the gospel and the guitar man productions, i think are really cool, at first when i saw it i was like ok this is weird but i watched it again, and its really awesome , what do you all think?
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the gospel and the guitar man productions, i think are really cool, at first when i saw it i was like ok this is weird but i watched it again, and its really awesome , what do you all think?
Well I liked the dancing. Elvis was a good dancer, in all his movies when he danced he looked really good with those dance moves.
Tommy :)
The whole of the Comeback Special, contrary to what popular opinion suggests, is an acquired taste. At least... that's how it worked for me.
"That's The Way It Is" and "Aloha From Hawaii" have much better pacing and technical panache. But the Comeback Special, fantastic though it is, is a tricky one. You have to get past the lo-fidelity sound, the harshly-lit studio backdrops, the cheap-as-chips musical production numbers and a myriad of smaller issues before you can meet the Special on its own terms. Even Elvis' guttural singing - a first and a last for him - is potentially off-putting when you first hear it (it was for me; but now, I love it).
As for the gospel and Guitar Man productions?
They're a welcome burst of energy after the languid - albeit, thanks to Elvis, fiery - singing sessions. It's nice to have something MORE than just a cramped stage for Elvis to strut his stuff on. That said, Elvis carries the entire show simply with his "Sitdown" sessions. Everything else is kinda superfluous after that. I'd say the Guitar Man number is my favourite if, for nothing else, the song "Nothingville". I had that song stuck in my head for the longest time! Oddly, it appears it was written and recorded especially for the Comeback Special. To the best of my knowledge (and I even asked people on this board before), you can't get it outside of a Comeback-based album. Ain't that peculiar? I wish Elvis had done a few more non-love-related songs in his time: he was **** good at them!
I didnt like the dacing sequences from the special, kinda weird to me, but it might have been a 60's thing. When I first bought the dvd of the comback special and watched it, I was like what the crap?:blink:
But that didnt take away from one of the best performances Elvis ever done.
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Originally Posted by Cryogenic
I'm not sure of your age, but my younger brother had the same thing to say about the cheap look of the special as a whole. It was not cheap in 68. This was the style of musical specials. the barebones look was IN. Look at tapes of Sinatra or Sammy Davis Specials-better yet look at the old Dean Martin show which ran for about 9 years. Its hard to compare when now adys you have music videos which cost millions sometimes. The sound was also as good as it came back then.
I remember in 68 at high school listening to kids in lunch line talk about how cool he looked and how they forgot he was a rock in roll singer first.
My age is in my profile. ;) That's what they're there for.Quote:
Originally Posted by KPM
I'm actually impressed by how much a programme from 1968 scrubbed up for DVD. They really did an impressive job on the restoration. But nonetheless, a first impression is a first impression.
You're right about first impressions. There is no way to give you the first impression that I, and many got in 68, without you comparing it to what you see in todays culture daily. I was comparing it to the 10 inch black and white set with a grainy picture and rabbit ears on top showing programs with cardboard sets from 50s TV.I 've got to tell you in 1970 I started to hear about VCRs they cost about $8000.00 for the cheapest one(Sony Beta Format) I told a friend "Some day we'll be able to go to the store and rent a movie for a night" he laughed and said "Ri...ght?"( Ha, I only half believed it myself. "
Just look at the dancing / moving in Fun in Acapulco (BOSSA NOVA BABY)
Or Girls Girls Girls ( RETURN TO SENDER) or Blue Hawaii (ROCK A HULA BABY) or Viva Las Vegas (C'mon EVERYBODY) etc etc