WEBVTT - Blue Seattle with Cameron Crowe | Development Hell 0:00:15.356 --> 0:00:23.196 Pushkin. Hello, Hello, Malcolm Glabel here, and welcome to what 0:00:23.636 --> 0:00:27.556 might be the final episode in our development hell series 0:00:27.996 --> 0:00:34.516 of Revision's history. Today we're talking about Alvis Love down 0:00:34.796 --> 0:00:39.356 on his street. That person singing is not Elvias. 0:00:40.796 --> 0:00:42.316 These are the people. 0:00:42.476 --> 0:00:46.996 That's Cameron Crowe. You've seen his movies. Jerry Maguire almost famous, 0:00:47.116 --> 0:00:51.676 he wrote Fast Times at Ridgemont High, so many more. 0:00:52.156 --> 0:00:56.196 And the guitarist on this song is Nancy Wilson from 0:00:56.196 --> 0:00:59.556 the mega nineteen seventies band Heart, who at the time 0:01:00.316 --> 0:01:03.236 was Cameron Crowe's wife. And the story we're going to 0:01:03.276 --> 0:01:05.836 talk about today starts back in the summer of nineteen 0:01:05.876 --> 0:01:10.036 eighty six, when Cameron and Nancy were on their honeymoon. 0:01:11.076 --> 0:01:13.756 They spent it in a little cabin in the Pacific Northwest, 0:01:14.076 --> 0:01:17.676 a little cabin that would become the birthplace for today's 0:01:17.676 --> 0:01:24.836 movie that Never was Blue Seattle, a loving romp about 0:01:24.876 --> 0:01:28.596 two songwriters trying to write a movie for Elvis Presley, 0:01:29.156 --> 0:01:32.076 A movie about a couple writing a movie, written by 0:01:32.076 --> 0:01:35.276 a couple writing a movie. What's not to love? A 0:01:35.316 --> 0:01:37.796 script so meta that it belongs on the big screen. 0:01:38.156 --> 0:01:40.916 Only the big screen wasn't big enough to handle it 0:01:41.356 --> 0:01:43.716 or something like that, because one of the things that 0:01:43.756 --> 0:01:46.756 you might conclude in listening to this interview is that 0:01:46.796 --> 0:01:50.116 for Cameron Crowe, it is so much fun talking about 0:01:50.116 --> 0:01:53.436 his lost Elvis masterpiece that I think he's afraid that 0:01:53.476 --> 0:01:56.356 if he actually makes it, he'll feel abandoned, like a 0:01:56.436 --> 0:02:00.356 version of screenwriter empty nest syndrome. So let's tell the 0:02:00.476 --> 0:02:04.036 story of Blue Seattle. And this interview is different from 0:02:04.036 --> 0:02:06.116 all the other development hell stories we told on the 0:02:06.236 --> 0:02:09.836 series because instead of giving us the script to his movie, 0:02:10.196 --> 0:02:12.596 Cam and Crope gave us the songs he and Nancy 0:02:12.676 --> 0:02:16.196 wrote forty years ago. As in every Elvis movie, the 0:02:16.196 --> 0:02:19.596 best parts of the songs to capture a moment, that 0:02:19.676 --> 0:02:23.116 honeymoon bursts of creative inspiration, and they tell a story 0:02:23.556 --> 0:02:29.276 but a young couple in love. I've been looking forward 0:02:29.276 --> 0:02:32.756 to this. Let's start from the beginning because this is 0:02:33.556 --> 0:02:37.916 this is a story that needs, as you know, appropriate setup. 0:02:38.716 --> 0:02:42.476 Well, when we first talked, I went down a road 0:02:42.516 --> 0:02:47.996 that felt very friendly and evocative and filled with memories. 0:02:48.036 --> 0:02:51.196 Because you are an Elvis guy, your revisionist history on 0:02:51.276 --> 0:02:57.796 Elvis was seminal, and this idea of like never made 0:02:58.716 --> 0:03:01.756 projects from the heart and stuff. It combined with my 0:03:02.196 --> 0:03:06.516 love of Elvis and a particular part of Elvis to 0:03:06.836 --> 0:03:09.116 you just want to like put this in your lap, Malcolm. 0:03:09.396 --> 0:03:12.436 This is this was one that got away. 0:03:13.556 --> 0:03:17.236 Well, let's start with Elvis. So you your first concert 0:03:17.316 --> 0:03:20.436 you ever attended as a kid, right, is an Elvis concert? 