1
00:00:31,519 --> 00:00:35,039
Speaker 1: Hi, this is Bobby Brown and welcome to another fucking podcast.

2
00:00:35,399 --> 00:00:36,840
My members all twisted up.

3
00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:38,439
Speaker 2: Let you know what I did.

4
00:00:39,439 --> 00:00:48,159
Speaker 3: I loaded up with alcohol, more specifically vodka, whisky, beer, tequila,

5
00:00:49,079 --> 00:00:53,520
nor beer, no vodka, hristy more.

6
00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:58,960
Speaker 2: Beer, watching orange whips ounch whip, ounch whip three orange whips.

7
00:00:59,479 --> 00:01:05,599
Speaker 1: Saw your I've come here to break your monotony. Let

8
00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:07,760
me have my piece because I'm shooting with this.

9
00:01:07,799 --> 00:01:12,920
Speaker 2: One, folks, I don't care man, the unscripted, uncensored loose

10
00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:14,599
cannon of common Town.

11
00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:20,000
Speaker 1: Didn't you say that what you come out with stink

12
00:01:20,159 --> 00:01:20,439
like that?

13
00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,000
Speaker 2: Poop poop out.

14
00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:26,239
Speaker 1: Sea Son.

15
00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:31,040
Speaker 2: Old legends never die, They just lose weight. It's like

16
00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,959
a legend and an adamwork bumb with a lot of light. Lenny. Hey,

17
00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,480
I've got a midget friend and albino friends, and another

18
00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,519
friend who thinks Lord of the Rings is real.

19
00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,400
Speaker 1: Together we call ourselves the Unforgottable wi ton is in.

20
00:01:45,159 --> 00:01:47,239
Speaker 2: Let the fun begin you.

21
00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,400
Speaker 1: I've Vanielyns, Hello Las Vegas, Hello world, Hello, my loyal minions.

22
00:01:55,439 --> 00:01:56,959
It is good to see what's always good to be seeing.

23
00:01:56,959 --> 00:01:59,760
I'm Missy Presley. I'm the host of the program. Another

24
00:02:00,359 --> 00:02:03,599
fan podcast. I got a guest with me tonight, a

25
00:02:03,719 --> 00:02:05,799
last minute guest. We're gonna get to him in one

26
00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,319
second before we get to my close personal friend Joe Ajello.

27
00:02:09,879 --> 00:02:16,280
Make sure you check out the Everything Everything, Just Everything socials,

28
00:02:16,479 --> 00:02:19,879
Relzy Presley, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook. That's also the fan page

29
00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:25,240
on the Cameo and on the Patreon, which you can

30
00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,639
sign up for only five dollars a month. We get

31
00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:29,759
three to four shows a week that are just for

32
00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:34,360
the cameo and one free show, and then one show

33
00:02:34,479 --> 00:02:37,800
that gets to Cameo first ad free. It's all you

34
00:02:37,879 --> 00:02:38,400
fucking need.

35
00:02:38,759 --> 00:02:39,199
Speaker 2: Go there.

36
00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,800
Speaker 1: And if you're coming to or coming to Nashville, Joe's

37
00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:44,080
in Nashville. I'm in Las Vegas. And if you're coming

38
00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:45,840
here to get married, hit me up. I can do it.

39
00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,240
It's legal. We are good to go, so joining me.

40
00:02:49,719 --> 00:02:52,280
This was a last minute thing as of this afternoon,

41
00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:58,879
when the unfortunate news hit that the legend, as you know,

42
00:02:59,039 --> 00:03:00,960
we do, the ten dolls lout at the top of

43
00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:04,680
the show every time somebody important dies. Uh, Steve the

44
00:03:04,719 --> 00:03:08,400
Colonel Cropper passed away, and I was planning on tonight,

45
00:03:08,479 --> 00:03:10,080
so this is what the show was going to be tonight.

46
00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:11,919
I was going to talk about because today is this

47
00:03:12,159 --> 00:03:17,240
fifty seventh anniversary of the sixty eight Comeback, the NBC

48
00:03:17,439 --> 00:03:21,280
Elvis Special as they called it, and I was going

49
00:03:21,319 --> 00:03:23,439
to talk about that, and then I put a thing out,

50
00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:26,759
you know the shows you've seen best opening song, and

51
00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,319
we're going to move that to the Patreon tomorrow. But

52
00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:35,639
Joe Agello plays with Burton Cummings and now, because of

53
00:03:35,719 --> 00:03:38,599
the recent news, is a full blown member of the

54
00:03:38,719 --> 00:03:40,199
guests who so.

55
00:03:40,319 --> 00:03:44,719
Speaker 2: Congratulations, thank you, thank you, sir dude.

56
00:03:44,719 --> 00:03:48,039
Speaker 1: It's good to have you back. Yes, yes, good again,

57
00:03:48,439 --> 00:03:52,039
sadly again under horrible circumstances. I think time Iron was

58
00:03:52,039 --> 00:03:53,080
when Edward died.

59
00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:57,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I believe so. Well, in the words

60
00:03:57,159 --> 00:04:00,400
of the King, it's been a long time. Jack.

61
00:04:03,319 --> 00:04:04,879
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to the Elvis thing in a second.

62
00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:07,120
I do want to talk the main reason I wanted

63
00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:08,680
to get you on, well, obviously the Elvis thing, because

64
00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,639
we're both fucking Elvis storks. But you know, Steve, the

65
00:04:11,639 --> 00:04:14,120
Colonel Cropper, and as we do this at the top

66
00:04:14,159 --> 00:04:17,160
of the show every week, every every every night, Greg

67
00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,680
went for the working man for the Colonel Cropper.

68
00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,439
Speaker 2: Oh man, I forgot my my beer.

69
00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:31,279
Speaker 1: Dude, that's all good. My first refreshing sip here. God,

70
00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:35,120
I love beer. You've been you've been to Nashville for

71
00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:38,879
a few years now, and ye crop is you know,

72
00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,040
he's a Nashville staple. Have you Did you get a

73
00:04:42,120 --> 00:04:43,279
chance to run into him at all?

74
00:04:43,639 --> 00:04:48,000
Speaker 2: No? No, I did go to the Stacks Museum last

75
00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,439
year when we were on the road, and that was great.

76
00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,279
That was as close as I could get to him.

77
00:04:56,199 --> 00:04:56,399
Speaker 1: Yeah.

78
00:04:56,519 --> 00:05:00,560
Speaker 2: Right, But I mean, obviously, you know, R and B

79
00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:05,560
and soul music is a big part of my my history,

80
00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,800
and he's you know, they don't make him better than

81
00:05:08,959 --> 00:05:09,720
than than him.

82
00:05:10,399 --> 00:05:12,759
Speaker 1: No, I said today to somebody, it's like he's the

83
00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:14,680
he's the real slow hand.

84
00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:16,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

85
00:05:16,519 --> 00:05:18,839
Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about it, if if you're

86
00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,600
listening to this and you're not really familiar with Steve

87
00:05:21,639 --> 00:05:24,040
the Colonel Cropper, Oh I saw him in the Blues Brothers, Well,

88
00:05:24,439 --> 00:05:26,639
let me tell you, my friends, it goes a lot

89
00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,600
deeper than that. I mean, you just the first paragraph

90
00:05:30,439 --> 00:05:33,879
of the of the Wikipedia guitarist of Stack Record's house

91
00:05:33,959 --> 00:05:36,879
band Booker T and the MG's, which backed artists like

92
00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:42,399
Otis Redding Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Carla, Thomas, Rufus Thomas,

93
00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,560
Johnny Taylor and of course you know part of the

94
00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:50,000
band that could turn goat piss into gasoline, the Blues Brothers.

95
00:05:50,519 --> 00:05:53,879
When did you when did crop come on to your radar?

96
00:05:55,639 --> 00:05:58,759
Speaker 2: Right right in the beginning. You know, my my dad

97
00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:02,639
Well is an audio file. So my house was like

98
00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,879
a record store, and that's what that's what was spinning.

99
00:06:07,079 --> 00:06:10,920
It was all Elvis. It was a lot of duop music,

100
00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,720
Dion and the Belmonts, but a lot of Motown and

101
00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:17,360
a lot of Stacks Stammon, Dave, you know, otis ready

102
00:06:17,759 --> 00:06:20,879
doc of the Bay, you know, hold On I'm coming.

103
00:06:21,079 --> 00:06:23,240
I used to love that song as a kid, and

104
00:06:23,360 --> 00:06:26,360
you know, of course the early Saturday night live you know,

105
00:06:26,639 --> 00:06:29,399
seeing seeing them, you know, the Blues Brothers, you know.

106
00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:33,439
So yeah, I mean when I was you know, basically

107
00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,959
out of the womb, you know, And I always loved

108
00:06:38,519 --> 00:06:41,120
that kind of guitar playing, even before I was really

109
00:06:41,759 --> 00:06:44,120
a guitar player, you know, when I was a baby,

110
00:06:44,639 --> 00:06:48,600
you know, the first kind of things that I could

111
00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:51,800
pick out on the guitar were like one note R

112
00:06:51,879 --> 00:06:55,120
and b licks. I didn't even know what I was doing,

113
00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:58,120
you know. So I couldn't play chords, but I could

114
00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,519
play a lot of that stuff, you know, So I

115
00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:04,160
guess it was sort of more of an influence than

116
00:07:04,199 --> 00:07:06,639
I even realized, you know, until I got older.

