Elvis jamming on stage with electric guitar in 1970

[ForrestGump]

Thought this was a pretty cool blast from the past from Vegas, back when Elvis ruled this place.

From August, 1970, playing his 1964 Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar and winging it on songs that weren't part of his setlist at that time, including a medley of "Little Sister" and "Get Back" as well as abbreviated takes on "Love Me," "Are You Lonesome Tonight," and "I Was The One." He ditches the guitar for "Bridge Over Troubled Water" at the end of the second clip (fairly obviously there was no footage for most of that song, possibly because it wasn't shot -- they used large Panavision cameras that were limited to short continuous shots and many of the songs Elvis was filmed doing were no filmed in their entirety).

None of the footage shot was used in the MGM documentary that resulted, Elvis - That's The Way It Is, and only parts of "Little Sister" have recently been officially released (yeah, they annoyingly cut out "Get Back" because of those pesky licensing agreements):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR8S1TYcZOY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FikM2doCUtk



Shoot...a special bonus, and why not -- closing a show on tour two years later, complete with the famous 'cape ending,' a blinded Elvis walking smack into an MGM cameraman, and "Elvis has left the building":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJWCRHBRrzo