FIRST TOUR IN NEW HARD ROCK LOCATION The old Hard Rock location at Hernando and Beale closed last week and one of the rock ‘n’ roll artifacts from that location that went to Second and Beale was what Hard Rock Café music and memorabilia historian Nolan (picture) describes as “the single most important guitar in Hard Rock’s collection” of 80,000 artifacts. It is the Super 400 Gibson guitar played by Elvis Presley’s original guitarist, Scotty Moore, that Elvis used during his 1968 comeback television special. “There are certain pieces from our collection that live in Memphis and will continue to live in Memphis,” Nolan said of the guitar, which, more recently, was played by Jeff Beck, adding to its lore. “Usually with Hard Rock things move around every few years. But there are certain towns – and Memphis is at the top of that list – where there are pieces that they just have to live here. That thing is home right now.” As Nolan gave reporters a tour, Hal Lansky was in another part of the building supervising work on the new Lansky shop that will open in late July in what was the original home of Lansky Bros., the apparel and tailor’s shop where Presley and numerous other entertainers bought their stage costumes and other clothes. “There’s a lot of ghosts flying around in this building,” Lansky said, noting that two Elvis outfits with the Lansky label are over the Hard Rock stage, one on each side of a portrait of Presley. “We still love The Peabody hotel. We are going to be at The Peabody,” he said of the Lansky shops at the hotel just a few block away. “This store is going to be called Lansky Bros. Clothier to the King. … This is our heritage collection, some of the same items that my dad sold in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. We have a lot of them that we are bringing back. There will be a little overlap with The Peabody. We are going to tie into the Hard Rock.” (NEWS SOURCE: Elvismatters)
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 05:53:21 +0000
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