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Ultradog MN

Ultradog MN

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His name still draws clicks as evidenced by the fact that you opened this.
Elvis left the building 41 years ago today.
I do still like his music. Some of it anyway.
Does anybody have any personal stories to tell about him?
I have one.
I was dating a girl and she wanted me to go with her to see elvis who was coming to town.
By then he was a washed up, old, fat pig of a man and I wasn't interested. She begged me to go but I refused.
That was kind of the beginning of the end for us and we broke up not long after.
Then Elvis died not long after too.
One of my regrets in life - though not one I think about much - is the fact that I COULD have seen Elvis. But didn't.
Oh well.
As for the girl, well, there were a few that came and went in those days.
Some were good. Some were nice and some were downright crazy.
But none of them do I have regrets about. At least not like I do about Elvis.
 
Went to his place in Memphis when the kids where little daughter found a 4 leaf clover in the back yard along side of the sidewalk
 
I was on a trip one summer and went by Graceland. Decided to stop. Spent half a day there. Worth the time. Had no idea that guy had the awards he had. There is a little building, well not all that little but it was full of them and I mean full. Had some late '50's Cadillacs parked out back in the non-public parking lot. His mother and dad are buried there, and as I recall a place for him too. He did love his mother........that's without saying!

Had some neat memorabilia across across the street including his Douglas DC8 Jet. There is a huge oval table in it where he and his band sat around and hashed out music....I guess. There is a story about just how they got it from the airport to the final resting site.....kinda like moving the Spruce Goose from Long Beach, CA. to it's final resting place....piece by piece.

I took him along with the rest of the artists growing up in the BEE BOP age, not all that special. He did have some goodies.

That has got to be a hard life that wears on you. Yeah you get your kicks with all the attention you get but the workload and traveling, and show after show....Not for me.
 
I never did like Elvis that much. My wife had every record and a scrap book on him.

I did meet the Beatles when they came to Dallas in 1964. My uncle delivered drinks to the Cabana Hotel.I went with him that day. They were in a hallway and it was a quick hi and they were gone. They all looked like regular guys just making a living. I remember the glass door breaking,girls were going nuts.
 
My dad was stationed in the same barracks that Elvis was in a few years earlier.
I was able to see Tom Petty last summer and he died a few months later.
 
"As for the girl, well, there were a few that came and went in those days. Some were good. Some were nice and some were downright crazy. But none of them do I have regrets about."

Ultradog ..... you are the "Yesterday's Tractors Stud of the Day" !!!!
 

I never got as excited about Elvis as some did, but he did have some good music, as did Michael Jackson and many others.

To me he was just another celebrity like all the rest--started out decent, then got famous and got into drugs, and eventually died an unpleasant death. How many times have we seen this happen. Kind of sad, really.
 
When I was at NAS, Memphis for school in 1954, Elvis' career hadn't taken off yet.

There was a night club across the river in West Memphis where he showed up occasionally. He'd sing for drinks and for the publicity.

Then in 1960 when I was in Memphis again for more school, I dated a gal in south Memphis and I'd drive past Graceland going to and from her house. In fact, back then there was a pizza place across the street from Graceland where we'd get carry out pizza sometimes. I'm sure it's all changed by now.

But, neither Elvis himself nor Graceland were that big of a deal yet, back then.
 
A good friend of mine that lives a couple miles away was in the army with him. Says he was just like everyone else there.
 
Our brains are most unusual for sure. I remember the place and jobsite where I was working when I heard Elvis was dead. I enjoyed his music. We also went to Graceland, pretty amazing place, tells quite a story of a rags to riches entertainer. I believe his estate is still in the top 10 money makers in the record and memorabilia market. I think I can safely say I won't be remembered as long. gobble
 
"Does anybody have any personal stories to tell about him?"

I bought some worms from him at a bait shop near Niles Michigan two years ago.
 
Saw him in Seattle in May-76,yes he was fat but certainly on his game, had everyone there eating out of his hand. One of my lifetime highlight concerts.Later about 2 yrs on my wallet with 2 ticket stubs from that concert was stolen in broad daylight from my pickup at work. Think about that now and then.
 
