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[Monday]

Was sandy so alles erzählt ist immer sehr interessant

absolut marie
eine symphatische art wie sie es beschreibt,daran ist nichts sensationslüstern.

[MARIE]

Sie ist auch ein niederländerin

[gast-20100125]

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Post subject: Sandi: Did Elvis "help" around the house?
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:09 pm

It's something never discussed but I've always wondered. Yeah, I know he had employees; cleaners, cooks etc. But Did Elvis actually ever do any kind of house work? Did he prepare dinner, no matter how basic, did he vacuum, do the dishes, sweep up, dust, or anything of that nature, or did he leave it for others to do? And was he ever physically involved with decorating Graceland? Did he actually paint any walls, doors etc. Or any DIY??

I'd like to think he did SOME stuff like this. I'm sure he did in the early days, but I'm wondering about the 60s and 70s here. Would be a groovy image of Elvis on the Graceland stair-well on his knees with a vacuum cleaner!!

Thanks in advance Sandi!

DutchLA

Post subject: Re: Sandi: Did Elvis "help" around the house?
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:58 pm


I like questions like this - something different from the usual, even if I can't always answer them completely. First, I'm pretty clueless about anything that went on in Graceland or Memphis for that matter because I only went there 3 times while Elvis was alive and the extent of being around Elvis on those trips was only in the Memphian and then in the music room downstairs after the shows. Soooo....will move on to Palm Springs and the LA Homes.

The only thing I've ever personally see Elvis do on the domestic front is 1: he made toast pretty good, made lemonade, put tv dinners in the oven (and burned more than one) he'd often make coffee and sandwiches and was very good at opening chips and pouring them into big bowls to be brought into the living room. I will say he cleaned up after himself in Palm Springs - he'd rinse out his cup and leave it in the sink, wipe off the counter, didn't leave his dishes sitting on the coffee table but would bring them back into the kitchen and rinse them off. Don't recall him doing any of those things in the LA homes but then the help was always there whereas in Palm Springs they rarely came down for the weekend. His bedroom was always neat (clothes hung up) and his bathroom always cluttered but clean (cleaner than the other bathrooms in the house I might add!)

They had take out Chinese food one night which meant tons of those little white cartons of food - probably at least 25 cartons sitting all over the living room. Who cleaned up? Charlie and Elvis - funniest thing I've ever seen - those two walking around the living room with big trash bags picking up cartons. I wanted SO bad to take a photo! That was the only time I ever saw him do that and I think he knew we were gawking! He had that quirkey little grin on his face that said "go ahead and tell everyone - they won't believe you anyway!!" So - in Palm Springs he kind of reverted to non-celebrity status. But to wrap it up - usually whoever the girls were in the house would do the cleaning up (the regular ones, not the newcomers) and occasionally one of them would actually bake something. If the maid came down, no one did anything!!!! (then, when everyone went to bed, this is what the maids did!!)

Oh, and no, never saw him sweep, vacuum or paint. I can't even imagine him doing any of those things although he did a nifty job of painting those figures in the showroom of the Hilton!!


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Post subject: For Sandy>Drug use in the Elvis circle
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:11 pm


i came to think about this when watching the elvis by the presley clip where priscilla claims she and elvis tried LSD once (watching a fishtank and getting freaked out).
I was wondering about the usage of drugs and alcohol both by Elvis himself and the crowd around him.
I'm not talking here about Elvis self-medicating but the party aspect of drug use.
Being the 70's, did some of the people smoke weed or do other recreational drugs? and how about alcohol? was there party nights where people got stoned/drunk?
Or was Elvis pretty much anti so that if there was any smoking or drinking , people didn't do them when Elvis was around or try to hide any usage from the group

DutchLA
Post subject: Re: For Sandy>Drug use in the Elvis circle

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 7:33 pm
can only talk about what I saw when I was actually around. Wasn't around for the LSD thing but have heard plenty about it.

It was very common for the boys to haul out the little pills once Elvis had gone to bed - they'd pass stuff around to the girls that were left (usually their dates etc.) and if they smoked weed, they went out back around the pool. never saw them do either around Elvis and I doubt he would have cared about the weed frankly but one time he had, everyone presumed, gone to bed for the night, when one of the guys started passing out some pills (they said they wouldn't do anything so we passed - if it's not "gonna do anything" why take it? Next thing we hear Elvis' bedroom door open up and Elvis coming down the hall not looking very happy at what was going on.

Long story short - he told the girls to all leave, ditto with the guys except for the one that was spending the night at the house that evening and, I'm para-phrasing here but "I don't care what you do in your own homes but DO NOT hand out that stuff in my home-I'm responsible for everyone in this room" now get out. I don't know if he was angry because they were trying to hide doing it from him or what but the man was not any too pleased. Only happened that one time (him finding out) that I know of.

