Stone Cold Natural Freak: A Personal Look At Elvis Presley

Here are few not so great quality images from the first day of the Insider’s Conference.  It was hosted again by the wonderful Tom Brown from Turner Classic Movies and it included guests Dick Grob, Charles Stone and Loanna Parker (discussing the Colonel). the awesome D.J. Fontana on early years with Elvis, a panel of Co-stars including Chris Noel, Spiritual advisor Larry Gellar, The Brown’s member Maxine Brown and the charming Mary Ann Mobley. 

Tomorrow’s guest include the TCB band, The Sweet Inspirations and Priscilla.  It promises to be pretty extraordinary.

Sunday was an extremely busy day.  This morning we were guests at the very well put together fan club presidents event that included guests Jerry Schilling, Dick Grobe and Sam Thompson.

Next up was the first day of the massive Elvis Expo.  While many of the booths, including several of the most notable, hadn’t been set up, it was already very impressive.  Highlights included seeing two of Elvis’ outtfits from THAT’S THE WAY IT IS and ELVIS AND TOUR, and meeting the very friendly and warm Tanya Lemani who was so memorable as "Little Egypt" in the comback special.  I am really excited about meeting more notables in the next couple of days, including the mighty Sweet Inspirations, and re-introducing myself to the TCB band as well as some other favorites.

We wrapped up the day with a real favorite, the Bears On Tour Scavenger Hunt.  We have been partaking in this event for the last several years and it is always a lot of fun.  Who knows, maybe even one day we will even actually win!  Tomorrow is one of the real highlights of the week, day one of the Insider’s Conference featuring The Sweet Inspirations, the TCB band, Jerry Schilling and Priscilla Presley.

Saturday was a fairly slow day for us.  After visiting Priceville Cemetery we went to the Tupelo Fan Appreciation Ceremony which was nice and then we made our way up to Memphis.  Crowds had already begun to converge on the town when we arrived in the scortching mid afternoon August heat.  Our afternoon mostly consisted of visiting the shops, walking around and looking at some of the new merchandise.  The evening brough our first walk up of the week where we paid our respects and looked at some of the early bouquet arrivals.  Sunday promises to be a much busier and even hotter day.  Here are a few images from Saturday.