Professor J,
Aside from literary adventures, this summer has kept me at home. The best has been made of it and now we are at the end. This includes spending lots of time with Mr. Snarky before he leaves on Saturday for six months in the southwest. I'm sure you'll be hearing more about that.
Yesterday we played tourists in our own city.
We broke down and visited Graceland a few years back. We eventually got tired of traveling and having people ask us where we were from and then this:
"Oh, so what is Graceland like?"
It was embarrassing when we had to admit we'd never been there.
We've remedied that and can not only say that we've been to Graceland and recommend the trip, but can recommend a tour of the Gibson Guitar Factory which is located on Beale Street. Yesterday we added another site, the most important site in rock and roll history--Sun Studios. We took along a lifelong friend and local musician who knows more music trivia than anyone I've ever met.
People in this tiny building while we were there were from England, Sweden, Japan, Germany and all across the US. It made us feel even sillier about waiting so long to tour the site which is accessible and centrally located. Graceland's a bit more work to get to.
The tour was led by a girl who really knew her stuff and is interspersed with music clips and recordings that you don't even know exist. It's a great music history lesson. There's a lot of memorabilia in the museum section on the second floor, but the chills happen in the studio which you can tour in the daytime but is used for recording at night. Musicians still want to record where it all started.
Of course I got a few photos...
The tape X on the floor is where Elvis stood to make his first recording.
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