117
00:07:07,279 --> 00:07:11,000
Speaker 1: It's so funny because Crop came onto my radar because

118
00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:16,800
of the Blues Brothers, And it's so weird that just

119
00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:24,000
a fucking movie can open up your whole musical, you know.

120
00:07:24,319 --> 00:07:28,360
Library Now now it's like the best of Sam and Dave.

121
00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:31,120
That a track that was in the Bluesmobile that I

122
00:07:31,279 --> 00:07:35,160
am that vinyl and it's my god, that's so fucking good.

123
00:07:35,439 --> 00:07:37,759
And then you realize that he played on almost all

124
00:07:37,839 --> 00:07:38,279
that shit.

125
00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:41,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you feel like you're in the room.

126
00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:46,160
You know we went to Obviously they recreated the studio

127
00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,240
in the museum, and but you just still feel it,

128
00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,120
you know, when they played the music, it's like they're

129
00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:55,759
they're in there, you know, and you know, we're very

130
00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:01,439
we're very far away from that kind of music these days.

131
00:08:01,839 --> 00:08:06,079
Speaker 1: You know, the Stax Museum, it's in Memphis. It's in Memphis, Okay,

132
00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:08,480
except I've been I've been to uh.

133
00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:10,920
Speaker 2: Motown.

134
00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:15,879
Speaker 1: No, dude, why am I fucking drawing a blank. It's

135
00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:22,720
the most famous one. Elvis Sun Studios.

136
00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:27,519
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah they're not They're not too far away

137
00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:28,120
from each other.

138
00:08:29,079 --> 00:08:31,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did. I mean when I was down there

139
00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,559
and I you know, I went to Sun, I had

140
00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,639
no idea. But that was before I dove into everything,

141
00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:39,600
you know, So I had no idea that Stax Museum

142
00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:40,879
was even there. Yeah.

143
00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:45,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, it used to be on Beal Street, I remember,

144
00:08:45,639 --> 00:08:49,120
and they moved it a little, a little out out

145
00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,600
the way, you know. But yeah, we we went there

146
00:08:52,639 --> 00:08:56,120
and we went straight to Graceline after that. My millions

147
00:08:56,240 --> 00:09:00,200
time of going. But yeah, yeah, it was a good day. Wow.

148
00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's just it's just weird. It's like, you know,

149
00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,320
when Ace died, I'm still not over it. Yeah, you know,

150
00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:11,559
I mean that's but but the thing, yes.

151
00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,440
Speaker 2: No, the thing with Ace, I think, you know, we

152
00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:16,799
got all we could get from him, you know. Yeah,

153
00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,840
and you know he left this earth with giving us

154
00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,759
all the gifts that that he could give us.

155
00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:24,559
Speaker 4: You know.

156
00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,120
Speaker 1: Well look, my h my guitar player in the in

157
00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:31,720
the Vegas version of Act attribute to Ace Frailey, which

158
00:09:31,759 --> 00:09:33,639
is playing the night after Christmas here in Las Vegas,

159
00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:35,679
a Ace Raeli remembered the show and a big fucking

160
00:09:35,759 --> 00:09:37,240
kiss jam at the end of it. So come on out.

161
00:09:37,279 --> 00:09:42,120
Tickets are only ten dollars. Hit up at Ace tribute

162
00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,240
on the Twitter and the Facebook and get all those links.

163
00:09:45,279 --> 00:09:49,519
But uh, my guitar player Keith Robert war who's been

164
00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,320
on this show, and he plays with a kiss tribute

165
00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:56,039
called One Last Kiss. He said it best in a text, right,

166
00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:57,720
he goes without a there's no loss.

167
00:09:58,480 --> 00:09:58,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

168
00:09:59,159 --> 00:10:05,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't realize how deep that goes because no kiss. Yeah,

169
00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:08,720
that would probably be you know, slinging fucking burgers, flipping

170
00:10:08,759 --> 00:10:10,399
burgers in Sheboygan somewhere.

171
00:10:10,159 --> 00:10:15,879
Speaker 2: You know. Yeah, he was to me, he was kiss.

172
00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:17,919
That's why I listened.

173
00:10:18,399 --> 00:10:21,440
Speaker 1: So yeah, he was the real fucking rock stars kiss.

174
00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:21,840
He's the key.

175
00:10:22,159 --> 00:10:27,679
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah. Well, God bless them, God bless him.

176
00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:29,279
We had him. We had him as long as we

177
00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:30,000
needed him.

178
00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,360
Speaker 1: Right, right. Have you heard anything about what happened with Crop?

179
00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,320
I mean he was eighty four years old. I heard

180
00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,320
he fell. No, no, I found something like that.

181
00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:45,039
Speaker 2: I found out from you. I've been busy this whole day.

182
00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:52,080
I haven't been doing anything newsworthy, so you know when

183
00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,559
you told me that. That's how I found out. So yeah,

184
00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,960
it's it's uh, you know again, he left us with

185
00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:03,000
lots of gifts. You know, his work was done, so yeah,

186
00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:05,360
we're very thankful for that.

187
00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,080
Speaker 1: Yeah. I texted. I was texting with Billy Vera and

188
00:11:09,879 --> 00:11:13,399
Hall of Famer of this show, and you know, he

189
00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:17,240
said that, He's like, yeah, dude, I just heard and

190
00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:21,120
I actually recorded with him, you know, in the early seventies,

191
00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:23,960
and he said he was just one hell of a guy.

192
00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,840
And that's that's all I've heard. And I'm going to

193
00:11:26,879 --> 00:11:29,000
put it on the Patreon. I have to take some

194
00:11:29,159 --> 00:11:30,840
time to figure out where it is in the John

195
00:11:30,879 --> 00:11:33,480
Carabbe interview that the great Steve the Colonel Cropper story,

196
00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,960
and then and I'll post that post that up on

197
00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,960
the Patreon patreon dot com slash real Lizzy Presley. By

198
00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,200
the way, it's only five dollars a month. So uh,

199
00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,840
let's move on to uh something fun instead of talking

200
00:11:47,919 --> 00:11:48,600
about death.

201
00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:49,320
Speaker 2: Yeah.

202
00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,440
Speaker 1: Fifty seven years ago, tonight, December third, nineteen sixty eight,

203
00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,679
the NBC Elvis Special, as they called.

204
00:11:56,519 --> 00:11:58,840
Speaker 2: It, Singer Singer Presents Elvis.

205
00:11:59,399 --> 00:12:04,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, right, that's right. Sewing machines, And of

206
00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,279
course we all know that as the sixty eight Comeback Special.

207
00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:10,120
Do you remember the first time you saw that?

208
00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,919
Speaker 2: Do you remember, like it was yesterday, because it was

209
00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:20,679
when Elvis died in seventy seven. They started just flooding

210
00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:24,639
TV with you know, and I don't think that they've

211
00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:29,240
played it ever since then. You know, they probably ran

212
00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:35,720
it twice, you know, and but and Margaret hosted this special. Yeah,

213
00:12:35,759 --> 00:12:39,480
it was probably a few days later, and they it

214
00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,559
was called like Memories with Elvis or Our Memories with

215
00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:46,200
Elvis something, and they played the sixty eight Comeback Special

216
00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:52,039
and they played Aloha from Hawaii back to back, and yeah,

217
00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:54,000
that was I was four years old, you know. I

218
00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:57,039
had tickets to see Elvis and he died six days

219
00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:01,559
before the show. Oh oh yeah, So this was my

220
00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,799
first you know. And before that, you know, I didn't

221
00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,879
see him on TV in concert like that, you know,

222
00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:12,919
so this was a big deal. I was born on

223
00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:17,000
April fourth, nineteen seventy three, I mean April third, and

224
00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:20,840
April fourth was when they premiered Alaha from Hawaii in America.

225
00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,879
So that was the first music I ever heard, you know,

226
00:13:24,519 --> 00:13:27,279
but I never got to see it. Until that day.

227
00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,559
So and Margaret, Yeah, I did this. It was like

228
00:13:29,639 --> 00:13:33,720
a four hour special and we had a VCR back

229
00:13:33,759 --> 00:13:37,240
then in seventy seven, so you know, we taped everything.

230
00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:40,320
So that's all I did was watch that, just that

231
00:13:40,879 --> 00:13:45,240
the opening and the leather suit was just like, you know,

232
00:13:46,759 --> 00:13:48,559
he was Superman to me, you know.

233
00:13:49,399 --> 00:13:55,120
Speaker 1: And yeah, it's funny, you said, you said, and Margaret,

234
00:13:55,279 --> 00:13:57,559
and all I can think of, Yo, that's what you

235
00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,480
call trim. I'm sure you didn't hear that, but you

236
00:14:01,519 --> 00:14:03,639
will hear it if you go back and listen to it.

237
00:14:04,759 --> 00:14:06,679
Hot piece of trim. Hot piece.

238
00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:14,360
Speaker 2: Saw it. Yeah, yeah, she you know, she she had

239
00:14:14,639 --> 00:14:17,080
played a bit of a part in his life.

240
00:14:17,799 --> 00:14:23,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, and every every redded, red blooded American male as well.