0:03:21.036 --> 0:03:22.916 That's right? I won tickets on the radio. 0:03:23.236 --> 0:03:26.236 It's your twelve Yeah, something like that. Which Elvis are 0:03:26.236 --> 0:03:28.876 you getting in that low period? 0:03:28.956 --> 0:03:32.716 Elvis seventy two, Elvis. 0:03:32.396 --> 0:03:35.236 The big, the big high Collers. 0:03:35.476 --> 0:03:40.476 Big high Callers, karate kicks. He was a little obsessed 0:03:40.516 --> 0:03:44.036 with Nixon. In my San Diego Sports Arena show, he 0:03:44.076 --> 0:03:48.556 did an imitation of Nixon and at one point was 0:03:48.596 --> 0:03:52.756 on his back kind of kicking his legs, just having fun. 0:03:52.916 --> 0:03:55.556 The kid was having fun at my show. 0:03:55.996 --> 0:03:58.276 Baroke, it's baro You got Barroke Elvis. 0:03:58.596 --> 0:04:01.476 I got Baroque Elvis. But Malcolm, he did. There was 0:04:01.556 --> 0:04:07.596 one moment where it just broke through, like his genius 0:04:07.636 --> 0:04:10.796 really broke through. And it was a brief moment of 0:04:10.916 --> 0:04:13.316 sunlight through the clouds, but it was bridge over trouble 0:04:13.356 --> 0:04:18.356 water and I felt him connect and there was that 0:04:18.396 --> 0:04:22.556 moment where it was galvanizing and giving what he wanted 0:04:22.596 --> 0:04:26.636 to give, and the audience was like mid shriek and 0:04:26.756 --> 0:04:29.876 kind of taking it in. And and that was that 0:04:30.036 --> 0:04:32.676 was the DNA you were meant to build up from 0:04:32.756 --> 0:04:40.676 watching the show. Okay, there he is when you were feelings, 0:04:42.556 --> 0:04:44.476 it was kind of fun in games Elvis. 0:04:44.556 --> 0:04:48.716 And so this is so much of your life's work 0:04:49.356 --> 0:04:53.076 kind of grows, is growing from the tiny seed of 0:04:53.236 --> 0:04:55.516 not the all that of that Elvis concert, right, I 0:04:55.516 --> 0:04:59.396 mean almost famous. So this this concert had a huge 0:04:59.396 --> 0:04:59.996 impact on you. 0:05:01.196 --> 0:05:04.316 It did, and also also Malcolm because like I took 0:05:04.356 --> 0:05:07.996 my mom and my mom you know, if you if 0:05:08.036 --> 0:05:09.996 you've seen all famous. 0:05:11.476 --> 0:05:13.556 It's unfair that we can't listen to our music. 0:05:13.556 --> 0:05:16.356 It's because it is about drugs and promiscuous sex. 0:05:16.516 --> 0:05:19.476 Simon and garfun is poetry, Yes, it's poetry. It is 0:05:19.516 --> 0:05:23.756 a poetry of drugs and promiscuous sex. Honey, they're on POTT. 0:05:24.436 --> 0:05:27.156 So that week changes a lot. So this was the 0:05:27.196 --> 0:05:30.436 door that gets cracked open where rock and of course 0:05:30.476 --> 0:05:34.956 my future love and that combined with journalism. I was 0:05:34.996 --> 0:05:38.916 on my way, but Elvis was there at the gates, 0:05:39.716 --> 0:05:43.956 you know, and I still was obsessed with Elvis but 0:05:43.996 --> 0:05:48.556 I was obsessed with the corners of Elvis's experience, and 0:05:48.676 --> 0:05:53.916 one of those corners was his movies. And I loved 0:05:53.956 --> 0:05:57.156 those B movies. Some might even call them C and 0:05:57.356 --> 0:06:01.316 D movies. There he comes out of the box hot 0:06:01.356 --> 0:06:05.276 with Loving You and Jail House Rock, but eventually he's 0:06:05.276 --> 0:06:08.916 doing genre things for the money that Colonel Parker has 0:06:08.916 --> 0:06:12.556 put him up for. And you know, there's a set 0:06:12.916 --> 0:06:15.796 formula for the Elvis movies that happened. And I became 0:06:15.836 --> 0:06:17.396 obsessed with those movies. 