All hail the King.....

[Benny Profane]

Today is Elvis's 69th birthday.

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[el_jefe]

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[CaddyDaddy77]

Hey, any body got the makings fo' mah favorite samich??
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[wookalar]

Think I'll have a fried pb&h plus banana for lunch, as a personal shout out!

[Benny Profane]

and don't forget to kill your TV.

[iceman]

Originally posted by wookalar
Think I'll have a fried pb&h plus banana for lunch, as a personal shout out!

pb&h?

[slim]

Originally posted by iceman
pb&h?

peanut butter and honey man... dig it.

[Beaver]

Que FZ "Elvis has just left the building"

[bigAK]

what a weird dude. favorite story about him is how he got bored one night, rounded up literally hundreds of various rubber and fake ducks, threw them in his pool, and proceeded to blow every last one of them to bits, pausing only to reload...

[Woodsy]

Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain

http://www.lisag.com/photos/flava%20flav%20on%20set.jpg

Mother fuck him and John Wayne.

[Tippster]

Check this out:

FAT ELVIS!

http://www.crescentmoontalent.com/co...e/fatelvis.jpg

http://www.crescentmoontalent.com/co...telviscorp.htm

Here's the real Fat Elvis at the end of his career:
http://www.cafewalter.com/cookbook/g.../fat_elvis.jpg

[watersnowdirt]

Elvis died on my birthday. so sad .

but happy bday Elvis!

[jibij]

what time is it?

[Benny Profane]

Originally posted by Woodsy
Elvis was a hero to most
But he never meant shit to me you see
Straight up racist that sucker was
Simple and plain



Mother fuck him and John Wayne.

Very wrong. Not sure how this thought process started, but seems to be a dumb ass knee jerk jailhouse reaction to anything white. Spike Lee talking.

Elvis was never known to utter a racist statement in public or private. He was a product of his time and place, which was a segregated white trashy Mississippi and Tennesee. I've always thought his most important contribution to American music was actually making "race" music popular, exposing that music to the white kids growing up in the baby boom. Sam Phillips soon realized that he found his white boy to take the rockin' sound to the world.
He always paid his props to black entertainers he liked and was influenced by. But you have to remember that was a time when the South still had seperate drinking fountains, and lynchings still were a threat.

Great book: "Last Train to Memphis" by Peter Guralnick. All about the birth of popular (re: white) rock and roll.

[Woodsy]

"All I want from blacks is for them to buy my records and shine my shoes,"

Elvis the man's racism may have been part of the culture he was raised in but it dont make it right.
More importantly Elvis as the King of rock & roll is a sham

"I've always thought his most important contribution to American music was actually making "race" music popular, exposing that music to the white kids growing up in the baby boom,"
Flame was lit, he threw some gas on it.
"race music" has always gotten out, from Jazz to blues to rock to Hip hop. it woud have gotten out w/o him
More importantly he denied a lot of men & women their due at the time & in a historical perspective.


edit as not to be so antagonistic.
Elvis is overrated & a theif, that is all

[seldon]

i really wanted to be able to say "it's good to be the king" and make other History of the World Part 1 jokes....

"hitler on ice"
"jews in space"
"mighty joint"

all come to mind.

but you bastards had to make this thread be about elvis! I HATE YOU

[Benny Profane]

Originally posted by Woodsy
Elvis the man's racism may have been part of the culture he was raised in but it dont make it right.
More importantly Elvis as the King of rock & roll is a sham

"I've always thought his most important contribution to American music was actually making "race" music popular, exposing that music to the white kids growing up in the baby boom,"
Flame was lit, he threw some gas on it.
"race music" has always gotten out, from Jazz to blues to rock to Hip hop. it woud have gotten out w/o him
More importantly he denied a lot of men & women their due at the time & in a historical perspective.


edit as not to be so antagonistic.
Elvis is overrated & a theif, that is all

Oh jeez. Don't blame the man for the attitudes of his time. How in the Hell did he "deny" anybody anything? He was just a poor white boy who stumbled into Phillip's studio with a great voice and some ambition, and, of course, it helped that he was real purty for the girls. The rest, literally, is history. He IS the King, because without him, the British scene probably wouldn't have happened, and they wouldn't have come back to America showing us the Blues.
Don't you think that every promoter in the country was trying to find the next Elvis when the '56 tour was blazing across the south? That was a phenomenon that rarely happens in popular culture, and it's pretty hard to consciously create it. Yeah, we got Jerry Lee, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley, but none came close. Forget about Little Richard or the other black guys at that time - way too much for white America. Elvis, on the other hand, was a combination of safe and dangerous that hard to replicate, a cute little momma's boy who could shake it with the best.
Look at it from a historical perspective. Just imagine what radio was like in '55 before he hit the scene. It was a boring world, and he just blew things up. That's rock and roll. Blowing things up.