As for the drinking - Elvis didn't drink really. Maybe a bloody Mary once a year or something. SOme of the guys were heavy drinkers however but if they were "on call" they didn't drink. There was always one MM who would be designated to be in charge which meant they better be alert. They took turns with that. Did I make that sound more confusing than it needed to be?

[cos]

Also praktisch das, was Monday in deutsch oben schrieb nochmals in Englisch.

[gast-20100121]

und mit Angabe wo es herkommt.

[cos]

Ach so, die kleine Spitze mit dem FECC war die Quellenangabe? Muss einem auch gesagt werden.

[gast-20100121]

dachte ich mir, daß man das extra sagen muß.

[burroughs]

das ist ja nun mal nichts neues, dass die dame dort nen eigenen thread hat,
in dem sie ihre erinnerungen (gg beitrag einsehbar) teilt

[gast-20100121]

stimmt, vielen ist das nicht neu, aber manchen vielleicht eben doch.
Außerdem ist es immer ganz schön, wenn man das Original nochmal nachlesen kann und sich dafür nicht 'nen Wolf suchen muß, wenn man eben noch nicht so erfahren ist.

[cos]

Ich finde es schön, dass wir hier in einem deutschen Forum den Inhalt in deutsch erklärt bekommen. So haben die, die der englischen Sprache nicht so mächtig sind, auch etwas davon.

[gast-20100121]

dagegen sag ich gar nix. Das ist auch gut. Aber beides als Möglichkeit zu haben, da es beides gibt in dem Fall, wär eben die Option, die ich bevorzuge. Ein link reicht.

[burroughs]

mit dem link kommst du aber drüben im englischen forum nicht weit

[Monday]

Mal wieder im FECC unterwegs um Beiträge zu sammeln?

...ach Linda,was ist los? scheiss wochenende gehabt?
ich erklärs dir mal.
diese und viele andere berichterstattungen sind u.a. zu den verschiedensten anlässen von sandi miller berichtet worden. z.b. berichtete sie vieles bei elvis - insiders,ebenso bei elvis-brasil und im fecc board.
meist ist sie als gast bei den verschiedenen elvis-weeks in memphis gewesen,somit wäre eine quellenangabe recht vielfältig.
sandi miller ist erst sein ca. einem jahr im fecc forum und beantwortet freundlicherweise die fragen anderer user.

wie ich in meinem posting zu ihren aussagen bereits erklärte stammen diese aussagen aus interviews,getätigt von SANDI MILLER.
ist das nun für dich geistreiche "elvis-kennerin" eine quellenangabe oder nicht?

wie ich dir bereits vor einigen tagen deine hinterfotzige art vor augen führte,gehe ich nun auch gerne nochmals auf deine zweitbeste fähigkeit ein,die doppelmoral.

wie hast du kürzlich noch in einer diskussion angemerkt?

antwort an Blues Boy 2.september 2009 15.38 uhr


"ne quellen nenne ich tatsächlich nicht mehr-warum sollte ich? nachdem es hier so einige gibt,die über so ein enormes wissen verfügen,ausser platitüden aber nicht in der lage sind/wollen/können,sachlich zu diskutieren und auch mal über den tellerrand zu schauen,sehe ich keinen grund,quellen zu nennen oder mehr infos preis zugeben"

https://www.elvisnachrichten.de/showthread.php?p=673843#post673843

also linda, zu deiner hinterfotzigkeit und doppelmoral kommt offensichtlich eine enorme beschränktheit hinzu.

es gibt zahlreiche postings dieser güteklasse,ich möchte sie dir und allen anderen ersparen.

du versuchst es halt immer wieder,widme dich doch dem thema elvis presley und mach dich nicht noch unglaubwürdiger als du es ohnehin bist.
auch heute wünsche ich dir ein glückerlicheres händchen für deine zukünftigen postings,denn das ist wohl das einzige was dir helfen kann.

[gast-20100118]

...ist das nun für dich geistreiche "elvis-kennerin" eine quellenangabe oder nicht?

komische Quellenangabe.

[gast-20100118]

das sei so sandi,immer der zeitpunkt gewesen wo einige der mm ihre pillendöschen zückten.diese pillen seien wie smarties verteilt worden.jedenfalls sei elvis noch mal in die küche gekommen und habe dies mitbekommen.
er kam ins wohnzimmer und schäumte vor wut,er schimpfte seine jungs an,er wolle so etwas nicht mit seinen gästen sehen.er nannte sie einen haufen idioten,er meinte das er die verantwortung trage,schliesslich sei es sein haus.daraufhin schmiss er alle aus dem haus und ging zu bett.

wäre eigentlich fast nen eigenen thread wert.