Inside ELVIS International Hotel In Las Vegas - Backstage Access Tour / His Dressing Room & On Stage
ELVIS history in Las vegas
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of this it is Wednesday
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November 20th cheers
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20124 I don't know why I threw the
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cheers in between the day month and the
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year but I did I'm standing here on the
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Montreal platform going be taking the
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Montreal to a couple places today
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eventually later this afternoon early
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evening I'm going to a
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performance and going to be getting some
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information from Elvis Presley's
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stepbrother one of a couple Step
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Brothers actually this one was his body
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bodyguard for a few years and the former
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International Hotel where Elvis
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performed hundreds of soldout shows
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going to be able to go in that theater
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from what I am hearing this event only
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takes place once once a month just so
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happens it's happening while I'm here
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we'll be able to go into Elvis Presley's
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dressing room and the backstage area and
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maybe see a few behind the seen things I
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was born in Tupelo Mississippi I love
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Elvis via Las Vegas also look at this
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right down here 1964 Elvis and Anne
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Margaret performed a song by the pool at
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the Flamingo Hotel which is completely
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under renovation now it's been renovated
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even since the 60s when they filmed that
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scene in the movie but the flamingo was
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used where I'm staying the flamingo was
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used prominently in that film when you
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think of Viva Las Vegas definitely think
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the king of rock and roll look at this
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look down here there's a flamingo right
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there painted on there nonetheless
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wherever the day leads I'm also going to
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go buy a couple Ela Spots I'm inviting
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you to join me it's good to have you
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here shall you the the guy that's going
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to be giving the behind the scenes tour
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if you will he does an event there again
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once a month his name is David Stanley I
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confused him with Billy Stanley which is
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his brother who in the 80s I used to go
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to Rocky Bayou Christian School in the
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panhandle of Florida and Billy Stanley
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was somehow involved in the ministry and
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he showed up to talk to the my Christian
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School about how he was The Stepbrother
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of Elvis and I thought that was who was
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going to be doing the tour today did not
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realize that he also had a brother and
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that brother went on to work with Elvis
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not only being his stepbrother but also
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ended up being his bodyguard it has a
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lot of great stories to tell so pretty
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interesting little uh tie into my youth
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uh attached by family a family member of
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a someone that talked to talked to me
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when I was young in school I don't know
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it's just kind of an interesting thing
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also this is the
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noisiest
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escalator of all time kind of adds to
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the Ambiance of Vegas either Las
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Vegas this one's broken so I got to walk
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up the stairs up to the mono now a
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little later I'm going to go from here
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well first of all I'm going to go
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southbound down to the MGM station and
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then I'm going to walk down towards the
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Pinball Hall of Fame and the chapel from
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viva Las Vegas and then later I'm going
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to go up here to the Westgate which is
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formerly the international where Elvis
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performed for many years the most amount
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of soldout shows in a row I think it
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made history oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
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while I was on the monreal I looked it
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up and it appears as if there were three
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Step
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Brothers three step brothers that El
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had there was David there was Rick and
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there was Billy so I don't know which
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one came to my school thinking maybe
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Rick and a monreal does not go all the
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way down to this point there's another
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one if I crossed over from the MGM I
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could take the tra which is basically
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more a l of monil it gets me a little
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closer than this but that's kind of
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timec consuming so I just jumped in an
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Uber to go through remaining 2 miles and
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now standing here in front of the
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iconic fabulous Las Vegas sign a lot of
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people here 1959 it's on been placed on
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the national register of historic
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places right there we also added
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this debuted on the SHP in 59 today it
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remains one of the most popular
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attractions of Clark County appearing in
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vacation photos commercials and movies
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iconic got manderlay Bay over there and
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right next to the Pinball Museum is the
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current location of the little Church of
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the
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West it's a wedding chapel which is
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still in operation you can book this in
