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Post subject: Elvis and Fender
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:05 pm
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He didn't own many and never really used one onstage but his movies are full of them and he was pictured with a few in them. I thought I'd post a subset (Links to pages) of the ones he did use and a couple he did own for no particular reason other than I can.

a '50s Strat
a '50s Tele
a '60s P Bass
a 66 Electric XII
a Coronado II
a 67 Fender Wildwood
a 72 J Bass

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Post subject: Re: Elvis and Fender
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:10 pm
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I remember this one :

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Post subject: Re: Elvis and Fender
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 12:13 pm
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yeah, that's the first in the list. Click the links

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Post subject: Re: Elvis and Fender
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 4:05 pm
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Miami Mike wrote:
I remember this one :

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Ah yes... Ann... Oh and there is the guitar...

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Post subject: Re: Elvis and Fender
Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 4:50 pm
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Jim is a very cool guy that I've had the pleasure to jam with. He has an uncanny
knack for finding very photogenic subjects. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Elvis and Fender
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:13 am
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Man...Ann Margret,.....a Strat and Ann Margret :D ......that's a pretty good situation.
I met one of the Elvis bodyguards one time and talked to him,I think his name was Sonny West,it wasn't Red West.
A friend of mine was working on a film project with him about Elvis,and we were filming a concert scene with a very good impersonater,and I was a guitar player onstage.....the girls in the audience went crazy over the guy,I can't imagine being around the real Elvis,no wonder he had to have bodyguards


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Post subject: Re: Elvis and Fender
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:56 am
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Hey,I just clicked on the Scotty Moore site and it's great!...gonna take a long time to go through all the great info and photos. :)


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Post subject: Re: Elvis and Fender
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:14 am
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Yes Sonny is good guy. He's Red's cousin and went to work for Elvis in 1960 after he returned from the Army. He's one of the few that comprised the close knit Memphis Mafia that was with Elvis until 1976.

Enjoy the site, there is lots there.

Miami Mike and I go back aways and are practically neighbors.

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Post subject: Re: Elvis and Fender
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 11:56 am
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I guess Sonny was a "tecnical advisor" on the film project,I was the guitarist who put the scarves around "Elvis" neck so he could take them off and give them to the girls,he showed me how they did it onstage,the way Elvis would always do it...just things like that.
From what I looked at,I really liked the venue section on the site...it was cool to see what early places Elvis played at,like Helena Ark.....which is a depressing kind of town in a way now,I've been there a few times.


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Post subject: Re: Elvis and Fender
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:22 pm
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Yeah the venue section is one of the more popular ones that I started a few years ago and add to from time to time. It has a broader range of appeal to more people than say just the instruments. I've done them in no particular order and will have to go back a look at them sequentially sometime to see how they flow.
It also helps put them back in context as working, touring musicians.

Sonny I've corresponded with a few times and he's always been helpful but I've yet to meet him personally. He's always been pretty cool but gets the rap from some of the fans for a book he and Red did before Elvis died. Most of that stuff though is beyond the scope of Scotty's site. It's primarily Scotty's history and aside from the instruments the Elvis content ends for the most part with his association with him.

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Post subject: Re: Elvis and Fender
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:33 pm
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JamesVRoy wrote:
He didn't own many and never really used one onstage but his movies are full of them and he was pictured with a few in them. I thought I'd post a subset (Links to pages) of the ones he did use and a couple he did own for no particular reason other than I can.

a '50s Strat
a '50s Tele
a '60s P Bass
a 66 Electric XII
a Coronado II
a 67 Fender Wildwood
a 72 J Bass


thanks for posting, very cool info and pic's. 8)

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