holy crap hadrian
what a service
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 7 May 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
truly my pleasure
hey someone sent me a request but forgot to include their email address. let me know!
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Monday, 7 May 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
Hadrian, it's awesome. Sent you a PM.
― Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
on it's way
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:36 (six years ago) link
its
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
Elvis Presley: The Searcher is all right, but it's no Radio Free Shake Rag
― Brad C., Tuesday, 8 May 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
aw
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
hey someone sent me a request but forgot to include their email address. let me know!― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, May 8, 2018 12:37 AM (twenty-one hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, May 8, 2018 12:37 AM (twenty-one hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's me! how do i do what needs to be done?
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Tuesday, 8 May 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
if Elvis had lived and they did American Recordings style covers album i would want to hear him do Beck's "Lost Cause" also some Nick Cave and Misfits
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:41 (six years ago) link
Maybe Sistinas by Danzig, although that might be a little on the nose
― JRN, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
There's a whole flood of ballads from the last thirty years that flowed into my head in Presley's voice: Waits' "Downtown Train", Nina Nastasia's "How Will You Love Me", Cave's "Are You the One I've Been Waiting For", Parton's "Wildflowers", Bonnie Prince Billy "Cursed Sleep," Welch's "No One Knows My Name" and Neko Case's "Set Out Running" and "Star Witness".
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
i wanna hear Elvis sing "Hit Me Baby One More Time"
"My loneliness is killin' me, mama"
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:16 (six years ago) link
i suppose Fakeapp-style voice AI will make things like this possible in the near future. i can already see Stereogum in 2020 posting an Elvis version of "All Star"
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
Tried to email Hadrian, gave up on endless ilx captcha, oh well rock on DJ:https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/elvis-presley-drummer-dj-fontana-dead-at-87-w521520
― dow, Friday, 15 June 2018 01:14 (six years ago) link
I'd love to hear Elvis with the big TCB! band doing "Black Dog". You could do a cool arrangement with the horns and all those background singers.
― earlnash, Friday, 15 June 2018 02:32 (six years ago) link
cool revive
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Friday, 15 June 2018 05:00 (six years ago) link
RIP DJ Fontana :(
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 June 2018 05:11 (six years ago) link
The "Hound Dog" snare, man oh man. Ike and Tina Review circa 1972 give some idea what the TCB! band might have done with hard rock songs.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Friday, 15 June 2018 14:37 (six years ago) link
― dow, Thursday, June 14, 2018 9:14 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
aw dow I've been awol try me again
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 16 June 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
I might be able to assist to help you guys connect without robomail if captcha was the problem. Check your emails in a few.
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 June 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
Got it got it got it, thanks so much Hadrian &/via James!!!
― dow, Sunday, 17 June 2018 01:24 (six years ago) link
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, June 5, 2018 8:41 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Hahahaha
Also a duet with Bob Plant on “kashmir”
― calstars, Sunday, 17 June 2018 01:34 (six years ago) link
Thus Sprach Zarasthrutha / Kashmir” (Overture)
― calstars, Sunday, 17 June 2018 01:35 (six years ago) link
Finally reading Careless Love and jfc those “movie gulag” years from like 63-67 really are way more grim than I realized. By the time they’re down to 14-day shoots it’s like wtf is even happening anymore. The only thing that kept me going was knowing that the 68 Special is on the horizon
My favorite thing is how every time he gets obsessed with something (motorcycles, horses) he makes sure EVERYONE has one too. It’s bananas. That whole cowboy ranch sidetrack was so weird, him wearing chaps & a cowboy hat on the regular LOL (but also oddly endearing)
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
Have you finished it? If you think the mid sixties are grim, just wait...
As bad as you think it could be, it's worse.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 00:51 (five years ago) link
i’m about 1/3rd of the way ini realize it gets way worse :) but i don’t think I realized the true extent to which the 60’s was such a creative vacuum. there’s that sad revelation in the leadup to the 68 special & Elvis “busting loose” where it’s clear that the true chasm of understanding between them was that Parker thought Elvis’ voice *alone* was the key to it all, when Elvis saw that it was his voice & the music combined that created the electricit. All those recordings where the music gets pushed down & his vocals get pushed up to sell something that no-one’s even buying anymore. A decade’s worth of talent mostly wasted because of that. Among other things. It’s maddening to see it laid out in such minute detail.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link
HI DERE
― Careless Love Battery (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link
:D
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
And it's weird when you hear recordings he did during movie gulag time of songs he actually liked and cared about - generally the ones not intended for movies - there's a night and day difference in the performance. Thinking of, for example, the 2nd gospel album and "Tomorrow Is a Long Time."
― Josefa, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 02:27 (five years ago) link
For sure
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 02:35 (five years ago) link
wow this is quite a read, fascinating:
https://www.practicalpainmanagement.com/pain/other/brain-injury/elvis-presley-head-trauma-autoimmunity-pain-early-death
― Ambient Police (sleeve), Monday, 1 July 2019 14:14 (five years ago) link
Heartbreaking.
― Brad C., Monday, 1 July 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
Very interesting, thanks
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 July 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
Mac Davis just passed away after heart surgery. Probably best-known for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdXKk8dcfqM
Coincidentally, I watched Elvis's comeback special yesterday. I hadn't seen it in a while, and it's pretty amazing - the CD's and LP's don't do it justice, you really need to get the DVD and watch both the TV special itself and the informal "sit down" session. His movies aren't exactly a favorite, but you can see why he was able to make so many - he really had a tremendous screen presence.
Of course Elvis in Memphis came next, and IMHO it's really the one truly great LP he made that wasn't a compilation. There was still more great music to come and the experimentation on Elvis Country is commendable, but it's a shame he slipped back into complacency soon after.
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 06:53 (three years ago) link
(*a favorite of mine, I should say)
RIP Mac! wrote quite a few Elvis hits including Memories & Little Less Conversation
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
also did a perfect Elvis voice impression, as heard on a recent ep of Gilbert Gottfried's podcast
― Josefa, Wednesday, 30 September 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
Of course _Elvis in Memphis_ came next, and IMHO it's really the one truly great LP he made that wasn't a compilation. There was still more great music to come and the experimentation on _Elvis Country_ is commendable, but it's a shame he slipped back into complacency soon after.
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 17:52 (three years ago) link
Suspicious Minds is great rightBut can it be great if it’s so damn depressing?Dude is simply sobbing out the verses
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 00:17 (two years ago) link
He’s sabotaging its greatness and doesn’t give a damn
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 00:18 (two years ago) link
yes, it totally can still be great! my favorite sub sub genre is upbeat songs with sad lyrics/delivery bridge over troubled water is the most mounful secular gospel song you ever heard
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 October 2021 01:48 (two years ago) link
send one up for Ronnie Tuttty for taking care of business, drumwise.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 October 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
Imagine living your life thinking Elvis is anything but a classic.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
Tutt was so great. Knew exactly how to exploit the dynamics and subtexts of every song, no small feat for an Elvis collaborator.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:08 (two years ago) link
I hope Baz Luhrmann’s take isn’t popular. He has a way of cheapening everything he touches.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:10 (two years ago) link
Ronnie Tutt was the rhythmic pulse connected between Elvis, Neal Diamond and Jerry Garcia. That is crossing a couple different worlds.
― earlnash, Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
Obviously Neil...must have had Cassady on the brain.
― earlnash, Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:24 (two years ago) link
If not Patricia.
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
Now imagining Elvis as Hud.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link
“They call it polk…salad” *rimshot* “Hud!”
― Double Chocula (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 17 October 2021 23:52 (two years ago) link