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fact I believe for a while maybe even
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still currently you can have the king of
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rock and roll or someone dressed up as
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Elvis marry you inside here also on the
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national register of historic
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places and never been inside here but I
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know it is available on occasions to go
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in right now there is a a sign on the
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front door that says private ceremony in
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progress I don't know if that's true cuz
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there's really hardly any cars in the
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parking lot but maybe it's true maybe
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they just left the sign up all right the
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sign said check in at the office all
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visitors must check in at the office so
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I went to the office there's a lady in
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there named Nicole she said you're
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supposed to call in advance and set up
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entry in a tour in advance she said you
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know what go ahead and walk to the
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front let's
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see oh okay it's got the gate on it you
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can peek in okay yeah so this is locked
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but you can look
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in oh this is
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awesome okay this is cool
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wow now I've stopped by here a couple
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times another visit
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to Vegas but never have I been able to
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see
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in how
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cool this is a big piece of Elvis
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history right
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here man I am so glad she let me walk up
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here and check that
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out there you go I'm standing in the
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same spot
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as the king of rock and roll walking out
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of here from the film there it is
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awnings are still the same windows are
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still the
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same there's no confusing on what this
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place has inside asked one of the
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employees that said they used to have an
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Elvis G an Elvis pinball but they no
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longer have it and as far as they know
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there isn't any in here
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it come on the Sev
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up with a buddy here Dana this is not
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Dan this is a flock toy what is a flock
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toy Dana it's like a little toy with
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like kind of a felt or fur feeling to it
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it's like little microfibers that get
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like glued onto the outside but they
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don't make them anymore it's a
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collector's item I got I got a bunch of
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Pokémon oh Pokemon
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keychains Pokemon over from
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here there
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goes the monor
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that dropped me off and look at this
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getting a double mon rail it's kind of
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hard to see the one on the other side
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but look at that so I've arrived now at
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this hotel which is now the Westgate but
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it's been a couple different hotels when
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Elvis was here was the international
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this is the sign now out front and when
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you walk
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in there's a little exhibit here in a
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glass case and in that glass case a lot
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of different
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items pertaining to the former hotel to
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his stay over 800 soldout shows they
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even have some very interesting items in
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here as well the first record he
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recorded it on
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Studios a badge a weapon that he was
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given also some items from his last show
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here at the international including the
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boots or the shoes I should say shoes or
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boots he was wearing on that last show
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well over over 100 sold out shows in a
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row and they have a pair of the boots
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inside as well also a big
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sculpture of him as well like a full
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size real life well not real life but
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full size size sculpture here in the
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lobby towards the check-in desk
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Christmas show um so it'll leave even
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more conect after that um the theater is
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I don't know if you've been in many of
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the other venues but they really don't
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build them like this anymore with all
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the the background in it's an easy load
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is right out that back door there's a
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loading guy he would always stop here in
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this very spot and bow his head and say
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a prayer he'd pray for having a great
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show he'd pray for the band he'd pray
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for the audience he just and then when
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he'd finish he'd bow his head tap this
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wall and then he'd go all the way to the
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other side because he would enter from
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stage left this is the original floor
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where Elva stood set a prayer tap the
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wall each
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night is insane this is the original
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floor oh my
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God just mind
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blowing is that crazy got
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837 some say 600 some say
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800 King is literally here he was right
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here he was literally here standing
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right and you touch the wall right here
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I feel the spirit look I can feel
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it the spirit of the the spirit of the