241
00:14:24,279 --> 00:14:27,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So that was Yeah, that was the

242
00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:32,080
first time I saw it, and you know, I was

243
00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:35,600
I was obsessed with, you know, from the womb, and

244
00:14:36,399 --> 00:14:39,600
you know, I would I would take my we had

245
00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,080
a little microphone, and I take one of my mom's

246
00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,519
dish towels and put it, as you know, on a

247
00:14:44,759 --> 00:14:47,799
as a scarf, you know. But in our living room,

248
00:14:47,879 --> 00:14:53,120
we had this round marble table, so I would pretend

249
00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,080
that I was in the boxing ring, you know, and

250
00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:01,320
I would say along to the special, you know, and yeah, yeah,

251
00:15:01,559 --> 00:15:03,240
so I mean that was and I just got my

252
00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,159
first guitar, so it was really you know, it was

253
00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:07,480
a big deal at that time.

254
00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,679
Speaker 1: It's so funny because I didn't I don't remember ever

255
00:15:11,840 --> 00:15:19,120
seeing it until god, it was late nineties mm hm.

256
00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:23,919
And I had got my mom the the DVD, the

257
00:15:24,159 --> 00:15:29,480
deluxe DVD set where they had everything everything.

258
00:15:29,639 --> 00:15:30,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's them.

259
00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:35,399
Speaker 1: So you as got what for four six DVDs in there?

260
00:15:35,639 --> 00:15:38,799
Speaker 2: Yeah for I believe three three?

261
00:15:39,279 --> 00:15:44,240
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yeah, And you know I watched a special

262
00:15:44,279 --> 00:15:46,759
and there's a couple of parts where I was like, ah, yeah,

263
00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:54,480
the whole African dance party. But uh, but to sit

264
00:15:54,600 --> 00:16:00,480
down and and you we never realized that they film

265
00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,480
those Black Leathers sit Down show, that they filmed it

266
00:16:03,559 --> 00:16:06,440
twice and there were two full shows the same with

267
00:16:06,679 --> 00:16:10,360
Black leather stand up shows and to be watched though,

268
00:16:10,399 --> 00:16:12,679
and the Black Leathers Sit Down Show number one. That's

269
00:16:12,919 --> 00:16:16,240
that's my go to right right, that's it might be

270
00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:17,759
the most rock and roll thing ever.

271
00:16:21,279 --> 00:16:21,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was.

272
00:16:22,159 --> 00:16:25,480
Speaker 2: It was very spontaneous and I think you could you

273
00:16:25,559 --> 00:16:29,639
could feel his nerves in the first one. When he

274
00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:32,559
comes out in the second one, he's a totally different person.

275
00:16:32,919 --> 00:16:37,679
You know. It's it's a very very big difference, you know.

276
00:16:38,279 --> 00:16:42,559
But yeah, you could see this man getting his confidence

277
00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,519
right there on stage, you know, the spontaneouses of it,

278
00:16:46,799 --> 00:16:54,840
and and just the vibe was was was perfect, you know, yeah,

279
00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,279
it's it's it's rock and roll.

280
00:16:56,799 --> 00:16:59,320
Speaker 1: It is well, it's funny. You can tell the difference

281
00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,320
between the two crowds too. And I'm sure you know

282
00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:06,559
the story of what happened with the tickets. Yeah, yeah,

283
00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:09,279
so if you guys aren't familiar with the story, so

284
00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,920
Colonel Tom, Colonel Tom Parker, they were going to give

285
00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,000
away a bunch of tickets on the on the radio

286
00:17:16,079 --> 00:17:18,880
stage on a radio station to come down and see this.

287
00:17:19,759 --> 00:17:23,920
And he was pissed because he wasn't getting any money

288
00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,880
from it. It was just a free thing because Elvis

289
00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:30,519
was at his lowest point at that point. I mean,

290
00:17:30,559 --> 00:17:32,920
there's one of one of the documentaries there talking about

291
00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:35,279
how he was standing. He was in the in the

292
00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:40,279
office at sunset and I can't remember the crossway, I

293
00:17:40,279 --> 00:17:44,319
think Librea and the guy looks at me and goes, dude,

294
00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:47,799
you're nobody knows who the fuck you are anymore. You know,

295
00:17:48,079 --> 00:17:50,680
you could walk down there and nobody's gonna even blink

296
00:17:50,720 --> 00:17:53,079
an eye. And Elvis didn't believe him. He went down

297
00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:55,039
there and all of a sudden, his girls drove by.

298
00:17:55,839 --> 00:17:58,440
Didn't even know who the fuck he was. He was nobody,

299
00:17:59,039 --> 00:18:03,839
and it's weird to say about Elvis fucking Presley. So

300
00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:08,640
the colonel took all these tickets and they so that

301
00:18:08,799 --> 00:18:11,880
first show, the first black, black leather sit down show.

302
00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:13,720
If you go back and watch and listen to it,

303
00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:18,960
the crowd's not as as freaky as they are in

304
00:18:19,039 --> 00:18:21,079
the second show, because the first one it's all people

305
00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:24,000
that work for the studio and they're friends, and they

306
00:18:24,039 --> 00:18:26,519
didn't even know what they were going to see, you

307
00:18:26,559 --> 00:18:28,839
know this. Then finally the second one, they called the

308
00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:31,839
radio stations that everybody meet up Bob's big boy if

309
00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:34,400
you're an Elvis fan. And then that's why the second one,

310
00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:37,440
it's the girls are and they hyped.

311
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:40,079
Speaker 2: It up too. If you listen to the to the

312
00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:43,759
full recording, they're they're telling the crowd to amp it up,

313
00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:47,839
you know, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I mean the difference

314
00:18:48,079 --> 00:18:52,799
is in just his his confidence is Night and Day,

315
00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,359
you know, but yeah, that first the first one is

316
00:18:56,880 --> 00:19:01,519
is is the gold right there? You know? So it

317
00:19:01,599 --> 00:19:04,799
was great. What was it like, I think maybe eighty

318
00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,839
three eighty four when they released the whole thing because

319
00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:12,119
I think it was on HBO. Yeah, it was called

320
00:19:12,440 --> 00:19:15,240
on One Night with You and that was the whole

321
00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:16,400
first show.

322
00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:17,319
Speaker 1: Oh wow.

323
00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:19,119
Speaker 2: So it was the first time you know, any of

324
00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:22,799
us saw the whole thing, you know, And yeah.

325
00:19:22,799 --> 00:19:25,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I still watch it. I still watch it. It's

326
00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:27,759
like I have all up this DVDs. Like I was tonight.

327
00:19:27,839 --> 00:19:30,039
My plan was to work until about six or seven,

328
00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,000
come home, eat and watch it and then you know,

329
00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,400
come on and do the show and then you know,

330
00:19:35,599 --> 00:19:39,759
shit happened and fucking work and whatever. And I didn't

331
00:19:39,759 --> 00:19:41,880
have a chance to do that, but I probably would have.

332
00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:43,839
Instead of watching the actual special, I would have watched

333
00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:48,359
that sit down show. It's funny though, that is the

334
00:19:48,519 --> 00:19:51,680
last time I ever did an Elvis show. It was

335
00:19:51,839 --> 00:19:56,079
on the Moody Blues Cruise. My band was there was

336
00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:57,960
this band called Heavy Mellow and you know, a couple

337
00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:04,119
of the guys Renwoods, uh guy Mike Bennett. We we

338
00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,119
didn't have we couldn't find an acoustic guitar case that

339
00:20:07,319 --> 00:20:12,160
wasn't padded, so they we miked up a folding chair

340
00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:14,400
for him to play on. You know, we want to

341
00:20:14,559 --> 00:20:17,319
recreate it as close as possible Luis Vegas. And then

342
00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:20,119
I'm sure you know, yeah, I'm sure you know who

343
00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:21,000
my Scottie Moore.

344
00:20:21,039 --> 00:20:25,480
Speaker 2: Was Frank, Yeah, that's great.

345
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think I actually got a compliment from

346
00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:29,039
Howie Simon.

347
00:20:29,559 --> 00:20:29,880
Speaker 2: Mm hm.

348
00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:34,759
Speaker 1: You won't admit it to this day, but.

349
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,599
Speaker 2: I have friends I heard that's awesome.

350
00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:42,000
Speaker 1: Let's see.

351
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:44,480
Speaker 2: I will tell you this too.

352
00:20:44,839 --> 00:20:45,680
Speaker 1: This work.

353
00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:48,960
Speaker 2: My inspiration for for this.

354
00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,039
Speaker 1: Oh look at that.

355
00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:57,200
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, this was my my my dream guitar back then.

356
00:20:57,839 --> 00:21:01,039
Speaker 1: So that was that the thinking Elvis was playing at

357
00:21:01,039 --> 00:21:02,559
the beginning or RepU of it.

358
00:21:03,279 --> 00:21:06,359
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah J two hundred so same

359
00:21:06,599 --> 00:21:10,799
you know, same model. Yeah yeah, and then he switched

360
00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:12,240
to the Super four hundred.

361
00:21:13,279 --> 00:21:16,599
Speaker 1: So you know it's funny that, you know, everybody always says, well,

362
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,559
Elvis couldn't play guitar. I think he proved them wrong.

363
00:21:20,319 --> 00:21:24,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, people don't realize that he was.

364
00:21:24,279 --> 00:21:27,799
He was a musician, you know that he was. He

365
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,920
was a band leader, he was you know, he could

366
00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,000
play the piano, he could play the guitar. Yeah, he was.

367
00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,920
He knew what he was doing, you know, it just

368
00:21:37,039 --> 00:21:41,559
didn't you know, come out of nowhere. You know. He

369
00:21:41,799 --> 00:21:45,920
was a musical director, and you know, I think it

370
00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,359
gets lost in with all the other stuff with him,

371
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,960
but yeah, yeah, he was full blown musician.

