Happy Birthday Elvis

[pamlicojack]

Here's a few pics from ElvisFest...

Whiskey Trail Outlaws


TCB '56 (all Elvis, all the time) DAve Quick the singer, fronted Jack Black for 10 years and puts on Elvisfest and the Heavy Rebel Weekender


Oh course, my good friend Mary Huff from SCOTS showed up and we caught up on the latest...


And made a few new friends...


Delco Nightengale


The Defilers tore it up as usual


Billy Joe Winghead drives every year form OKC to Chapel Hill just to play for an hour...


Truckstop Preachers


DJ Junior was spinning 45's between sets


And as mentioned before, Denis and his girl hung out with me for awhile...


All and all, a good time was had by all...

[OldManC]

Looks like everyone had a blast!

[Hornisse]

Very nice!  I listened to Elvis a lot this weekend.  One of my all time favorite songs is "His Latest Flame".

[pamlicojack]

Very nice!  I listened to Elvis a lot this weekend.  One of my all time favorite songs is "His Latest Flame".

The Rayguns do a great version of that...

[Nocturnal]

Looks like it was a lot of fun!

[Highlander]

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[godofthunder]

Did they both have underage girlfriends too?  

Happy B Day King!  I seriously doubt I would have played the bass guitar if it weren't for Elvis.  We formed a band a few months after his death and every instrument was in place but the bass.  I volunteered for the job back in September 1977 with my just purchased $50 Kingston bass I bought from one of my biggest influences on the instrument, Mark Vizcarra.  This is a photo of him playing that first bass I bought all those years ago.



When he sold me the Kingston he whipped out this bass and proceeded to blow me away playing Deep Purple's "Lazy" on it.  I watched and learned from him every chance I could and eventually in July 1978 I took his place in the band Omega when he and his brother had to return back to the USA.  We were in Panama at the time with our Dads stationed in the long gone Canal Zone.



Both he and his brother were Navy Commanders and flew jets.  Their dad was a USAF fighter pilot so that only made sense.

Man that Kingston takes me back ! Before my folks would shell out for a bass they wisely rented one to make sure I would "stick with it ". That bass was the exact same Kingston you are playing ! Honestly it was so bad it is a wonder I stuck with it ! Once I proved myself the rewarded me with a Klira which I still have. I bought a Kingston on ebay a few years ago to complete my early years collection. As bad as I remember lol you can see the file marks on the headstock !