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king that is the coolest thing ever I
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swear Elis and Mohamad
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front obviously paint um little bit of
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renovation on the elevator but this is
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pretty much um as it would have been
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then except the photographs of man love
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show um one thing that that people do
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get excited about is the water fountain
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that's over here in this corner is
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actually the water fountain that was
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here when Elvis was performing and while
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Pi of it yes Elvis did actually drink
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from that Fountain many times before he
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would go up in the elevator and yes you
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can take a drink from it you are allowed
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to do that but if you do rumor has it
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you will sing like Elvis and we're and
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we're going to make you do it oh than
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okay anyway no that was there and then
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like you come out we're going to go into
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the dressing room but then they would go
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up
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that's
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Elvis than good I'm All Shook Up
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Now I just drank out of the same water
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fountain that Elvis drank out of
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room is this on the other side all of
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the dressing room was both of those two
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this is the original bar that was in the
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dressing room when Elvis was here
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actually it's half of the original bar
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the other half is on the other side the
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when when this was his dressing room the
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full bar was up against this wall you
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can imagine what kind of uh you know
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activity would go on in here it was uh
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it was the place to be if you were if
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you were you know the double a list you
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would be able to get into the dressing
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room um when Elvis was here um obviously
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before the early show there'd be a lot
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of people in between the two shows
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because keep in mind when Elvis was
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performing he was doing two shows a
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night so when he would do a residency
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the two months he was here it was 30
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straight days two shows a night 8:00
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Dinner Show 11:00 cocktail show and
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occasionally a m that was an original
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and yes rumor has it if you look really
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close you'll look
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bad the jokes get worse
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is um the other thing is there have been
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some Renovations one thing because there
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were always so many people around you
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know there was the the Memphis Mafia
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there were different different stars
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that would be in town he would
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eventually have to get ready so there
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was a room that was off to the side here
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it's now the actual room when when Elvis
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was here is a control room but it pretty
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much mirrored what this room looks like
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here in size and what the decor is it
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was so he could step away and actually
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have a few minutes of privacy to rest um
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make sure everything looked where it
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needed to be every hair was where it had
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to go and you can take a look in there
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and get an idea there's a shower and a a
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little cop where he could rest but
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imagine what that was like with the
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people here David can share some of the
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stories of some of the folks that would
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come down here but um you know just
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incredible and then you know if if you
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were really on the the 4A list you might
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get invited up to the Elvis Suite after
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the show now the Elvis Suite there's a
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lot of people that you'll see pictures
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posting and saying they were at the
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Elvis suite at the Westgate so the Elvis
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Suite as it existed in in 1969 was a
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5,000 square foot Penthouse up on the
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30th floor um it was the Elvis suite and
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then there was the first rooftop supper
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club called The Crown Room that were up
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there so in the mid90s the Hilton
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Corporation invested 45 milon and
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renovated the entire top floor so they
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they got rid of the original Elvis
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here so this is exactly how the other
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one was it was on this wall that was
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actually the dressing room they've
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changed it into a control room
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mhm that the shower in there
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yeah
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shower you doing your makeup in the
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Elvis mirror yeah El got ready here and
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now I got ready
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here are you going to sing for us uh
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so this bar here was original but it
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used to be right here so just
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think Ela freaking BR was right
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here I mean for not just not just a
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short time for like 800 something
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shows sometimes they'll have special
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packages that you can purchase uh but
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for the most part it's usually VIPs if
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they have some friends that were in town
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or other celebrities that are in town
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but um Manalo does a couple of or two of
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the nights they'll do a quick meet and