372
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:58,759
Speaker 1: Well it's funny too, because I mean, I'm sure you've

373
00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:05,119
played that all right that it's not an easy rhythm.

374
00:22:06,039 --> 00:22:06,319
Speaker 2: Mmm.

375
00:22:07,519 --> 00:22:10,039
Speaker 1: I tried to do it. I I just I could

376
00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:13,279
never get that fucking rhythm, you know what I'm talking about.

377
00:22:13,319 --> 00:22:16,559
It's just yeah, yeah, well it's you know, difficult.

378
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,519
Speaker 2: Till Billy Man. You know, it's country music, you know.

379
00:22:20,799 --> 00:22:24,920
So he that's what he knew, that that that's what

380
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:26,960
was in him, that in the blues. You know, he

381
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:32,240
was you know, in the heart of Memphis and what

382
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,000
he was hearing. You know, he he just soaked it

383
00:22:36,079 --> 00:22:42,559
all up, you know, and thank God, thank God, right

384
00:22:42,599 --> 00:22:45,079
because the God knows where we would be right now,

385
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:45,599
you know.

386
00:22:46,039 --> 00:22:46,160
Speaker 3: Right.

387
00:22:46,279 --> 00:22:48,880
Speaker 1: Well, And it's wild too that you know, as we

388
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,720
talk about the sit down stuff, that the only member

389
00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,160
that wasn't there of his original band was Bill Black.

390
00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:59,240
H Yeah, because he died in sixty five.

391
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:05,680
Speaker 2: Hmm. But they well they didn't really need them for this. Well.

392
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:07,279
Speaker 1: I don't think there was a bass player in that.

393
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:12,640
Speaker 2: No, there wasn't. There wasn't there was who else was

394
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:20,839
with him besides Scotti? Was Charlie. Charlie was playing Yeah, yeah, yeah,

395
00:23:21,559 --> 00:23:25,960
So I think I think they did it just fine

396
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:26,680
by themselves.

397
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,680
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. Do you have when you go back you

398
00:23:30,839 --> 00:23:33,160
think about that special? Is there anything other than the

399
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,599
black other stuff that just really pops out? I was like,

400
00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,480
this is what really made that special?

401
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:44,079
Speaker 2: Well? End the end, I would I would say, if

402
00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:47,799
I can dream, you know, and just the statement that

403
00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:51,240
he made, you know, Elvis wasn't a political person. He

404
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:56,960
wasn't didn't affiliate himself with with anything really, you know,

405
00:23:57,759 --> 00:24:01,599
and that was the boldest state and he could make,

406
00:24:02,039 --> 00:24:05,480
you know, And I think it was beautiful on the

407
00:24:05,559 --> 00:24:08,920
way it was done and how he closed the show

408
00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:12,759
with that, you know, and just giving it everything he had,

409
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,799
especially at the end, you know, just the raspiness in

410
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:21,440
his voice. You know, it's funny because sixty eight and

411
00:24:21,519 --> 00:24:24,319
then the records that he did in sixty nine, he

412
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,880
had this rasp to his voice. Yeah, you know, and

413
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,400
then all of a sudden, Yeah, and then all of

414
00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:35,519
a sudden it became very smooth. You know, it changed

415
00:24:36,279 --> 00:24:38,559
like almost overnight, you know, when he was at the

416
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:41,759
Vegas in sixty nine.

417
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 6: When you listen to those recordings, which was maybe six

418
00:24:45,799 --> 00:24:51,799
months after he finished the Memphis albums that he did,

419
00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:56,279
you know, and his voices is different, you know, but

420
00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:57,200
just that.

421
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:02,119
Speaker 2: Snapshot of him in this special with that that raspiness

422
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:08,240
that you know, it was just an f you to everyone, everyone,

423
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:12,440
you know, like this is this game is mine?

424
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 1: Well, and Joe. I can almost think about this. If

425
00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:22,319
he hadn't have smoothed, if he kept singing like that,

426
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:24,720
I don't think he would have lasted as long as

427
00:25:24,799 --> 00:25:28,400
he did. No, he would have he would have his voice.

428
00:25:29,039 --> 00:25:33,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well he he knew what he was doing,

429
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,319
you know. I think, you know, even though he was

430
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,559
you know, the colonel had a big hold on him.

431
00:25:43,599 --> 00:25:46,519
Colonel couldn't tell him how to sing, couldn't tell him,

432
00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,279
you know, what to do with his voice, you know.

433
00:25:49,599 --> 00:25:54,160
So I think he was very in control of what

434
00:25:54,359 --> 00:25:57,039
he wanted to sound like. He knew that he had

435
00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:01,240
to rise above everyone, you know, since he was in

436
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:05,359
the army you know, rock and roll became something completely different,

437
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,799
right and during you know, the mid to late sixties,

438
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:14,880
it evolved very very quickly, and there wasn't a place

439
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,440
for him in in that in that world, you know,

440
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,319
and he had to he had to solidify who he

441
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,799
was in a big way, you know.

442
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:25,519
Speaker 3: And I think.

443
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 2: He couldn't get any better than what he did.

444
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: Man, No, well, and I think people forget that. I

445
00:26:32,599 --> 00:26:35,440
think the last show he did before this was in

446
00:26:35,599 --> 00:26:39,640
sixty three, sixty one, sixty one, so he has performed

447
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,119
live in seven years.

448
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was in Hawaii. It was on that benefit

449
00:26:45,799 --> 00:26:52,119
for the Yeah with Danny Thomas. But yeah, yeah, that

450
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,920
was that was his only real live show that he

451
00:26:55,079 --> 00:26:57,400
did when he got out of the army, you know,

452
00:26:57,799 --> 00:26:58,680
besides the TV.

453
00:26:58,599 --> 00:27:00,319
Speaker 1: Special that's right, you know.

454
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,279
Speaker 2: So yeah, you know he went straight into Hollywood, and

455
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:10,160
you know, I just got the Elvis in the Colonel book.

456
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,720
I haven't I haven't dug into it yet because I

457
00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:16,559
kind of know, you know, pretty much everything. But you know,

458
00:27:17,519 --> 00:27:20,720
just those years, you know, what what was going through

459
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,880
his head, like, you know, the fuck am I doing?

460
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,960
You know? Yeah, and you can only you can only

461
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,799
do that for so long. You know, so I think

462
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:39,279
you know, he was probably drumming this stuff up for years,

463
00:27:39,839 --> 00:27:43,599
you know, so you know he did it. He did

464
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,799
it in the in the biggest way he could, you know.

465
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:53,079
Speaker 1: So you just wonder how much of the movie when

466
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:57,079
they're in the seventies, the Vegas stuff, how much of

467
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,480
that was real and how much of it was Hollywood?

468
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,039
Like him firing the colonel. I mean, I don't think

469
00:28:05,079 --> 00:28:06,680
that ever actually happened, right.

470
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,440
Speaker 2: It happened a bunch of times, so, you know, and

471
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,519
each time, I don't you mean the movie the Tom

472
00:28:15,599 --> 00:28:16,079
Hanks one.

473
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:17,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that you're talking.

474
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if

475
00:28:19,519 --> 00:28:23,440
any of that's true, but yeah, he would fire him

476
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,839
all the time, and the colonel would give him a

477
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,240
bill like this is what you owe me, you know,

478
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,319
if you want to get out of your contract here,

479
00:28:31,599 --> 00:28:32,240
you know, this is.

480
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 1: This is basically So basically they just took those stories

481
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:36,759
and put it into one scene.

482
00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:38,480
Speaker 4: You know.

483
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 1: That did happen the movie?

484
00:28:41,119 --> 00:28:43,559
Speaker 2: Oh I I tried to watch it. I can't watch

485
00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,400
that movie. That that's it. That's you know, well that's

486
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,720
another story. Yeah, I can't. I've tried. I've gotten maybe

487
00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,119
half an hour into it, Well, I can't watch that guy.

488
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 1: I thought he did a fine job, you know. I

489
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,480
mean it's not easy to be Elvis. I mean, everybody

490
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,759
tries to be all this, it's not easy. I thought

491
00:29:03,799 --> 00:29:04,680
he did a fine job.

492
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,279
Speaker 2: I thought Kurt Russell, I thought Cursel Kurt Russell was

493
00:29:08,319 --> 00:29:10,960
a great elviness. I think I love that movie.

494
00:29:11,279 --> 00:29:11,440
Speaker 1: You know.

495
00:29:11,559 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this was this was you know, it was.

496
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: It was what it was. I tell you the only

497
00:29:18,119 --> 00:29:20,400
things that I didn't because I knew it was a

498
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,519
It wasn't a documentary. It was a biopic, and we

499
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,640
know that's not going to be one hundred percent accurate, right.

500
00:29:27,079 --> 00:29:29,759
The only problems I really had with it was them

501
00:29:29,799 --> 00:29:32,000
playing rap music in it, and.

502
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:33,200
Speaker 2: I don't remember.

503
00:29:33,519 --> 00:29:37,079
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, Jesus fucking Christ, come on, really, it's like, dude,

504
00:29:37,359 --> 00:29:40,039
nineteen fifty five, this is ship is not happening.

505
00:29:40,119 --> 00:29:40,440
Speaker 2: Stop.

506
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:40,839
Speaker 1: You know.

