Forrest: Live from Las Vegas!

[ForrestGump]

Well, sorta half-alive, anyway...


A couple of the backing tracks had issues ("Blue Suede Shoes" had an extraneous piece I had to cut, throwing the start off a bit, and the "Mystery Train/Tiger Man" medley didn't have enough time given to the second line of lyrics -- I don't know what that was all about and didn't want to play around with trying to extend it by grafting on another piece -- so I had to rush that bit...also "Polk Salad Annie" is missing some instrumentation that would have been nice) but I hope, if you want to hear any of these, that they more or less do the trick. The '70s versions of the '50s songs here are pretty short.

I started recording these after a solid nine hours of singing, but I kinda like the thrashed aspect of my voice, which is fairly rough on some of the tracks, because it's probably a bit how the real Elvis felt after doing two shows a night every single night during his month-long Vegas engagements... :-)



Mystery Train/Tiger Man (live, 1969-1976) MP3 - 4.67MB; 3:19)

You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (live, 1970-1975) MP3 - 2.87 MB; 2:02)

Sweet Caroline (live, 1970-1976) MP3 - 3.55 MB; 2:31)

Polk Salad Annie (live, 1970-1977; this is the early 2/70 version) MP3 - 6.82 MB; 4:51)

Heartbreak Hotel (live, 1969-1977) MP3 - 2.65 MB; 1:53)

Love Me Tender (live, 1969-1977) MP3 - 2.35 MB; 1:40)

Blue Suede Shoes (live, 1969-1977) MP3 - 1.62 MB; 1:08)

All Shook Up (live, 1969-1977) MP3 - 1.49 MB; 1:03)

Teddy Bear/Dont Be Cruel (live, 1970-1977) MP3 - 2.71 MB; 1:55)

Hound Dog (live, 1969-1977; this is the 1971-1972 version with blues portion) MP3 - 2.04 MB; 1:26)

Johnny B Goode (live, 1969-1977) MP3 - 2.77 MB; 1:58)

Release Me (live, 1970-1977) MP3 - 4.01 MB; 2:50)


Elvis on stage in Las Vegas (August, 1969).

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Forrest.........

Are you sure these aren't by Elvis?

Sure sounds like him!


Thanks, sweetie.......very nice indeed.........:hug:

[ForrestGump]

2. My dear Peggy!

I've got to say it...I mean, I hate to do this, but I've just got to -- no other words will suffice:

thankyouverymuch

:D

:hug:

I hope your weekend's off to a brilliant start!

[Maddy McCall]

3. Hey, you.

:hi:

[ForrestGump]

4. Hey, y'all

How does it proceed thereabouts?

:hug:

[Maddy McCall]

5. It proceeds very boringly.

How's it shakin for you?

:hug:

[ForrestGump]

6. It shakes most shakily

:-)

Bad night last night, and probably a bad weekend (bad people in town, apparently), but it's otherwise been getting better and better.

Though it's been too long since I've 'seen' you...

We've got to spice it up over there!

[Maddy McCall]

7. You do speak truth.

We do need to spice it up. :D

Hope your weekend meliorates. :toast:

[ForrestGump]

8. Is this sugar, or spice?

:D

Actually, a minute ago I just talked to my work partner and we decided to skip tonight and maybe give it another shot on Sunday, with tactical withdrawal an option...the Strip's been overrun by the very worst kind of visitors, hopefully for their last big blowout before the happier times of Fall resume. Security people we talked to last night are dreading this weekend, because they already see what kind of people are in town, and we had major problems with some bozos last night. I had to twice stop my more hotheaded (older, but hotheaded) partner from getting in fistfights and I had to twice push groups of unruly young men out of casino doors, like I was a bouncer...I was, at least, dressed up in a replica of Elvis' kenpo uniform, complete with eighth degree black belt. :D My partner (ex-military with a background in security work) was actually impressed with my ability to scare the sh** out of drunken young, belligerent punks just by the pressure of my hand on their backs or arms because he's never seen me manhandle anyone before. I thought coming here for a visit was supposed to be fun, not combat... :-(

So, yes, I'm already meleor...mealy...melee...it's already getting more better. :headbang:

[Maddy McCall]

10. Awww...dat's sugar.

Dang. Sounds like the same reason I didn't book a room in New Orleans tonight...didn't want to have to deal with the drunk college kids' noisy partying.

Those drunk jerks last night didn't know that the belt you were wearin' wasn't just costume, did they? Pity them if they should have pressed you and found out. :D

[ForrestGump]

16. Yeah, I was actually ready to

snap off a finger or two. It'd have been justifiable as self-defense, too, with a thousand surveillance cameras ready to offer proof. :D

But Las Vegas is like New Orleans on a slow night!

