British guitarist analyses Elvis Presley's technical hitch in 1968! 

watching antique roadshow one time..those scarfs are worth some pretty good cash

That is such a cool story.

@@spacecatboy2962 You should change your name to "Space Cadet" for that remark.

Space Catboy I’m sure she would be talking about that too if it happened😂😂👍

Wow! That's awesome! Everyone who got to see him was so blessed.

I agree with your observation...the only thing I would contest is that he wasn't a star...he was a galaxy!!! Be well and Godspeed!

It's been awhile since I've seen the rules but I think you owe jazz cat a Coke for saying the same thing

@walk hard No dude. Just, no. Elvis was on a planet of his own.

After alm these years, I am once again enjoying beating Elvis, reliving memories!! The listening is even better with Phil analyzing !!!

My three kids like him.

Ditto!

Lazy Kid LMAO 😂

Hey Jazz what's happening. I was checking out Chris Robinson and came across this I think it's new. It's titled "Let it fall", it's got a cool Groove

James Gordon aka Crazy Legs great song! Just checked it out and saved it on Spotify. It’s got kind of a Phishy thing going on. That’s another group I dig on..Phish just play here at Fenway last weekend....missed it☹️but I’ve seen them a few times..... weird thing; your first comment came up on my notifications, but not on RU-vid🤔 in reference to that; I love Elvis but I think his stint in the Army was more P.R. than him being all he can be😂

He's also been subjected to a lot of unfair analysis & propaganda that goes quite deep in terms of folklore. Found this interesting book. This author is an Elvis Fan & sheds some light on the issue : www.justicepaynepublishing.com/ www.goodreads.com/book/show/36442056-thirty-pieces-of-silver twitter.com/justicepaynepub

@Lord JS The same here :) Elvis also often tore the strings on his guitar...LOL

Well said.

You are so lucky

@@sam_realdeal Yes, I was...even then, I would have to pinch myself sitting next to him on a couch and listening to his conversation and sense of humor. Thank you Sam....

@@kathleen0954 wait! Did you sit next to Elvis Presley?

@@sam_realdeal Yes! On more than one occasion! I attended many of his "after-the-late-show parties" in Las Vegas, and also sat next to him on the couch at his home at 144 Monovale Drive in Beverly Hills... He liked to watch TV with no volume, then play his latest recording over and over. (He left the arm of the record player open so the 45 would just keep playing.) That night at his house, he was playing "It's Midnight," which he had just recorded. But before he played it for us (my two friends were with me), he explained the whole song to us very seriously...then played it. I commented on how beautiful the chorus refrain was, and every time it came up after that, he leaned over and shook my knee, saying... "Here's the part you like, honey....here's the part you like..." All you had to do is make one comment on any song, and he'd do the whole song for you right there.... Anyway, there's a snippet for you!

@@kathleen0954 dang! Now i am finding it so hard to believe. Not only you met Elvis, you talked to him, sat next to him and also in his home? When i said you are lucky i didn't know this lucky. Tell me more if you can. Plus, i like that you shared that story, alot of people say stuff about how he was a creep or something. This story says otherwise

Well said!

well said. he was having fun with it, for sure. He was watching the ladies and getting a real kick out of all their reactions to him.

“There’s something wrong with my lip! I got news for you, baby, I did 29 pictures like that.”

Carl Perkins was a GREAT guitar player. If Carl gave Elvis a seal of approval there is no doubt Elvis could play, end of argument. Also, I promise you Elvis knew more than 3 chords. Elvis making this statement on stage late in his life about only knowing 3 chords was only southern charm false humility.

Scotty moore said also

He was so good his band didn't need a drummer in the early years at Sun.

@Koletti Pireaus if you don't have a sense of humor get the fuck off the internet and get that righteous stick out of your fat ass....

Johnny Cash said the same.

rca put out a record of him just joking on stage. wish i had bought it when i saw it.

Exactly. He was THE Entertainer of his time.

Greatest American entertainer. Other countries had their own greatest entertainers.

You are so right!

And voted so many times!!!

@@kurtisle Way more than an entertainer. An artist with soul depth and diversity.

He was really good on the piano

And I love your smile you have a beautiful smile!

Do you know the walking bass pattern that he uses here ? Trying to get it down

LOL Yes, that's true, too, as far as being a black belt. While the higher degrees were awarded for his contributions to the art which is something done for others and not only persons of Elvis' stature.

That is actually what Elvis said after a reporter asked him how he kept so young looking (at the press conference at MSG in 72 😁) "I take vitamin E"

@@MrAlanfalk73 Actually, Elvis was asked why he thought he "lasted so long". He jokingly said he took vitamin E because vitamin E was thought to increase a man's sexual prowess! Haha! That's why he muttered afterwards "I embarrassed myself, man." LOL! Then, he got serious and answered the question. Lord, he was so funny!

