Off Topic. Elvis

[Bill Babler]

Wife and I went to see Elvis during the rain yesterday. Movie is 2:39 hours long so potty before you go in.  We had old dudes going to the privy multiple times around us. 

What a firecracker life that man led. Everyone took what they wanted from him and really he had ZERO financial sense. 

If any of you saw his live show, please chime in. It was said to be a life experience. 

After the movie I did some research on line, watching reviews of his voice by vocal professionals and coaches. He left them almost speechless  and the women reviewer’s breathless.

Read and watched one set of reviewer’s and their comments were “ perfect pitch, perfect note, perfect tone, perfect timing.”Voice was more than generational, one of the top two or three voices in history in any jaunarajs.  “Hope I spelled that right.”  

In his early years he was described as Beautiful with a magnetism that melted women by the millions regardless of age to their knees. 

Even as late as 1977 in almost a constant drug stupor his voice was unwavering. 

His gospel renditions were extremely emotional, especially How Great Tho Are. 

He was described by women that watched him preform as a Stage Climber, meaning they would climb the stage just to touch him, married or not. 16 to 60, made no difference. 

Some of his reviews I watched yesterday were by young men and women of this our current time period and even these young 20 something women 45 years after his death melted listening and watching him on video. 

It’s funny, I was on the age of his latter time period and we considered him a bit to tame for our taste. We were 70’s Hard Rock kids. 

He set the stage for the music we enjoyed. I encourage everyone to watch the movie. Really a huge part of our American History. 










 

[ColdWaterFshr]

Jaunarajas -- 🤣 -- I think is spelled "genre"

Will have to see the movie.  I've heard good reviews of it.

I was fortunate to see Elvis "live" in one of his very last concerts at the old Hammons Student Center in Springfield in 1977.  This was before jumbotrons, and we were sitting up in the rafters. I remember being slightly disappointed because his live versions didn't sound as good as what I was accustomed to hearing on my scratchy assortment of 45's.  Of course, I was only 8 years old at the time and had not seen many live concerts.

If you get a chance.  Book a room sometime at the old Rail Haven Motor lodge in Springfield there on Glenstone.  Looks a bit dodgy, but they keep the place up okay.  Ask for the Elvis room.  This is the room where Elvis stayed with his mother back in 1956 when playing a gig at the old Shrine Mosque.  Right about the time his star was really on the rise.

 

[dblades]

My wife talks about that show, endlessly. She was around 14/15 at the time. I have an older female cousin that probably saw Elvis 40 times. 

[Quillback]

I'm in that generation that was around when Elvis was in his later years, and never was a fan of his music.  In the 50's when he first started he was a thing for sure.

My mom was born and raised in Kennett MO which is about 90 miles from Memphis.  When she was in high school, one of her friends that was a complete Elvis groupie heard that Elvis was hanging around the state fair in Memphis, so my mom and her girlfriend drove down there and came across him at a fair booth where he was tossing rings or whatever at one of those win a teddy bear booths.  He spent a bit talking with my mom and her GF, mostly to her GF as my mom wasn't much of an Elvis fan.  So my mom can claim (and she does whenever his name comes up) to have actually talked to him.  

[Bill Babler]

4 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Wife and I went to see Elvis during the rain yesterday. Movie is 2:39 hours long so potty before you go in.  We had old dudes going to the privy multiple times around us. 

What a firecracker life that man led. Everyone took what they wanted from him and really he had ZERO financial sense. 

If any of you saw his live show, please chime in. It was said to be a life experience. 

After the movie I did some research on line, watching reviews of his voice by vocal professionals and coaches. He left them almost speechless  and the women reviewer’s breathless.

Read and watched one set of reviewer’s and their comments were “ perfect pitch, perfect note, perfect tone, perfect timing.”Voice was more than generational, one of the top two or three voices in history in any jaunarajs.  “Hope I spelled that right.”  

In his early years he was described as Beautiful with a magnetism that melted women by the millions regardless of age to their knees. 

Even as late as 1977 in almost a constant drug stupor his voice was unwavering. 

His gospel renditions were extremely emotional, especially How Great Tho Are. 

He was described by women that watched him preform as a Stage Climber, meaning they would climb the stage just to touch him, married or not. 16 to 60, made no difference. 

Some of his reviews I watched yesterday were by young men and women of this our current time period and even these young 20 something women 45 years after his death melted listening and watching him on video. 

It’s funny, I was on the age of his latter time period and we considered him a bit to tame for our taste. We were 70’s Hard Rock kids. 

He set the stage for the music we enjoyed. I encourage everyone to watch the movie. Really a huge part of our American History.  










 

Ya, revisited my spelling and it is the a very similar definition of genre. 

Category of artistic composition, occupation, heritage of family roots or similar groups within a category,  Jaunarajs. I like genre better, lot less work😜
 

[Flysmallie]

Someone please take my wife to see this movie! I don’t think I could sit through it. 

[Dutch]

1 hour ago, Flysmallie said:

Someone please take my wife to see this movie! I don’t think I could sit through it. 

I hear you.  Luckily my wife went with a friend so I didn’t have to go.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

I was kind of disappointed to hear that Forrest Gump didn't get any credit in this movie.   😕  LOL

[Bill Babler]

Forrest was a bad guy. He got lots of play. 

If you don’t like Elvis music, don’t go. If you do you will like it. Both my wife and I really enjoyed it. There was a section in the middle when it was all about Forrest Gump that slowed it down but it was a 7,5 out of ten. 
 

Nice way to spend the afternoon with my wife. Date nite, lunch and a movie.  
 

Goes a long way guys. 
 

[skeeter]

Never could figure out all the hoopla about Presley.  Wife and I ( 1 pre-boomer, 1 extremely early boomer) both considered him a "Greaser".  You'd have to be of our age brackets, probably, to understand the meaning of the term. Glad you enjoyed it....and him.  Meanwhile, the bite in the far backs of coves with run-off water running into them was ON !!!