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Tobus - Posted - 05/23/2017: 11:32:17
This looks like him on that very same stage, playing guitar. So yeah, it's Elvis.
*edited to add: I notice horses in the background in both photos. Wonder what the venue was?
Edited by - Tobus on 05/23/2017 11:33:50
Brooklynbanjoboy - Posted - 05/23/2017: 11:37:29
Looks like it. Same boots. Thanks
TOMCAT - Posted - 05/23/2017: 11:46:13
This could have been on the set of one of his movies, perhaps.
trapdoor2 - Posted - 05/23/2017: 11:47:04
Looks like he's playing with an accordionist (on the far left). Isn't having a banjo and an accordion on the same stage a felony?
deestexas - Posted - 05/23/2017: 12:02:50
The photo is from Elvis' first movie, "Love Me Tender."
Brooklynbanjoboy - Posted - 05/23/2017: 12:05:53
I yield to the experts. Thanks.
banjoman56 - Posted - 05/23/2017: 12:44:39
quote:
Originally posted by trapdoor2
Looks like he's playing with an accordionist (on the far left). Isn't having a banjo and an accordion on the same stage a felony?
If it's not it should be!
mikehalloran - Posted - 05/23/2017: 13:58:10
Hmmm... Elvis could play guitar, upright & electric bass and piano—that's well known. He grew up in rural Mississippi.
If he didn't play banjo or ukulele, I doubt it was because he couldn't.
TLG - Posted - 05/23/2017: 14:08:40
In the late 1970's , the Elvis people/staff/ect were going thru his house collecting stuff for display. In the attic they found a "tater bug" or banjo mando in need of repair. They contacted me about repairing it & showed pictures of said item . I said I could & needed to take it to my shop to do the work. They went ballistic & said it could not leave the Elvis estate for any reason & I would have to repair it on site. I tried to explain I could not repair it there & needed my tools & shop equipment to do the work. So it stayed there & probably went back in the attic & I never heard from them again. (That's my Elvis story & I'm stickin' to it)
Elvis was probably given lots of instruments over the years.
Tommy
banjered - Posted - 05/23/2017: 14:35:47
Yep, that's Elvis with a banjo - ARREST HIM!
bluegrassbanjopicker - Posted - 05/23/2017: 14:46:37
quote:
Originally posted by TLG
In the late 1970's , the Elvis people/staff/etc., were going thru his house collecting stuff for display. In the attic they found a "tater bug" or banjo mando in need of repair. They contacted me about repairing it & showed pictures of said item . I said I could & needed to take it to my shop to do the work. They went ballistic & said it could not leave the Elvis estate for any reason & I would have to repair it on site. I tried to explain I could not repair it there & needed my tools & shop equipment to do the work. So it stayed there & probably went back in the attic & I never heard from them again. (That's my Elvis story & I'm stickin' to it)
Elvis was probably given lots of instruments over the years.
Tommy
Seriously? Repairing it on site? Some persons can get very unrealistic views of how valuable an instrument is.
kmwaters - Posted - 05/23/2017: 15:15:54
Good catch Dees. This was like a Jeopardy question.
RCraft - Posted - 05/23/2017: 15:56:18
quote:
Originally posted by banjoman56
quote:
Originally posted by trapdoor2
Looks like he's playing with an accordionist (on the far left). Isn't having a banjo and an accordion on the same stage a felony?
If it's not it should be!
I'm going to have to very strongly disagree 
rcc56 - Posted - 05/24/2017: 22:09:41
quote:
Originally posted by trapdoor2
Looks like he's playing with an accordionist (on the far left). Isn't having a banjo and an accordion on the same stage a felony?
There was a fellow by the name of Bill Monroe who committed that felony on some recordings made in the '40's.
Aradobanjo - Posted - 05/25/2017: 03:21:00
Hello,
And she was a good accordionist. Columbia has several recordings of her playing.
I certainly enjoyed playing a Prussian accordionist. He was a friend of father-in-law. He had survived WWII as young child near Ukraine. He spoke German, Ukraine, and Russian. He is dead now. I always looked forward to visiting with him.
banjoman56 - Posted - 05/25/2017: 14:58:21
quote:
Originally posted by rcc56
quote:
Originally posted by trapdoor2
Looks like he's playing with an accordionist (on the far left). Isn't having a banjo and an accordion on the same stage a felony?
There was a fellow by the name of Bill Monroe who committed that felony on some recordings made in the '40's.
That's probably not the only felony Bill committed in the 40's. In the late 40's, Earl set him on the good path. 
