plays 70’s Elvis songs in Finnish
Hello!
Had a quick session with N-track a few weeks ago. Three hours for basic tracks and lead vocals live to 13 songs.
Drums Glyn Johns inspired two overheads (Röde NT1, T-bone SC450) and a kick mic (T-bone BD300); two guitar amps with two SM58’s; lead vocals with Röde NTK; bass Di’ed and keyboards straight into line ins. Interface M-Audio 1814, RME quadmic preamp. 8 tracks simultaniously.
Then some overdubs during next weeks (bass, percussion, some more guitars, keyboards, backing vocals etc.)
Aries & Valio-orkesteri
Song content will change every now and then.
Erinomainen!
(Hey, on-line translation dictionaries are cool! I have no idea what it means, but it’s suppposed to mean: excellent!)
Chips Moman would be proud of the sound, varakeef!
Did you guys do Suspicious Minds, or Promised Land?
Excellent, you got “erinomainen” just right! Thanks.
No, we didn’t do those songs, but focused on sligtly less known ones. We tracked for example classics like “Change of Habit” and “Have a Happy”, then half of the songs from “That’s the way it is” LP.
Right now my personal favourite is “Sound of Yor Cry” (Nuku rakkain). Just added an extremely touching soprano voice of my sister in law there. She really nailed it there.
I think that’s great. What drew you to Elvis? Often enough, here in the States he’s the punch line to a bad joke.
One of the most religious musical experiences I ever had was taking the tour of Sun Recording - the room sounds exactly like those records. I asked if I could take an impules, and they said no. 
Well, when I was seven years old the first song I learned with guitar was “His latest flame” … thirty years ago so I have a long history of appreciating Elvis, Scotty Moore and the earlier stuff. Probably it had something to do with rock-a-billy revival we had back then in Finland. The phenomenon was very popular then… bit strange actually.
The 70’s stuff has it’s comical, tragical and tragi-comical sides but more you listen to it better it sounds. TCB band was probably the best possible band for Elvis live shows and some of the albums of the era are astonishing.
A few years ago I heard of an amateur Elvis impersonator (they’re not so common here) and we adopted him to our project that does wedding gigs etc. Late Royal Memphis Show. Then one day we ended to a wedding of this Aries-guy who ended up in stage performing “Wonder of you” with Finnish lyrics he had made. He is a huge fan of the 70’s Elvis stuff and his lyrics are … well excellent… So now he’s translated (well not translated exactly but anyway) around 70 of those songs already… I think we’re going to be busy for next few years.
I remember daring you to record the impulses of the Sun studio in this board
Yes, I asked them, and I ended up talking with one of the engineers there, who said that the University of Memphis (a really nice school, BTW, with a great yearly philosophy conference) had asked “for historical purposes” and had offered money in the 5 digit range, and they even said no to that. I hope they have taken some good impulses, just in case it ever folds as a recording studio.
You know, it doesn’t cost that much to record there. 
His Latest Flame (Marie’s the Name) - odd you should mention that. That’s the first Elvis song I really, really liked. Played it a lot in my bar band days. What a great song.
Cool! I thought I saw Elvis at Wal-mart this evening, but it was obviously an imposter. He is alive and well in Finland. The King lives!
Elvis who?
Costello of course.
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Elvis Grbac!