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    Quote Originally Posted by walrus View Post
    Could an Elvis impersonator ever become so famous he gets impersonators.
    People get famous (and eventually impersonators) only after they are going beyond the fundamentals of their game
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    Quote Originally Posted by NVSemin View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by walrus View Post
    Could an Elvis impersonator ever become so famous he gets impersonators.
    People get famous (and eventually impersonators) only after they are going beyond the fundamentals of their game
    so your answer is yes.

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    I saw Elvis Presley live, the real one. It was at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, in 1971, maybe 1972.

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    Quote Originally Posted by greynotsoold View Post
    I saw Elvis Presley live, the real one. It was at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino, in 1971, maybe 1972.
    How was it?
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    It was something to see. I was 7 years old and my father took me, and probably saved my life. A comedian opened the show, and all the members of Elvis's band wore light blue jumpsuits.
    He opened with 'CC Rider' ( I think that is the name of the song) and wore a gold/black outfit with a cape, and a dozen or more red scarves around his neck. Periodically, he would strike a pose at the end of the stage, flinging the cape wide open. Every time he did this, he'd throw a scarf into the audience and women would lose their minds.
    We were up in the rafters. I told my father that I was going to go down there and get myself one of those scarves. He wouldn't let me go. Until he died he'd joke about how, had I gone down there, those women would have killed me.

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    That must have been fantastic. I don't own any Elvis records, but strangely enough think I prefer the older 70's incarnation to the other guises. He seemed to have a really great stage presence and his voice grew in stature with age. I prefer the Elvis versions of My Way and Aways on my Mind any day of the week. Elvis could really sing. People mock the fat Elvis years, but I find it poignant how he would keep getting on stage obviously not well at all and still have the audience eating out of his hands. He should really have taken a few years off and cleaned up, but it was never going to happen surrounded by yes men and a gambling addict manager/slavedriver. None of this twerking nonsense with Elvis, just a few karate chops, great songs, and voice to kill.

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    not a fan but went to Graceland last year when was in Memphis.

    Fascinating place
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