a pimp was killed in a phone booth near the door of ernestine and hazels. they say upstairs used to be a brothel where Ray Charles shot heroin. this writing is at the bottom of the sagging stairs where an apparition of a working girl leads him up to a private room with a van gogh painting in the hallway. now its where russ's office is and a crab trap is on the wall. he says you gotta have a crab trap in a whorehouse.
what a tremendous and frightening time the 50s & 60s must have been.
sun studios is a magical place. almost like emerald city. folks creating music out of thin air and you feel what God felt in those first seven days. johnny cash used a dollar bill to muffle the strings of a guitar to mimic a snare drum because percussion used to be unheard of on the radio. elvis stood on an X in the floor not far from this guitar when he recorded his first song. bob dylan came in years later, kissed the X, and walked out.
