Diskussion: Elvis & The Guilloteens

[Mike McCoy]

Neben meiner ( zugegeben wiedererweckten) Leidenschaft für die Musik von Elvis, interessiere ich mich seit vielen Jahre für obskure Beat/Psychedelic Bands der 60er Jahre.
Eine dieser Bands zahlllosen unbekannten Bands sind die Guilloteens aus Memphis, die zwischen 1965 und 1070 existierten und insgesamt 5 Singles (ohne nennenswerten Erfolg) veröffentlichten.
Einer ihrer ersten Auftritte hatte die Band 65 in der lokalen TV Show "Talent Party" in Memphis , die von top Memphis DJ und Elvis-Freund George Klein moderiert wurde.
Angeblich soll 1965 Elvis die Band als seine aktuelle lokale Lieblingsband bezeichnet habe, was augenblicklich dazu geführt haben soll, das die Band eine Plattendeal bei dem HBR Label in Hollywood erhalten hat.
Der Sänger und Lead-Gitarrist der Band Louis Paul Jr. soll sogar gut mit Elvis bekannt gewesen sein. In einem Interview äußerte er sich Jahre später wie folgt:
" .... Elvis used to call me "Highschool" We hung out on the movie set with him when we weren't working. He was a wonderful person, we had a lot of fun. I miss him. The Guilloteens were his favorite band at that time and he used to come to the Red Velvet Lounge to hear us play. He had a place there in the corner where he could sit unnoticed."
"... and it was Elvis who merely picked up the phone and rang up a friend of this who owned the Red Velvet Club out in Hollywood, California. The owner hired the Guilloteens solely on the word of Elvis"

Über Elvis werden ja viele Geschichten erzählt und so habe ich diese Aussagen bisher eher angezweifelt. In der mir bekannten Elvis-Literatur hatte ich bis dato auch nichts gefunden.

Das allerdings was an der Geschichte dran sein könnte, denke ich erst nachdem ich jetzt das wunderbare Buch von Jerry Schilling " Me and a Guy named Elvis" gelesen habe.
Auf S. 117 beschreibt Schilling einen Clubbesuch im besagten Red Velvet Nachtclub. An diesem Abend waren neben den Bands Buffalo Springfield und den Rightous Brothers auch die Guilloteens anwesen. Schilling schreibt ferner, dass die Guilloteens gerade eine Recording Session bei Phil Spector absolvierten und einen Fernsehauftritt bei der überregionalen TV Teenager Show ( Shindig)hatten.
( Notiz am Rande ..Die TV Shindig wurde damals von Steve Binder produziert)

Das sich Schilling nach vier Jahrzehnten noch so gut an eine Nobody Band erinnern kann, wäre auch ein Indiz für die Bekanntschaft zu Elvis.

Weis jemand hier im Forum vielleicht mehr darüber. Existieren eventuell Fotos mit Elvis und der Band ? Finde die Geschichte nicht uninteressant, wenn man bedenkt, dass die Guilloteens vom Stil her krachigen RnB im Stile der British Invasion à la frühe Stones oder The Who gemacht haben und zeigt doch das Elvis musikalisch sehr aufgeschlossen auch für aktuelle progressive Strömungen gewesen sein müsste.

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[Loverdoll]

Kann schon was Wahres dran sein, es gibt auch heute noch Fans, die sich auf ältere Garagenbands spezialisiert haben, eben weil sie meist unbekannt sind!
Fotos mit Elvis und der Band sind mir nicht bekannt, aber das er sie mal Live gesehen hat und die Musik mochte wäre denkbar!

Hier noch zum Thema:

Despite making fans of Elvis Presley and Phil Spector, as well as getting a big local hit in Memphis, the Guilloteens are not too well remembered in the pantheon of mid-'60s garage bands. That's unfortunate, because they were one of the better ones, and certainly one of the best from the South, an area that produced fewer garage bands per capita than the leading regional hotbeds of the sound. Perhaps some of the attention given to other regional garage bands of the era has eluded them because they were more versatile than the usual such act, putting fair quotients of blue-eyed soul, pop, and folk-rock into their sound, as well as the more expected British Invasion and raucous frat rock ingredients. The Guilloteens formed in 1964 when Louis Paul, Laddie Hutcherson, and Joe Davis were members of the touring version of the Mar-Keys (who were by no means the same as the musicians who played on the Mar-Keys' records). When the horn section and singers of the band didn't show up one night, the three played on their own, leading them to decide to form their own group. Local popularity built a fan base that included Elvis Presley, who had known Louis years before the band had formed, got the Guilloteens a gig in early 1965 at the Red Velvet Club in Hollywood, where the group briefly relocated. Phil Spector saw the Guilloteens and was impressed enough to start working on producing their original song "I Don't Believe" in the studio. But for reasons that remain obscure, while Spector was out of town, Guilloteens' manager Jerry Williams signed a deal with the newly launched Hanna Barbera label (an offshoot of the company responsible for popular children's TV cartoons). Still, the Guilloteens' debut single, "I Don't Believe" sans Spector production, was a strong effort mixing British Invasion pop harmony, Searchers-like guitar, and Paul's unusually thick blue-eyed soul vocals. It was a big hit in Memphis, backed with the Kinks knockoff "Hey You," another group original. Paul took vocals on three of the four songs on the band's first two singles, with "For My Own" an impressive follow-up that similarly mixed folk-rock with garage pop, though it wasn't the same regional hit that "I Don't Believe" had been. Paul quit the Guilloteens, however, after that release, unhappy with their manager. By this time the band had returned to Memphis from Los Angeles, and replaced Paul with Buddy Delaney. Another decent single followed, one side of which ("Crying All Over My Time") was co-written by Hutcherson and Jim Dickinson, the latter later to become famous as a sideman and producer. That was their third and last release on Hanna Barbera, as a Southern tour on which they opened for Paul Revere & the Raiders helped get them a deal with Columbia Records. A Revere & the Raiders influence can be heard, in fact, on their first Columbia 45, "Wild Child," a really good slice of tough garage pop-punk that rates as one of the raunchiest garage singles issued on a major label. It couldn't break the Guilloteens nationally, however, and after a final disappointing uncharacteristically pop Columbia single in 1967, the group split up. Delaney made a rare single shortly afterward, "Girl," as frontman for Buddy Delaney & the Candy Soupe, though it was nothing more than a slightly reworked version of the old Guilloteens B-side "Hey You." All ten songs from the Guilloteens' singles (as well as Buddy Delaney & the Candy Soupe's "Hey You") were collected for the Rhino compilation Where the Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968 compilation. ~ Richie Unterberger

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