0:06:18.116 --> 0:06:22.596 Yes, yes, And you became obsessed with them because I mean, 0:06:23.316 --> 0:06:24.596 one thing I was trying to figure out is I 0:06:24.676 --> 0:06:28.316 listened to the music of the project we're going to 0:06:28.316 --> 0:06:33.076 talk about. Was I was trying to understand your intentions 0:06:34.276 --> 0:06:37.116 and your So are you obsessed in a kind. 0:06:36.876 --> 0:06:40.516 Of that's so delicately put? I love it? 0:06:40.556 --> 0:06:41.076 Is it is? 0:06:41.116 --> 0:06:41.636 It is it? 0:06:41.836 --> 0:06:45.316 Are you winking at Elvis? Are you sharing in the fun? 0:06:45.596 --> 0:06:46.676 Or are you buying it? 0:06:48.196 --> 0:06:51.196 All of the above? All I think you just you 0:06:51.436 --> 0:06:53.836 just have to enjoy it for what it is, which 0:06:53.916 --> 0:06:59.876 which is a romp. Elvis often did three of those 0:06:59.916 --> 0:07:01.876 movies in a year. You can see he's kind of 0:07:01.916 --> 0:07:04.956 confused by the character names they call him by. It's 0:07:04.956 --> 0:07:10.276 like he's he's lost, He's he's brilliantly lost. It's just, 0:07:11.236 --> 0:07:13.956 you know, you see so much. It's almost watching his 0:07:14.036 --> 0:07:16.396 face in these movies. It's like a diary that he 0:07:16.476 --> 0:07:20.156 never wrote. You can see why am I here? You 0:07:20.196 --> 0:07:23.636 can see glimmers of oh this is good, and Margaret 0:07:23.716 --> 0:07:27.316 Viva las Vegas. Wait a minute, she's challenging me. So 0:07:27.356 --> 0:07:32.916 it's all there, hidden in this candy colored genre romp 0:07:32.956 --> 0:07:35.596 that the Elvis movies became so all of the above. 0:07:35.916 --> 0:07:40.316 Yeah, yeah, sir, So you developed early on, in other words, 0:07:40.516 --> 0:07:43.556 a rich and nuanced interpretation of who Elvis was and 0:07:43.556 --> 0:07:46.916 what he stands for. Yes, and that's that's Is there 0:07:46.956 --> 0:07:51.716 any other artist who plays a comparable role in your 0:07:51.996 --> 0:07:53.556 in the development of your imagination? 0:07:56.076 --> 0:08:00.396 No, because there's only one guy who was or artist 0:08:00.436 --> 0:08:03.396 who was so huge that he was able to make 0:08:04.276 --> 0:08:07.716 thirty throwaway movies that did well enough so that he 0:08:07.716 --> 0:08:12.316 could keep doing it, perhaps against his will. Only one 0:08:12.396 --> 0:08:16.436 person that I ever knew about, and we'll share this later, 0:08:17.036 --> 0:08:20.756 did ask Elvis, like, why did you make all those movies? 0:08:21.276 --> 0:08:24.036 And he gave this one person an answer, But mostly 0:08:24.076 --> 0:08:26.716 he never did any interviews. He never commented on it. 0:08:27.116 --> 0:08:30.516 He just did all those movies for fifteen years. They 0:08:30.556 --> 0:08:33.396 squandered quite a bit, you know, as John Lennon would 0:08:33.476 --> 0:08:36.996 would tell you in his interviews, like why is Elvis? 0:08:37.036 --> 0:08:41.076 Why is the King? Just like you know, strolling around 0:08:41.076 --> 0:08:45.036 Hollywood sound stages with B level stars singing like medium 0:08:45.076 --> 0:08:48.436 decent songs, you know, but that's part of the mysteries 0:08:48.436 --> 0:08:48.876 of Elvis. 0:08:48.956 --> 0:08:52.836 Yeah, yeah, so we have this. This is the kind 0:08:52.836 --> 0:08:57.676 of the necessary context, Yes, the story that you're gonna tell. 0:08:58.436 --> 0:09:06.436 Yeah, okay. So it's the eighties and I had written 0:09:06.596 --> 0:09:10.716 Fast Times at Ridgemont High which like amazingly kind of 0:09:10.756 --> 0:09:13.436 found an audience, so I kind of had a shot 0:09:13.516 --> 0:09:19.356 at possibly a screenwriting career. And in the middle of 0:09:19.396 --> 0:09:22.516 all this, I perhaps most importantly, fell in love with 0:09:22.716 --> 0:09:27.236 Nancy Wilson, the great Nancy Wilson, amazing guitarist, half of 0:09:27.236 --> 0:09:32.236 the Wilson sisters who front their band Heart. So we 0:09:32.236 --> 0:09:34.716 were together for a while and then decided to get married. 