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greet after the show cool and the Gang
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when they've performed here they they
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have a party in here um cool has his own
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brand of champagne we'll just leave it
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that um but yeah so and then again on
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with the wall anybody that uh anyone's
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on the wall had performed here again
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renovated but this would be something
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and and we have had some photos and
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videos that he had come in that Elvis
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would come in here and and greet some of
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the people that were in here after the
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show um one thing I forgot to mention
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when we were over by the the spot
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backstage is you notice that the the
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statue and that uh spot backstage say
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that he did
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837 consecutive soldout shows right
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turns out that the actual number is
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636 consecutive soldout shows here oh
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yeah there's the sculpture that's out
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front right there look at
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that there it is
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SAR in
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Presley there
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Veron all right so if you follow me
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you're all going to kind of you're all
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going to enter the stage and the theater
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from where Alis did we actually sitting
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at a
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table started granted the stage was
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extended a little bit still the same
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stage get to hear some of his thoughts
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and we do open it up for questions after
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he and I chat for a while so if you have
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questions these used to be booths before
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they renov stage this very stage at the
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International Hotel that midsummer night
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was the most significant and
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consequential night in his career and
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forever changed the entertainment
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landscape in Las Vegas that historic
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initial performance was a star studed
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event on both sides of the Stage IT
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earned rave reviews from all over the
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world and was the first of an astounding
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636 consecutive soldout performances it
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it was a memorable night for everyone
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who was lucky enough to be here and
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especially true for a very special man
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who is here with us tonight he saw for
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the first time the man he looked up to
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as his big brother was so much more than
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his brother Elvis He was the king please
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welcome to the international stage David
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Stanley you know I was 13 years old when
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I came here um I was living in benis at
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Grace Elis and Priscilla Lisa my mom and
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dad de Vernon pres my stepfather
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and we're at the dinner table and El
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says I'm going back on last
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stage he did the 68 special most of you
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saw that who saw the Netflix special
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that's good that's a good one because
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Elvis had been on stage in eight years
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so he did that he says I'm going to go
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back to finally one day Elvis I mean
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Vernon and D come to back to Virginia to
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the boarding home we see this big winol
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pull up Mom gets that course run to meet
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her and greet her I had braces on my
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legs cuz I was born crippled I had to
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put arm feet on me so I could walk I
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remember crawling out to the I almost
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crawling to the car and uh we got in the
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car and I said Mom where's
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Daddy this is all I got I'll explain to
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you someday boys but this is your new
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father or this is going to be your new
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father this is March of
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1960 we got a new house called Grace you
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got a new big brother named Elvis
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I have no clue what's going on I'm hurt
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where's my daddy why'd you leave me here
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but we had to accept it for where it was
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we got to
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Memphis we drove through the gates of
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the grace of mansion I looked out the
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window it's my face pressed up against
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the glass that the home was about to
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move into my brother Ricky said I told
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you someday things were going to get
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better cuz he need to try to comfort me
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and say that to me all the time we got
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out of the car went up the steps there's
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going have been 25 years old
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this guy was called Elvis Presley I
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thought he had a funny name I've never
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heard that Elvis that's
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different and he walks up to us and we
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walk up to him he picks me up and Bress
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me on his
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shoulders and he goes to Billy Ricky and
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there hugging his leg he said I've
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always wanted a little brother now I
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have three so you know now it's he's
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been doing movies you guys are in school
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and now we're in
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Vegas Vegas he opened that night that
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was I mean everybody was here there was
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anybody um back then the showroom was a
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little
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bigger um I had Angels On The Wall I was
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just say you know what are those angels
