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Ich kopiere jetzt mal das Interview mit DAVE HEBLER hier rein:
Describe your first meeting with Elvis.
- I was working out at a karate school in Santa Monica, California. I just looked up and there was Elvis Presley. He got out on the mat and started working out with us a little bit. I was his dummy (Dave explained that's what they call the guy that just stands there, when working out with a partner).Things went pretty well and we all had a good time. I guess he liked beaten on me, because the next day he called and ask me to work for him. I thought it sounded like a pretty good idea, so I said yes.
Was he a novice when you met him?
- Actually he was an 8th degree when that happen. He had been promoted by Ed Parker.
How long did you work as Elvis' bodyguard?
- From 1972 to 1976.
That had to be an interesting four years.
- Yeah it really was. I don't even know what you could compare it to, quite frankly.
Was he the only one you thought karate in the group, or did you also teach a few of the guys in the Memphis Mafia?
- Yeah, Red, Sonny some of the other guys.
Tell us a little about THE ELVIS EXPERIENCE show that you produced in 1999?
- The show was done in Brooklyn. My daughter and I and I ran it for a week then we got hooked up with sonny, and got him involved. It was a terrifc show.
What was it like working with Doug Church, one of the top Elvis Tribute Artists in the country?
- He's just DOUG off-stage but the minute he walks on stage be becomes ELVIS. Doug is great.
What do you think of tribute artists as a whole?
- I have a lot of sympathy for tribute artists. They have to get out there in front of god and everybody. They're trying to do an impossible job. I don't think it can be done personally, but bless their hearts, they are sincere most of the time, and they are out there trying and you have to give them a hand for that. I don't have a problem with it at all.
What do most of the guys from the good ole Elvis days think of Elvis impersonators?
- Some of the guys, most of them, don't care one way or the other.I do. I like them. The ones I've met, and I've met a lot, were really sincere about trying to put together a show that people will enjoy.
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