Ivey Ranch Elementary and King Kruk

About a week ago I performed at the Ivey Ranch Elementary "Sock Hop"
I didn't know how the kids would react to Elvis (King Kruk) but was quite pleasantly surprised. From the second I entered I felt like the real King kids shrieked and screamed like it was 1971 all over again. The crowd wasn't even born when Elvis was alive in fact a few Moms probably were not alive when Elvis was alive.
You can hear the reaction of the kids Here I would like to think the kids reaction was for me but that is the trap of Elvis tribute artists to believe that they are actually as great as the man they impersonate. While we look and sound close we can never hope to be as good or have the impact that Elvis did. We fulfill a void perhaps and try to re-connect a link to history that sadly was taken from us too soon. Neverthless it still makes me feel great when the crowd cheers I guess I get a little taste of what it was like to be Elvis, and it makes being an Elvis tribute artist pretty awesome.

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Stay tuned for the video of Saturday May 16's Video of King Kruk's performance at a San Clemente Sock hop! Plus you can always type in budbutcher at youtube and see all my videos there too!

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Some fantastic pictures taken by the most fabulous Alex Kruk

King Kruk Lookin' Sharp in his Lanskey shirt

About ten years ago I was able to get on down to Memphis and visited Bernard Lanskey at his shop at the Peabody Hotel. I wandered in and at first Bernard wasn't there but someone must have told him there was some Elvis lookin dude perusing the merchandise. After about a half an hour Mr. Lanskey walked in and gave me that million dollar smile of a born salesman and he knew he had me hooked. It was actually his clothes that reeled me in . He had some beautifully tailored shirts on a rack all isolated and alone with the "Clothier to the King" label on them.
I was torn between a nifty silver number made out of some fine velvet or the very one you see in the pictures here. Bernard and I talked all things Elvis for the better part of three quarters of an hour and I tried on various shirts and a few trousers but the striped shirt kept catching my eye.
He said "It's got you don't it?"
I said "I reckon it does."
Mr. Lanskey said "well, You better buy two then, In case you lose one."
I bought one and I haven't lost it yet take a look folks King Kruk looking sharp in a design from the Kings original clothier Bernard Lanskey.

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