Quote: Elvis is worth more dead than when he was alive...that was the common saying around his birth town of Tupelo.
A few years back when we were driving back from Charleston, we stopped in Tupelo, Mississipi where Elvis was born. We payed our way in and saw the house he was born in. There were old buildings on the grounds---the church Elvis used to go to. A museum/giftshop...etc....
Anyway, a lot of the sites cost extra money. We walked around the little 2 room home of Elvis' parents and they wanted an extra fee to go inside. I thought I'd just open the door and peek in, but they had a person setting inside making sure that everyone had a ticket to go in....wow.
We stopped at Graceland on the same trip and really enjoyed that also. Around Graceland, the more you wanted to see....the higher the ticket price was, but we payed it to see all we could...it was amazing!!!
 
I was driving back to N.H. in a truck in the middle of the night when I heard about his death.Not sure when it actually happened,but that's when I heard it.My girlfriend was asleep in the bunk at the time.She got upset because I didn't wake her up to tell her.I kept my mouth shut,I didn't wake her up because I didn't want to hear her whine for the next 5 hours we were in that truck.I was never a big fan,I liked what he did for rock and roll,but I always felt he was really a superb gospel singer.I don't mean to take anything away from his talents,he was just not my cup of tea.Same thing with the Beatles to me.
 
I always wanted to open a tv repair shop across the street from Graceland could have made a really decent living.....
 
Liked his early stuff, got to the point I hated his later music. I was 15 , and working on a neighbor?s dairyfarm, sitting on a over turned bucket having a coffee break, and heard on the radio that Elvis had died. As a kid I thought, ? well there, won?t be hearing his music on the radio anymore ? . Could I have been more wrong ?
 
I liked most of his music, some more than others.

I was not one to go to concerts. Could probably count the number that I attended on one hand but one was The Beatles at Crosley Field in Cincinnati in 1966.

I never saw Elvis.

Dean
 
According to Red West {his bodyguard] Elvis wanted to take LSD but was afraid so he told Red and his brother to take some first. Red and his brother spent all night in an ivy patch laying down looking at the veins in the ivy.
 
Never got to see him.

I did tour Graceland many years ago, just because I was there and stumbled across it.

It was before they opened the house, the wall in front was solid graffiti. Wasn't much to it, about all I remember was seeing the graves by the small pool.
 
I was 4 then, so of course I never went to one of his concerts or anything like that... but I do remember his death being all over the news.
Like you, I enjoy some of his music.
 
My main memory of Elvis was in the U S Army in Germany. I was assigned duty there 1958-1960. He was there too. He was a driver, I believe, of a Jeep with a M40 recoilless rifle. I wasn't personally involved in the incident as I was assigned to headquarters of the 2nd 28th Infantry Battle Group, but a squad in one our rifle companies "captured" Elvis in a large "war games" operation.
 
In 1964 I was living in Memphis, so one day we decided to drive out and find Graceland. It was in somewhat rural area, with few houses or businesses in the vicinity. The only thing that gave you a clue that this house was different from the other nice homes in the area was that humongous brick wall that went around the several acres of the property, and the guitars and musical notes that were incorporated into the iron gates at the entrance. On this particular day the gates were open and no one was in attendance, so we drove in and circled in by the front door of the house, still not a soul in sight. I think Elvis was off filming a movie at the time.

I made a return trip about 15 years ago and was amazed at how much things had built up in the neighborhood, in addition to all the tourist-oriented stuff that was there.
 
(quoted from post at 06:28:51 08/16/18) "Does anybody have any personal stories to tell about him?"

I bought some worms from him at a bait shop near Niles Michigan two years ago.
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I thought it was Burger King! ????
 
(quoted from post at 06:28:51 08/16/18) "Does anybody have any personal stories to tell about him?"

I bought some worms from him at a bait shop near Niles Michigan two years ago.
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I thought it was Burger King!
 
"Does anybody have any personal stories to tell about him?"
Back in the mid-80s, I worked for a company that made vehicles that carried cars on the back of trucks. This particular company made a tow truck where the car rode on the back of a flat bed behind the cab of a pickup.
We actually made a truck that would carry around the car that Elvis died right before he died. I can't remember if it was to carry a Cadillac or a Lincoln, but we made the truck for a traveling museum that carried around the car he drove right before he died.
At least that's what the museum told everybody who paid to see his car.....
 
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