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Tiger Man is a compilation CD consisting
the
30th anniversary editon of ´68 Combeback Special with the complete unedited 8pm "Sit
Down" show, recorded on June 27, 1968.
During the most captivating segment of Elvis Presley's phenomenal
1968 television comeback special, Presley reunited with original
band members Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana. (Bass player Bill Black
died in the mid-1960s.) To film that segment, Presley and the group
performed two sets before a small, but rapt studio audience. A
generous selection of performances from those concerts became
available on video in 1985 under the title "Elvis: One Night With
You," but RCA waited until 1998 to release TIGER MAN, a single CD of
the performances. Surely, most rock and blues music aficionados who
have ever seen "One Night With You" will not need much convincing to
buy TIGER MAN. These performances quite simply capture Presley at
his best, singing with a joy and fire absent from much of his 1960s
output. At the same time, Presley is clearly giving it his all, as
if trying to undo in one brief set all the damage that years of safe,
mediocre movies did to his image. An unusual and stunning aspect is
that Presley "swaps axes" - the electric guitar - with Moore early
in the set. Instead of Moore's groundbreaking country-blues fusion
guitar licks, we hear something completely new and unexpected.
Presley's wild, thrashing, and incendiary rhythmic lead guitar
playing reveals a side of Elvis Presley's musicianship previously
unheard on disc. It is not something serious music fans want to
miss, and it is displayed very well on this album. (wikipedia
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