Reply #17: I have been a fan since I was 5 [View All]

[johnnie]

The kid up the street turned me on to him and I really dug Elvis. I had already had Dion as my favorite, but Elvis was better in my opinion back then.

When he died I was at a friend's house and we were listening to records. At that time I wasn't doing as much listening to Elvis because I was 12 and eating up all the other music I was starting to discover. I had no one in my family to pass that stuff down for me so I searched on my own.

Anyway, we were listening to records and my friend had a copy of Live at Madison Square Garden. I said "Hey, let's play this one" and he was all too happy to do so. That was the only album we listened to all the way through that night.

When I got home that night I walked in the door and my whole family were sitting in front of the TV and they all turned around to look at me. They looked like someone had just died. Well, someone did and they all knew it would knock me out. I was just stunned. I just thought it was strange that we had listened to that album that night.

Same sort of thing happened 3 years later. I woke up to the news and looked over to my turntable. Lennon's Shaved Fish was still sitting on it from the night before. Weird.