507
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,759
Speaker 2: It's It's kind of like the Bohemi Rapsy thing. It's like,

508
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,480
you know what, you have enough footage of the real people.

509
00:29:49,319 --> 00:29:51,519
Show that to the kids. You know. It's like when

510
00:29:51,559 --> 00:29:54,680
they they spend millions and millions of dollars to recreate

511
00:29:54,759 --> 00:29:58,319
live age, just show the freaking performance. Why would you

512
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,759
recreate that? You know? So you know I couldn't. I

513
00:30:02,839 --> 00:30:06,599
couldn't sit through that Elvis movie. You know. I'm sure

514
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,480
he probably did a good job, you know, but he

515
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,319
did not look anything like Elvis. He didn't have any

516
00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:15,240
you know, he had some of the moves down, but

517
00:30:15,319 --> 00:30:19,279
he wasn't. You can't do that. Just show the real guy, man,

518
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:19,799
you know.

519
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,599
Speaker 1: I tell you what I did, stand up and yell

520
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:27,640
at the screen, fucking Elvis tard out of myself when

521
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,079
they're doing the sixty eight comeback.

522
00:30:29,759 --> 00:30:31,559
Speaker 2: Uh huh oh, I didn't even see that point.

523
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:33,599
Speaker 1: So the law, yeah, I mean, you know, the line

524
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,039
is they're gonna let me do what I want to do.

525
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,039
Sit down. Yeah, the movie, he goes, let me do

526
00:30:40,119 --> 00:30:42,160
what I want to do, which is play what I

527
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:43,599
want to play. I'm like, that's not the.

528
00:30:45,799 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 2: Joke. Well, there you go, there you go, you know,

529
00:30:52,759 --> 00:30:53,720
and you know, I'll.

530
00:30:53,559 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: Tell you another highlight of me for for the for

531
00:30:57,279 --> 00:31:02,759
the comeback dude guitar man, Oh yeah, absolutely did Now

532
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,039
did they bring in Jerry Reid to play?

533
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 2: No, No, I think it's I think it might be

534
00:31:09,559 --> 00:31:12,839
Tommy to Desco. I forget you know, I should know

535
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:16,119
all this with the back of my end, but it

536
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:20,039
could be it could be Tommy to Disco. And I'm

537
00:31:20,039 --> 00:31:21,000
sure there's more than one.

538
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,400
Speaker 1: Guitar player, yeah, because it just what I had heard

539
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,039
and we all know, you know, fucking telephone line how

540
00:31:27,079 --> 00:31:30,599
that fucking goes. But I had heard that whoever was

541
00:31:30,599 --> 00:31:33,200
playing guitar couldn't get it, so they just called in

542
00:31:33,319 --> 00:31:36,880
Jerry Reid. Because again you want to talk about hard songs.

543
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there there was what was it like, nineteen

544
00:31:41,799 --> 00:31:46,920
eighty or eighty one they came out with. They came

545
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:51,079
out with an album called Guitar Man, and they read

546
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:56,240
did they took Elvis's vocals and Jerry Reid did like

547
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,759
the whole album, and the version of Guitar Man on

548
00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:02,519
that album, I think they changed it. It's I think

549
00:32:02,559 --> 00:32:05,200
it's called now too Much Monkey Business or you can

550
00:32:05,319 --> 00:32:08,799
find it. Elvis has a cowboy hat on on the cover.

551
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,279
But that version of Guitar Man where you hear Jerry

552
00:32:12,359 --> 00:32:18,279
Reid play, it's ridiculous, ridiculous better than the original version

553
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:19,079
to me.

554
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,240
Speaker 1: Anyway, as you talk about it's like people forget how

555
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,960
great Jerry Reid was. Fucking They think Roy Clark, you know, oh,

556
00:32:28,039 --> 00:32:30,720
he's just that guy and hehaw Are you fucking kidding me?

557
00:32:31,079 --> 00:32:34,559
Speaker 2: Right on? One of my favorite movies growing up was

558
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,240
the movie Hot Stuff from nineteen seventy nine. I don't

559
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:38,000
know if you ever watched it.

560
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 4: Don de Luise, Jerry Reid, and I had no idea

561
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,680
that that was the guy that did all that stuff man,

562
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,640
you know, so that that was you know, my dad

563
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:50,519
told me, like, you.

564
00:32:50,559 --> 00:32:53,200
Speaker 2: Know, he wrote guitar man. He I was like that guy,

565
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:59,519
you know, so yeah, yeah, it was yeah, he was

566
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,559
in but yeah, check out that version. It's really really good.

567
00:33:03,119 --> 00:33:05,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, before we wrap up here because I

568
00:33:05,279 --> 00:33:07,160
don't want to keep you too long because you you're

569
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,720
getting ready to head to Canada. Yess with the guests

570
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:19,200
who the cultural impact of that special? What do you

571
00:33:19,359 --> 00:33:19,799
got on that?

572
00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 2: Wow? I mean think about MTV Unplugged.

573
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: Don't think about it. It was the first unplugged, It

574
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,079
was the first in the round, It was the first

575
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,640
v H one storytellers m h yeah.

576
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:37,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it really sparked a lot of things that

577
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:41,759
that you know, would come very very much later. You know,

578
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,160
do you remember what the first MTV Unplugged was?

579
00:33:47,559 --> 00:33:49,920
Speaker 1: Well, I mean the first time I remember doing anything

580
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:53,680
like it was John and Ritchie. Well so it was

581
00:33:53,759 --> 00:33:54,160
before that.

582
00:33:54,839 --> 00:33:58,279
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So the first unplugged was the guys from

583
00:33:58,319 --> 00:34:07,640
Squeeze really, Chris, Yeah, those guys. When was that nineteen eighty.

584
00:34:07,559 --> 00:34:11,559
Speaker 1: Nine really, so that was before John and Richie played

585
00:34:11,599 --> 00:34:11,800
at the.

586
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 2: Well, you know what. It might have been right after that,

587
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:18,440
It might have been right after that, but they were

588
00:34:18,519 --> 00:34:22,280
the first actual MTV and then the second one was Stevie,

589
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,480
Ray Vaughan and Joe Satriani. Yeah.

590
00:34:26,679 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 1: I wish I would have seen that second one. I

591
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,840
was on a I was in a van with Saturianni

592
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,039
last year or two years ago for the Mountain Music Fest,

593
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,840
and I had never seen I had seen it, but

594
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:43,199
I just didn't remember it. But he's singing yeah, yeah,

595
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,519
and I was I wanted to, you know, dive into

596
00:34:46,559 --> 00:34:48,280
that a little bit with him. You know why he

597
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,440
didn't do that anymore. But yeah, So it's so funny

598
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,519
thinking about that. It's like you go from one extreme

599
00:34:54,599 --> 00:34:59,199
to the other with Stevie and then Satch doing sach

600
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:03,400
It's like, wow, it's yeah, gorgeous, you know.

601
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good one. But yeah, I mean

602
00:35:07,119 --> 00:35:12,280
that it was definitely and I think fashion wise too,

603
00:35:12,639 --> 00:35:15,079
you know when you know, when did you see a

604
00:35:15,199 --> 00:35:20,480
man in full black leather? You know, so you know

605
00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:23,360
that that was another thing. But yeah, yeah, he again

606
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:28,000
he broke down you know, boundaries and even even some

607
00:35:28,199 --> 00:35:31,039
of the content you know that he that he did,

608
00:35:31,639 --> 00:35:35,199
you know, with with the African stuff and and everything,

609
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,039
you know, during that time. You know, it was the

610
00:35:39,159 --> 00:35:41,960
height of of you know, all that stuff. Man.

611
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,280
Speaker 1: You know, he really he really got to get his

612
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:47,280
gospel side out at the same time. You know that

613
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:51,840
another another part of him. Yeah, that really became very

614
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:52,880
important in his career.

615
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm hmm. Okay, I have a question for you.

616
00:35:57,679 --> 00:36:01,880
So what songs do you would you wish that he

617
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,320
did on that special.

618
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:05,519
Speaker 1: In the sit down?

619
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, any of it, any of it mhm, because

620
00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:14,719
I'm I just that just came to me.

621
00:36:15,679 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: I'm thinking too, dude, that that's hard because they hit

622
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,440
everything that he really needed to hit, right, you know,

623
00:36:23,519 --> 00:36:25,599
in the in the stand up and in the sit Down.

624
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:33,119
Speaker 2: And I mean maybe a little maybe if we took

625
00:36:33,159 --> 00:36:37,119
away all the production stuff and it was just raw music.

626
00:36:38,559 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 1: M it would have been cool to hear maybe Viva

627
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,039
Las Vegas to dive into the movie stuff a little bit,

628
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:48,480
you know, not too much because a lot of that.

629
00:36:49,639 --> 00:36:55,079
Speaker 2: Well, they recorded a little less conversation for the special,

630
00:36:55,679 --> 00:36:59,320
but they re recorded it, you know, and they didn't

631
00:36:59,400 --> 00:36:59,920
use it at all.

632
00:37:00,639 --> 00:37:03,880
Speaker 1: Is that the version that ended up on that Okay?

633
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's from the sixty eight recordings.

634
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,079
Speaker 1: That's one of my least favorite every time it comes

635
00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:16,119
on Elvis Radio. I the newer remixed version of.

636
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. They ruined a good song, you know.

637
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: Dude, that's hard, yeah, because I mean that was before obviously,

638
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:29,079
it was before you know, in the ghetto and all

639
00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:29,760
that kind of stuff.

