Music, Old Friends, Music, Music, Music

Now is the time of the day that I love best.  The time when I stop doing something I am supposed to be doing and working on something that I shouldn't be.

There is still so much story left to tell from Memphis and I want to get it down before I forget the way it happened.

The day started with breakfast at the hotel.  They sure did have a nice breakfast buffet every morning.  It was nice to sit down there by the windows, read the paper, and chat while we ate our breakfast and Paul drank his coffee.  Nice way to start the day.

 

After breakfast, we headed for the trolley that would take us to Sun Studios, the recording studio that started the careers of Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis just to name a few.  While waiting for the trolley, we met a couple from Australia who just so happened to be going to the same place we were.  On the way there.....we offered to snap a picture of them......

.....and they did the same for us.  (*my favorite pic from our trip)

 

After navigating our way to the studio together with the Australians.....we finally made it to Sun Studios (about a couple of blocks away from where the trolley stop was).  In fact, if you look at the couple just in front of us (on this next picture).....that's them!

 

We did the studio tour and really enjoyed the guy leading us through the joint.....the history of the building was really fascinating  We took quite a few pictures to remember our visit.

 

There were photos on the wall showing some of those famous people recording there

 

This was the recording booth.  The building and studio is still the exact same way it

was when it first opened in the early 1950's

 

We even got to take a turn singing on a microphone used by Elvis

 

Some of us put a little more energy into their performance

 

After our amazing tour it was time to walk the few blocks back to Beale St. to meet up

with Greg and his wife for lunch.  We met at the Blues City Cafe.  Greg said it was

one of his favorite places to eat on Beale St.

 

 

It was delicious.....we feasted on fried catfish, BBQ ribs, cole slaw, baked beans, Texas Toast, and french fries.  It was a wonderful reunion and we all talked about old times, current times, and future times.  After sitting in the cafe for about 90 minutes, we wandered on down Beale St. and eventually found a nice quiet bar where we could sit and drink a cold one and continue with the good discussion.

 

Soon it was time for them to leave so we stopped and snapped a couple of pictures

to celebrate the event of meeting up again after 33 years!  Both Paul and I really

enjoyed meeting up with both Jean and Greg.

 

 

A quick walk back to the hotel and we lined up our game plan for the rest of the afternoon. 

 

I think we'll just continue with this on the next chapter of Paul and Debbie go to Memphis.