0:09:35.076 --> 0:09:39.516 And it was a beautiful time. And Anne Wilson, Nancy's sister, 0:09:39.636 --> 0:09:42.996 had a cabin in Cannon Beach, Oregon, and that was 0:09:43.076 --> 0:09:46.316 where we wanted to go for a little honeymoon, you know, 0:09:46.476 --> 0:09:50.156 just borrow the cabin from Ann. Now this you must 0:09:50.196 --> 0:09:53.076 know as a setup is Ann and Nancy Wilson. To 0:09:53.196 --> 0:09:57.036 this day, they're like the everly sisters. They sing together 0:09:57.116 --> 0:10:00.036 and it's like, you know, there's no thought that goes 0:10:00.076 --> 0:10:03.076 into it. They have the sibling voices that blend so 0:10:03.316 --> 0:10:08.876 beautifully their musical twins in a way, and sings. Nancy 0:10:08.916 --> 0:10:12.596 sing a little bit, but mostly plays this elegant, beautiful guitar. 0:10:13.116 --> 0:10:19.716 They're a serious duo. So ten days into our honeymoon, 0:10:19.716 --> 0:10:21.996 which was how long we wanted to spend at Anne's cabin, 0:10:22.596 --> 0:10:25.076 we decid we want to spend two weeks. We want 0:10:25.116 --> 0:10:28.196 to spend a little bit longer. But Anne wants to 0:10:28.196 --> 0:10:32.276 come to her cabin. So Ann Wilson shows up on 0:10:32.316 --> 0:10:36.156 our honeymoon, which is an interesting thing for a small cabin. 0:10:36.356 --> 0:10:39.636 It's like a sitcom in a way. Here you have 0:10:39.716 --> 0:10:43.396 the two sisters with you on your honeymoon with one 0:10:43.436 --> 0:10:45.556 of them, and what are you going to do in 0:10:45.596 --> 0:10:49.356 this in this small environment in a in a you know, 0:10:49.516 --> 0:10:52.356 coastal town in Oregon where not much is going on. Well, 0:10:53.516 --> 0:10:56.076 we're going to do a project, a musical project that 0:10:56.196 --> 0:10:58.836 will involve all three of us. Whose idea was this 0:10:59.876 --> 0:11:07.596 mine because I love watching them sing together. And Nancy 0:11:07.596 --> 0:11:10.396 would later score my movies and stuff, and so we 0:11:10.836 --> 0:11:14.516 worked really well together and AND's a lot of fun. Now, 0:11:14.796 --> 0:11:17.516 all all of this being said, I was working loosely 0:11:17.596 --> 0:11:19.796 on a book I wanted to do about Elvis movies, 0:11:21.076 --> 0:11:24.956 So so that was on my mind. And like any 0:11:24.996 --> 0:11:27.276 idea that you believe is good, it's built on the 0:11:27.316 --> 0:11:33.636 things you love, and Elvis was one. Playing music with 0:11:33.676 --> 0:11:39.916 my wife was another, and s c TV and Martin 0:11:39.996 --> 0:11:43.516 Short was a third element. I loved Martin Short, that 0:11:43.556 --> 0:11:45.436 great that great comedy show s c TV. 0:11:45.676 --> 0:11:46.756 Remember I'm Canadian. 0:11:47.436 --> 0:11:52.436 So here comes this idea for a kind of and 0:11:52.436 --> 0:11:54.436 this is the cousin of what you're doing, Malcolm. It's 0:11:54.476 --> 0:11:59.996 like lost masterpieces. What's What's What's something that like a 0:12:00.076 --> 0:12:04.596 movie that almost got made? And it's built on the 0:12:04.636 --> 0:12:08.076 burning fever inside your gut that this is the idea 0:12:08.116 --> 0:12:10.796 of all time. So I started building this idea of 0:12:11.196 --> 0:12:15.276 the great Elvis movie that never got made and what's 0:12:15.356 --> 0:12:17.956 the story behind it? And I decided that it was 0:12:17.996 --> 0:12:21.236 like you had Goffin and King, who are like a 0:12:22.116 --> 0:12:27.236 great couple songwriting their legends. They'd written all these great songs. 