Request fo David Dalton's new recolections in Elvis: Vegas '69

[Raised on Rock]

Last year, Ken Sharp's book, Elvis: Vegas '69 was released, containing not only great pics, but tons of new interviews with the people that was involved in Presley's Vegas comeback.

Haven't got my copy, but I'm very interested in Rolling Stone writer, David Dalton, new recolections of the show. He was present for the opening night, and did write a great article about it for the magazine back in '69, that I'm sure many of us have read.

Does anybody over here who owns the book, could share David Dalton's new recolections of Elvis opening night on Elvis: Vegas '69?

Thanks in advance.

[hounddog]

i own the book but it will take me a day or to to get to his comments

there is this
http://www.elvis.com.au/presley/reviews/review_elvis_august21_1969.shtml

[hounddog]

" I went to the Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstack and Altomont. I covered the Manson story for Rolling Stone, all this insane stuff. So to cover Elvis' first live show in many years was a must see for me. I flew to Vegas for the first show with some friends from NY including Tony Secunda who managed Marianne Faithful, T Rex, Procal Harum and the Move and Jon Goodchild the director for Rolling Stone. My wife and I took synthesized psilocybin so we were tripping when the show was happening.

Elvis was still a huge idol. We saw him as a god. It was a quasi reigious experience. The guy who started the whole thing was bcak again. The show itself was very vivid and very visceral. Maybe we kid ourselves that you actually have supersonic hearing when you're on psilocybin but i actually believe you do. I could hear Elvis saying things that he wasn't speaking into the microphone. We thought we were tuning into this intimate spectral vibe of his.

Elvis was absolutely amazing. It was both an experience and a musical event. The music was great adn the band was really tight. The king had returned. It felt like he had been reborn. He was feeding off all of the energy of the fans who were thrilled to see him back.

It was one of those wonderful symbiotic events where the audience and the star are both creating a combined energy field. Elvis was getting off on it. It was like some sort of a strange play starring this little kid from Tupelo Ms who was made King. That show was a really ecstatic event for me to witness.

This was old Las Vegas. it was very garish and seedy. Neon. Kind of like kitsch version of hell but inside the International hotel that night there was a little bit of heavan with Elvis. It wasn't like seeing the stones of the Who or Hendrix where it was more underground. Elvis' show was a total Hollywood glitz and glamour event but in a way it was totally appropriate for Elvis. I was thrilled Rolling Stone chose to run my review as an Elvis cover story." (David Dalton)

[debtdbruno]

made me tingle reading that................fantastic!!!!

Awesome book, a must have!!!!!

[Raised on Rock]

Hound Dog! Thanks so much for taking the time, appreciate a lot.

[KPM]

" I went to the Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstack and Altomont. I covered the Manson story for Rolling Stone, all this insane stuff. So to cover Elvis' first live show in many years was a must see for me. I flew to Vegas for the first show with some friends from NY including Tony Secunda who managed Marianne Faithful, T Rex, Procal Harum and the Move and Jon Goodchild the director for Rolling Stone. My wife and I took synthesized psilocybin so we were tripping when the show was happening.

Elvis was still a huge idol. We saw him as a god. It was a quasi reigious experience. The guy who started the whole thing was bcak again. The show itself was very vivid and very visceral. Maybe we kid ourselves that you actually have supersonic hearing when you're on psilocybin but i actually believe you do. I could hear Elvis saying things that he wasn't speaking into the microphone. We thought we were tuning into this intimate spectral vibe of his.

Elvis was absolutely amazing. It was both an experience and a musical event. The music was great adn the band was really tight. The king had returned. It felt like he had been reborn. He was feeding off all of the energy of the fans who were thrilled to see him back.

It was one of those wonderful symbiotic events where the audience and the star are both creating a combined energy field. Elvis was getting off on it. It was like some sort of a strange play starring this little kid from Tupelo Ms who was made King. That show was a really ecstatic event for me to witness.

This was old Las Vegas. it was very garish and seedy. Neon. Kind of like kitsch version of hell but inside the International hotel that night there was a little bit of heavan with Elvis. It wasn't like seeing the stones of the Who or Hendrix where it was more underground. Elvis' show was a total Hollywood glitz and glamour event but in a way it was totally appropriate for Elvis. I was thrilled Rolling Stone chose to run my review as an Elvis cover story." (David Dalton)
Glad to see Mr. Dalton still remembers this night with the same appreciation and thrill he had when he experienced it in 69.
So many times people rethink what they see, or hear years later and downplay their original impressions for one reason or another.