How much music history has been lost?
Bones Howe ran the band machines during the first Hollywood sessions for 22-year-old Elvis Presley in 1957. “They drove west in a piece of Cadillac, all the boys in the band and all their instruments,” recalls Howe, now 80 years old. During breaks from the studio, “they drove up and slowed down at sunset so Elvis could wave to the girls on the sidewalk to see if they would walk into traffic.“The sessions started to swell and “All Shook Up” was included in number 1. One day, a few years later, Howe walked into the back of the studio and noticed a bin full of tires.“I recognized a bunch of red and white boxes,” he says, “the original Elvis session tapes I was working on” He took the garbage home and stole it in his cool and dark underground garage until after Elvis's death, when RCA came knocking, with a checkbook.
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