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Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: RGMike on August 16, 2007, 08:12:06 AM
yup... an Elvis-centric set -- dunno if this will be newly-minted, or a rerun of the one Dave did a few years back.

I just logged on to CG (since the Drive is blocked today) and they're doing Elvis stuff all day; just heard "Way Down", which I still can't believe Dave has never played.
Title: Re: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: mshray on August 16, 2007, 08:28:51 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
yup... an Elvis-centric set -- dunno if this will be newly-minted, or a rerun of the one Dave did a few years back.

I just logged on to CG (since the Drive is blocked today) and they're doing Elvis stuff all day; just heard "Way Down", which I still can't believe Dave has never played.


Peter Case was on the Morning Show during my commute, and I'd never realized that he was such a blues/folk influenced guy.  He got to talking about how he was crazy about Elvis (pre-Army Elvis that is) as a kid.  When asked about it more he replied, "Hey, Elvis died so we could Rock."
Title: Re: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: urth on August 16, 2007, 09:25:20 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "RGMike"
yup... an Elvis-centric set -- dunno if this will be newly-minted, or a rerun of the one Dave did a few years back.

I just logged on to CG (since the Drive is blocked today) and they're doing Elvis stuff all day; just heard "Way Down", which I still can't believe Dave has never played.


Peter Case was on the Morning Show during my commute, and I'd never realized that he was such a blues/folk influenced guy.  He got to talking about how he was crazy about Elvis (pre-Army Elvis that is) as a kid.  When asked about it more he replied, "Hey, Elvis died so we could Rock."


Peter Case was a busker here in SF for several years before he went to LA and became a Plimsoul. In fact there's a song on his The Man with the...Blue Guitar album called "Entella Hotel", which is a residence hotel out on Columbus. I think it still exists--it was there a couple years ago.
Title: Re: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: RGMike on August 16, 2007, 09:29:01 AM
Quote from: "urth"
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "RGMike"
yup... an Elvis-centric set -- dunno if this will be newly-minted, or a rerun of the one Dave did a few years back.

I just logged on to CG (since the Drive is blocked today) and they're doing Elvis stuff all day; just heard "Way Down", which I still can't believe Dave has never played.


Peter Case was on the Morning Show during my commute, and I'd never realized that he was such a blues/folk influenced guy.  He got to talking about how he was crazy about Elvis (pre-Army Elvis that is) as a kid.  When asked about it more he replied, "Hey, Elvis died so we could Rock."


Peter Case was a busker here in SF for several years before he went to LA and became a Plimsoul. In fact there's a song on his The Man with the...Blue Guitar album called "Entella Hotel", which is a residence hotel out on Columbus. I think it still exists--it was there a couple years ago.


Case's new CD is a tribute to Sleepy John Estes, a blues singer -- When I heard the title, I thought it was a tribute to "Sleepy John" from KPIG!
Title: Re: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: mshray on August 16, 2007, 09:34:27 AM
Quote from: "urth"
Peter Case was a busker here in SF for several years before he went to LA and became a Plimsoul. In fact there's a song on his The Man with the...Blue Guitar album called "Entella Hotel", which is a residence hotel out on Columbus. I think it still exists--it was there a couple years ago.


He spoke of that, because he wrote a book about that period - As Far As You Can Get Without A Passport.  He sounded like a much more intersting guy than I'd been aware of.
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: urth on August 16, 2007, 09:58:48 AM
Dave slides into the set with an entirely appropriate song--Neil Young's My My, Hey Hey--"the King is gone but he's not forgotten..."
Title: Re: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: urth on August 16, 2007, 10:04:14 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "urth"
Peter Case was a busker here in SF for several years before he went to LA and became a Plimsoul. In fact there's a song on his The Man with the...Blue Guitar album called "Entella Hotel", which is a residence hotel out on Columbus. I think it still exists--it was there a couple years ago.


He spoke of that, because he wrote a book about that period - As Far As You Can Get Without A Passport.  He sounded like a much more intersting guy than I'd been aware of.


He is--but he's also a little on the crazy side. Sarah used to work for his booking agent, so I had occasion to talk with him a time or two. Very passionate about his music, though. He's also an obsessive guitar tuner. I remember seeing him once or twice where the guitar tuning between songs extended longer than the songs themselves. I've heard the old saw "We tune because we care" but he took it to extremes.
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: mshray on August 16, 2007, 10:05:24 AM
Quote from: "urth"
Dave slides into the set with an entirely appropriate song--Neil Young's My My, Hey Hey--"the King is gone but he's not forgotten..."


I have this set in the Db, and I won't post any spoilers yet (if you want me to, say so), except to say that this is actually a 12@10.
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: RGMike on August 16, 2007, 10:09:12 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "urth"
Dave slides into the set with an entirely appropriate song--Neil Young's My My, Hey Hey--"the King is gone but he's not forgotten..."


I have this set in the Db, and I won't post any spoilers yet (if you want me to, say so), except to say that this is actually a 12@10.


so this really is a rerun?  He should've saved it for tomorrow and done a new set today...
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: mshray on August 16, 2007, 10:11:24 AM
I remember in one rockumentary or another hearing the account of how Elvis cut "That's Alright" and it got played on a local Memphis station for a couple of days.  Then the radio station had him in studio to talk for a minute or two, and he was kind of mumbling, and one of the few things that people listening could really understand was when he said what high school he'd just graduated from.  And apparently this was well-known to be a predominantly black school & so a lot of folks assumed he was black.
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: urth on August 16, 2007, 10:11:35 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "urth"
Dave slides into the set with an entirely appropriate song--Neil Young's My My, Hey Hey--"the King is gone but he's not forgotten..."


