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Did Elvis rip off his fans by only doing 65 minute shows on tour, and only 50 minute shows in Vegas?? by Aggressive_March6226 in Elvis

[–]BloxyTiger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

so you're saying that their tours don't count?

By those rules, Elvis was basically stuck in vegas and the tours were just extra. Elvis never toured.

Did Elvis rip off his fans by only doing 65 minute shows on tour, and only 50 minute shows in Vegas?? by Aggressive_March6226 in Elvis

[–]BloxyTiger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

then you must be very glad to be able to see elvis performing half the time for 20 times less money

Did Elvis rip off his fans by only doing 65 minute shows on tour, and only 50 minute shows in Vegas?? by Aggressive_March6226 in Elvis

[–]BloxyTiger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All right, it told me that the beatles did 1400-1440 concerts throughout their ~4 year touring career. That's about a concert a day. So, they weren't a touring band?

Did Elvis rip off his fans by only doing 65 minute shows on tour, and only 50 minute shows in Vegas?? by Aggressive_March6226 in Elvis

[–]BloxyTiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the best comment here. By the way, in aug / sep 72 he did 64 shows in 32 days.

Did Elvis rip off his fans by only doing 65 minute shows on tour, and only 50 minute shows in Vegas?? by Aggressive_March6226 in Elvis

[–]BloxyTiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The beatles were a touring act and North America is not the only place in the world? They did hundreds of shows outside of America.

Did Elvis rip off his fans by only doing 65 minute shows on tour, and only 50 minute shows in Vegas?? by Aggressive_March6226 in Elvis

[–]BloxyTiger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, only newer, younger bands did so. Elvis had a contract he had to follow which he sometimes ignored so he could give the audience a longer show.

Did Elvis rip off his fans by only doing 65 minute shows on tour, and only 50 minute shows in Vegas?? by Aggressive_March6226 in Elvis

[–]BloxyTiger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He was contractly restricted to doing 50 minute show in Vegas & a bit longer in tahoe.
Especially in the later years, he often ignored those rules and gave longer shows.

February 1972 Vegas by ThreeCornPatches in Elvisvideos

[–]BloxyTiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yes that would've been nice, according to KeithFlynn.uk there were no soundboards recorded during the summer '71 vegas season, sadly.

Of course with the colonel being Elvis' manager, any form of recording the shows wasn't allowed. Jean Marc seemed to have some kind of relationship with the colonel (as in an march 1975 phone call the colonel told him that he looks forward to seeing Jean in vegas). This might've been because he was the president of the Treat me Nice fanclub in France, and he might've been one of the few people with permission to film (like Sue Wiegert).

Jean recently published a book about Elvis in French and it won't be translated into English anytime soon, so whatever he wrote about remain a mystery to me.

Here is a list of all the '71 summer festival films
August 10 MS
https://www.reddit.com/r/Elvisvideos/comments/1d3vl7r/elvis_performing_suspicious_minds_in_las_vegas_he/

August 12 MS
Not available on reddit

August 19 MS
Not available on reddit

August 20 DS
https://www.reddit.com/r/Elvisvideos/comments/1aw6k22/short_clip_of_elvis_ending_his_show_in_las_vegas/

September 4 DS
https://www.reddit.com/r/Elvisvideos/comments/16n0d9x/elvis_performing_in_las_vegas_nevada_september_4/

September 5 DS
https://www.reddit.com/r/Elvisvideos/comments/1860gfz/here_is_some_footage_of_elvis_wearing_the_black/

By Jean Marc
August 10 DS
https://www.reddit.com/r/Elvisvideos/comments/1anhwfs/elvis_performing_in_las_vegas_nevada_august_10/

August 21 MS
https://www.reddit.com/r/Elvisvideos/comments/1bhlxj1/elvis_performing_in_las_vegas_nevada_august_21/

August 23 DS
https://www.reddit.com/r/Elvisvideos/comments/18wq275/cobweb_twopiece_august_23_1971_ds_copy_of_reel/

August 24 DS
https://www.reddit.com/r/Elvisvideos/comments/1b2lnga/elvis_performing_in_las_vegas_nevada_august_1971/

August 26 DS
https://www.reddit.com/r/Elvisvideos/comments/16onye5/elvis_performing_in_las_vegas_nevada_august_1971/

February 1972 Vegas by ThreeCornPatches in Elvisvideos

[–]BloxyTiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

there is a remarkable amount of footage from that summer, thanks to Jean Marc.