[merh]

12. Wow, so cool to see such long lost and friendly faces!

:hi: Hi ya, Maddy :hi:

It's good to see you :hug:

Hey Forrest, what's shaking? :pals:

[Maddy McCall]

13. Hey, M.

Glad that that wasn't a close call for ya earlier this week.

:hi:

[merh]

21. It had me worried.

I had made a list of what I needed to do and started to gather boxes.

I couldn't afford to leave my coffee maker in the trailer during a storm, it wouldn't be around when I got back as the trailer would prolly be gone or at least in someone's yard.

thanks again for the comforting advice. :hi:

[ForrestGump]

17. Our faces are lost and long?

Huh?

:P

Hi, Ms merh! :hi:

:hug:

[merh]

22. I've longed for them and was lost without 'em

so yeah, they were long and lost! :9

:hug:

[Nickster]

9. Nice job. I like it a lot. I'd love to hear you in a polished studio

recording. I'm more of a 70s Elvis fan, so you'll need to do some more of the later work.:-)

[ForrestGump]

15. Thanks!

I guess I'd qualify alongside you, as a '70s fan, in that I love his voice then and his onstage abilities were just honed to perfection by the early '70s. He was also more accessible, in a way, and part of it is definitely that there's more material, visual and audio, available from the '70s (whether official or fan-recorded and bootlegged) than from any time before. The Sun era, for example, is so undocumented that it's not even certain when some of his studio sessions and live dates were, and there's very little concert footage or concert audio from the '50s.

He was incredible in the '50s, and his '60s output included some of the best stuff he ever recorded, but I do tend to listen mostly to the 1969-76 recordings. And when I recently drifted into impersonation it was the '70s Elvis for me not just because I looked more like thirtysomething Elvis (even in my 20s, that was more the case than would have been trying to approximate 21-year-old Elvis) but because the jumpsuits, the martially-inspired stage moves, the power ballads and all that are just so iconic.

Elvis may have changed the world in the '50s, but he fit the King title (not that he liked it) to perfection in the '70s. A lot of people fail to understand, too, that musically (and charisma-wise, of course) Elvis was not really any different in his last recording session than he was in his first...he always did what he wanted (movies excepted) and drew from his many eclectic musical influences in doing so, and smarmy music critics who say he sold out or lost his ability to rock never understood that at all.

Long live the King! Accept no imitations (except me, I mean... :P )!

[jus_the_facts]

11. "Down in Louisiana....where the alligators grow so mean....

.....lived a girl I swear to the world...made the alligators look tame!!":yourock: SOCK IT TO ME! :evilgrin:

:hi: :hug: :* :* :loveya:

[ForrestGump]

19. Sock it to you? I'd better put my

sock on, then. :P

Down in Louisiana, where the DUers grow so....um...no, I swear I wasn't going to say 'mean'

Cute...that's what I was gonna say. :D

:hug:

[jus_the_facts]

24. I resemble that remark sometimes.....

....mean and sassy if provoked...cute...well thank ya kindly fine Sir! :P

Now where's that sock? :evilgrin:

[ForrestGump]

40. It's down in my truck patch

Where I keep the big rig. :P

[jus_the_facts]

47. Lord have mercy....

....you know what meets a meal mention... :o

[buddhamama]

14. "There's Good Rockin' Tonight"

i haven't listened to them all, yet. "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" and "Johnny B Goode" so far so good, Mr. Gump! .

[ForrestGump]

20. Well, that's all right buddhamama, that's all right for you

Really...just any way you do. :D

Thanks, Ms mama... :hug:

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[nini]

23. just curious... do you own blue suede shoes?

:P




:hug:

[Maddy McCall]

26. Hey, gorgeous!

Where's yo' man? Tell him I said HI! :hi:

[ForrestGump]

28. Nope

:P

I don't like 'em, anyway.

Elvis supposedly had a pair -- wouldn't be surprised if they were a gift in light of the song -- but I don't know that he ever wore them. He pretty much lived in boots (San Marco and other Italian kinds and Florsheim...the 'Beatles' boots kind) for most of the '60s and all of the '70s, anyway. :D

[Zomby Woof]

31. That's alright, Forrest-ama

She just wanted to step on them anyway. :D

[ForrestGump]

36. Well, she can do anything that she wanna do, but

...no, actually, that's it: she can do anything that she wanna do. :D

[Zomby Woof]

25. Baby, Let's Play House

[Maddy McCall]

27. There he is!

I have one thing to say...(you know the rest of the quotation).

:rofl:

:hi: :toast:

[Zomby Woof]

32. I have two or three things to say

:D

We'll say hi for you as we meet our mutual friend for dinner in an hour. :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

35. Give her a big wet smooch from me...

and tell her to give me a call when she comes in, if she has time. Matter of fact, I think I'll give her a call right now.

