ONE NIGHT IN MEMPHIS

[Golddollar]

This didn't happen in Memphis. Last night this show was rocking downtown Gettysburg in the Majestic Theater as tribute artists representing Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis paid homage to the fabulous jam session that all of them held at the Sun Records studio on December 4, 1956. These original artists are no longer with us, but the tribute performers really had the spirit of the the original artists. With the Jerry Lee Lewis tribute artist, it was like Jerry Lee Lewis came back to life with the piano playing and vocals. And as a finale, all four of the tribute performers absolutely rocked out the house doing "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On." The tickets were a little pricey, but being how I watched all of the original artists perform for decades I say if the show comes around to where you live pay the price and go see One Night in Memphis.

 

[Greyman50]

Thanks, will watch the local theater in JAX.

 

[Faulkner]

Memphis ain't what it was in the 1950's. It was a decent city back then.

 

[mtgianni]

How old was the JLL tributes wife?

 

[lawandorder]

Do not usually speak ill of the dead but an encounter with a fellow caused me to make an exception.
With some friends at an old club on Front street called Blues Alley. A party of four walked in and sat next to our table. The fellow, his young wife and a couple of bodyguards.
Couple of rounds of drinks later he was cussing the young lady pretty badly. It evolved into him striking her. The two guys at our table stood up and politely asked him not to do that. Bad reaction from him almost caused an old fashioned bar room brawl to erupt but Bouncers convinced that party to leave.

 

[5-Shot]

I'm with "lawandorder". I moved to Memphis in the early '70's and my office was right next to Jerry Lee's (a shared wall). By the time I moved in the bullet hole had been patched. The maid had been mopping my floor and kept bumping the wall with the mop handle. Some shouting came through the wall, followed shortly by a bullet. Back then people didn't have SUV's, they had "fishing cars" which were old beat up cars you didn't mind taking into the back woods. It was a standing office joke the Jerry Lee had a brown Rolls Royce fishing car. The fenders were always askew and tail lights were dangling down on wires. In the year and a half I was in that office, I never saw Jerry Lee walk unsupported by at least one body guard. In spite of all this, I heard some great music coming through that wall when I was in the office late.

 

[Farmer17]

My wife and I have been going to a lot of tribute bands lately, and most of the time I enjoy them more than the real thing. In the last couple of years we've seen Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Elvis, The Beatles, ABBA, The Cars, The Eagles, Tommy James and the Shondells, and a few others and they were all well worth the money. They were in small venues that weren't too crowded and we had great seats sometimes being 10 feet away from the stage when you could really see some great guitar picking. Some venues we were sitting at tables with a waitress serving us food and drinks and I'll take that any day over standing a long way from the stage, shoulder to shoulder with screaming and drunk people for several hundred bucks per ticket.