640
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 2: Little sister, I wish that he would have Yeah, that

641
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:34,199
would have been good.

642
00:37:34,639 --> 00:37:38,119
Speaker 1: That would have been good. There's so many of those gems.

643
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 2: We're gonna get to see it on the new you

644
00:37:41,039 --> 00:37:44,280
know that new movie that's coming out the.

645
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,559
Speaker 1: Right tell uh, let inform the listeners about that.

646
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 2: So the guy what's his name, Baz whatever. Then that

647
00:37:55,320 --> 00:38:00,920
made that other movie, the Presley a state commissioned him

648
00:38:01,039 --> 00:38:04,800
to do basically a concert film, and it's called Epic

649
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:10,719
Elvis Presley in Concert And they just screened it at

650
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,880
the Toronto Film festival, and I think it's going to

651
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:18,679
hit the theaters in the new year. And it's all well,

652
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,519
depending on how who you talk to, it's all unreleased

653
00:38:22,559 --> 00:38:25,400
footage from Elvis on tour and that's the way it is,

654
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,800
or you could come to my house and see all

655
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:33,360
the footage. But yeah, I mean it's supposed to be incredible.

656
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,159
The reviews are, you know, pretty amazing. So but one

657
00:38:37,199 --> 00:38:40,480
of the things is the Little Sister. I was the

658
00:38:40,599 --> 00:38:46,880
one and are You Lonesome Tonight that he did in Vegas.

659
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,960
My parents were there right in the front row when

660
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,719
you and you could hear my father that was his

661
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:54,440
favorite song, was Little Sister when he said he sat

662
00:38:54,559 --> 00:38:57,280
down with his freaking gretch and he called it out.

663
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,960
You hear my dad go, it's oh my dad. If

664
00:39:01,039 --> 00:39:03,159
you knew his voice, you could tell. But yeah, they

665
00:39:03,199 --> 00:39:05,920
were there that night. So finally we'll get to see

666
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:10,239
it because they never I guess while he was doing it,

667
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,920
they had to change the film and nobody could find

668
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:19,880
the film, so I think they found it now. So yeah,

669
00:39:20,039 --> 00:39:21,719
so I'm looking forward to that.

670
00:39:22,599 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: Cool. Did you ever see the Wayne Newton The Haunting

671
00:39:25,559 --> 00:39:26,679
of mm.

672
00:39:28,079 --> 00:39:28,280
Speaker 2: Oh?

673
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,280
Speaker 1: I got a sense, Yeah, you remember the TV show

674
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,800
The Haunting of Yeah, Yeah, it was a spinoff for everybody.

675
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,840
It was a spin off of celebrity ghost stories. They

676
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,519
would take one of those ghost stories and they'd hook

677
00:39:41,599 --> 00:39:43,280
up at the medium and go back to where the

678
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:49,159
haunting happened. And the Wayne Newton one was about Elvis.

679
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:50,320
Speaker 2: Oh wow.

680
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: So the story goes that when Elvis passed, Wayne took

681
00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:00,199
over for him at the Imperial, the Hilton, or whatever

682
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:01,559
the hell it was at that time. I think it

683
00:40:01,639 --> 00:40:06,039
was still the Imperial, and they worked up a medley

684
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:11,320
to honor Elvis. And he was friends with Elvis, because

685
00:40:11,599 --> 00:40:13,880
he tells the whole story and hear about how he

686
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,199
was friends with him, and YadA, YadA, YadA, and the many.

687
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:27,199
But the the Wayne story is that when they went

688
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:30,320
into the medley one of those first nights, it wasn't

689
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,760
it wasn't sold out. They had the top part roped off.

690
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,719
There was not supposed to be anybody up there, and

691
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:37,840
as soon as they went into it, all the power goes.

692
00:40:39,639 --> 00:40:44,800
But everybody keeps playing and Wayne looks up and he

693
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:52,480
sees somebody standing up there. It's Elvis, and he gives

694
00:40:52,559 --> 00:40:55,880
a nod and he disappears. Then boom, everything comes back on.

695
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:00,639
It's on YouTube. I'll send it to you's. Have you

696
00:41:00,679 --> 00:41:04,599
ever been in there? Hiss in his dressing room and

697
00:41:04,639 --> 00:41:05,360
all that kind of stuff.

698
00:41:05,599 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 2: No, I went to see years and years ago. I

699
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:15,440
went to see Inglebert humperdink in that in that showroom

700
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,239
and that's a stage. Yeah yeah, I know, I know,

701
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:24,039
I know the whole thing. But I fell asleep during

702
00:41:24,119 --> 00:41:25,960
the show. I just wanted to go because I just

703
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:31,599
wanted to be in that room, you know. So, But yeah, yeah, yeah,

704
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,559
to ever tell you, I might have told you the

705
00:41:34,639 --> 00:41:36,599
last time we did one of these Elvis things, how

706
00:41:36,679 --> 00:41:42,360
my dad met him, No, in Vegas. So it was

707
00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,159
nineteen seventy four and it was, you know, the beg

708
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:50,360
the Elvis Summer Festival, which was probably the most bizarre

709
00:41:50,559 --> 00:41:54,159
one that he ever did because the opening night he

710
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:58,239
did a completely different show where he he opened up

711
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,920
with different songs and he did the whole set list

712
00:42:01,119 --> 00:42:04,599
was was totally different, and then he freaked out and

713
00:42:04,679 --> 00:42:09,199
he just went back to his normal, you know, routine,

714
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,000
and then at the last night he was, you know,

715
00:42:12,199 --> 00:42:14,719
really fucked up on drugs. If you ever heard the

716
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:20,360
Desert Storm bout leg, it's a. It's the most bizarre

717
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,639
thing in the world. He's just going and going and

718
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:28,320
yelling and screaming and cursing and anyway, So my parents

719
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,800
were there for that the night before opening night. And

720
00:42:33,079 --> 00:42:37,199
back then, like the shows in the lounge were pretty

721
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,800
big stars you could see and they were just like

722
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:45,280
cover bands that now and I could think Dick Clark

723
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,519
was doing like one of his revival things. So my

724
00:42:48,679 --> 00:42:52,440
parents were there, and yeah, it was the night before

725
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:56,199
Elvis's opening night. And I don't even know if it

726
00:42:56,400 --> 00:42:59,239
was at the at the Hilton where they where they

727
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,400
were seeing this show might have been a different anyway,

728
00:43:01,559 --> 00:43:06,199
it doesn't matter. Actually I have the napkin, but well,

729
00:43:06,599 --> 00:43:11,960
well it has this autograph on it. Anyway, it's real.

730
00:43:12,679 --> 00:43:15,519
It's real. Oh yeah, my dad. He gave it to

731
00:43:15,639 --> 00:43:17,960
my dad and on the other side of the Okay,

732
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,360
I'll tell you this story. So, so my parents are,

733
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,800
you know, going to this this show. You know, it's

734
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,920
probably like Fabian and you know all those guys, you know,

735
00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:33,719
And before like the like the lights went out or whatever,

736
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:36,920
they locked the doors in the lounge and my dad

737
00:43:37,119 --> 00:43:40,519
was like, they never locked the doors. They don't close

738
00:43:40,559 --> 00:43:44,639
the doors in the lounge. You know, something's weird. And

739
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,360
my my dad's like, I bet you Elvis is here.

740
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,360
And my mom's like, he's not gonna come to something

741
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,880
like this. He's like, Elvis is here. I'm telling you

742
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:57,679
he's here, you know. And so for some reason, Dick

743
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,400
Clark comes out before the show and he was just like,

744
00:44:00,519 --> 00:44:02,239
you know, hyping up the crowd and he was like listen.

745
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:08,320
He said, we have somebody here, a special guest that's

746
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:12,280
in the audience, and you know that's why the doors

747
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,480
are locked. And my dad's like, I told you so,

748
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:19,239
you know. And uh so he said, please, you know,

749
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:21,760
respect his privacy.

750
00:44:22,480 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 3: And and this was the thing.

751
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,519
Speaker 2: He's like, please do not bug him. And Elvis walked

752
00:44:27,599 --> 00:44:29,599
up on the stage and he grabbed the mic and

753
00:44:29,639 --> 00:44:34,320
he said bug me. So nobody went up to him.

754
00:44:34,599 --> 00:44:36,440
So my dad was like, fuck it, I don't want

755
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,639
to go. Sit it right up there. And he started

756
00:44:39,679 --> 00:44:43,599
talking to him and he gave him he was writing

757
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:48,000
a letter to a note to Jackie Wilson, who was upstairs.

758
00:44:48,039 --> 00:44:50,079
I guess he was supposed to be part of this show.

759
00:44:50,119 --> 00:44:54,079
But he got really sick and and he just turned

760
00:44:54,079 --> 00:44:56,679
the napkin over and he signed his name and gave

761
00:44:56,679 --> 00:44:58,639
it to my dad. So I have it. Well, he

762
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:02,519
has it and it says you could see it. He says,

763
00:45:02,599 --> 00:45:05,920
like Jackie, you you know that he was starting to

764
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,079
write the thing. So yeah, my dad got to that's

765
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:12,599
just wild man, and Elvia stepped on my mom's hand,

766
00:45:13,119 --> 00:45:18,159
so you h yeah, yeah, my dad was like, go

767
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,000
go go go kiss him. She got his hand and

768
00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:23,400
stepped right on her.