:pals:

[ForrestGump]

37. Grab her bottom for me, while you're at it, too, please

Chicks dig that. :D

[Zomby Woof]

39. I will certainly do that

On the hood of her car. :evilgrin:

[ForrestGump]

42. There you go!

Just don't tell her it's from me...just in case that chick doesn't dig it.

[Zomby Woof]

43. I won't tell her it's from you

But I am off the hook if she GUESSES it's from you, because she's smart, and she knows your Elvis Kung-Fu grip ANYWHERE. :D

[Maddy McCall]

45. And take a photo of the butt prints when you're through.

:evilgrin:

:rofl:

[Zomby Woof]

46. You *crack* me up

But that is because you were *reared* right! :P

[Maddy McCall]

48. Well, I rectum that I can be quite anal at times.

I just talked to our mutual friend. She was wet and naked...getting a shower to meet y'all. She wants to marry me because I have a sexy southern accent. :rofl:

(And Forrest, if your reading this, I know it turns you own, but chill out, mmmkay? :rofl: )

[Zomby Woof]

53. We had the BEST. THAI. FOOD. EVER.

She knows how to pick the BEST restaurants. We're stuffed! :D

[ForrestGump]

56. I chilled

When I spoke to her, I was the one who was wet and naked (okay...sweaty). :D

:hug:

[ForrestGump]

30. You've GOT to

stop coming on to me while nini's watching.

Sooner or later, she'll come to realize the presence of the Love That Dares Not Speak Its Name... :o


Act casual...

[Zomby Woof]

34. It's not you I am after

It's your concho belt. :P

[ForrestGump]

38. I shoulda known

:-(

I'll give you a belt, all right... :grr:

[Zomby Woof]

41. Don't be cruel

:yoiks:

[nosillies]

29. These are awesome! Thanks for sharing

You have succeeded in making me so sad, however, as I now am missing my old stomping grounds -- Vegas and the Louisiana Hayride.

Must turn my eyes back to the LSU game now...

[ForrestGump]

33. You're welcome!

And thank you.

May you stomp again, many times, upon those grounds.

Go LSU! Vive la baton rouge!

[Guava Jelly]

44. Damn DUDE!!!!!!

Forrest has left the building.!!
"You don't have to say you love me" is probably my favorite Elvis tune.
Of course I love dusty springfields version of that song also
You Rock

[ForrestGump]

49. Thanks, man

You guitar man, you...

I know you like this song, too, so I uploaded my humble attempt at it:

You Don't Know Me

And here're the chords to Elvis' version, for when you want to give it a try...

You Don't Know Me
-----------------

Tune guitar 1/2 step down (from low to high: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)

C
You give your hand to me and then you say hello
C7 F
And I can hardly speak, my heart is beating so
C A7 Dm G7
And anyone could tell, you think you know me well
C D7 G7
But you don't know me


C
No you don't know the one who dreams of you at night
C7 F
And longs to kiss your lips and longs to hold you tight
C A7 Dm G7
To you I'm just a friend, and that's all I've ever been
C F C C7
No, you don't know me


F C
For I never knew the art of making love
Dm G7 C
Though my heart aches with love for you
Am Em
Afraid and shy I let my chance go by
D7 G7
The chance that you might love me too


C
You give your hand to me and then you say good-bye
C7 F
I watch you walk away beside the lucky guy
C A7 Dm G7
To never, never know the one who loves you so
C F C
No, you don't know me

[Blue-Jay]

50. Ray Charles did a wonderful version of that song.

It makes me cry every time I hear it.

[Guava Jelly]

51. I do love that song!

Thanks for the chords I will definately give that a try.
And you did good!!

[u4ic]

52. Those are fantastic!

I especially liked Mystery Train/Tiger Man and Blue Suede Shoes.

Bravo!

[ForrestGump]

54. Thank you,

m'lady.

And thank you for the clap! applause!

[idgiehkt]

55. thanks

I didn't even know he did Sweet Caroline so that was a nice surprise.

I LOVE that song You Don't Have to Say You Love Me...it made me all tingly, lol. I guess I've never heard it before because I would have remembered.

I enjoyed listening to these, great job...

[ForrestGump]

57. Tingly?

:D

My goodness...I'm glad you liked 'em!

His studio version of "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me" is slower, but still quite different from Dusty's original. It's a great song, by him or by Ms Springfield, any way you cut it.

"Sweet Caroline" is pretty different, too...it's been Elvisized! Actually, Neil Diamind recorded it in Memphis, in 1969, at the same time Elvis was using the studio (Elvis at night, Neil during the day).