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thatsallright wrote:The entire Stanley family have conned and BS'd the fans with their lies and "stories" for decades--They ALL are suspect and should not be taken seriously. This Billy Stanley dvd is a joke--I saw lots of it in Memphis a few years back when he was making an appearance.It is more about HIM and MOTORCYCLES than it is about Elvis. They all lie like a rug. David first stated in their book WE LOVE YOU TENDER (1979) that Elvis would NEVER have committed suicide--then changed his mind 2 years later, and along with the RAT FINK BASTARD authorship of Albert Goldman insisted that Elvis offed himself via suicide. Whatever can make money for them that month, that's what they will say. Elvis TOLERATED these people because he had to. He HATED Dee and the three brothers were constant ****. The night Elvis died, both David and Ricky were stoned and screwing around in hotels with women when they should have been on duty. Sad! Sad that a man with Elvis' power and might would have settled for hanging around with a bunch of mentally challenged TRAITORS!
I agree with you. They are still riding on Elvis` coattails and milking him for every penny possible.




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For those interested, Billy appeared on the "Reminiscing with Gene DiNapoli" video podcast [he appears at the 11 minute & 30 second mark]:




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Seemed quite good (when their was not microphone problems)he came across very well with his remembering the past times.


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No time for the Stanleys whatsoever .....and i'm a realist and appreciate that Elvis was no angel either, in fact if anyone could be excused for their later behavior it might be Billy , whose wife Elvis decided to sleep with , surely a betrayal of epic proportions , but as for the sinister 'minister' Ricky or his even more pathetic excuse of a brother 'David', their rush to sensationalize and cash in, and their blatant silence during their vile mothers psychotic and jealous rants in the mid eighties spoke volumes as to how far and how low this breed would stoop for the their pieces of silver......even more annoying is that after they helped sate and drive the obvious exploitation and evisceration of Elvis image post 77, aligning themselves with parasites like Albert Goldman etc, they have now discovered that the press and general public no longer have an appetite for this gutter tabloid muckraking , and the general feeling now is to understand and appreciate the unique artist as much as the flawed man, they have now happily re-branded themselves as fan favorites , pandering to the few curious and less alert fans who grasp at any connection to the King as the number of close intimates slowly dies away, and their once lurid and inaccurate tales are now replaced with stories of great deeds and responsibilities within the organisation when it is well know that they were indeed an inside joke and only used as gofers and waterboys !




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No time for the Stanleys whatsoever .....and i'm a realist and appreciate that Elvis was no angel either, in fact if anyone could be excused for their later behavior it might be Billy , whose wife Elvis decided to sleep with , surely a betrayal of epic proportions , but as for the sinister 'minister' Ricky or his even more pathetic excuse of a brother 'David', their rush to sensationalize and cash in, and their blatant silence during their vile mothers psychotic and jealous rants in the mid eighties spoke volumes as to how far and how low this breed would stoop for the their pieces of silver......even more annoying is that after they helped sate and drive the obvious exploitation and evisceration of Elvis image post 77, aligning themselves with parasites like Albert Goldman etc, they have now discovered that the press and general public no longer have an appetite for this gutter tabloid muckraking , and the general feeling now is to understand and appreciate the unique artist as much as the flawed man, they have now happily re-branded themselves as fan favorites , pandering to the few curious and less alert fans who grasp at any connection to the King as the number of close intimates slowly dies away, and their once lurid and inaccurate tales are now replaced with stories of great deeds and responsibilities within the organisation when it is well know that they were indeed an inside joke and only used as gofers and waterboys !



