MUST SEE-Elvis in Hawaii Nov. 1972!!!

[KPM]

I actually have a copy of that footage in my old VHS tapes that someday I should convert to DVD.
If you look thru YouTube tons of really nice footage exists usually, not lengthy, but still really good stuff.
Elvis World Japan is great at cleaning up and mixing the 8mm films.

[JRtherealJR]

Great footage of California 1972! Never seen film of the mirror belt before.

I'm sure the reason he did not immediately put on the guitar was nothing to do with the fact that he was wearing the mirror belt. It was more likely to have been some sort of strap malfunction or something Charlie did wrong. Anyone who has seen one of Elvis' guitars up close as I have, cannot fail to see the huge amount of scratches all over the front of them- so it's unlikely he would have been too concerned about his belt scratching the back of it.

He did, after all, put the guitar on at the instrumental break.

Nice pic here of the belt in question:

[vivaelvis]

This video is from Fort Wayne June 12th 1972. Elvis in the "Lucky Suit" for the first time, and Elvis probably didn`t use the guitar because of the "Mirror Belt" used for the one and only time here.

You are correct. It is from the June tour and in Fort Wayne. I did some investigating and found out he indeed wore the mirror belt without the guitar on during the opening number. Good catch.

[vivaelvis]

Rare video of Elvis live in Niagra Falls, NY July 1975.