Elvis BD today... would have been 80.

Started by Solars Toy, January 08, 2015, 07:34:18 PM

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Solars Toy

Hard to believe that he would have been 80 but then I am much older too.  (I thought he was old at 42 when he died.)  Just thought to share a moment of..  Favorite song..

ELVIS PRESLEY SUSPICIOUS MINDS YouTube
I pray, not wish because I have a God not a Genie.

walkstall

Quote from: Solars Toy on January 08, 2015, 07:34:18 PM
Hard to believe that he would have been 80 but then I am much older too.  (I thought he was old at 42 when he died.)  Just thought to share a moment of..  Favorite song..

ELVIS PRESLEY SUSPICIOUS MINDS YouTube

The young man did not show me much.  But other did like him. 
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

TboneAgain

Quote from: walkstall on January 08, 2015, 07:46:36 PM
The young man did not show me much.  But other did like him.
Mom was born in 1933 and he did nothing for her. I was born in 1955 and he did nothing for me. By the time by boys were born, he was dead.

I've always thought of Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, and Neil Young as the three most ridiculously overrated talents of the early rock era. Neil Young is clearly proof that sometimes bad shit, like jock itch, lasts for a really long time.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. -- Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; IT IS FORCE. -- George Washington

walkstall

Quote from: TboneAgain on January 08, 2015, 08:19:03 PM
Mom was born in 1933 and he did nothing for her. I was born in 1955 and he did nothing for me. By the time by boys were born, he was dead.

I've always thought of Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, and Neil Young as the three most ridiculously overrated talents of the early rock era. Neil Young is clearly proof that sometimes bad shit, like jock itch, lasts for a really long time.

I am sure there going to be some nice little old ladies rocking in there rocking chairs to jailhouse rock.
Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (Music Video)
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

quiller

Quote from: TboneAgain on January 08, 2015, 08:19:03 PM
Neil Young is clearly proof that sometimes bad shit, like jock itch, lasts for a really long time.
Twenty seconds after my inauguration, he'd be on my No-entry list and stay there. I'd jam Canadian stations powerful enough to be heard down here if they play even one of his songs. I'd send people to burn down the place where he was born and spread salt on the scorched earth. Then I'd have free Tim Horton's for 20 people, FOREVER, to whoever brings in his tongue.

quiller



The actual badge Nixon gave Elvis for fighting drug abuse. 

TboneAgain

Quote from: quiller on January 08, 2015, 08:45:25 PM


The actual badge Nixon gave Elvis for fighting drug abuse.
It was probably found in his shirt pocket when they discovered him on the toilet dead. I will say that, of those who fought drugs and lost -- and that is a very long list -- he lasted longer than most.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. -- Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; IT IS FORCE. -- George Washington

supsalemgr

Quote from: Solars Toy on January 08, 2015, 07:34:18 PM
Hard to believe that he would have been 80 but then I am much older too.  (I thought he was old at 42 when he died.)  Just thought to share a moment of..  Favorite song..

ELVIS PRESLEY SUSPICIOUS MINDS YouTube

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
"If you can't run with the big dawgs, stay on the porch!"

Solars Toy

Maybe it is a girl thing.  The first movie I ever saw was at a drive-in with my cousins in Kentucky.  It was Blue Hawaii and I was sucked in....


Toy   :love: :love:
I pray, not wish because I have a God not a Genie.

daidalos

Quote from: Solars Toy on January 08, 2015, 07:34:18 PM
Hard to believe that he would have been 80 but then I am much older too.  (I thought he was old at 42 when he died.)  Just thought to share a moment of..  Favorite song..

ELVIS PRESLEY SUSPICIOUS MINDS YouTube

Hey wow, I had no idea he was that young when he passed away either.

Sad too, Elvis was talented, AND (as lots of people don't know) VOLUNTEERED for service and was a veteran of the Military.

Great guy there, how many other movie/recording artists would stop, pause mid career and then go into the Military?

Not any, because none have. (at least to my knowledge that is)
One of every five Americans you meet has a mental illness of some sort. Many, many, of our veteran's suffer from mental illness like PTSD now also. Help if ya can. :) http://www.projectsemicolon.org/share-your-story.html
And no you won't find my "story" there. They don't allow science fiction. :)

TboneAgain

Quote from: daidalos on January 21, 2015, 12:13:35 AM
Hey wow, I had no idea he was that young when he passed away either.

Sad too, Elvis was talented, AND (as lots of people don't know) VOLUNTEERED for service and was a veteran of the Military.

Great guy there, how many other movie/recording artists would stop, pause mid career and then go into the Military?

Not any, because none have. (at least to my knowledge that is)
I'd offer one slight correction to the OP. It's hardly sad that Elvis would have been 80 this past birthday; rather, it's a simple fact of the passage of time. However, it is sad in a way that he could have been 80, but instead "left the building" (and the planet) at 42. His cause of death was the accumulation of his own destructive life choices.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. -- Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; IT IS FORCE. -- George Washington

red_dirt

        I feel like old age and perspective has turned me into a kill-joy.