0:12:27.276 --> 0:12:29.116 The Beatles did some of them. I thought, like, what 0:12:29.196 --> 0:12:33.276 about a much lesser Goffin and King, Like, what about 0:12:33.596 --> 0:12:38.476 a couple who's the songwriting team They haven't gotten in 0:12:38.516 --> 0:12:42.596 the door. And it's Parnell and Zix was their name, 0:12:43.476 --> 0:12:46.916 Linda Parnell and Louis Zix. And Louis Zix of these 0:12:46.916 --> 0:12:50.916 two songwriters, is obsessed with writing. He hears Elvis may 0:12:50.956 --> 0:12:55.116 do one more movie, and he's gonna write with with 0:12:55.116 --> 0:12:58.596 with his songwriting partner wife, they're gonna write this song 0:12:58.716 --> 0:13:01.396 cycle for the ten songs of an Elvis movie that 0:13:01.436 --> 0:13:05.556 they're gonna pitch and make. And this is the beginning 0:13:05.636 --> 0:13:10.596 of Blue Seattle, which is their song cycle Malcolm, that 0:13:10.596 --> 0:13:14.476 they're gonna try and sell to Elvis himself. And so 0:13:15.116 --> 0:13:18.196 here on our honeymoon, I began to write these Elvis 0:13:18.196 --> 0:13:21.916 songs that were fleshed out with Ann and Nancy Wilson 0:13:21.916 --> 0:13:26.996 of heart and and and un ironically, really mostly we 0:13:26.996 --> 0:13:30.116 were gonna do these songs that that captured all the 0:13:30.156 --> 0:13:33.516 elements of the Elvis movie formula. 0:13:34.476 --> 0:13:37.556 Now, before we get into the songs themselves, which I 0:13:37.596 --> 0:13:40.436 have to say, are genius? I want you to define 0:13:40.516 --> 0:13:45.796 you said all the elements of the eleph movie formula. 0:13:45.996 --> 0:13:48.756 Break it down from before we start. What what are 0:13:48.756 --> 0:13:50.036 the elements, the crucial. 0:13:49.756 --> 0:13:55.476 Elements, okay, the the the Elvis elements of this. First 0:13:55.476 --> 0:13:57.116 of all, he has to have a name that sounds 0:13:57.196 --> 0:14:00.676 like a fist, you know, nothing too complex, just kind 0:14:00.676 --> 0:14:05.156 of like deep Rivers was one Buck Thomas, you know, 0:14:05.276 --> 0:14:08.636 so like we we thought, you start with a name 0:14:08.676 --> 0:14:14.076 that's like, you know, Mike Davis something like that. And 0:14:13.196 --> 0:14:19.436 and Elvis must always have workplace pride. He needs to 0:14:19.476 --> 0:14:22.156 do a couple different things in an Elvis movie of 0:14:22.196 --> 0:14:26.356 this era, but like they're often a strange combination of things, 0:14:26.356 --> 0:14:29.356 like he can be a veterinarian who's also a race 0:14:29.436 --> 0:14:34.796 car driver who also works in a county fair somehow 0:14:35.836 --> 0:14:38.916 living you know, a little kid should appear at some 0:14:39.036 --> 0:14:41.796 point looking for kind of some kind of mentorship, which 0:14:41.796 --> 0:14:49.196 he provides, usually in the form of a song. Dancing 0:14:49.276 --> 0:14:50.836 girls must appear. 0:14:52.236 --> 0:14:54.156 In the Garden of Paradise, Noble Master. 0:14:55.876 --> 0:14:59.276 So like that. It's worked in a fight, at least 0:14:59.316 --> 0:15:10.476 one fight, and a thoughtful moment over a pet. Come on, Albert, 0:15:10.596 --> 0:15:11.596 don't be a faint. 0:15:12.956 --> 0:15:16.556 A good album because, of course Elvis. Yeah, I mean 0:15:16.636 --> 0:15:19.076 his dog, his love of dog. I mean the seminal 0:15:19.156 --> 0:15:21.076 of what was the seminal dog in Elvis's life. I've 0:15:21.116 --> 0:15:23.876 now forgotten the one that song he used to sing 0:15:24.036 --> 0:15:27.796 over and over and over again as a teen was 0:15:27.796 --> 0:15:31.236 a song about a dead dog, Shep. 0:15:32.036 --> 0:15:32.756 Yes, wasn't it. 0:15:32.796 --> 0:15:35.196 I think it's Shep. Yeah. These are the kind of 0:15:35.236 --> 0:15:37.356 stations of the Elvis cross that you've. 0:15:37.396 --> 0:15:39.956 Us the stations of the cross. You can't say it 0:15:39.996 --> 0:15:40.516 any better. 