04-16-2017, 10:16 AM
(04-14-2017, 07:27 PM)McC Wrote: For one thing, Elvis was not really even a musician. And he took that music to a place Carl Perkins would never go. Elvis was a way better singer and a way better showman. Elvis is on Mt. Rushmore. Perkins is much farther down the hill.
Elvis was weird and got weirder as he got older and there was nobody who could say to him, leading to him dying on the throne at 44, but there is no diminishing his place in the pantheon.
See, this is the post where you said those things I inquired about and referenced again in post 79. You did use the word "showman" for which I substituted "entertainer." I think they are synonymous but prefer entertainer in part because it is more inclusive. But that is the kind of dick I am, focusing on little things all the while I try to learn more and understand the worldviews of those around me.
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