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Saw Graceland recently. How many of you MB guys have been?
Posted on 6/24/24 at 7:19 pm
Posted on 6/24/24 at 7:19 pm
Took the tour. Kinda sad.
Elvis example A of a rockstar in every way. Good and bad. First rockstar of course. But also the first guy to live the life of decadence and have it destroy him. The guys in the Memphis Mafia are always proud of it but they were the first example of an entourage of shite heads sponging off of a star. It’s evident with many examples in Graceland. The jungle room. The multiple bars through the house. Most telling to me was the Smokehouse in the back yard that was converted into a firing range. It just looks like something a group of drunk friends and their king came up with one drunk night. Only lasted 2 years and they stopped. I assume a round ended up in the house or in a stable behind it.
Also amazing how small Graceland is. Can’t imagine what type of house he would have had he lived. He died young and fricked in the head and strung out. The home he left behind is filled with eveything bad about the 1970’s. I wonder what was actually in the upstairs that they don’t open “to respect their privacy and wishes”.
Elvis example A of a rockstar in every way. Good and bad. First rockstar of course. But also the first guy to live the life of decadence and have it destroy him. The guys in the Memphis Mafia are always proud of it but they were the first example of an entourage of shite heads sponging off of a star. It’s evident with many examples in Graceland. The jungle room. The multiple bars through the house. Most telling to me was the Smokehouse in the back yard that was converted into a firing range. It just looks like something a group of drunk friends and their king came up with one drunk night. Only lasted 2 years and they stopped. I assume a round ended up in the house or in a stable behind it.
Also amazing how small Graceland is. Can’t imagine what type of house he would have had he lived. He died young and fricked in the head and strung out. The home he left behind is filled with eveything bad about the 1970’s. I wonder what was actually in the upstairs that they don’t open “to respect their privacy and wishes”.
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Posted on 6/24/24 at 8:19 pm to LSU alum wannabe
That was my takeaway. It was a suprisingly small and garish house.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 8:22 pm to LSU alum wannabe
I remember being underwhelmed by it and kind of shocked at how tacky it was.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 8:57 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Yea, I saw it about 30 years ago. It's really pretty from the outside, and then when you get in, it's a trainwreck.
Gaudy as hell.
Gaudy as hell.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 9:00 pm to genuineLSUtiger
Me too. Very tacky. I mean he lived across a span of styles. From 50's to 70's
From his moms room to his Jungle Room.
A, What previously dirt poor people thought looked good and wealthy.
B. A young mans idea of a man cave. Then a young mans idea of a man cave IN THE 70"s.
C. Don't die in 1977.
From his moms room to his Jungle Room.
A, What previously dirt poor people thought looked good and wealthy.
B. A young mans idea of a man cave. Then a young mans idea of a man cave IN THE 70"s.
C. Don't die in 1977.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 9:06 pm to LSU alum wannabe
I went. It’s worth visiting. I got a little choked up by the little note on Elvis’ headstone about how the Lord saw he was tired and called him home (and I’m not a religious person at all)
I need to go back there soon. My Mom was a huge Elvis fan but never made it out there. So I was going to scatter her ashes there.
I need to go back there soon. My Mom was a huge Elvis fan but never made it out there. So I was going to scatter her ashes there.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 10:01 pm to LSU alum wannabe
quote:
The home he left behind is filled with eveything bad about the 1970’s.
I think you meant great. It’s so gaudy, it’s awesome.
Posted on 6/24/24 at 10:17 pm to LSU alum wannabe
30 yrs ago was passing thru & looked at the graves; didn't take the tour.
When EP bought it in 1957 it was isolated out on a highway. By the 80s it was in the ghetto*
*I meant to say that
When EP bought it in 1957 it was isolated out on a highway. By the 80s it was in the ghetto*
*I meant to say that
Posted on 6/25/24 at 5:58 am to Kafka
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meant to say that
And by saying this, you ruined it
Posted on 6/25/24 at 9:19 am to Tigertown in ATL
I visited it a few years back and left thinking Elvis was a homosexual, not that there is anything wrong with that. I wondered if he wasn’t allowed to come out of the closet back in those days.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:09 am to shutterspeed
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It was a suprisingly small and garish house.
That was my lasting impression.
I worked on bigger houses than Graceland all the time.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 10:29 am to Kafka
quote:
in the ghetto*
In the ghetto?
Posted on 6/25/24 at 11:03 am to Honest Tune
quote:Whitehaven aint no White Heaven.
In the ghetto?
Posted on 6/25/24 at 11:33 am to Crow Pie
Yes, true. However I was just doing the “in the ghetto” echo from the Elvis song.
I visited Graceland in 98. shite hole.
I visited Graceland in 98. shite hole.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 11:38 am to RedHawk
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I wondered if he wasn’t allowed to come out of the closet back in those days.
Short answer to that is HELL NO. That got out in those days he’d never have been the king of rock and roll.
That said, I don’t think he was. He always had too many people around him. Whether women, mistresses or those Memphis Mafia turds. If they had dirt, somebody would have sold a bombshell like that.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 11:49 am to Honest Tune
quote:I grew up in the 60's 7 miles from Graceland and it wasn't always like that. We all know what happened in Memphis on 04/4/68 and it's been downhill since.
I visited Graceland in 98. shite hole.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 2:01 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Several times over the years.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 4:08 pm to Kafka
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When EP bought it in 1957 it was isolated out on a highway. By the 80s it was in the ghetto*
exactly, same geographical analogy as living off GSRI (Gardere & Nicholson) in the late 70's ~ early 80's. There wasn't shite out in that area except for a Circle K and a few condominium developments for LSU students. Now that area is comparable to Mogadishu.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 5:45 pm to Crow Pie
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We all know what happened in Memphis on 04/4/68 and it's been downhill since.
Early morning, April 4
Shot rings out in the Memphis sky
Free at last, they took your life
They could not take your pride
I saw Graceland about five years after his death. Nice, but nothing special. It was a nice box to check off, though I didn’t see it that way at the time.
Posted on 6/25/24 at 7:40 pm to LSU alum wannabe
I visited in 07 and I remember the smell of 70s carpet that stunk.
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