The same goes for John Lennon who was influenced by Elvis. Lennon exclaimed one time "I may not be great technically but I can make it move and howl "

Yes exactly. Grateful I was born a female ☺️

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I have always wondered about that teacher. I think context is everything in comprehending something like this. And you have to consider that this was the deep south and the lines were strictly drawn, even in music. She was doubtless hearing blues phrasings in his singing because he heard so much front porch blues in Tupelo. And that was *not* appreciated at the time. He was still a child and couldn't have known what set her off.

He never had any proper training. He just picked up some chords from neighborhood blues singers in tupelo when his family lived in a black neighborhood. He was just born with a good ear and natural sense of rhythm.

@@beatnix99 True!

@@beatnix99 Well, that's basically the blues. One didn't go to a local musical instruments store and take proper lessons. Such places did not exist in northeast Mississippi at mid-century. But every summer, even in 2019, you can attend the Hill Country Blues festival in Holly Springs. If you want to know what it sounded like, there it is.

Aloha in Hawaii !!

He didn't perform much during the 60s since he was too busy making crappy movies

I like most of the '68 special, but if I had to name one tune, I'd go for "Trying to Get to You" or "Love Me."

Hate Dylan...overrated shit...

@@mr.smithgnrsmith7808 ,sure, Bob Dylan is a lousy singer, and definitely no great guitarist or harmonica player, but how many songs actually *written* by Elvis Presley can you name? I can name dozens of songs written by Bob Dylan, and I can quote many of them, or major sections of them, from memory, as can most people of my generation who followed music. The sheer number of covers of Dylan songs done by other artists attests to his uniqueness and originality, and his influence. You don't have to like him or his music, but he was an iconoclast, a game-changer to be sure. Elvis was a fantastic singer, no doubt about it, but I think it's fair to say that the real "king" of rock and roll was Chuck Berry, who, had he been white would almost certainly have been at least as big a star as Elvis, probably a bigger star. Like Dylan, Chuck wrote great songs ---- but Chuck Berry's songs were less oblique, more direct and easily understandable by the average teenager in the 1950s then Dylan was in the 1960s.

@@goodun6081 Dylan should of stuck to song writing and left performing to professionals. Elvis Presley opened the door for black artists like Chuck Berry.....

Yes there are not many. I would include Roy Orbison, Frankie Valli and Karen Carpenter.

good 'un people perform Dylan's songs better than he could

Thankyou for the highlighted reply. I actually look more at you than Elvis as I enjoy seeing your smiles throughout a song. I even smile too when I see Elvis singing, just something about this man that will endure for a long while yet I think. His voice is so powerful and all without the electronics of today. I cannot imagine what Elvis must have sounded like live and hearing his voice as part of an audience watching. I don’t think I would have come out being the same person, for me I think it would have felt like a very spiritual moment.

Both left and right handed? Do you have a source?

Thanks!

Congratulations on the anniversary!

Hi Cherry! Congratuations and have a great time tonight. I was waiting for your name to pop up again because I wasn't sure if anyone answered you when, during the live stream last Tuesday, you asked how to donate...at the very bottom of the column where the comments are occurring, there's a little dollar sign ($), just click on that and follow the prompts! l was not too young for Elvis and actually got to meet him when I was a child. My neighbor worked at Paramount where he was filming "King Creole". In an effort to cheer up my brother and me after our mom died that summer, she took us to meet The King. He was incredibly kind to us, even having lunch with us in the commissary and recommending the macaroni and cheese!

@@lynndow3185 sorry to hear you lost your mother at such a young age. My dad died of a heart attack at 42. PS how was the mac and cheese

@@jamesgordonakacrazylegs8222 Thank you, James, I'm sorry your dad passed away so young, too. That sucks. But, the mac and cheese WAS really good!

@ Thank you, Cherry! The 1812 Overture really gets to me, too, but this 4th of July, hearing Dvorak's "New World Symphony" ( the main melody is based on the old folk tune, 'Goin' Home') made me weep. I'm lucky to have such a great brother, we do laugh a lot about when we were little!

Exactly.

I'd forgotten about that song. It hit me even as a child. Gotta give it a listen now too!

Yep, still as great as I remembered

It's hard to believe that US Army introduced him to pills....

@@beatnix99 Yeah. Gotta wonder how things would have turned out if he'd never been drafted.

Gary Powell... that might be the reason why Elvis lost his roots between 1960 to 1967 he got caught up in making films that created an image for his fans.

Cool!

@Bob Sebring Holly didn't have Elvis' vocal range, versatility, looks or charisma!

George and Paul co-wrote the song “Good-Enough”for Ms. Lauper on the soundtrack!.... “Pinchers of Peril” that was George’s idea🥺 Paul Quinn is actually Spielberg’s brother-in-law🥺

@@jazzcat8786 Remarkable!

I finally got around to watching Paul Quinn from Saxon. Thank you!😎

Only briefly before he moved on to his bad motor scooter

@@bekind6763 I did too! It was really awesome.