0:15:42.796 --> 0:15:45.276 There's a lot going on in these movies. 0:15:46.036 --> 0:15:48.236 And he lined them up, man, he lined them up 0:15:48.276 --> 0:15:50.676 and did them. But then ultimately we end up at 0:15:50.716 --> 0:15:57.676 a place where Elvis's nobility is protected. He either gets 0:15:57.716 --> 0:15:59.636 the girl or he doesn't get the girl, and there's 0:15:59.636 --> 0:16:02.356 a there's a rave up song that sends you out 0:16:02.516 --> 0:16:03.196 feeling good. 0:16:03.436 --> 0:16:03.916 Yeah. 0:16:04.076 --> 0:16:05.596 Yeah, and that's the Elvis movie. 0:16:05.636 --> 0:16:08.116 Did you have you watched all the album Elvis movies? 0:16:08.236 --> 0:16:12.996 Yeah, definitely. And as long as you have these elements, 0:16:13.556 --> 0:16:16.516 you're in the ballgame. Yeah. And of course the songs 0:16:17.556 --> 0:16:20.556 are written outside of Elvis's experience, and usually they come 0:16:20.596 --> 0:16:22.236 to him and at some point and they play him 0:16:22.276 --> 0:16:26.956 the songs, and you know, legendarily he's like, no, no, okay, 0:16:26.956 --> 0:16:29.636 I do something with that. Okay, No, okay, now I'm tired, 0:16:30.756 --> 0:16:33.476 you know, Like, and they bring more songs another day. 0:16:34.196 --> 0:16:37.236 And these are songs that the songwriters have like killed 0:16:37.276 --> 0:16:39.676 themselves over because they know they're gonna have a session 0:16:39.876 --> 0:16:43.596 with Elvis, you know, yeah, yeah, And this was the 0:16:43.676 --> 0:16:47.076 songwriting couple in the story, my fictional story for lu Seattle, 0:16:47.276 --> 0:16:50.356 Like their dream is that they will one day be 0:16:50.396 --> 0:16:54.516 able to play these songs for Elvis and pitch this movie. 0:16:56.076 --> 0:16:58.116 Are we going to hear some of those songs, dear listener, 0:16:58.276 --> 0:17:02.076 Oh yes we are. After quick Break, Cameron Crowe is 0:17:02.116 --> 0:17:05.356 going to play us some of the music from Blue Seattle. 0:17:13.076 --> 0:17:16.196 So you sat down, you're there. How long did it 0:17:16.236 --> 0:17:18.716 take to write these ten songs? 0:17:18.756 --> 0:17:20.796 Like four or five days? Because I remember we made 0:17:20.876 --> 0:17:24.556 this cassette that we're going to listen to mercifully a 0:17:24.596 --> 0:17:28.636 little bit of yes, maybe a lot, but there's I 0:17:28.676 --> 0:17:30.396 remember we listened to it on our way back from 0:17:30.436 --> 0:17:34.316 the honeymoon. We were like, this is really pretty good. 0:17:36.636 --> 0:17:39.356 Yeah, wait, why don't we let's play that one? I 0:17:39.436 --> 0:17:42.756 actually I think you're being far too modest. I have 0:17:42.796 --> 0:17:44.756 another one I want to recommend, but we'll get to 0:17:44.756 --> 0:17:47.196 that one. Just play just to get us in the mood. 0:17:47.316 --> 0:17:49.876 Let's listen to your favorite of the ten songs you wrote. 0:17:50.316 --> 0:17:52.236 It's going to be My People, My People. 0:17:52.396 --> 0:17:53.436 Let's listen to My People. 0:17:54.556 --> 0:17:56.596 Let me set it up. We wanted to bring Elvis 0:17:56.636 --> 0:18:02.276 this movie in the late sixties because this is kind 0:18:02.276 --> 0:18:07.516 of the period where post Elvis has started to develop 0:18:07.556 --> 0:18:10.556 a little bit of a social conscience. So the idea 0:18:10.636 --> 0:18:14.476 is Elvis plays a cab driver in this who is 0:18:14.516 --> 0:18:16.956 a man kind of of the people. And so like 0:18:17.036 --> 0:18:19.876 the idea of Elvis roaming the streets in Seattle and 0:18:19.916 --> 0:18:22.316 like Pike Place and all that stuff. We loved it. 