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The King.

Wow!! he was soooo good, such an amazing voice and energy. It was such a loss that he died too young.

It's funny how so many can impersonate his voice and get the sound, but they never get the feel or the energy
 
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Sooooo God Damn Handsome.....
I would have loved to have spent just one little night in those arms
I have a wet patch now just thinking about him...
Oh and yes he was a great singer.​
 
crazyhorse71 said:
He was a stealer of black music
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Busy reading a book called "motherless Child". it is about the life of Eric Clapton. A great read and highly recommended.

Anyway, Crazyhorse, what you are saying is partially true. During the '50's and 60's just about no white folk in America listened to black music - particularly blues. Guys like Muddy Waters, BB King, Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson and many others were not known to white American folk.

It was the British bands like Cream and The Rolling Stones, as well as one or two American singers, like Elvis Presley who copied the black blues bands and made blues (black music) really popular.

Interestingly enough, it was these British bands - and Elvis, that brought Blues to the white population and that in turn revived many of the original black musicians careers.

Had it not been for these whitie copy cat bands that "stole" black music, we probably would never have heard of the absolute great blues players.

And that is my 2c worth for the day.

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Zeus said:
Anyway, Crazyhorse, what you are saying is partially true. During the '50's and 60's just about no white folk in America listened to black music - particularly blues. Guys like Muddy Waters, BB King, Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson and many others were not known to white American folk.


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That's because radio stations at the time didn't want to play 'nigger' music.
 
crazyhorse71 said:
That's because radio stations at the time didn't want to play 'nigger' music.
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Absolutely correct - but that was in America only.

Across the pond, the blues records were very sought after.
In fact Jimi Hendrix made his name in the UK - not in the US. Only after he made it big in the UK, did mainstream America start listening to his stuff.

Just an aside - Jimmy Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan were the only two guitarists that Eric Clapton acknowledged were in a different league to him......and Clapton in his day could play the guitar. In fact, in the '60's, there were signs in the UK proclaiming "Clapton is God"
 
He was dead before I was alive but I could listen to him all day and night. There is nothing in the world like his performance of An American Trilogy in the Aloha rehearsal concert (available on the Special Edition DVD). Back to the audience just feeding off Ronnie Tutt's amazing drumming . I get a tingle down my spine every single time.
 
There are thousands of Elvis impersonators and this is almost 40 years after his death. I can not think of another person that so many people have tried to imitate. He may have borrowed some moves and inspiration from black artists of his time....but no one has done it like Elvis ....his voice his style his look his everything.
 
Maybe not the best but certainly the most impersonators are in Las Vegas :D .........Viva Las Vegas :p
 
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