Ya’ know, it just NEVER stopped.” –Lamar Fike, on being in Elvis’s Memphis Mafia “It was like being in a whorehouse with a credit card. Nobody accepted Elvis’ offer, but it was a great note to end the night on.” He was out of watches, but had another bit of fashion in mind. So he stood, eyed John, and said, ‘Let’s swap pants’, while simultaneously, in expert Python fashion, letting his pajama bottoms drop beneath his robe. The loud Richard was shocked into silence, while quiet John burst out laughing. At one point, Elvis excused himself, went back upstairs, and returned with an equally impressive watch for the bassist.īefore the evening was over, Elvis said he wanted to make another exchange. And I could tell Elvis also liked the much quieter John Paul Jones. Elvis and Richard obviously shared a sense of humor. ‘Take this one.’ A very stunned Richard accepted.įrom then on the night was nothing but fun, with a lot of laughs and a lot of quoting Monty Python routines (Elvis was the first Monty Python fanatic I ever knew). I don’t know if Richard expected to lose his watch that easily, but about twenty minutes later Elvis went upstairs and came back down with another watch, a real piece of jewelry, covered in diamonds – a wristwatch you could trade in for a car.
Atlantic Records gave them to the group,’ said Richard. ‘Does it have any special meaning to you?’ Elvis asked. He handed the watch over, and when Elvis put it on, Richard quickly said that if Elvis wanted the watch, he could keep it. Then Elvis decided to break the ice, and asked if he could see the fancy watch that Richard was wearing. ‘I’d appreciate it if you’d watch your language in front of my lady.’ “From the moment Richard Cole (Led Zeppelin’s manager) stepped into Elvis’s house, he was loud and profane–packing an amazing number of F-bombss into everything he said. Elvis said it would be okay for them to come by the house… Richard Cole, Led Zeppelin’s manager, organized a meeting with Elvis via Jerry Schilling (Memphis Mafia member, and Beach Boys’ manager briefly). Me and a Guy Named Elvis by Jerry Schilling 1975-’77 - Elvis Presley livin’ it up on his custom-built Ed Roth trike motorcycles. To me Led Zeppelin was and still is the greatest band in the world. Thanks Guys For So Many Great Memories.Ĭa. Elvis leaned over and reminded me, ‘They lease their jet from Caesar’s Palace, I OWN mine.'” He just looked at me and said, ‘No.’ When I asked him why he said, ‘Look at the bottom of your paycheck.’ As I entered the limo with Elvis I said they sure have a nice jet. I asked Elvis if I could go with the band that night for their concert. It was a hell of a sight to see these two private jets sitting side by side on the private tarmac. We arrived on the Lisa Marie, Elvis’ Private Jet, and Led Zeppelin arrived on the Caesar’s Chariot. We (the Presley tour) were playing in Washington and Led Zeppelin was playing at the Capital Centre. It was at the Washington/Baltimore airport. There was one other time the Presley tour ran across the band while out on the road. Of all the people I met during my life with Elvis, it was only Led Zeppelin’s autograph that I asked for.Īs I continued to tour with Elvis till his death in 1977 I would often ask my friend Tom Hewlett of Concerts West (the tour company that handled Elvis and Zeppelin) how the Boys were doing. I introduced myself, shook their hands and got their autograph. I met them as they came off the elevator and walked with them to Elvis’s room.
Later that night after the show Robert, Jimmy and John Paul came to Elvis’s suite at the hotel across the street from the Forum. In 1974 while at the LA Forum Led Zeppelin came to see Elvis. I started touring with Presley in 1972 when I was 16. But it was Led Zeppelin that became MY MUSIC while growing up the King. While growing up as Presley’s step-brother I was no stranger to great music. John Bonham playing his solo on Moby Dick, Jimmy Page stroking his Les Paul with a fiddle bow, John Paul Jones laying down heavy bass, and of course the driving voice of Robert Plant. Anyway, I went to the concert with a friend and was blown away. My divorced mother Dee Stanley married Elvis’s widowed father Vernon Presley on July 3, 1960. As the youngest step-brother to Elvis Presley, I was living at the Graceland Mansion. “I was 14 years old when Led Zeppelin came to Memphis in 1969. And more… as told by Elvis Presley’s step-brother 7th, 1976 - Joe Esposito (Elvis Presley’s Memphis Mafia buddy) wearing a Led Zeppelin 1975 Tour T-shirt at the Holiday Inn hotel with Elvis in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
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