R.I.P

HMN

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Always funny I you hear people talking about radio Luxembourg.............I remember that I connected the antenna of my transistor radio to my metal bed...........waiting for a Stones song

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“It is with great sadness we say goodbye to Scotty Moore, my first inspiration.
The work he performed on those incredible early Elvis tracks stays with me forever.
Farewell old friend.“ - Keith



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R.I.P Scotty Moore, sad,sad,sad, left us with great music.

The Starlite Wranglers

Two weeks before Scotty recorded with Elvis he cut two tracks
with his first band the The Starlite Wranglers with Doug Poindexter out front.... guitar already in place



ROCKMAN

RIP, Scotty. Thanks for everything!

Hadn't heard or seen this in awhile - RIP Scotty.

Levon Helm, Keith Richards, Scotty Moore, D. J. Fontana & The Band: Deuce & A Quarter





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Scotty on the 68 comeback special is amazing. He truly complimented Elvis' sound, even on the awful films of the 60s.

I always maintain that Elvis was blessed with three great guitarists; Scotty, Reggie Young on the 69 sessions in Memphis, and James Burton.

Scotty also turned up on a Jerry Lee Lewis session at Sun in 1962, and the two almost came to blows, which was amazing given Scotty's calm character.

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Hadn't heard or seen this in awhile - RIP Scotty.

Ah, that was brilliant fun, thanks Swiss! Nice to see Keith with his hero!

Rockeee, that nice video of Keith on Scotty - same session, track playing in the background! Lovely.





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Keith Richards on Scotty Moore: 'He Was My Hero'

Elvis' iconic Fifties guitarist is remembered by one of his greatest fans


Keith Richards remembers his guitar "hero," late Elvis Presley sideman Scotty Moore. From Left: Raphael Dias/Getty ; Michael Ochs/Getty

By Keith Richards

A deep love of the blues united the great British rock guitarists who came of age in the Sixties, but for some, Scotty Moore – best known as Elvis' right-hand man on era-defining classics as "Jailhouse Rock" and "Heartbreak Hotel" – was every bit as influential. Keith Richards in particular wrote in Life that "Scotty Moore was my icon." Recently, in the wake of Moore's death at age 84, Richards spoke to Rolling Stone about his early idol.

Elvis would not have been Elvis without Scotty Moore. When I was a kid, after the BBC would shut off, another station would come on, called Radio Luxembourg. It had terrible reception – I'd be carrying my radio all around my room. That's how I heard "Heartbreak Hotel." I was an acoustic player, lurking in the folk area. But that's when I knew I wanted to go electric.

Scotty Moore was my hero. There's a little jazz in his playing, some great country licks and a grounding in the blues as well. It's never been duplicated. I can't copy it. The closest I came was tracks like "Parachute Woman," where I fooled around with echoes – those early Elvis recordings got me interested in the possibility of the studio. The first one I got had some of the Sun stuff: "Baby Let's Play House," "Milkcow Blues Boogie." But "Mystery Train" is the apex. It's just Bill Black on bass, Elvis on acoustic, and Scotty. No drums. And it's just the most amazingly huge sound. Elvis didn't age as well as he should have, but at 19, 20 years old, it was mind-boggling. There's a run-down that Scotty does on several cuts, like "I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone," which I've never figured out. When I'd ask Scotty, he'd just give me a sly grin.

All we really know about Scotty are those relatively few tracks. He stopped recording with Elvis in the early Sixties, though he did return for the '68 special. I was hoping they would pick up the thread together, but it didn't happen. He was probably still getting paid scale – that band got paid scale for Jailhouse Rock and everything. If you were working with the Colonel, good luck.

Scotty's two big influences were Les Paul and Chet Atkins, the innovators of the damned thing. He was a gentle, unassuming guy. He liked his scotch – they didn't call him Scotty for nothing. In 1996, I went up to Woodstock to do a session at Levon Helm's barn with Levon, Scotty and Elvis' drummer D.J. Fontana. I've gotten used to playing with my heroes – I played with Little Richard in his dressing room when I was 19, thinking, "This'll do!" – but this was the crème de la crème. It was a session of good old boys. There was plenty of whiskey that day. There will never be another Scotty Moore.

As told to Patrick Doyle

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Thank you Cristiano. Keith's almost made me cry again.
Love and light to Scotty Moore - love and light, and thanks and praises.

Listen to our latest episode of 'Rolling Stone Music Now' podcast about Keith Richards' first guitar hero, Elvis Presley guitarist Scotty Moore. or check it out below



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