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doing here we had somebody right here
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who came and saw it was here in 69 right
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oh yeah remember that energy when that
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was like nothing nowhere I mean I've SE
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the top the bombs explode and didn't
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have the power that El did that night or
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any night he was on stage cuz he was all
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these wonderful things we talk about but
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when he was on stage he was Elvis I mean
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that's what made Elvis Elis his
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Charisma um if I was walked into this if
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I was got off a plane at the airport I
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could feel it if he walked through that
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door I'd be the only person in here
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would have to introduce himself to you
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number one but number two the rest of
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you go oh that's why you saw him if you
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ever saw him that's what carried him he
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had this unbelievable gift that he
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shared with the world share it with me I
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was part of it it was fun yeah because
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you know after obviously you know did
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Vegas for a couple years and was back on
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the road during tour and then you ended
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up going to work for him 1972 where's my
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picture of
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72 well that's 67 down there at the end
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look how pretty I was is I'm pretty good
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looking kid too I mean I was in 77
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76 Lio got out and I'm I'm just like you
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know Green 16 and mean and lean and just
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wow I get out and there's George
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Harrison of The Beatles leaning up
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against the pole just rubbing his
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beard I walked up to him I just went to
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the dressing room I walked up to him and
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said George J stand I get to see bud I'm
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you probably remember me when you came
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you know I I milked it I'm not going to
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lie to you and so George says can I see
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El I said sure So I take George
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backstage that was good to see you again
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George Elvis looked at me like I'm GNA
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kill
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you George laugh he said don't ever
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bring anybody back here before a
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sure he said this is my time 10 minutes
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I don't want to talk to nobody I don't
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want to see anybody he got on me it
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could have been worse but it was worth
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it I was hanging out with George
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Harrison now lots of you probably saw
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the El movie and last do you hate
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Colonel
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Parker let me start off by saying he was
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a very shrew
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businessman but he got things done I
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mean his product was the number one
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product in the world even
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today now colel was true but in the
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movie they said the show El was Fallen
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he's own drugs they put his head in the
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bucket colel say I don't care what it
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takes to St that's
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I he was screw but he wasn't
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like that he had a heart he used to
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bring me toys every year you know before
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I went to work for I was stuffed animals
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RCA records ha machines Michael's death
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in drugs there were exact same Prince
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Whitney I have an organization that I'm
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creating called race on Rock I'm a
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speaker and have been a speaker for the
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last 50 years I speak in colleges high
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schools associations drug reab centers
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on the dangerous of prescribed
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medication just because the doctor given
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it to you doesn't mean it's good for you
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but the other side of Elvis the one we
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celebrate he was he was the deal it was
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the hardest thing in my life to walk in
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his bathroom seeing Joe Charlie Vernon
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Sandy Vernon's SI girlfriend at the time
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and Elvis SL in a fet position
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Dead That's The Darkest Day of My Life
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And when people say if you believe El is
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alive shut your fat mouth have some
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respect you know I know it's fun and
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else is a lot but I have people I think
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he's really a lot I just you know I'm
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Comm and mow and
23:59
68 years 69 years old one if they don't
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leave in a second we're going to have a
24:05
casual I mean I understand people love
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El and then some people I talk to well
24:10
if you love El so much why didn't you
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save it did my best and then you
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know how do you stop somebody you know
24:19
you can't protect them from yourself if
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I've ever been around an addict you know
24:22
what I'm talking about I was was a drug
24:24
addi got hooked by doctors prescribed
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medication was me years on the 16th of
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August he
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died Heart Attack by overdose you take
24:37
that much do your heart's going to stop
24:38
eventually and that's what happened and
24:41
I'm very truthful now I think it's great
24:44
that encourage you to
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go but you know when I drive by that
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house my mind goes back to
24:51
1960 driving the driveway that's your
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home the guy that lived there is your
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brother your step brother you know this
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is your
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life um when I
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go you know I go through the house and
25:05
they had those things in piz and things
25:08
everybody takes it off it follows
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me when I walk out the door there's 25
25:15
people but when I go what what I love
25:18
