----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net>
> Fine -- don't weep for Lisa Marie. Fret for the fact that the 
> potential for Elvis'  historical legacy to get
> further polluted more than likely expanded by an order of magnitude.

So this means plans are afoot for a remastered triple-disc version of 
HAVING FUN WITH ELVIS ON STAGE with a bonus DVD, I guess.

> I'm surprised no one else is worked up over this ... I figured we 
> had more rock/pop historians in the bunch.

The fact that we're historians is *why* we're not worked up about 
this, I guess.  Elvis -- and the people around him -- never cared a 
damn for the idea of his "historical legacy," and as noted, Elvis 
Presley Enterprises has already done all it can to cheapen the image. 
(I had forgotten about the absurd Elvis wine until Jaimie brought it 
up -- I guess Merck never called EPE's marketing department back about 
their pitch for the special commemorative Quaaludes.)  They've already 
done so much in this direction that as the generations that remember 
him as more than a sad and tacky joke die off, the main things that 
will be remembered are the Jungle Room at Graceland and the 
Valentine's Day cards at CVS that play a tinny synth melody of "Love 
Me Tender" when you open them.  How any corporation can do a more 
thoroughly piss-poor job keeping up the integrity of the brand name 
than Elvis Presley Enterprises already has is beyond me.

S