0:18:22.356 --> 0:18:27.956 And so there is a moment where he realizes he 0:18:27.956 --> 0:18:31.356 he must return to the relevance of the street where 0:18:31.396 --> 0:18:37.116 he was once this cab driver, and he leaves this 0:18:37.196 --> 0:18:41.636 relationship that has kind of belittled him in some ways. 0:18:41.676 --> 0:18:43.556 And so he's like going back to his roots, and 0:18:43.596 --> 0:18:47.156 he's singing this song from behind the wheel of his cab, 0:18:47.276 --> 0:18:49.476 My People, And it's always good. I'll just add this, 0:18:49.556 --> 0:18:51.316 It's always good when you have a little bit of 0:18:51.356 --> 0:18:59.356 a of a Spanish kind of castinette, you know. 0:19:02.316 --> 0:19:09.676 Clove down in his street watching from my seat. These 0:19:09.796 --> 0:19:23.036 are the people, my people in the city. Raid, I 0:19:23.196 --> 0:19:31.476 seem to know my these are the people, my people. 0:19:35.156 --> 0:19:36.716 I'm just an afty. 0:19:39.196 --> 0:19:41.116 How did mine. 0:19:42.396 --> 0:19:43.236 My review? 0:19:43.436 --> 0:19:49.676 Mar excuse me in my crime? 0:19:51.836 --> 0:19:54.196 I must be seeing my bride. 0:19:56.996 --> 0:20:00.836 For the people, the people of people people. 0:20:02.556 --> 0:20:03.036 A little bit. 0:20:03.156 --> 0:20:13.436 You're a moment in there, and now another one. He's 0:20:13.436 --> 0:20:15.636 gonna be clapping, even though he has danse hands on 0:20:15.676 --> 0:20:17.476 the wheel simp figure. 0:20:17.196 --> 0:20:21.516 It out almost. 0:20:26.316 --> 0:20:27.356 To the people. 0:20:28.796 --> 0:20:41.636 People you can. Actually, it's funny. That's like totally believable. 0:20:41.676 --> 0:20:45.796 Wasn't Elvis song? If Alvis? Have I heard that on 0:20:45.836 --> 0:20:48.636 an Elvis album? I'm not thinking twice about it. 0:20:48.836 --> 0:20:51.196 I've come such a long way to hear you say that. 0:20:52.516 --> 0:20:54.836 No, I mean I'm not I'm not blowing smoke here. 0:20:55.516 --> 0:20:58.916 No, I felt that too at your time. Almost sell 0:20:59.036 --> 0:21:02.196 that to to to Elvis. Yeah, for one of those movies. 0:21:02.596 --> 0:21:04.636 Yeah, who's playing guitar on that? 0:21:06.436 --> 0:21:09.316 Nancy and Ann are both playing guitar and singing, and 0:21:09.396 --> 0:21:12.356 I'm like attempting to do an Elvis voice? 0:21:12.596 --> 0:21:16.556 Yeah, which is it's not that the wake link for sure, 0:21:17.196 --> 0:21:19.116 it's not your range. 0:21:19.556 --> 0:21:22.836 Fantastic. You know, they can play anything at the drop 0:21:22.876 --> 0:21:25.316 of a hat, and their harmonies are so cool. 0:21:25.556 --> 0:21:28.076 Wait, let's so let's start from the view. So Blue 0:21:28.116 --> 0:21:32.076 Seattle is set's the is the first song sets the 0:21:32.156 --> 0:21:35.516 tone here, and we we're what are we? What are 0:21:35.516 --> 0:21:35.876 we doing? 0:21:35.916 --> 0:21:36.236 What do we? 0:21:36.316 --> 0:21:38.036 What are what are we trying to do? Narratively with 0:21:38.076 --> 0:21:39.876 Blue Blue Seattle. 0:21:40.036 --> 0:21:43.756 Usher you into uh an Elvis world of time and 0:21:43.836 --> 0:21:48.556 place and character. Yeah, where fun will perhaps abound. 0:21:48.716 --> 0:21:51.996 Yeah, let's let's play a little, just the first half 0:21:52.076 --> 0:21:54.036 of it, and then just to get a kind of 0:21:54.316 --> 0:21:57.316 feel we get in the mood, Let's let's hear a 0:21:57.316 --> 0:21:57.876 little bit of it. 0:22:10.516 --> 0:22:22.516 Leathers always in LUs. 0:22:18.316 --> 0:22:23.876 Green mountains, a maple. 0:22:36.436 --> 0:22:38.756 This is the native influence was thing through. 