Posted tagged ‘Elvis Presley’
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January 8, 2010Tweeter & The Monkee Men
October 1, 2009BTRNR is on Twitter effective immediately. We don’t know what this means other than the fact that we’ll probably be letting you all know – sorry, tweeting – when a song we like comes on a bar jukebox. There was no way to spell out “Born To Rock & Roll” without it looking like a [...]
Play It, James
August 21, 2009Happy 70th to Mr. James Burton, Guitar God. You may know James’ “chicken pickin’” style from Elvis’ TCB band, or maybe as Ricky Nelson’s right hand man. Or from Dale Hawkins’ “Suzie Q”, the riff for which he came up with when he was 16. Or possibly from the guitar solo on the Monkees’ “Papa [...]
“…the image is one thing and the human being is another…it’s very hard to live up to an image.”
August 16, 2009Things to do when you’re the best man at a wedding: – Arrive armed to the teeth, encrusted in diamonds, and clad head to toe in crushed black velvet. – Carry a great big fucking flashlight. You know, kind of like Elvis Presley did for Sonny West on December 28, 1970. You can’t fake that [...]
Imagine if he’d lived?
January 8, 2009It wouldn’t have been pretty, that’s for sure. For starters, it’s safe to say that E would have let the hair go white… ok, that maybe would have been kind of cool. However, the thought of the maudlin country direction he’d been heading in colliding with ’80s production values sends chills down my spine. And [...]
31 years later…
August 16, 2008and I still can’t believe the bastard came from this planet. Peerless.