769
00:45:24,639 --> 00:45:27,760
Speaker 1: So still a couple of years ago, I was seeing

770
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,840
Firehouse there and it was when CJ was still with us.

771
00:45:32,519 --> 00:45:36,480
M Oh yeah, you know. The band hooked me up

772
00:45:36,599 --> 00:45:39,960
and very very kind to them and go down. We

773
00:45:40,039 --> 00:45:41,920
do a little meet and greet, say hi, and their

774
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,519
manager Joey's like, have you ever been down here? I'm

775
00:45:44,559 --> 00:45:47,039
like no. He's like, you want to see the dressing room?

776
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 2: Oh wow, it.

777
00:45:48,559 --> 00:45:50,400
Speaker 1: Took me in the dressing room. It's all green shag

778
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:52,880
and I'll find the pictures. I'll send him to you.

779
00:45:54,079 --> 00:45:58,880
The bathroom. The bathroom is huge, and there's a cotton

780
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,199
there like a prison caught so he could nap instead

781
00:46:02,199 --> 00:46:04,000
of going up to his fucking room.

782
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:04,559
Speaker 2: Wow.

783
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:07,760
Speaker 1: Wow, it was cool. I mean everything was just just

784
00:46:08,119 --> 00:46:09,960
exactly as it is. It's like you know when you

785
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:11,480
played at the Golden Nugget.

786
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:14,119
Speaker 2: No, but I've been there. I've been there.

787
00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:16,760
Speaker 1: You've been back there where like Sinatra's room and all that.

788
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:18,840
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I've been

789
00:46:19,119 --> 00:46:19,599
I've been there.

790
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: Cool too, that's exactly like it was. And so he

791
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,760
takes me over to the side of the stage where

792
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,360
the they haven't marked where Elvis used to do the

793
00:46:27,559 --> 00:46:31,559
prayer before we went on stage. And I was talking

794
00:46:31,599 --> 00:46:34,079
to a couple of security guys down there, and you guys,

795
00:46:34,159 --> 00:46:38,519
ever see anything weird down here? You ever hear anything weird? Like,

796
00:46:39,039 --> 00:46:42,199
just put it this way. We're never down here alone.

797
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,400
There's always at least two of us down here because

798
00:46:45,039 --> 00:46:48,039
there's a ship going on in here. So maybe there's

799
00:46:48,159 --> 00:46:50,239
some truth. Maybe there's a little bit of truth the

800
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:53,239
wayde Newton story. Yeah, no, I mean it's it's pretty

801
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:53,840
fun wild.

802
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 2: Well he in that desert storm thing. Elvis goes on

803
00:46:58,039 --> 00:47:01,519
about the gargoyles on the I'm gonna send you those

804
00:47:01,639 --> 00:47:04,320
those those shows because you got my lovers, They're they're

805
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:08,199
really really great, definitely, especially when you drive, you know.

806
00:47:08,679 --> 00:47:11,280
But yeah, yeah, I would I would have loved to

807
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,559
go down there and check it out, because now I

808
00:47:14,679 --> 00:47:18,119
think they they're like preserving a lot of this stuff. Right,

809
00:47:18,199 --> 00:47:19,920
it's called like the West Gate or something.

810
00:47:20,039 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's called the West Gate. There's so there's a

811
00:47:22,559 --> 00:47:25,400
museum when you in in the casino. They have a

812
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:28,119
little tiny museum that's free. It's just out there in

813
00:47:28,159 --> 00:47:30,880
the open, so you can see, like, you know, they've

814
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:35,159
got belt buckles and guns and locks. Yeah that was

815
00:47:35,679 --> 00:47:37,719
you know the famous picture from there with all this

816
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:42,039
and the two guys. Yeah, right, right, next time I'm

817
00:47:42,079 --> 00:47:44,840
down there, I have to recreate that that picture. I

818
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,480
don't know when it would ever be, but you know,

819
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:48,239
you never know.

820
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:54,320
Speaker 2: Well when I come, right, yeah, when I come out there,

821
00:47:54,679 --> 00:47:57,800
well we'll go, we'll go. We'll make a pilgrimage.

822
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: So yeah, and dude, so my buddy Johnny Hazard got hired.

823
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,920
He's going to play a private show in the penthouse. Oh,

824
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,280
I has to play at Elvis's Penthouse in two weeks.

825
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 2: Very nice, very nice, Joe.

826
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:16,159
Speaker 1: Before we wrap up here, like I said, you are

827
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,639
off to Canada to recruit, rehearse with the guests. Who

828
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,119
said I was, I want I want to get into

829
00:48:22,159 --> 00:48:25,840
this before we go, because yeah, it's important stuff you

830
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:30,599
were out with Burton. Did you add any idea that

831
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,880
the guests who think was going to come back together?

832
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,599
You did? And when did they ask you to be

833
00:48:36,679 --> 00:48:37,079
part of it?

834
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:45,280
Speaker 2: It was last summer, summer twenty twenty four. My lawyer

835
00:48:47,199 --> 00:48:51,639
called me up about it, and she she's Burton's lawyer

836
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:56,199
as well, and she was the one that got all

837
00:48:56,280 --> 00:49:00,119
their stuff back, you know, and she was just she

838
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,559
called me up and she was just like, you know,

839
00:49:02,679 --> 00:49:05,639
and it was really funny. Because I'll say this now

840
00:49:05,679 --> 00:49:08,559
because I'll probably tell Randy this story. You know, I

841
00:49:08,679 --> 00:49:12,159
saw a bto open up for Van Haleen on the

842
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:16,079
fifty one to fifty tour, and you know, it was

843
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:19,800
my first time as a thirteen year old buddy guitar

844
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:23,079
player to see my hero right, you know, up front

845
00:49:23,119 --> 00:49:27,480
for the first time. So even if the Beatles were

846
00:49:27,559 --> 00:49:32,400
opening up for Van Haleen, I would have booed them. So,

847
00:49:33,119 --> 00:49:38,760
you know, these three big guys come on, you know,

848
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,000
and I'm like, the fuck is this? You know? So

849
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,480
you know, we were we were, me and my little

850
00:49:45,519 --> 00:49:49,000
cousin were you know, we were a little upset. But anyway,

851
00:49:49,599 --> 00:49:53,719
you know, I knew the songs and I was like, oh, okay,

852
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:55,800
this is great. You know, I know all these songs

853
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,159
and Leslie West came out, they did Mississippi Queen. I

854
00:49:58,239 --> 00:49:59,760
was like, all right, this is badass, you know.

855
00:50:00,039 --> 00:50:00,360
Speaker 1: That's why.

856
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:04,760
Speaker 2: That's really all I knew of of Randy. I had

857
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,320
no idea, you know. I and I kind of knew

858
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:09,159
that he was in the Guests Who, but I, you know,

859
00:50:09,199 --> 00:50:12,960
that stuff wasn't really on my radar, you know. Which

860
00:50:13,039 --> 00:50:16,400
was the funny thing is one of the first forty

861
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,079
five's I ever had was Stand Tall by Burton Cummings.

862
00:50:19,119 --> 00:50:21,320
My dad had it and I loved that. I loved it,

863
00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:25,119
and it was like my forty five anyway, So this

864
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:29,079
is how crazy it was. Like like maybe sometime in

865
00:50:29,440 --> 00:50:31,840
the summer, I was, you know, I would walk around

866
00:50:32,039 --> 00:50:34,800
the lake out here and I was listening to podcasts,

867
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:42,000
and there was one podcast would would Randy Bachman, and

868
00:50:42,079 --> 00:50:44,880
I was like, let me give this guy a shot,

869
00:50:45,159 --> 00:50:48,280
you know. And so I'm listening to him and I

870
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,880
and I'm like, oh my god, this guy's brilliant. He's incredible.

871
00:50:52,079 --> 00:50:53,800
You know. I had no idea that he had this

872
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,960
whole jazz thing that he studied with Lenny brow and

873
00:50:57,519 --> 00:51:01,800
and all this wisdom that he had. I was so fascinated.

874
00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:04,280
I was like, oh my god, you know, I couldn't

875
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,280
believe it. And then he started talking about the guess who.

876
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:09,800
I was like, holy shit, that's right. He's American woman,

877
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:12,159
that's him, you know. Yeah, And now he's talking about

878
00:51:12,199 --> 00:51:14,440
Burton Cummings and I'm like, wow, this is this is

879
00:51:14,639 --> 00:51:18,159
so fascinating. I sat down and listened to the whole thing.

880
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:21,199
And now he's talking about their lawsuit and there's this

881
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:23,440
other guess who. I was like, oh my god, this

882
00:51:23,559 --> 00:51:26,280
is fucked up. So, you know, I was just like wow,

883
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:28,039
you know. And he was like, yeah, you know, we're

884
00:51:28,079 --> 00:51:30,760
trying to get you know, our stuff back, and it's

885
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,079
been really you know, it's been really hard, and blah

886
00:51:33,119 --> 00:51:35,519
blah blah blah. And I kid you not. Maybe two

887
00:51:35,599 --> 00:51:39,000
weeks later, not even I get a call from my

888
00:51:39,639 --> 00:51:42,639
lawyer and she's like, hey, I have to talk to you.

889
00:51:42,719 --> 00:51:44,679
It's really important, you know. And I thought I owed

890
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:50,000
her money or something, you know. I'm like, you know,

891
00:51:52,199 --> 00:51:54,599
so I was like, what's up. And she's like, I

892
00:51:54,679 --> 00:51:56,519
have to asked you a weird question. I'm like, what's up.

