Happy birthday, Elvis Presley

by Adam J. Morris on Jan 8, 2009 2:45 PM CST Comment 39 comments

Happy birthday to Elvis Presley, who would have been 74 today...

Elvis Presley, Hound Dog (via elpres42)

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speaking of which

I became Uncle Longhorn today around 1pm.

Stability is key, and JD is a Beast.
Jindal - 2012

by Longhorn on Jan 8, 2009 2:48 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

congrats!

by Michael Cave on Jan 8, 2009 3:03 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Congratulations

by cmkelly29 on Jan 8, 2009 3:21 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

thanks peeps

only thing is, he was born in Washington, D.C.

I’m going to have a Redskins fan in the family now, I don’t know about that…

Stability is key, and JD is a Beast.
Jindal - 2012

by Longhorn on Jan 8, 2009 3:25 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I'm a Giants fan...

Look at it this way, at least the baby won’t be an Eagles fan.

by cmkelly29 on Jan 8, 2009 3:33 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

give him a bunch of cowboys paraphernalia

you can totally be a cowboys fan if your extended family is

Mandatory reading before suggesting a trade

by ab03 on Jan 8, 2009 3:34 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

heh...interesting

is that part of the rules that were discussed in Miles’ thread?

Stability is key, and JD is a Beast.
Jindal - 2012

by Longhorn on Jan 8, 2009 3:45 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

it's probably against the rules

but whatever

Mandatory reading before suggesting a trade

by ab03 on Jan 8, 2009 6:46 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Congratulations

by Adam J. Morris on Jan 8, 2009 3:46 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Sweet

Did Jon Daniels downsize your old position at Dunking Donuts?

by lonestarJon on Jan 8, 2009 3:55 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Congrats, Uncle Longhorn!

Be sure to send the new midget some UT gear and a Rangers item or two. And try to find a way to spend a little quality Texas time with him(or her)

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

by Ed Coffin on Jan 8, 2009 4:46 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Elvis

Every once in a while I think about how amazing it must have been when he first entered the music scene.

by JBImaknee on Jan 8, 2009 2:54 PM CST reply actions 0 recs

Elvis? Really?

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by ab03 on Jan 8, 2009 3:17 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Yes.

That was a pretty gigantic explosion he created.

by brettgardner on Jan 8, 2009 3:27 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

and he never even got the chance to wipe...

by cmkelly29 on Jan 8, 2009 3:34 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs

Wow.

Rec.

by brettgardner on Jan 8, 2009 3:39 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I think more along the lines of the Beatles...

Maybe even a Zepplin, The Who.. just that whole era. Ed? Ed?

by cmkelly29 on Jan 8, 2009 3:21 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

ed was old by then

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by ab03 on Jan 8, 2009 3:23 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

That's Ed's line

"A ~.650 OPS from a COF should get you deported, not traded for."

- The Huntressatron

by Chase Irwin on Jan 8, 2009 3:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

He wasn't THAT old

by cmkelly29 on Jan 8, 2009 3:27 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I think

that the difference between pre-Elvis and Elvis-era music is far greater than the difference between pre-Beatles and during Beatles or anything else.

I’m a huge Beatles fan, and would listen to them over Elvis any day. But without Elvis there would have been no Beatles. Elvis is really the Babe Ruth of music – you can argue whether he was the greatest ever, but there is no doubt that he was relative to his time and he’s almost certainly the most important.

by JBImaknee on Jan 8, 2009 4:03 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

i don't think your contention is true at all

i’m not saying the beatles galvanized the change in music but the change in music during the 60’s is much greater than the change in music during Elvis’s era.

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by ab03 on Jan 8, 2009 6:47 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

No, he's right

Elvis was a HUGE influence on them, according to the Beatles themselves. Without Elvis, everything after that would have been different. The late 60’s are a direct outgrowth of the British Beat Music scene, and the British scene was the Brits response to what they were hearing from American rockabilly and Motown in the late 50s and early 60s, dominated by Elvis.

G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....

by t ball on Jan 8, 2009 7:23 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Couldn't disagree more.

by brettgardner on Jan 8, 2009 11:16 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

I was spinning 33-1/3 RPM stuff

And tapes, at WBOW-AM at the time. Junior in college, broadcast media major, working late hours music and news. Elvis created a relatively bigger outcry (for and against the “new” rock than any of the Brit bands that followed. He was also the first white entertainer to adopt one spectrum of delta and Memphis R&B into general audience availability. Most R&B was measured, message stuff, slower with no frenetic beat, but Presley picked up the ‘hot club’ sound, from places that were literally off limits to such as the military – and others! The next chronological shifts were adoption of Chicago jazz into southern R&B, or the Motown Sound. Then the Beatles, the Who, later Pink Floyd (introduced classically originated symphonic relationships between percussion and instrumental solos into a blended message plus messenger metaphor). The a sort of return to a Ray Charles led Gulf Coast R&B club sound. For instance, in 1960 I went to a dirt floor, mostly all black joint up the little Biloxi river called Si’s Place. Literally a converted barn. Amazing sounds and improvisation. Back on topic, I’d judge there were five phase shifts between Carl Perkins and Elvis, and the divergence to either rap or shock rock. Whew … too much info.

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

by Ed Coffin on Jan 8, 2009 4:41 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Damn Ed,

Is there anything you don’t know a lot about? Wikipedia isn’t as good as you.

By 2028, Mark Teixeira will be in the HOF.
-The Outlaw

by Gdawg on Jan 8, 2009 5:37 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Hendrix

can’t leave him out, the man helped create feedback and the use of wah-wah peddles

"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg

by rentz on Jan 8, 2009 6:56 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

No doubt

Listen to a bunch of songs from 1954-55 or so, then listen to a couple of tunes by Elvis, Chuck Berry (Maybelline has a guitar sound that is just miles away from the general pop tone then), Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, etc.

I have a Rockabilly type channel on Pandora that I like to listen to once in a while.

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by t ball on Jan 8, 2009 3:30 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Can you share channels on Pandora?

I like Rockabilly style music.

by hiafex on Jan 8, 2009 3:50 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

Just go to Pandora

and type in Gene Vincent, or a song title like Twenty Flight Rock (by Eddie Cochran). That’s how I got that channel. You get lots of neat rarely heard stuff by Orbison, Perkins, et al.

G G G E-flat_______ F F F D__________....

by t ball on Jan 8, 2009 7:24 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs