i've just been watching one of the strangest musical presentations i've ever seen: Elvis Live: The 25th Anniversary Concert. this is nothing less than Virtual Elvis...video and vocal tracks stripped out of Elvis' live broadcasts--mostly from Aloha From Hawaii--played on a big screen and accompanied live by surviving members of his original 70s backing band, James Burton, Jerry Scheff, Ron Tutt, Glen Hardin, et al. I knew they'd been doing this for awhile now, but i'd never seen it before. it was really, really weird. the band members had little TV monitors to follow Elvis' cues on the video for the endings and shit. i hope to God nobody ever shows the surviving members of the Grateful Dead this idea or truly humiliating shit will result.
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FIFTY YEARS OF SCARING THE CHILDREN 1970-2020--and i'm not done yet
So last week I got pissed at my drummer and kinda broke up our band.. But he just got a new lockout studio and convinced me to come over tonight for a jam. I'm glad I went.
We had a really awesome jam. I busted out my new Small Stone for the first time and it was fucking awesome. But mainly, we got a bunch of people to come to our studio and drink with us and listen to our songs and we kinda fucking kicked ass. Plus I met some new people I'll be jamming with, so I guess we'll see how that turns out.
Things are looking up though. Maybe I should be in the happiness thread, but I'm kinda just rambling about myself because I'm kinda drunk. So it's whatever...
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dubkitty wrote:i've just been watching one of the strangest musical presentations i've ever seen: Elvis Live: The 25th Anniversary Concert. this is nothing less than Virtual Elvis...video and vocal tracks stripped out of Elvis' live broadcasts--mostly from Aloha From Hawaii--played on a big screen and accompanied live by surviving members of his original 70s backing band, James Burton, Jerry Scheff, Ron Tutt, Glen Hardin, et al. I knew they'd been doing this for awhile now, but i'd never seen it before. it was really, really weird. the band members had little TV monitors to follow Elvis' cues on the video for the endings and shit. i hope to God nobody ever shows the surviving members of the Grateful Dead this idea or truly humiliating shit will result.
That is weird. I wouldn't think those guys would be into doing that. Maybe it wasn't their idea & they need the money?
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…...........................… Sweet dealin's: here "Now, of course, Strega is not a Minimoog… and I am not Sun Ra" - dude from MAKENOISE #GreenRinger
i gather from Googling today that the idea came from Elvis Presley Enterprises, i.e. it was a business-guy "we could do this..." thing. and given that EPE isn't paying Colonel Parker 50%+ of everything and that nowadays musicians actually get paid, the band guys probably get more money from a gig with Elvis Lives than they did from a whole tour with EP back in the day. and they're still touring that sucker...they just did a European tour in March that included dates at the Rotterdam Ahoy, Paris Zenith, and dates at the O2 and Wembley in London!
as i once said about Ani DeFranco, i admire their business acumen. but it really was weird...it wasn't horrible--how could it be with players of that caliber?--but it was definitely bizarre. Elvis' whole thing was about the moments when he would lose himself and go into the Elvis Zone, and artificially reproducing that gospel-gone-rock 'n' roll experience in a essentially theatrical way rang false. but the creepy thing was that it almost worked. if they'd had better filmed Elvis performances to work with it would be scary.
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
FIFTY YEARS OF SCARING THE CHILDREN 1970-2020--and i'm not done yet