tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597109012036351539.post4243085529947078118..comments2024-03-11T18:00:02.301+00:00Comments on Monkey Picks: MONKEY USA PART 5: SUN RECORDS, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEEMonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07975282714651024572noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597109012036351539.post-82072397069038028702012-02-01T18:08:13.320+00:002012-02-01T18:08:13.320+00:00I drafted a line about it being emotional but dele...I drafted a line about it being emotional but deleted it as sounded a bit trite; but it was, in a way I hadn't expected.Monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07975282714651024572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1597109012036351539.post-21613697764014311092012-02-01T17:28:18.201+00:002012-02-01T17:28:18.201+00:00Nice postcard Monk. I had one of the most spiritua...Nice postcard Monk. I had one of the most spiritual hours of my life at Sun, following pretty good times at Stax and Graceland the day previously. It was the Moanin at Midnight that got me too, then Elvis (I'm a committed Presleytarian), then Jerry Lee (my Grandad was an opera man - Italian opera - but he absolutely adored JLL. Grandad died in 2009 so I was thinking of him as they played Great Balls of Fire). I was close to tears throughout the hour there. It touched me in a way that Graceland didn't. Like you, I quite fancied just hanging out at Graceland, but I didn't feel any 'presence' there. At Sun, the ghosts of those recordings hung in the air like a Dickensian dockside fog. Too much perspective.Vic Templarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12303501455230613601noreply@blogger.com