Sexy Elvis Rocks Oakland

Elvis came to Oakland in 1956. I didn’t know this! I was ten.

Here is an article that appeared in The San Francisco Chronicle written by Ralph Gleason. I am bowled over. Ralph compares the concert to Hitler’s appearance at the Sportspalast in Berlin

“even, to those thousands who crowded the Sportspalast in Berlin to chant in unison during the Third Reich, his emotional power is frightening.”

For a week I have been considering a movie titled ‘Oakland’ that would take in the Bohemians of Carmel. The Black Panther’s, Hell’s Angels, and Oakland Raiders would be featured. Gleason throws in an exotic dancer, and, we got ‘The Producers’ with Elvis starring as Lorenzo St. DuBois……..LSD.

“But his musical performance is as elemental as the gyrations of an “exotic” dancer in a Tenderloin joint.”

Bill Graham gave a eulogy for Ken Kesey and the Oakland Coliseum. Ken held an Acid Test…