Looking forward to hearing this Joe.
EER Rocks!
September 07th
DUKE BARDWELL ON E.E.R - This week only on Elvis Express Radio will be a new in-
depth interview with one of Elvis' 70's Bass players, Duke Bardwell who was unceremonially
erased from all recordings from the 'TODAY' album except the single, 'T-R-O-U-B-L-E'.
You can hear this exclusive interview on this coming Elvis Request Show on Friday.
![]()
Looking forward to hearing this Joe.
EER Rocks!
Could someone tell me the story of why he was taken off the 'Today' recordings?
Basically, Duke's bass playing was removed from the TODAY sessions because they didn't like the way he sounded. The only song from the TODAY sessions that Duke's bass part was left intact on was T-R-O-U-B-L-E, and that was only because The Colonel was rush-releasing the single in advance of the album and didn't have time to go back and replace Duke's bass part on that song. Other than T-R-O-U-B-L-E, the rest of the TODAY album had a different bass player (Norbert Putnam I believe).
But, if you want to hear the songs from the TODAY session as they were originally recorded with Duke's bass playing, check out the outtakes from the FTD TODAY CD and you can hear how Duke's bass playing sounded compared to the released master recordings on the album itself. To my ears, I don't notice much of a difference...
TCB!
Mike
R.I.P. Tommy
We will miss you dearest friend
I DEFINITELY will be interested in hearing Duke's interview!! I was browsing the EER website and I couldn't find the air times for your shows....would you be able to post those for me (and other fans) please? I live in the EST time zone in the U.S.!!
Thanks so much and I look forward to the information so hopefully I can tune in to your shows!!
TCB!
Mike
R.I.P. Tommy
We will miss you dearest friend
THE SHOWS WILL GO UP FOR DOWNLOAD ON FRIDAY. THEY STAY THERE TO BE DOWNLOADED FOR ONE WEEK . THEN IT CAN BE FOUND IN THE EER ARCHIVES OR YOU CAN GO TO WWW.ELVIS2001.NET .
GO TO INTERVIEWS. THERE ARE ABOUT 75 OF THEM THERE OF PAST INTERVIEWS
jOE k
Thats the cool thing about EER, because you can download the shows and listen in at your leisure...no time zones to worry about![]()
Thanks for the post, I'll definittely be tuning in!
Just pretend, I'm holding you, and whispering things soft and low.
And think of me, how it's gonna be and just pretend I didn't go
So I thought the interview by Joe with Duke Bardwell was great to listen to I really enjoyed it!!!!!!!!!!!! Great interview by Joe!!!!!!! I encourage everyone to listen to it!!!!!!
Very interesting interview. Yet another muscian who was fortunate to play with Elvis and was a fan.