{"id":6049,"date":"2011-03-01T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6049"},"modified":"2011-02-28T21:34:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T01:34:04","slug":"unforgettable-roy-head-leaves-lasting-impression-on-elvis-presley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/unforgettable-roy-head-leaves-lasting-impression-on-elvis-presley\/","title":{"rendered":"Unforgettable: Roy Head Leaves Lasting Impression on Elvis Presley"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vfgLy5CPIM0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><em>Mach schau<\/em> practioner <strong>Roy Head<\/strong> appears, briefly, in a book I&#8217;m currently reading, <strong>Elvis: My Best Man<\/strong>, by George Klein with an old college friend and musical mentor, Chuck Crisafulli. I thought of Townman hrrundivbakshi when I read the following passage. Rather than share it with him alone or post it on my damn Facebook page, beneath the all-important photos from the life of a 47-year-old, white, middle-class man, I invite all of you to admire the following tale of <em>Mach schau!<!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;I told Elvis that our guest was Roy Head, who&#8217;d cut &#8220;Treat Her Right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Man, I love that record,&#8221; said Elvis, extending a hand to Roy.<\/p>\n<p>Roy didn&#8217;t shake Elvis&#8217;s hand. Instead, he fell to the floor, grabbed Elvis&#8217;s leg, and bit his ankle. Elvis went into a karate stance as if he were ready to kick Roy Head&#8217;s head off and shouted, &#8220;What wrong with you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roy stood up, dusted himself off and said, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, Elvis. You really are an idol of mine. But if I just shook hands with you, you&#8217;d never remember me. Now I know you&#8217;re never going to forget the guy who bit you on the ankle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Roy had a point\u2014Elvis never forgot him.<\/p><\/blockquote><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SdG0lBllXko?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mach schau practioner Roy Head appears, briefly, in a book I&#8217;m currently reading, Elvis: My Best Man, by George Klein with an old college friend and musical mentor, Chuck Crisafulli. I thought of Townman hrrundivbakshi when I read the following passage. Rather than share it with him alone or post it on my damn Facebook <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/unforgettable-roy-head-leaves-lasting-impression-on-elvis-presley\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[167,182,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}