New sessions site.

Larry Dickman · #304254

http://www.penaltyofleadership.com/main.php

Larry Dickman · #304263

Sorry Carolyn don't know much about the site....looks like quite a comprehensive......just thought a few on here might find it worth a visit......

#304268

Quite an impressive site and good to see the details and that the site hasn't had the "Dick"-YET!

#304332

Not a bad site, though I have already spotted an error. They list "Kentcuky Rain" from On Stage (1999 reissue) as being from 2/17/70 DS and the version on the Live in Las Vegas Box being from 2/17/70 MS. BUT, both CDs have the same version of the song from 2/17/70 DS. And, its the same as the acetate version found on Behind Closed Doors and Good Times Never Seemed So Good, which incorrectly listed it as being from the 2/18/70 MS.

#304339

Interesting to note that it refers to alternate take 1 of One Sided Love Affair that can be found on the Unsurpassed Masters CD set. Or am I misunderstanding it?

#304433

Interesting.

But nothing that can't be found in Ernst and Tunzi's books and the Elvis Sessions and Keith Flynn websites.

However, kudos's to those mystery people involved for the work.

#304442

Yes, it is difficult (and time consuming) to navigate. I looked for 6 minutes and spotted a lot of errors, especially on Finding The Way Home cd(s)...if others can't spot the errors here it will be a worry, as you can easily be misled/mistaken by other information listed (that is are they accurate or are they also errors).

#304531

Ray wrote:Yes, it is difficult (and time consuming) to navigate. I looked for 6 minutes and spotted a lot of errors, especially on Finding The Way Home cd(s)...if others can't spot the errors here it will be a worry, as you can easily be misled/mistaken by other information listed (that is are they accurate or are they also errors).

Yes ...problem with these session sites..fans take these infos for their records.
If these infos are wrong...we have a problem....cause these wrong infos are spread among fans..
So I´d take these sites with reservations.

But of course I do appreciate the hard work behind.

#304959

For the wanna know it all...

The Penalty of Leadership
In 1967 Cadillac mailed out scrolls of “The Penalty of Leadership” to a customer list. Elvis was on that mailing list. This written work by Theodore F. MacManus had been used in some Cadillac ads as far back as the 1920s. Elvis happened to be out in his father’s office behind Graceland after this had come in the mail. He read “The Penalty of Leadership” and said that, even though the piece had been written before he was born, the author could have just as well been writing about him. Elvis said it described his life. He framed the scroll and hung it near the desk in his own office upstairs at the mansion. He periodically referred to it and quoted from it. He even had a friend, Janelle McComb, draw up and frame a version in hand calligraphy, written in colors to match his bedroom so he could hang one in there. The one Elvis hung in his office is on display for Graceland visitors.

The Penalty of Leadership
In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone - if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you, unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest genius. Multitudes flocked to worship at the shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could not build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is the leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy - but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as the human passions - envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains - the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live - lives.

By Theodore F. MacManus

source: Elvis.com

#305047

they goofed on the sun july 1954 sessions harbor lights was recorded july 5 not july 6. i like master and session and keith's site 10 to 1 over this one.

#305051

E-Cat wrote:For the wanna know it all...

The Penalty of Leadership
In 1967 Cadillac mailed out scrolls of “The Penalty of Leadership” to a customer list. Elvis was on that mailing list. This written work by Theodore F. MacManus had been used in some Cadillac ads as far back as the 1920s. Elvis happened to be out in his father’s office behind Graceland after this had come in the mail. He read “The Penalty of Leadership” and said that, even though the piece had been written before he was born, the author could have just as well been writing about him. Elvis said it described his life. He framed the scroll and hung it near the desk in his own office upstairs at the mansion. He periodically referred to it and quoted from it. He even had a friend, Janelle McComb, draw up and frame a version in hand calligraphy, written in colors to match his bedroom so he could hang one in there. The one Elvis hung in his office is on display for Graceland visitors.

The Penalty of Leadership
In every field of human endeavor, he that is first must perpetually live in the white light of publicity. Whether the leadership be vested in a man or in a manufactured product, emulation and envy are ever at work. In art, in literature, in music, in industry, the reward and the punishment are always the same. The reward is widespread recognition; the punishment, fierce denial and detraction. When a man’s work becomes a standard for the whole world, it also becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few. If his work be merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone - if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a-wagging. Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting. Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play, or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or to slander you, unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius. Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious continue to cry out that it cannot be done. Spiteful little voices in the domain of art were raised against our own Whistler as a mountebank, long after the big world had acclaimed him its greatest genius. Multitudes flocked to worship at the shrine of Wagner, while the little group of those whom he had dethroned and displaced argued angrily that he was no musician at all. The little world continued to protest that Fulton could not build a steamboat, while the big world flocked to the river to see his boat steam by. The leader is assailed because he is the leader, and the effort to equal him is merely added proof of that leadership. Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy - but only confirms once more the superiority of that which he strives to supplant. There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as the human passions - envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass. And it all avails nothing. If the leader truly leads, he remains - the leader. Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman, each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages. That which is good or great makes itself known, no matter how loud the clamor of denial. That which deserves to live - lives.

By Theodore F. MacManus

source: Elvis.com

That is remarkably deep.

It would be nice to see a future film/mini series/documentary including esoteria like this, wouldn't it?