the most about bracet other than living
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there is when you turn the corner and
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you see all the gold records and the
25:25
platinums and the awards and
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achievements
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that's that that's that says it all
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me another question that I think we can
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do one more question okay
25:37
yeah so out of the 600 plus shows that
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were here how many were you attending
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and do you have any particular moments
25:45
that stand out to you being like a a
25:47
pivotal moment or something that batched
25:49
in your head in the 7 69 we came out for
25:52
the month so we did 30 shows we stayed
25:54
here the whole month 70 we came out for
25:57
a couple ofek weeks so we didn't have
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those shows but 60 then 72 I'm here from
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72 to 77 all the
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shows so the one that stands out the
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most of that first night is a 13y old
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boy watching this guy rule the world
26:16
basically Los Angeles 74 L Zeppelin my
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eldest was in an audience and that was
26:24
when I just threw down on it I mean holy
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cow the the the for was unbelievable and
26:30
they even said we got to be good tonight
26:31
cuz let Zeppelin's here Elvis wasn't a
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zeppelin fan I was a zeppelin fan two I
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we tennis shoes jeans and L Little T
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t-shirts I had kisss on my briefcase the
26:43
backstage f i says who the hell is kiss
26:47
it's a rock B get that sticker off that
26:49
brief why you don't work for them you
26:51
work for me look at the bottom of your
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picture about
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Priscilla no
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no no no I love your I've always loved
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her I came over in 60 she came over in '
27:09
62 we picked her up at the airport I
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thought that was the most beautiful
27:13
thing I've ever
27:14
seen I used to tell her as a kid how
27:17
much I had a crush on my birthday she'd
27:19
Take Me birthday shopping Elvis would be
27:21
in LA and we be Grayson in the movie it
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shows her being all by herself where
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there's three little boys running around
27:27
there driving crazy cuz that's what I
27:29
remember she used to put on black eye
27:31
makeup and turn off the lights and be a
27:34
vampire Chas us around the
27:36
house um they got divorced when she left
27:41
I had I was there picking up the pieces
27:42
of all that oh I suad but I stayed in
27:46
touch with it um so it's got her truth
27:50
you know I I got to say she comes over
27:53
here she gets with Elvis if you saw the
27:55
movie prisilla
27:58
that was
27:59
accurate you may not like that oh you sp
28:03
that but that was a fact so I was
28:05
sympathetic toward her as well as I was
28:09
was um did she this did she that did she
28:11
use did she love him she loved him and
28:15
he loved her but Elvis loved everybody I
28:19
mean imagine your Elvis's wife and pride
28:23
child and 16
28:26
girlfriends and in the frame was lyrics
28:29
to the song Dream The Impossible
28:32
Dream so at the bottom of that was
28:36
broken
28:38
handwriting and the handwriting was my
28:41
dream is to meet out was
28:49
fresman when you can make a dream come
28:50
true God gave me the opportunity to make
28:52
a dream come
28:53
true you're coming with me SP goes
28:57
where's it going he's coming was made
28:58
doesn't matter he going I mean I was
29:02
bent parents of course let him go I rode
29:05
a back behind the curtain that St in the
29:06
dressing room there was a police
29:09
standing at at the door like there
29:11
always was I knocked walked in now
29:14
remember Elvis had told me don't just
29:17
come barging in
29:19
here I said wish to meet somebody I told
29:22
you David I mean him I said you need to
29:25
meet this guy I told you David fin I did
29:28
it I just brashing on you're going to
29:30
meet this
29:31
guy I was say this better be good I mean
29:35
he was he was not
29:36
happy so I went got the guy open the
29:39
door RO Elvis was looking in the mirror
29:41
coming his hair ping a scarf and he
29:45
looked in the mirror and saw the boy in
29:46
the wheelchair he roll him in I was
29:49
walked over to the boy fell on his knees
29:52
dropped his head in his lap and cried
29:54
like a 2-year-old baby he was
29:57
overwhelmed
29:58
this guy's dream was to beet Elvis bre
30:02
the GU R hold the frame Elvis I love you
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thank
30:07
you wow he stood up that was cuz I told
30:12
him I said BOS we got a shutter
30:14
dude he looked at me with those piercing
30:16
blue eyes and said you take care of my
30:19
boy I said it's done roll him
30:23
out put it back in the section but
30:25
lifted him up higher on the side of the
30:27
stage
30:28
Alvis came
30:30
out 20,000 flash buubs went off at the
30:33
same time 500 young ladies rest the
30:35
stage and 2 minutes later 500 old lady
30:38
rest the
30:39
sake it was an Elvis
30:41
concert but Elvis is out there throwing
30:44
down on this guy just sit there God
30:46
bless you and thank
30:53
you that was amazing I know I went on a
30:53
little long but I'm going to leave a lot
30:54
of that in because his stories were just
30:57
stories were just amazing here's 7 this
30:59
is the year I was
31:00
born
31:11
76 I mean just it's just insane to think
31:11
about that this is it right here this is
31:13
the stage 6 and what 50
31:24
shows I just amazing man so cool it's a
31:24
little extra clutter but so this is how
31:28
the floor originally was through the
31:29
whole area it still is underneath but
31:31
yeah this was right here
31:34
here really everyone everyone is a
31:37
different because you never know you
31:39
know David has different stories and
31:41
people's questions um David will there
31:45
sometimes I hear something new that I
31:47
hadn't heard
31:58
before exit stage
31:58
out here oh really I got to do the Elvis
32:00
move and put put the hand down here
32:02
there you go oh thank you oh thank you
32:03
very
32:04
much that's what he would do he would
32:06
reach town thank you oh thank you very
32:23
mind that's okay all right as I'm
32:23
heading out of here I did ended up
32:25
talking to David and asked him if all
32:28
his brothers were still alive and he was
32:29
saying that Ricky who was older than him
32:32
which was the one that came to speak at
32:33
my school in nville Florida Rocky by
32:35
chrisan he passed away in
32:37
2019 but evidently Ricky used to live in
32:41
nville which is where I lived at that
32:42
time in the late ' 80s and I guess
32:44
that's why being a minister he came to
32:47
the Christian School to talk but I
32:50
really really enjoyed that was awesome
33:04
so I ended up talking to David for a
33:04
little while
33:06
afterwards really nice guy again I was
33:09
talking about talk how his brother came
33:11
to speak at school I used to go to in
33:15
80s and I asked him they did some
33:18
Q&A also I bought a bought a couple
33:20
things couple Elvis things also there's
33:22
really no Elvis stuff on the strip and I
33:25
think it's because no one's allowed to
33:26
use the image because I kind of figured
33:29
you'd have some Elvis stuff on t-shirts
33:31
and stuff but all the Elva stuff was at
33:34
the Westgate now maybe they have it in
33:35
other places maybe Fremont or downtown
33:37
or anything but on the strip I didn't
33:39
see much Elva stuff anyway I'll show it
33:41
in a second at the end but I asked him I
33:44
forgot to ask him the Q&A but I asked
33:45
him afterwards he was sitting at his
33:48
table if he was there in Hawaii during
33:51
the shows in Hawaii and he said yes I
33:54
was they did two t two two tapings and
33:57
he was off to the side
33:58
stage and I said one of my favorite
34:01
Elvis moments is American Trilogy from
34:05
the Hawaii Show Elvis in Hawaii and he
34:09
was there witnessing that he was there I
34:11
just thought man that is that is one of
34:13
literally the coolest
34:14
things about I don't know every 6 months
34:17
or so maybe more than that I'll throw
34:19
that out and watch that watch that clip
34:21
I highly recommend if maybe you're not
34:24
familiar with Elvis or if you are
34:26
familiar with I imagine everybody's
34:27
familiar with Elvis but if you have not
34:29
seen that to check out Elvis performing
34:32
American Trilogy in Hawaii it
34:36
is I think it might be my favorite Elvis
34:39
performance got this this little
34:41
miniature of the sculpture that is
34:44
in the
34:46
Westgate formerly the
34:48
international Elvis's returned back home
34:51
to the flamingo from viva Las Vegas and
34:53
I got this shirt this Elvis on tour
34:57
shirt
35:01
all right that's going to do it for
35:01
today thanks for watching I'll see you
35:02
in the next video the Vlog
35:05
is
35:07
over if you made it all the way to the
35:10
end if you made it all it was a long
35:11
video if you made it all the way to the
35:13
end of this I just want to say oh thank
35:16
you oh thank you very much