Ok so I never saw the big deal in Elvis

[JohnKleeb]

[havocmom]

1. Me neither and I am old enough to have been exposed to some of the

whoop-la.

For giggles, take a look at the movie Bubba Ho-Tep.

[JohnKleeb]

8. agh jesus you poor thing

[bif]

2. I'm with ya there

Completely went over my head. And II'm way older that you are.

[JohnKleeb]

5. really when my somewhat friend was ranting and raving about him

I was like dude theres so much better shit than this guy.

[molly]

3. Me either - back then I thought he was a hick

[JohnKleeb]

6. Hick or No Hick, this guy is the king of rock? I dont see it

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

4. As Chuck D said"He was straight out racist the sucker was simple and plain

Mother fuck him and John Wayne"

[JohnKleeb]

7. hah he said that?

Isn't he on Air America now? I Dont like John Wayne either really, personal reasons, no he didnt have a one night stand with one of my grandmothers and impreganted her with my dad, heh, but you know the film sands of Iwo Jima, Wayne's character I think is based on my relative, and Michael Strank was such a better man than Wayne.

[havocmom]

11. Not to mention a J. Edgar deputized junior G-Man when the fab four hit

the US with their un-American success, which pretty much made Elvis a has-been overnight.

[JohnKleeb]

14. J Edgar now theres a scary fellow or should I say lady?

[havocmom]

16. Heard that when he was in drag, you really needed to remember to call

him Mary. Cuz Mary had a file on just about everybody. A method not lost on the neocons, by the way. There is a reason they can get most everybody to comply with their wishes.

[JohnKleeb]

17. so a case of DID it seems like too

[GreenArrow]

9. this big enough for ya?

[JohnKleeb]

12. figuritively

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. i love his music and dislike his politics

[JohnKleeb]

13. ive read he told nixon he'd end the drug war himself

or some variant of that, wasnt he on drugs towards the end.

[dbt]

15. JOHNNY CASH is the King Of Rock And Roll!

Earl Scruggs is God.

:bounce:
dbt

[johnnie]

18. Ouch!!

As an Elvis fan, this hurts :)
I think you hear too much from people who don't know. What he did for music is beyond Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
As for him being a racist, that's just utter bullshit. If anything he fought to bring race records to the mainstream.
And maybe Chuck D or whoever that is says whatever, but many of the black musicians from the time respected Elvis and knew what he was about.

[JohnKleeb]

19. Its actually just a copycat thread

so sorry if I offend.

[johnnie]

20. Oh..that's ok

I just was yappin. I like a lot of people that people don't like.

[JohnKleeb]

21. I know but it really was just a copycat thread

I like a lot of people who people dont know.

[skygazer]

22. The strange thing about Elvis

My sister was a HUGE Elvis fan. One year when I was about 16, she took me to a concert. I wasn't into his music at all - classic rock girl all the way - but it was a free concert so okay.

It was, and to this day still is, the best concert I ever went to. That man was a showman. It wasn't just because the crowd was psyched - there was an electric element in that show that blew me away. He was just a great performer, put everything he had into it and I wound up shoving my way to the front row, standing on a folding chair and screaming like an idiot.

Still befuddles me to this day. Glad I had the opportunity - he was dead by the next year.

[starroute]

23. Go find his early Sun Records sides

RCA got ahold of him in 1956 and prettied him up and did their best to turn him into a standard-issue teen idol. But the original Sun Elvis was the hottest, sexiest, most life-force-channelling thing you could ever hope to hear.

No white guy before Elvis had ever sung like that or had moves like that. Hell, no black guy had either. Elvis was an original and even though there might have been rock'n'roll music without him, there would never have been Rock***n***Roll!!!

[SarahB]

24. I was always kind of neutral about Elvis.

However, I keep "seeing the light". Elvis cannot be avoided. He really is everywhere, so I've had to learn to embrace my inner Elvis.

Where o' where is our resident Elvis expert? (Actually, I know where, I'm just not exactly sure when he'll be back again.) :headbang:

[liontamer]

25. his early career was largely dependent on racism

black artists would write good songs, elvis would sing them on tv or in venues filled with white people. His success wasn't entirely based on his musical ability (which isn't to say that he didn't write some good songs). He was a lucky product of a marketing pitch, much like limp bizkit, korn, eminem and britney spears are