!!So what do you think of Presley???!!!

yeah Rooster man....The Sun Sessions are great......and the early lps are great too..........the guy had it all....but was weak and let too many people run the show

I like Elvis overall....and he was a good person.

i like the early elvis very much.
i like also the glitter glamour las vegas elvis.
he´s the only one who is allowed to wear such custumes.
he rules.

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Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

I do think he was R&R!!!And when Sad heartbreaking..Leonard!!!Heartbreak Hotel is so moving!

I loved his song, "Watching The Detectives"

I don't like his new record.

I really dig him. The song If I Can Dream is one of my favorite songs ever! His voice was amazing. A man with songs like Suspiscious Minds, Burning Love, Can't Help Falling In Love, Hound Dog, Don't Be Cruel, Always On My Mind, That's All Right, Heartbreak Hotel, among many others, deserves all of my respect.

Elvis doing wild Horses would awesome!



"Too many roads lead to nowhere
But how they twist and they turn
And a dead end and a dusty old strip mall
Where your tires are all shredded and burned"

- Driving Too Fast



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I've said it before, but the Elvis Presley Band in the 50s set the stage, so to speak, for every rock n roll band that followed, including the Stones and the Beatles.

The late Elvis is also extrodinary!
"Walk a Mile In My Shoes" in really something.

Its real strange but his version of ''Always on my mind'''breaks Roosters heart!? I lve ''Dont be cruel''-Any Day Now ...is one of the best tunes I ever heard in my whole life!It almost made me cry!!!Why this man is so god damm good!!I even bought a couple of bootlegs ...wich were good!!!and recorded at the end of his sad life...I think the Stones were to wild for this southern trucker..with the golden voice...mannnn!!!how I wish he tried Memory Motel...in a b- set with heartbreak h!!!!

Yeah ya can every Stones recording ever made but ya also better have a copy of The Sun Sessions....and a Robert Johnson album.



ROCKMAN

Elvis was in touch with David Bowie, when he heard "Golden Years". He wanted Bowie to write something like that for him.

Yeah!!!Rock!Elvis was honest he said without gospel and blues and jazz there woulnt be no rock &roll at all!!!so the dude knew his roots!!!wich I like!!!

Annd dont ya just love Mystery Train!!!!!

if anyone's interested in a great Elvis book: "Last Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley" by Peter Guralnick......a great glimpse at the early years of Elvis Presley written with passion & honesty

Always loved some of those hidden gems from Elvis....That's Someone You Will Never Forget 1962 written by his close friend Red West always stops me in ma tracks.....the vocal build just slaughters!!!

Sun sessions should be made compulsary listening in every home across the world.






ROCKMAN

I Thank you gonna readit!Sus..minds is real hard on my stereo now!!!mind blowing!!!

love an afternoon in the garden and in person. What a great band..

Rock man you is so right there are so many outakes of this man around!never been heard!!!

More and more good tunes then I ever thought there was!!!I feel so blue!!!

Oh man . . . he's the one artist who can rival the Stones.

I love the Sun stuff and the early, pre-Army RCA records (especially what he did in '56). Elvis Is Back! from '60 is really good, too. Not a whole lot of stuff holds up from the mid '60s (except for his gospel records, which kick ass), but from the '68 Comeback Special through the Memphis stuff, the early Vegas shows, and Elvis Country - that's my favorite era. Aloha in '73 was his last hurrah - he went downhill pretty quickly after that. His voice remained great until the end, though - check out "Unchained Melody" from '77 - it's hard to watch, but MAN! Chilling.

Elvis is the single greatest performer of the rock era. Mick is the best of the mere mortals, but E is on a totally different level.

Plus, he was cool as hell.

thumbs up

As a performer Jagger was so much wilder!!!but I wasnt there in the fifties!!! and I know it was a big revolution back then shaking your hips!!!And he was the first!!!

I was an Elvis fan before I was ever a Stones fan

he's still up there as one of my favourite artists of all time. Still a huge fan - the crappy movies tend to make people overlook how great he really was, because thats a large percentage of whats around as a visual document of his career

Simply the greatest (and most diversely talented) singer there ever was or ever will be.

Handsome bastard too...

rooster Wrote:
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> As a performer Jagger was so much wilder!!!but I
> wasnt there in the fifties!!! and I know it was a
> big revolution back then shaking your hips!!!And
> he was the first!!!


Hey Rooster....they're both part of the "wild-man" evolutionary family tree



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Leonard Keringer Wrote:
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> if anyone's interested in a great Elvis book:
> "Last Train To Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley"
> by Peter Guralnick......a great glimpse at the
> early years of Elvis Presley written with passion
> & honesty


It's one of the greatest books on popular music ever written

The second part "Careless Love" is quite brilliant as well

Elvis was a hero and he still is.

His Sun records and early RCA recordings still sound as amazing as they did 50 years ago, also because of Scotty and Bill's crafstmanship. I remember that Keith once said he always tried Scotty Moore's guitar solo on You're Right, I'm Left, She's Gone (brilliant title, BTW) and got frustrated because he just couldn't figure out how he did it.

I also dig his later work, especially the Memphis Studio recordings in '69. I'll Hold You In My Heart, After Loving You, Any Day Now, Long Black Limousine and Stranger In My Own Home Town are some of the best R&B recordings ever.



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Leonard...one thing I have ta tell you when talk about ''wild''!!!!!!I used tohave a Jerry lee Lewis album recorded in the early sixties in Hamburg!Reeperbahn Whore city!and man I lost it!annd maaaaaann..this was the wildest R&R I ever heard in my life till now !!!!!!!Annd Rooster cant stand it that it cant be found!how crazy this show was!!you cant believe!!And I saw punk been born!!!!

The Sun Sessions are the Rock and Roll Bible. Elvis at that time, before the movies, wasthe high priest and Scotty Moore is one of all my all time favorite guitarists!

rooster Wrote:
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> Leonard...one thing I have ta tell you when talk
> about ''wild''!!!!!!I used tohave a Jerry lee
> Lewis album recorded in the early sixties in
> Hamburg!Reeperbahn Whore city!and man I lost
> it!annd maaaaaann..this was the wildest R&R I
> ever heard in my life till now !!!!!!!Annd Rooster
> cant stand it that it cant be found!how crazy this
> show was!!you cant believe!!And I saw punk been
> born!!!!


Live at The Star Club........friggin' fantastic Rooster.....the audience on this recording is great!......you feel like you're in the club when listening to this....and Jerry Lee was on fire with a great backing band......you can still get it...check on Amazon.com