
ELVIS AND SCOTTY’S GUITAR
ELVIS AND SCOTTY’S GUITAR … Singer Presents… “Elvis” (usually called “68 Comeback Special”) was the television special that marked the return of Elvis to his audience on television. As you know, it was broadcast on NBC on December 3, 1968.
Recording sessions took place in June 1968, at the Western Recorder studio in Burbank, California and at the NBC studio.
Among others, two shows were performed on the program, called “Sit-Down Shows”, which took place consecutively on the afternoon of June 27, 1968.
That day, June 27, during the “Black Leather Sit-Down” on Show 1, Elvis, on stage, gave his guitar to Scotty Moore, asked Scotty for his, and exchanged it. We can see it in the program. Scotty’s guitar was larger, and had stunning beauty and appeal, as well as a better and much brighter sound than Elvis’s.
Elvis felt much more confident with it and that guitar gave a great shine and better sound to his performance. But behind what might seem normal, a simple exchange of guitars, it was not. Scotty was a very particular and special person with his guitars and Elvis knew that asking him for the guitar was going to bother him.

Scotty’s guitar was very precious to him. It was the famous “63 Super 400 CES”, with which he would record his album “The guitar that changed the world”, dedicated to his Gibson Super 400. It was an extension of himself, and he never left it to anyone and Elvis knew it. , but even so, he changed it in the ring.
DJ. Fontana was horrified when Elvis told him that he was going to take away Scotty’s guitar, because everyone knew that his guitar was unplayable and he was going to get extremely angry. DJ. He was worried about Scotty’s reaction, but since Elvis did so publicly, Scotty showed no signs of anger in front of the public and behaved politely when he changed her.
The expression of that anger would come later when leaving the stage… Scotty was so angry that he withheld the word from Elvis for several days.
Elvis was very fond of playing pranks on everyone. On the other hand, he didn’t like anyone spending it on him… And the truth is that no one dared to do it, unless they saw him in a very good mood. Although on this occasion the reason, more than a joke, was the fact that Elvis was very insecure about what his return to meet his audience meant for him, and the fact of using Scotty’s guitar would give him a greater confidence in his interpretation, although he knew that Scotty was going to be very angry.
In the photos you can see Elvis with his guitar and Scotty’s.
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