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Poor Deportee · Post by **Poor Deportee** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:13 am

Just thought I'd introduce myself - Poor Deportee, longstanding EC fan (first got into him as an undergraduate listening to 'Spike'). Loving Elvis's music has proven a somewhat lonely experience, though - he's an eccentric choice these days, I fear - so this is a welcome space.

Pleased to be here.

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:06 am

Very pleased to have you- sounds like your EC days started roughly when mine did.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:11 am

Welcome !

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:53 pm

Wilkommen auf forum

Extreme Honey · Post by **Extreme Honey** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:02 pm

Wuddup Cracka?

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:16 pm

Hello there! Eccentric? So where are you roughly and how many times have you seen him live?

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:34 pm

Welcome Deportee!

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 6:52 am

Hjärtligt välkommen ska du vara!

legman open to offers · Tue Jan 03, 2006 1:21 pm

Glad to have you Poor D. !

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 2:39 pm

Bonjour, mon ami!
Welcome to the board!

SweetPear · Post by **SweetPear** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 4:02 pm

Hello and welcome

Poor Deportee · Post by **Poor Deportee** » Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:30 pm

Gee, I posted this reply earlier but it seems to have evaporated - now there's an ill omen

Thanks for the kind welcome, all. The first time I saw EC live was in Montreal for the 'Brutal Youth' tour. I saw him doing the 'Lonely World' tour - BEST T-SHIRT EVER!!!- again in Montreal, a few years later. And then in Ottawa after WIWC, and Vancouver in the wake of 'North.'

The definitive performance, for me, was 'Lonely World.' Towering vocals, incredible energy and presence, lots of engagement with the audience, the whole bit. It practically converted my missus, who is (alas) not a fan but who I keep dragging to these shows.

My favourite album is 'Spike,' partly for sentimental reasons (la scène de la seduction), partly because what others criticize as a vice - i.e., its mad-scientist eclecticism - I see as a glorious profusion of demented genius. Witness 'Chewing Gum.' Plus, 'Tramp the Dirt Down' is as great a protest song as has ever been penned.

Eccentric? Moi? Nah...but in today's arid pop wastelands, with EC long removed from the hit parade, to be a fan of Elvis is eccentric by definition.

OK, now I'll button my lip and follow the threads.

ice nine · Post by **ice nine** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 12:58 pm

Nice to hear from you, PD

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 1:32 pm

I keep waiting for someone to come in and say "For The Stars changed my life!"

so, it's not you, PD, but welcome anyway!

LittleFoole · Post by **LittleFoole** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:48 pm

Poor Deportee wrote:Just thought I'd introduce myself - Poor Deportee, longstanding EC fan (first got into him as an undergraduate listening to 'Spike'). Loving Elvis's music has proven a somewhat lonely experience, though - he's an eccentric choice these days, I fear - so this is a welcome space.

Pleased to be here.

Welcome to the "eccentric choice" forum

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:36 pm

Poor Deportee wrote:

OK, now I'll button my lip and follow the threads.

Hey, PD, don't just follow the threads. . .join in! Be one with the threads, Master Luke!

Misha · Post by **Misha** » Thu Jan 05, 2006 9:50 am

Hiya Deportee....

Welcome to the fray.

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