I have this set in the Db, and I won't post any spoilers yet (if you want me to, say so), except to say that this is actually a 12@10.


so this really is a rerun?  He should've saved it for tomorrow and done a new set today...


He copped to that fact in the intro--said it originally aired five years ago, and kept safe in the archives since then, as it was one of his favorite theme sets.
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: mshray on August 16, 2007, 10:12:51 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
so this really is a rerun?  He should've saved it for tomorrow and done a new set today...


You must have missed Dave's intro, he went on about this being 5 years old & "locked away in the vaults".
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: RGMike on August 16, 2007, 10:13:46 AM
Hmmm, I don't think a man who eats deep-fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches should be calling anybody else "childish"...

BOS1 "US Male"
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: urth on August 16, 2007, 10:16:57 AM
Just realized that Elvis had this fixation with postal themes--US Male, Return to Sender--any others?
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: mshray on August 16, 2007, 10:19:31 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Hmmm, I don't think a man who eats deep-fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches should be calling anybody else "childish"...

BOS1 "US Male"


I saw some commerative Reese's Peanut Butter Cups with Banana Creme the other day, almost bought some.

As a literally starving college student in my first apartment, I ate a lot of peanut butter and banana sandwiches (not deep-fried tho') and had no idea I was nearly an Elvis impersonator.
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: RGMike on August 16, 2007, 10:19:41 AM
Quote from: "urth"
Just realized that Elvis had this fixation with postal themes--US Male, Return to Sender--any others?


well, he went postal on that TV set with his gun...

BOS2 "VLV" -- HM to Ann-Margaret!
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: urth on August 16, 2007, 10:23:12 AM
I didn't remember that this set was so skewed toward his earlier stuff. But I guess with 12 songs there's plenty of room for Suspicious Minds and Burnin' Love and the like.

(DM played In the Ghetto during the morning show--I don't remember if it shows up in this set or not, but assuming not.)
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on August 16, 2007, 10:27:58 AM
BOS, "Suspicious minds"
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: RGMike on August 16, 2007, 10:28:30 AM
BOS3 "Suspicious Minds", one of THE great pop singles of the late '60s.
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: mshray on August 16, 2007, 10:28:42 AM
Quote from: "urth"
I didn't remember that this set was so skewed toward his earlier stuff. But I guess with 12 songs there's plenty of room for Suspicious Minds and Burnin' Love.

(DM played In the Ghetto during the morning show--I don't remember if it shows up in this set or not, but assuming not.)


Not. Here's your SM (tune #10), and our bonuses after that are "Kentucky Rain" & "She's Not You".

ETA:  I just looked again, and we got the same whole set on Elvis' 70th B-day in Jan '05, except he stopped after "Kentucky Rain".  So maybe it's a toss-up on the last song.
Title: SPOILER ALERT!!
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on August 16, 2007, 10:30:29 AM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "urth"
I didn't remember that this set was so skewed toward his earlier stuff. But I guess with 12 songs there's plenty of room for Suspicious Minds and Burnin' Love.

(DM played In the Ghetto during the morning show--I don't remember if it shows up in this set or not, but assuming not.)


Not. Here's your SM (tune #10), and our bonuses after that are "Kentucky Rain" & "She's Not You".


Aw man, you ruined it for me!   :wink:
Title: Re: SPOILER ALERT!!
Post by: mshray on August 16, 2007, 10:31:53 AM
Quote from: "Rod"
Quote from: "mshray"
Not. Here's your SM (tune #10), and our bonuses after that are "Kentucky Rain" & "She's Not You".


Aw man, you ruined it for me!   :wink:


See above, I reintroduced some suspense.   :wink:
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: RGMike on August 16, 2007, 10:34:55 AM
BOS4 "Kentucky Rain", a song that should've been a bigger hit, but which has grown in stature over the years (Eddie Rabbit's first songwriting credit) and has always been a Chart Geek/Music Geek fave. Listen to that string and backing vox arrangement.
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: RGMike on August 16, 2007, 10:41:52 AM
Morey has left the building!
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: mshray on August 16, 2007, 10:43:26 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Morey has left the building!


He said it was ten songs & he counted twice, so I guess math isn't his best subject.

1 - Blue Suede Shoes
2 - That's All Right
3 - Don't Be Cruel
4 - Marie's the Name (of His Latest Flame)
5 - U.S. Male
6 - Return to Sender
7 - Viva Las Vegas
8 - G.I. Blues
9 - Can't Help Falling in Love
10 - Suspicious Minds
11 - Kentucky Rain
12 - She's Not You
Title: 16 Aug 2007: Happy Elvis Death Day!
Post by: urth on August 16, 2007, 07:15:03 PM
Quote from: "mshray"
Quote from: "urth"
I didn't remember that this set was so skewed toward his earlier stuff. But I guess with 12 songs there's plenty of room for Suspicious Minds and Burnin' Love.

(DM played In the Ghetto during the morning show--I don't remember if it shows up in this set or not, but assuming not.)


Not. Here's your SM (tune #10), and our bonuses after that are "Kentucky Rain" & "She's Not You".

ETA:  I just looked again, and we got the same whole set on Elvis' 70th B-day in Jan '05, except he stopped after "Kentucky Rain".  So maybe it's a toss-up on the last song.


Was hoping it was the 2002 version of this set I had at home in the archive, but turns out I have the one-song-shorter 2005 version. Oh Well.
Title: Saturday Spin
Post by: ggould on August 18, 2007, 08:32:10 AM
I didn't get a chance to listen during the week, and I'm not the biggest Elvis fan (well, I'm big, but...) and it really sounds nice.  Dave did a good job putting this together, from a request list at that.