0:22:43.996 --> 0:22:46.796 I'm going back to the place where I'm. 0:22:49.676 --> 0:22:52.516 A pretty little ship of warm man. Just kg. 0:22:57.236 --> 0:23:04.196 The sticks are rare boom. I thought the opening this 0:23:04.236 --> 0:23:08.156 should be the theme for Seattle. First of all, Blue Seattle. 0:23:08.556 --> 0:23:11.556 Seattle needs to call itself blue because everyone thinks they're 0:23:11.636 --> 0:23:15.276 gray Seattle, so as a marketing campaign to remind us 0:23:15.676 --> 0:23:17.836 that the skies are blue in the mountains are green 0:23:18.516 --> 0:23:21.756 is like. And secondly, just those opening this place made 0:23:21.876 --> 0:23:24.316 the town made for love. I mean, come on, why 0:23:24.436 --> 0:23:27.396 is the city not make this just that those three 0:23:27.436 --> 0:23:31.796 opening lines. That's the That should be the official tagline 0:23:31.836 --> 0:23:32.476 for Seattle. 0:23:34.196 --> 0:23:38.436 Everything takes its time. I'm realizing to come to this 0:23:38.596 --> 0:23:42.596 crossroads with you is really meaningful. So yeah, once he did. 0:23:42.636 --> 0:23:44.716 It happened at the World's Fair in Seattle. So this 0:23:44.796 --> 0:23:48.756 is like a reunion with uh, with an Elvis city 0:23:48.836 --> 0:23:51.076 that's like undervalued as an Elvis city. 0:23:51.116 --> 0:23:55.716 But wait, yes, Elvis. Elvis plays Seattle during the expo. 0:23:58.116 --> 0:24:00.196 He makes a movie. It happened at the World's Fair. 0:24:01.956 --> 0:24:03.996 I forget who the co star is, but like the 0:24:04.356 --> 0:24:07.116 space needle is on the poster for it. 0:24:07.116 --> 0:24:10.116 It's a good nastic oh oh wow, a little kind 0:24:10.116 --> 0:24:13.156 of a little a little a little phallic imagery to 0:24:13.236 --> 0:24:18.796 add to the we then we come to pay the fair. Yeah, 0:24:18.876 --> 0:24:21.996 and as you said earlier, in the kind of like 0:24:22.796 --> 0:24:26.356 in the Elvis movie taxonomy that you created, he needs 0:24:26.356 --> 0:24:29.156 to have multiple jobs, but one of them has to 0:24:29.196 --> 0:24:32.436 be a kind of keeping it real, that's right. And 0:24:32.516 --> 0:24:34.436 so the keep it real job we have here. We 0:24:34.516 --> 0:24:35.796 understand that he's a cab driver. 0:24:36.436 --> 0:24:39.276 He's a cab driver, looking for love. 0:24:39.236 --> 0:24:42.196 Looking for course. Yeah, let's do let's do it. Let's 0:24:42.196 --> 0:24:44.036 do a minute of let's do a minute of of 0:24:44.036 --> 0:24:44.596 pay the fair. 0:24:45.636 --> 0:24:47.116 We'll see the little girl. 0:24:48.676 --> 0:24:55.716 I'll stand a rod over there, maybe forty. 0:24:55.956 --> 0:24:59.916 Understand she's a watch. 0:24:59.996 --> 0:25:00.676 He's a watch. 0:25:00.756 --> 0:25:02.556 He's a watch. He's a wall. 0:25:05.516 --> 0:25:05.916 A fair. 0:25:09.196 --> 0:25:15.316 Yuh, that little girl a little lot of like you. 0:25:15.996 --> 0:25:22.276 But das and they sound and Nancy sounds so good 0:25:22.316 --> 0:25:22.996 on this, they don't. 0:25:23.076 --> 0:25:25.076 I know that the thing that makes this genius is 0:25:25.196 --> 0:25:27.476 because understanding that we have the Wilson sisters doing the 0:25:27.556 --> 0:25:30.316 do do Do Do Do Do. 0:25:28.876 --> 0:25:33.756 Do right. 0:25:38.916 --> 0:25:43.116 Came when you when you're doing this project? Are they 0:25:44.356 --> 0:25:47.116 what's there? They as into it as you are? There? 0:25:47.556 --> 0:25:53.756 I mean A we're bored, yeah, but b it's it's 0:25:53.836 --> 0:25:57.356 a it's a great question. There was mist there's like 0:25:57.476 --> 0:26:01.516 waves crashing on the below these little cliffs where we're staying, 0:26:02.236 --> 0:26:05.116 and in the middle of this we're just like howling 0:26:05.156 --> 0:26:07.876 through these Elvis songs. It was amazing. 0:26:07.956 --> 0:26:13.196