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| Scotty Moore, former Presley guitarist, speaks to the post. Khue Bui - Twp |
Guitarist Scotty Moore about life with Presley
Door Richard Harrington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 10, 1997;
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Het is de Big Bang Theory of Rock-and-Roll:
Time:The early morning hours of July 6, 1954. Place: Memphis -Recording Service, towards the end of a fruitless vocal audition session.The year old Elvis Presley has tackled a few ballads, but nobody is very enthusiastic.
There are three other people present: producer Sam Phillips, guitarist Scotty Moore, bass player Bill Black, enabled to give a small background.
Nothing there.
There is little time left before the session ends., Progressive Flap-Beat.Moore comes in on his electric guitar with a heavier rhythm and a little bit of single not.
Presley cuts loose.
Sam Phillips puts his head in the studio and asks: "What are you doing?"
"We do not know!"
"Well," "suggests Phillips," Back -ups and doing it again. "
Hallo, rock-and-roll.
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| Elvis appears in his hometown, Tupelo, Miss. On stage are Jordanaires and Scotty Moore. Photo by Jimmy Velvet.Used with the permission of the Elvis Presley Museum, Inc. |
In Hoopla, who surrounds the 20 -year anniversary of Presley's death, too little attention is likely to be focused on Scotty Moore.Comfortable, "said Moore).
It is not only that he played the main groc on all the most important recordings of Presley in the 50s and 60s.
Of course Scotty Moore came on stage for the age of the guitar heroes, and he, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley created a brand new language.
Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones remembers Presley's "Mystery Train" with his Sinwy, Echo-loaded Moore-Lead.
"Everyone would be Elvis," he said later."I would be Scotty Moore."
Light the wick
The softened Tennesseanean, who gave up the guitar for almost a quarter of a century after Elvis had dumped him, is in the middle of professional revitalization.His guitar descendants, including Rolling Stones Richards and Ron Wood, and long -term Presley drummer Fontana.
He has also written "It's ok, Elvis", the story of his ups and downs with Presley.
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| Cover of the book by Scotty Moore remembers his connection with Elvis. |
Moore grew up with land and blues guitarists, especially Chet Atkins and Merle Travis.But at 4 p.m. he joined and played in pick -up combinations of which the styles changed from week to week.
At the beginning of 1954, Wranglers recorded a single, "my kind lower" to "to sun records. Selvom the dead, Moore was getting to know the Sun owner Phillips and discovered that they both felt that something big happened to music, although none of themHad some idea of what.
"Sam didn't know what he was looking for," Moore is on."We wanted to talk about who had a new song and he would always say that we need something else. He did not say that it should be crazy or violent.
Moore's book offers an alternative to some parts of Phillips' often repeated report of the birth of rock-and-roll. Phillips claimed that he said he could earn a million dollars if he could find a white boy who could sing like a black man.It doubts it.And Moore says, although Phillips was curious about Presley, he did not actively continue him.
This is where rock -and -roll history becomes a bit muddy.St.
This is where Moore lived, and where he first met the king of rock-and-roll.
Presley also brought his guitar."When he came in, we knocked around there for a few hours," Moore recalls. "It seemed that the child knew every damn song in the world.Know all the chords for some songs, so that he would play as far as he could and just keep singing.
In a preview of the study moment less than 24 hours away, Moore began to fill behind Presley."Many songs he made, I had never heard of myself, so I was sitting there a small single-note things, maybe played a small rhythm with him.
'After a while, Elvis left.I told him, maybe Sam will contact you. "
Moore then sent his report to Phillips and remembered that Wranglers had recorded, he had complained that the lead singer sounded too much like Hank Williams."It was in my mind when I called Sam about Elvis," says Moore.He, "The children have a good voice, know all the songs in the world, but just as you told us he needs material."
Oberst
Presley may have just become a crooner in 1954. He loved Dean Martin, Eddy Arnold and Bill Kenny van de Ink spots, and until he started in "It's okay", it seemed that he might go in their footsteps.
But then ...
"When we listened to it, we knew it was different," says Moore.
Published on July 19, 1954, "It's Okay" (Sun 209) is credited to "Elvis Presley, with Scotty and Bill."The first pair of sunscreen was invoiced in the same way.And blue moon boys.
"We considered ourselves a group, we did," says Moore, who was a band leader and booking agent.Says awkward: "Giving us time to find someone we all liked and would work."
In this management contract from 1954, Presley hopefully describes something as a singer who has 'a clear promises of great success'.Parker.
Parker "was like kudzu," says Moore without much love."He just kept laughing, and when he got Elvis, he knew he had a product. And I will give the old fierce credit where credit should be: he would spend: he would spend: he would spend: he would spend $100 to beat you out of a dollar to prove that he could make it.
Moore was suspicious of parks and refused to use the favorite title "Colonel" Van Parker (a compound honorable).Moore remained "Tom".Musicians from Presley, the rising star.Elvis - except on stage.In 1957 Moore and Black Journalists stopped that they had been squatted flat and could not afford to continue on the King's court.
The division
Although this healed skism, things were never the same again.The films "Loving You", "Failhouse Rock" and "King Creole."
It got worse in 1958 when Presley was drawn up the army for two years.Get much better after Presley came from the service.
Then, in December 1968, Presley made his famous NBC "comeback special".He turned to Moore and Fontana for the most famous segment of the show, an informal round table clothing where the small leather -dressed singer reveals his 50 -roots.Moores Gibson Super 400 for a song.
"Then we went to his house for dinner and he called D.J.and in another room and asked if we would like to do a European tour, something he really wanted to do," says Moore.
In fact, they have never spoken again.For a long time Presley Safety copies that insulted wages to drop what they did, and to support Elvis during a Las Vegas concert.
"When Elvis went to Vegas, I thought it was what he had a whole new thing that happens there. When I saw it, I said there, I said a studio here in Nashville, I had a lot of work to do.
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In the next two decades, Moore had focused on the production and technology of the studio cabinet.
In 1992 he finally picked up another guitar and recorded a few albums with a limited edition (now collectors objects) with his old friend of the friend Carl Perkins, who had fought for neck cancer.Back in progress, and at the same time he did it for me, "says Moore.
He even participated in the pay-per-view Presley Tribute of the year, which eventually led to "It's okay, Elvis", author of Memphis author James Dickerson.
Nowadays, Scotty Moore, just like the American audience, who voted for the young Elvis stamp above Las Vegas Elvis, he preferred to remember Elvis, he worked instead of the one who gave him.
"A month or two before he died, I saw a movie and he was blown up like this, he looked like the death that was warmed up," Moore unfortunately knew."I knew something was terribly wrong."
23 years earlier in Memphis there was something very good.