        Elvis Presely was a Satanic force who made a mockery of the Holy Ghost
church he was raised in,  did more to corrupt  American youth by legitimizing
amphetamine use than any other star of his time, and paraded sexual immorality
before the nation as a darling of a corrupt music industry and cheap publications.
If you really want to see Elvis in his glory, go to you tube and look at the last
performance. It is the one where his handlers dab the sweat from his brow while
he psyches himself into a drug induced trance, off stage waiting to come on.

        Good golly Miss Molly, you sure like to ball: Song about a white prostitute
in a black whorehouse and how she loves to get it on. Whole lotta shakin going on. 
Portrays and interprets Holy Ghost quaking in terms of drug induced uncontrollable
sexual frenzy.  Blue suede shoes. Institutionalized narcissm.

         Elvis ushered in the era of the assault on Christian morality. Thanks to
Hank Williams and Nashville, country music in general had turned itself into
a spectacle of vicarious living of touring musicians temptation and substance
abuse. It cut across lines, the booze and womanizing.  Gospel singer Sam Cooke
was executed by his own father, so upset was his father with the mockery Sam
Cooke had left the church to participate in. 

        That era was to feature pop idols such as Hugh Hefner, Chuck Berry,
Billy Graham, and Walt Disney.  The "best" was yet to come.

walkstall

Quote from: red_dirt on January 22, 2015, 12:34:02 PM
        I feel like old age and perspective has turned me into a kill-joy.

        Elvis Presely was a Satanic force who made a mockery of the Holy Ghost
church he was raised in,  did more to corrupt  American youth by legitimizing
amphetamine use than any other star of his time, and paraded sexual immorality
before the nation as a darling of a corrupt music industry and cheap publications.
If you really want to see Elvis in his glory, go to you tube and look at the last
performance. It is the one where his handlers dab the sweat from his brow while
he psyches himself into a drug induced trance, off stage waiting to come on.

        Good golly Miss Molly, you sure like to ball: Song about a white prostitute
in a black whorehouse and how she loves to get it on. Whole lotta shakin going on. 
Portrays and interprets Holy Ghost quaking in terms of drug induced uncontrollable
sexual frenzy.  Blue suede shoes. Institutionalized narcissm.

         Elvis ushered in the era of the assault on Christian morality. Thanks to
Hank Williams and Nashville, country music in general had turned itself into
a spectacle of vicarious living of touring musicians temptation and substance
abuse. It cut across lines, the booze and womanizing.  Gospel singer Sam Cooke
was executed by his own father, so upset was his father with the mockery Sam
Cooke had left the church to participate in. 

        That era was to feature pop idols such as Hugh Hefner, Chuck Berry,
Billy Graham, and Walt Disney.  The "best" was yet to come.

Wow!  I take it you have links for all this right?   I was not a fan of Elvis but I did not look on him as evil.   Just a young man doing and saying thing mom and dads did not like at that time.   It been the same for every generation that has come along. 

So what do you think of Lawrence Welk ? 

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

red_dirt

      Go to you tube and look at Elvis's last performances. There have been  tell-all books written
by former members of his entourage whose only motive was that the truth be known. Everyone
loved Elvis, that's not the point. 
       
       This is a sordid subject, not something to make a presentation about.  Maybe you had to
be there to understand the conflicts between the church and "the devil's music." Kristoferson
talks about it. Most everyone takes it with a grain of salt and a sense of humor. If you ever
hear anyone refer to Nashville and the Trash Mill, now you'll know what they are talking about.
       
      When Elvis appeared on national television, the camera showed him only waist up, so
explicit and sexual were his pelvic gyrations.  In fact, they joked and called him Elvis the Pelvis.
       
       Yes, the explicit drug use and sexual immorality of blues and jazz musicians during the 1920's
and 1930's was much discussed, so it was nothing new. Later, it would  go over the top.  To openly
discuss the issues is to open one self up to charges of judgmental behavior. Me? I say to hell with
political correctness, tell it like it is.


quiller

Quote from: walkstall on January 22, 2015, 01:41:06 PM
Wow!  I take it you have links for all this right?   I was not a fan of Elvis but I did not look on him as evil.   Just a young man doing and saying thing mom and dads did not like at that time.   It been the same for every generation that has come along. 

So what do you think of Lawrence Welk ?

The guy running that bubble machine was probably a communist. And those Lenin Sisters!  :lol:

I wasn't an Elvis fan after seeing Love Me Tender in the theater and seeing a few of his guest appearances. I missed the "Ed Sullivan Show" performance that was waist-up (mentioned above) but did see his physical decline and the final clownish self-parody that he became.

This generation, it's which Kardashian has the biggest whatever, or how ignorant Justin Beiber can get before someone turns off his air.