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elvislady wrote:Thanks for sharing Mister Moon, This story made lol, I could just imagine elvis doing this to scotty.
Scotty Moore’s guitar
However, there was one more classic Presley guitar moment in his career. Elvis asked Scotty Moore to participate in the memorable “sit-down” jam session for Presley’s 1968 NBC-TV special. Dickerson relates Scotty’s story of what happened.
“When they walked out on stage, their guitars were already in place. Scotty had his Gibson 400 Sunburst and Elvis had his Gibson J200, a natural-grain flattop model that Scotty had obtained for him from the manufacturer. They began the show with some of their early material … During the first couple of songs, Elvis kept glancing at Scotty, who was sitting to his left. Scotty’s brightly colored guitar shone in the camera lights. It was bigger than Elvis’s guitar, it was better looking, and it sounded better than his guitar. Elvis decided he just had to have it.”
Also on the stage was drummer D. J. Fontana. He continues the story.
“Scotty was playing lead for a while and all of a sudden Elvis wanted to play lead. So he goes over and grabs Scotty’s guitar. I thought, ‘What are we going to do here.’ Scotty wasn’t very happy about that. Elvis was a flogger and I knew Scotty was afraid he’d scar up the guitar. It worked out, but oh boy, he doesn’t like anyone to touch that guitar.”
Dickerson added the story’s ending. “Elvis played Scotty’s guitar for the remainder of the show… If Scotty was fuming on the inside, he never showed it. He kept going, never missing a beat … Elvis was the star, so he wanted the biggest, flashiest guitar.”
So, was the King of Rock ’n’ Roll a real guitar player, or just a pretender wielding a prop? Either way, the perception lives that he was, and they say “perception is reality.” For me, it all goes back to what James Dickerson wrote about the young Elvis Presley strumming his guitar on his front porch in Memphis.
Pacer wrote:Its just my opinion.
I am no guitar expert by any means. I don't even play a guitar, but don't have to for my opinion.
But still it's my opinion.
Maybe some other person who is a guitar expert can chime in and express his opinion.
Pacer wrote:For what?
I am no expert on guitar.
But still I missed the solos on some songs of the 68 special.
Pacer wrote:Well, there are a lot of songs where elvis ' own guitar playing is very prominent.
I mean.....thats all right did start with his guitar.
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