[Revolting cat!]

Elvis, like his parents, was a white trash ignoramus who stumbled on a musical style already explored by others in the early 1950s, and who owed much if not all of his early success to guitarist Scotty Moore, which is something you're bound to discover after listening to those early sides a few hundred times, as some of us have, something that those enamored with the "great artist" and his pretentious Las Vegas performances of trashy semi patriotic hymns and ofMy Way and Hey Jude will never do (I've heard dismissive opinions from some of those Viva Las Vegas admirers that the early Sun sides is just some country sh_t!) Just ask the great rock guitarists of the 60s and 70s who they admire Elvis or Scotty Moore!

[veronica]

Elvis, like his parents, was a white trash ignoramus...

Yes, he was born poor. Yet he managed to get the pinnacle of the music business, he became an icon, he could sing almost every style of music, and he is regarded as one of the greatest vocal artists of the 20th century.

Not exactly the accomplishments of an "ignoramous." ;))

[Conservative til I die]

Elvis, like his parents, was a white trash ignoramus

There's that anti-poor snobbery that occasionall bubbles to the surface from certain conservatives. No wonder the liberals hate us.