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graceland67 wrote:
Thu Feb 11, 2021 7:17 pm
No time for the Stanleys whatsoever .....and i'm a realist and appreciate that Elvis was no angel either, in fact if anyone could be excused for their later behavior it might be Billy , whose wife Elvis decided to sleep with , surely a betrayal of epic proportions , but as for the sinister 'minister' Ricky or his even more pathetic excuse of a brother 'David', their rush to sensationalize and cash in, and their blatant silence during their vile mothers psychotic and jealous rants in the mid eighties spoke volumes as to how far and how low this breed would stoop for the their pieces of silver......even more annoying is that after they helped sate and drive the obvious exploitation and evisceration of Elvis image post 77, aligning themselves with parasites like Albert Goldman etc, they have now discovered that the press and general public no longer have an appetite for this gutter tabloid muckraking , and the general feeling now is to understand and appreciate the unique artist as much as the flawed man, they have now happily re-branded themselves as fan favorites , pandering to the few curious and less alert fans who grasp at any connection to the King as the number of close intimates slowly dies away, and their once lurid and inaccurate tales are now replaced with stories of great deeds and responsibilities within the organisation when it is well know that they were indeed an inside joke and only used as gofers and waterboys !
I don't know about Billy but David and Ricky actually did have important jobs in the organization. What was Elvis thinking? If Ricky had been on his post like he was supposed to be, there's a chance Elvis could have been attended to much earlier and possibly saved or at least not laid there dead for hours.




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Not sure how important David and Ricky really were.....if you believe them they were the main men , fighting off all sorts of (imaginary) threats , when in truth , after the West's and Hebler were dismissed , they were replaced with Professionals like Sam Thompson and Dick Grob and at times Ed Parker ......and any serious jobs such as accompanying Lisa back to California seemed to always be done by the above , so I agree that they really dropped the ball on the morning of Aug 16th, when as night watchmen they were not on call as they should have been although I doubt this would have made any real difference, and after the money trail of tabloid expose's dried up, they began to manufacture more important , vital and indespensible positions within the organization that existed only in their own vivid imaginations .
Respectfully and with my best regards .....stay well....greetings from Ireland.




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Dereliction of duty from the Stanley boys on August 16th.They knew Elvis was in bad shape and were proud to boast about their conversations predicting when, not if,Elvis was going to die.It would not have been too much for them to check on their boss periodically but it seems they had other pressing issues at hand.Billy Smith has never wavered on his account of what happened that final day and makes Davids claims of seeing and holding Elvis's lifeless body total BS.




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elvinda58 wrote:
Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:24 pm
Dereliction of duty from the Stanley boys on August 16th.They knew Elvis was in bad shape and were proud to boast about their conversations predicting when, not if,Elvis was going to die.It would not have been too much for them to check on their boss periodically but it seems they had other pressing issues at hand.Billy Smith has never wavered on his account of what happened that final day and makes Davids claims of seeing and holding Elvis's lifeless body total BS.
totally agree elvida58......the great shame of the last 40 years is how BILLY AND JO SMITH have been diminished whilst parasites like the Stanleys have been elevated among some misguided fans .......a word too should go to AL STRADA, present that day as he was for most of the final 4 years , yet he has remained virtually incognito and refused to cash in on his famous boss, surely a rare sign of decency and loyalty so sadly lacking with his infamous step brothers.....stay well and keep TCB......GREETINGS FROM iRELAND



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graceland67 wrote:
Fri Feb 12, 2021 6:41 pm
Not sure how important David and Ricky really were.....if you believe them they were the main men , fighting off all sorts of (imaginary) threats , when in truth , after the West's and Hebler were dismissed , they were replaced with Professionals like Sam Thompson and Dick Grob and at times Ed Parker ......and any serious jobs such as accompanying Lisa back to California seemed to always be done by the above , so I agree that they really dropped the ball on the morning of Aug 16th, when as night watchmen they were not on call as they should have been although I doubt this would have made any real difference, and after the money trail of tabloid expose's dried up, they began to manufacture more important , vital and indespensible positions within the organization that existed only in their own vivid imaginations .
Respectfully and with my best regards .....stay well....greetings from Ireland.
Important in that they were put on watch posts for Elvis and had bodyguard positions as well. Someone like Grob, Thomson, or Hebler (Parker didn't officially work for Elvis) should have been the ones stationed in the next bedroom and the only ones with bodyguard positions. Not dope using kids. The West boys were too young and had too many problems to be given any kind of responsibility like that. Especially after Linda left.


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