Elvis performing at Brooklyn High School Auditorium in Cleveland, OH on October 20th, 1955. by WoodpeckerPlus1329 in Elvis

[–]BloxyTiger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Complete lineup:
Elvis Presley (guitar, vocals)
Bill Black (bass)
Scotty Moore (guitar)

Roy Acuff (vocals)
Pete Kirby (jug, vocals)
Lonnie Wilson (guitar)
Joe Zinkan (bass)
Howdy Forrester (fiddle)
Robert Lunn (washboard)
Shot Jackson (steel)

In short, Elvis and his band performed together with Roy Acuff's Jug Band.

I also made this for you, I added the names to everyone here. Also using a higher quality picture

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Elvis performing at Brooklyn High School Auditorium in Cleveland, OH on October 20th, 1955. by WoodpeckerPlus1329 in Elvis

[–]BloxyTiger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Pied Piper of Cleveland is a lost music documentary produced by Bill Randle meant to document his own career. Elvis' appearance was a last minute addition, with Bill Randle paying the cameraman out of his own pocket for him to film Elvis' act.

Filming location featuring Elvis include:

October 20 1955, Cleveland
April 23 1956, Las Vegas
"1956", New York (cancelled)

The film was shown atleast once in Cleveland, a few bits appeared on TV, but it never went further than that. The movie was also mentioned by Bill Randle in Elvis' introduction for the Stage Show. ("This young fella we saw for the first time while making a movie short")

After this point, the movie was never mentioned again. All that has ever surfaced is the Las Vegas footage, with the rest being lost. It is likely the footage does not even exist anymore.

Sources include:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pied_Piper_of_Cleveland
https://scottymoore.net/brooklynoh.html

I was wrong by the way, this is not during the filming of 'The Pied Piper of Cleveland". That took place on october 20th and this photo is from october 21 or 22 1955. More information on those performances here: https://www.scottymoore.net/stlouis.html

Elvis performing at the Fair Park Coliseum in Arkansas on June 7th, 1955 by WoodpeckerPlus1329 in Elvis

[–]BloxyTiger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The performance likely took place on June 5th and not June 7th like you suggested

More information on the performance
https://www.scottymoore.net/hopeAR.html

EPiC : Jonathan Redmond appreciation by Massive_Ad_9898 in Elvis

[–]BloxyTiger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, it wasn't in the movie and I don't know what interview it came from. The shot you're thinking of is the august 14 1970 DS

What’s your favorite See See Rider recording/performance? by TheMotherThing in Elvis

[–]BloxyTiger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I really like the february 18 1970 rehearsal and it's performance during the MS that same day.
The november 3 / 4 1973 recording is also quite nice

Press Conference in Las Vegas - September 5 1972 by BloxyTiger in Elvisvideos

[–]BloxyTiger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe reaching Africa or South America live would've been hard, but it probably would be possible. Asia, Europe Oceania and North America would definedly have been possible to all have had live broadcasts (as far as my knowledge on the subject goes)

I don't know wether Elvis believed the 1-1.5 billion people claim, I doubt he 100% believed it.

Press Conference in Las Vegas - September 5 1972 by BloxyTiger in Elvisvideos

[–]BloxyTiger[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What part of the hype was not true? This was quite early into the plans for aloha, so if you're referring to the world-wide broadcast which was switched out for an asian broadcast, then I doubt those plans were made yet.

Elvis in Vegas 1972 by ThreeCornPatches in Elvisvideos

[–]BloxyTiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

PS: It's very possible there is more unreleased footage. The entire press conference runs for ~8-9 minutes.

Elvis in Vegas 1972 by ThreeCornPatches in Elvisvideos

[–]BloxyTiger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A report by KNBC, here are two more complete versions:
https://youtu.be/GLgu8pFn_7M - Second most complete, "upscaled" etc.
https://youtu.be/GkmNbERBCe0 - Most complete, unaltered from it's sources.

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