Hola,
I never heard any comment about Elvis Presley from Stones members, they never played a song, or any comment, do you anything about this? They just talk about, what they think are the roots of rock and roll as Chuck Berry and others, but never Elvis, how was the relationship between them?
any pictures or songs?
If you know something let me know,
Carlos
Tenerife, Canary Islands, SPAIN

Carlos:

Is it possible to play rock'n'roll and not be massively indebted to The King?

It's probably the case that the young Stones didn't cover Elvis the way they did Bo Diddley, Solomon Burke, Slim Harpo, Irma Thomas, Howlin' Wolf, Bobby Womack and others because his own records were so very well known to the mainstream (white) record-buying public. Even Chuck Berry's music was unfamiliar to white audiences relative to Elvis's. Beyond that, I cannot imagine Mick Jagger wanting to compete vocally with Presley...that's my guess, anyway.

Having said that, Keith has always raved about Elvis's guitar players--James Burton and especially the legendary Scotty Moore. Keith did a late-90's recording with Scotty, Elvis drummer DJ Fontana and members of The Band called "A Deuce And A Half." It's great fun and is available on a tribute album called "All The King's Men" which celebrates Moore and Fontana. (Ron Wood also collaborates with Jeff Beck on a track).

Also, when the Stones were picking covers to add to revamped versions of their own classics for the 1995 "Stripped" album, they recorded "You're Right, I'm Left, She's Gone" from Presley's original Sun sessions. I've never heard it, but I'm pretty sure it had been bootlegged...

thanks again,
do you think someone can share music from cotty moore and dj fontana over here, or evern the all the kings men.
million thanks,
carlos

If I'm not mistaken, playing Hound Dog at the Memphis show in '78 was in tribute to Elvis...

you're not mistaken, inopeng - one of the best one-off's they've ever done....

I dig their cover of Hound Dog. If I recall, Mick says "Big Momma Thornton" after that one. But, the credit to Evlis is just implied probably. they did hound dog at one other show, the one right after that.



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During a brief interview in one of the BBC sessions, brian answers a question about "how do you boys like elvis?" with a wonderfully pretentious, "we don't really think about him at all" or something like that. Now, elvis was probably at his lowest point around then, but it struck me as a cool, rebellious thing to say.

Scotty Moore's website - there's a lot of very cool stuff on it:
[www.scottymoore.net]
have fun!


"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith

can someone post an mp3 of hound dog done by the stones? would love to hear it...

Don't foget about Zepplin! They loved Elvis They did alot of medley"s with Elvis stuff through there live stuff Boogie woogie Sh** Page And Plant.

I beleive Bill was quite into Elvis.

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> I beleive Bill was quite into Elvis.

True. Amazingly, Bill and Elvis are roughly the same age.

Keith Richards



ROCKMAN

Great quote, Rockman, thanks for posting. Any idea where/when it's from?

ohno....eeerrr one is from 78 da other from 92..
but not sure what interview either is taken from..



ROCKMAN

Scotty Moore was brought on stage at Hamburg in 1998 but didn't play.

Seems like its Elvis day....all right!!mamma!!

Mick was once asked, what was the biggest dissapointment in his career?

He responded " I never met Elvis".

A drunken Mick does an Elvis impersonation in Charlie Is My Darling.

Mick said in an interview in 1972...
"I'll stop touring when in 33. I don't want to be like Elvis, having lots of old women bringing their handbags to the shows. That's really silly."

(I don't have the interview by hand, but it's very close to what I wrote)

Shame on Jagger!