40th anniversary of the 68 sit down shows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hgs262626]

post memories here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Unchained Melody]

Steve Binder talks about the 1968 Comeback Special.

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Rock N Roll at it's finest. Perhaps the greatest moment in Rock N Roll history.

[Getlo]

I played both the June 27th shows today, and will be playing the June 29th ones on Sunday.

Ain't it funny how time slips away?

[Unchained Melody]

I played both the June 27th shows today, and will be playing the June 29th ones on Sunday.

Ain't it funny how time slips away?

Kind of sad in a way to think it was already 40 years ago, but like that song goes "Time Marches On".

Anyhow, I will be playing the June 27th show's today !! (y)

[KPM]

Kind of sad in a way to think it was already 40 years ago, but like that song goes "Time Marches On".

Anyhow, I will be playing the June 27th show's today !! (y)
Yes 40 years seems like a day to me when I recall the excitement I had on Dec 3rd, 1968 when the final product aired. I wanted so bad to see Elvis show everyone up-all who had said "He's over the hill, its over" and he did.

[jon_burrows]

post memories here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1



Another great memory of June 27th............my wedding!

(y):D

[midnight]

Hey I was married on June 27th too. Sixteen years ago today, my husband and I were saying our vows...

[Tommy]

It was a great special, just awesome, Elvis showed the world who was KING!

[jon_burrows]

Hey I was married on June 27th too. Sixteen years ago today, my husband and I were saying our vows...


SNAP.... sixteen years ago also for me. What a great day..eh?

[kathy parkinson]

Happy Anniversary to you both.

[Jungleroom76]

40 YEARS!!! :'(

Haven't had time lately to pull my '68 Special set out to commemorate the 40th anniversary...but will have to do so soon.... :blush:

Another first for Elvis Presley....he was the FIRST ARTIST to ever perform an "unplugged" concert!!! (y)

TCB!
Mike

[goodelvisgirl]

40 years waw longer than i have been alive and i must say this a hell of a comeback the man at his powerfull best showing the world who the real elvis presley was and at 33 he looked and sounded better than ever but in the years to come we will still be saying this when the comeback is 50 years ago or 70 years ago its just timeless like elvis himself and happy anniversary to you both 16 years my what a long long time

[ehollier]

"There is something magical about watching a man who has lost himself find his way back home...

He sang with the kind of power people no longer expect from rock ‘n’ roll singers.”

John Landau Review of Elvis, (1968 TV Special)

[ehollier]

"You can feel the shock waves the show made. Elvis looks gorgeous and he knows it; you see joy, command, and certain slyness with a you-must-be-kidding-me grin, which serves him perfectly. Wearing a black leather suit as if he was born in it - standing alone or sitting with Scotty Moore and his friends, Elvis sang his old songs, but they did not sound old. He invested them with so much emotion - emotions his original recordings of say, Tryin' to Get to You, One Night or Can't Help Falling in Love did not contain - that each became a thing in itself. Suddenly these were less songs then events, where Elvis himself is moved the most.

When Elvis relaxes into the first of five dives of Baby, What you Want Me to Do, the deep well of the sessions where every few minutes Elvis returns for a more open rhythm, a harder beat and knowledge that cannot be put into words. He's locked into a music that any musician can tell you anyone can make and almost no one can, into something that is so powerful it doesn't seem real, reaching as if under the guitar for notes that cannot be advertised. The music rises, slams down, and rises again as if a whole new language has been discovered - as if this night, it has to be made to say everything, because it will never be spoken again."



Greil Marcus
Commentary of '68 Comeback Special

[beckelvis]

It was the special impressive one,to demostrarte,continue being-THE KING

[waymore44]

I just can't see spending the money on the 68 special box set when I have the DVD set, that I could easily make audio CD's out of if I wanted to. We've already got most of it released on Memories and Tiger Man anyway. I got on Rhapsody since I have an unlimited subscription and WOW there was the box set. I streamed the last CD of the rehearsals in CD quality audio and recorded it with a wave recorder I have. It's a good thing I did that because now it's off of Rhapsody. I guess others had the same plan. At least I finally have the complete rehearsals. I never broke down and bought Burbank 68 from FTD basically because although EP is great it's not like any of it is great recordings. If it were a full band thing not that horrible LA band with flutes...etc or Lance Legault beating on a tamborine I'd buy it.