893
00:51:56,599 --> 00:51:59,239
She's like, do you know anything about the guess who?

894
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,039
And I still laugh and I was like do I

895
00:52:02,199 --> 00:52:04,360
I was like I sure, do you know? And I'm

896
00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:08,760
just like rattling stuff off to her, and she was like, well, listen,

897
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,960
I'm the one that got all this stuff back, you know,

898
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,880
so you have to you have to do this gig.

899
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,800
And I was like what, you know, She's like, you

900
00:52:18,039 --> 00:52:20,599
have to. And and Burton was you know, he hadn't

901
00:52:20,639 --> 00:52:23,559
been able to play in the US for a while

902
00:52:23,599 --> 00:52:28,480
because of that other band, you know, so they needed

903
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:32,199
a guitar play. And I was like okay, you know,

904
00:52:32,679 --> 00:52:35,599
and and I was like, well, this is weird. You know,

905
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,679
everybody's from Canada, you know, They're like and she's like, no,

906
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:41,159
you have to do this gig.

907
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:41,800
Speaker 4: You have to.

908
00:52:41,880 --> 00:52:45,760
Speaker 2: And I was like okay. And it was. It couldn't

909
00:52:45,760 --> 00:52:50,840
have been a better match ever. I mean, it's like

910
00:52:51,079 --> 00:52:54,519
I found like my long lost cousins, you know, like

911
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:57,280
it's an incredible incredible let.

912
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:57,559
Speaker 1: Me ask you.

913
00:52:57,679 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 2: This was.

914
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: The lawsuit and all that stuff.

915
00:53:02,159 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 3: Is that.

916
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:06,440
Speaker 1: When they came out and said all these there you

917
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:08,960
the other guests who you guys cannot play any of

918
00:53:09,079 --> 00:53:09,679
these songs?

919
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:15,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, my lawyer. She she she took down Burton

920
00:53:15,599 --> 00:53:17,519
and Randy's publishing.

921
00:53:18,039 --> 00:53:23,119
Speaker 1: So okay, they wasn't a part of that other one either, No,

922
00:53:23,519 --> 00:53:28,039
it was always with none. Yeah, well, okay, it makes sense.

923
00:53:28,199 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 2: You know, Randy left very very early in the Guess Who.

924
00:53:32,719 --> 00:53:34,840
They only did a few albums and then he started

925
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:38,960
bt O. You know, they would reunite every once in

926
00:53:39,039 --> 00:53:41,440
a while, okay, but they couldn't call it The Guests Who.

927
00:53:41,519 --> 00:53:44,760
They would have to call it Bachmann Cummings. So now

928
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:47,840
this is the first time in decades that they can

929
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:52,840
actually call it the Guess Who. Okay, and yeah, yeah,

930
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:56,400
so that's what they did. They shut down the performing rights.

931
00:53:56,800 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 1: And now it makes sense.

932
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,079
Speaker 2: And the thing was, my lawyer thought it was going

933
00:54:01,159 --> 00:54:04,559
to take maybe a week or two. It happened that day.

934
00:54:04,639 --> 00:54:08,000
Those guys had a gig and it was like sound

935
00:54:08,119 --> 00:54:10,360
check and they you know, they told them, you can't

936
00:54:10,400 --> 00:54:13,400
play these songs tonight. Yeah, so they had to shut

937
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,480
everything down. You know, I mean, we we have some

938
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,119
acquaintances that were in that band.

939
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure.

940
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 2: You know, Rudy Sarzo was in there at one point,

941
00:54:24,519 --> 00:54:29,639
that's right. So Greg Smith, who grew up in my neighborhood.

942
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,480
You know, he was in there for a while, you know,

943
00:54:33,119 --> 00:54:37,639
so yeah, yeah it was It was a pretty pretty

944
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:42,320
uh badass what she did? You know. So now, yeah,

945
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,440
we're gonna do it. You know, we just finished a

946
00:54:45,599 --> 00:54:48,159
huge tour a whole year we were out.

947
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,079
Speaker 1: That was that was out with with Burton.

948
00:54:50,159 --> 00:54:54,559
Speaker 2: That wasn't that was Yeah, and Randy had a huge

949
00:54:54,679 --> 00:55:00,360
bto tour. So the first show is in Niagara Falls

950
00:55:01,199 --> 00:55:06,079
on the Canada side on January thirty first, and then

951
00:55:06,320 --> 00:55:11,960
we are we're headlining the Rock Legends Cruise in February

952
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,039
and so yeah, so the US tour is still kind

953
00:55:16,119 --> 00:55:19,679
of being put together, and we have a we have

954
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:21,480
a bunch of Canada dates in.

955
00:55:22,199 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 1: The spring as well. You should yes, yes.

956
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,679
Speaker 2: So that's gonna be pretty epic. But yeah, the rehearsals

957
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:30,679
start on Saturday.

958
00:55:31,159 --> 00:55:33,800
Speaker 1: Wow. Congratulations, Yeah, thank you.

959
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:37,159
Speaker 2: Thank you. Oh man, I'm I'm I'm really excited. These

960
00:55:37,239 --> 00:55:42,920
guys and this band is ridiculous incredible.

961
00:55:43,159 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 1: Can you say who else is in the band?

962
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,280
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's basically Burton's band, the same guys that

963
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:52,920
we were touring with, plus Randy you know of course.

964
00:55:53,079 --> 00:55:57,239
So yeah, yeah, I mean we've been you know, plowing

965
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,559
through for the last year and it's just it's it's

966
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:03,559
it's pretty mighty. So I can't wait for everybody to

967
00:56:03,599 --> 00:56:08,559
see it on this level. And so you know, we'll

968
00:56:08,599 --> 00:56:12,119
get your ass out there, and uh when we come

969
00:56:12,199 --> 00:56:14,599
to Vegas and yeah he.

970
00:56:14,639 --> 00:56:19,360
Speaker 1: Said, he said, February Vegas. No, no, we the U.

971
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:31,280
Speaker 2: York States haven't. We have just the cruise. So I

972
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:32,599
don't know if that's announced yet.

973
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 1: You want me to beep it out, I can beat

974
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:36,360
it out.

975
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:43,440
Speaker 2: Yes, just the case I think it's been. But but yeah, yeah,

976
00:56:43,519 --> 00:56:46,000
it's gonna be It's gonna be great. Man. We're we're

977
00:56:46,039 --> 00:56:50,239
all excited, you know. We we just finished this huge tour,

978
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:52,719
so we're we're warmed up, you know. So we just

979
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,159
got to add some bt O stuff and some deep

980
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:59,239
cuts and yeah it's gonna be great and it's gonna

981
00:56:59,239 --> 00:56:59,880
be long to.

982
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,679
Speaker 1: So you know, yeah, yeah good. So oh I suppose

983
00:57:04,679 --> 00:57:06,400
you got you You've got to be excited to play

984
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,440
some BTO stuff with fucking.

985
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:12,559
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah, so that that's gonna be great,

986
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:15,960
you know. So yeah, yeah, we'll find out in about

987
00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:17,519
thirty six hours.

988
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:23,159
Speaker 1: That's looking great, man, Thank you for thank you for

989
00:57:23,239 --> 00:57:27,920
popping on and really short here music Joe. People want

990
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:29,199
to find you. Where can they find you?

991
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,960
Speaker 2: You know all the socials you know Instagram, I think

992
00:57:33,960 --> 00:57:37,480
it's Joe Agello music and say.

993
00:57:37,639 --> 00:57:39,679
Speaker 1: Posting fun stuff, playing along with stuff.

994
00:57:40,239 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, I have a lot of time on my nads,

995
00:57:43,079 --> 00:57:48,039
so yeah, yeah, listen joeorge Ello music a year, gd

996
00:57:48,599 --> 00:57:54,280
ll o, Facebook, Instagram, I think TikTok it's like Joe

997
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:57,719
Orgello guitar or something gtr so.

998
00:57:58,039 --> 00:58:01,599
Speaker 1: And people want to get tickets for the upcoming guests

999
00:58:01,599 --> 00:58:04,559
who tour. Uh yeah, your website they can go to.

1000
00:58:04,719 --> 00:58:09,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm just sure. I'm sure you know Burton's website,

1001
00:58:10,239 --> 00:58:13,400
to guess whose website, Randy's website, you know.

1002
00:58:13,639 --> 00:58:17,119
Speaker 5: All the all the you know outlets that you can

1003
00:58:17,159 --> 00:58:20,440
get tickets at, you know, so I know they're going fast,

1004
00:58:21,039 --> 00:58:24,639
you know, and so we're yeah, we're exciting, man.

1005
00:58:25,039 --> 00:58:28,519
Speaker 1: So that's fucking great. Ladies and je Jello, uh you

1006
00:58:28,599 --> 00:58:31,760
know where to find me real is President, Twitter, Twitter, Instagra, Facebook,

1007
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:34,079
chill page and of the Record podcast play us out

1008
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:39,199
Gusney dot com and don't forget Ladies and Jelo get

1009
00:58:39,239 --> 00:58:41,639
a cameo it's Christmas time. Get a cameo from me,

1010
00:58:42,079 --> 00:58:45,199
and don't forget where I lack and talent. I'm Euzy Presley.

1011
00:58:45,239 --> 00:58:47,920
By the way, I make up for the cock and