Elvis Presley
Kansas City, MO
1974-06-29
evening show
"Kansas City Blues"
1. See See Rider
2. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again/Blue Christmas
3. I Got A Woman/Amen
4. Love Me
5. Trying To Get To You
6. All Shook Up
7. Love Me Tender
8. Hound Dog
9. Fever
10. Polk Salad Annie
11. Why Me, Lord ?
12. Suspicious Minds
13. Introductions
14. I Can't Stop Loving You
15. Help Me
16. Bridge Over Troubled Water
17. Let Me Be There (with reprise)
18. Funny How Time Slips Away (with reprise)
19. Big Boss Man
20. Steamroller Blues
21. Can't Help Falling In Love/closing vamp
This concert (the original soundboard tape omitted the last songs from the show) was originally released on the 4-CD set ÒA Profile. The King On Stage,Ó in great quality, but this release features slightly improved sound. The last four songs were culled from a soundboard tape of the June 28 Milwaukee show (the original CD release used songs from Dayton, on the October tour, to replace the missing tracks).
Elvis gave a great tour in June-July of 1974, being very energetic on stage and vocally very strong. He also had a couple of new songs in the repertoire compared with the March tour, including a nice reworking of 1967Õs ÒBig Boss ManÓ (debuted on the short May tour on the West Coast and included in his May stand in Lake Tahoe). Elvis was in particularly good humor for this show, playing with the audience unmercifully at the start of the show, including an impromptu foray into two songs that seemed perennial favorites of his (ÒWhen My Blue Moon Turns To Gold AgainÓ and ÒBlue ChristmasÓ) before getting on with ÒI Got A Woman.Ó He even endorses Jimmy Dean sausages, at some point, for reasons known only to him. His aside ÒdonÕt you move, you big sumbitchÓ (after ÒAll Shook UpÓ) was directed toward a large stuffed animal, a gorilla, some girls had placed on stage.
A thoroughly enjoyable concert to listen to, this is, from start to finish. Elvis was in great form and really, really having fun with a great Kansas City audience. HeÕd be back in Vegas less than a month later, playing a very nice setlist and turning out some great performances (albeit, toward the stintÕs end, with disturbing undertones and a few such overtones), but the atmosphere of a stadium crowd with a larger, younger, and more fan-laden audience sees Elvis in his real element. As always, being there in the stadium on the night must have been orders of magnitude more exciting and amazing.
Elvis wore his new embroidered jumpsuits -- much lighter than the bejeweled kind with the capes -- on this tour. For the afternoon show he wore the American Eagle suit, an embroidered version of his classic "Aloha" eagle suit, and for this show he wore the Inca Gold Leaf suit, an embroidery take on the earlier and vastly heavier "Today" or "Pharoah" suit that he wore in 1973.
Musicians:
Lead guitar: James Burton
Rhythm guitar: John Wilkinson
Bass: Duke Bardwell
Piano: Glen D. Hardin
Drums: Ronnie Tutt
Acoustic guitar: Charlie Hodge
The Joe Guercio Orchestra conducted by Joe Guercio
Backup vocals: The Sweet Inspirations, JD Sumner and The Stamps Quartet, Voice
Source: soundboard recording
http://rapidshare.com/files/145594776/ElvisPresley740629FLAC_01.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/145737424/ElvisPresley740629FLAC_02.zip
