Mach schau practioner Roy Head appears, briefly, in a book I’m currently reading, Elvis: My Best Man, by George Klein with an old college friend and musical mentor, Chuck Crisafulli. I thought of Townman hrrundivbakshi when I read the following passage. Rather than share it with him alone or post it on my damn Facebook page, beneath the all-important photos from the life of a 47-year-old, white, middle-class man, I invite all of you to admire the following tale of Mach schau!
…I told Elvis that our guest was Roy Head, who’d cut “Treat Her Right.”
“Man, I love that record,” said Elvis, extending a hand to Roy.
Roy didn’t shake Elvis’s hand. Instead, he fell to the floor, grabbed Elvis’s leg, and bit his ankle. Elvis went into a karate stance as if he were ready to kick Roy Head’s head off and shouted, “What wrong with you?”
Roy stood up, dusted himself off and said, “I’m sorry, Elvis. You really are an idol of mine. But if I just shook hands with you, you’d never remember me. Now I know you’re never going to forget the guy who bit you on the ankle.”
Roy had a point—Elvis never forgot him.
Sort of a man bites Hound Dog story! Never heard of Roy Head — what a groovy act!
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