TCB Band

But in the meantime, Graham, did I mention that his first love of 1956, seeing Elvis Presley live, changed his life.

He goes to Las Vegas, this is before Emmy comes out, and enlists the T, you know, Taking Care of Business band, the TCB band.

James Burton, the famous great guitarist who played-

The duckie himself

Again, just sounded great.

You know, their voices together.

Got the TCB band back for that record.

I'm taking a big sigh there.

But from Moondance on, uh, particularly Band and Street Choir and Tupelo Honey, these records just made me crazy, and I just wanted to do that.

And to have John, who could play pedal steel as well as guitar, but more importantly, Johnny Ciambotti, the bass player, who was the most swinging bass player I've, I played with other than Jerry Scheff, who was in the TCB band.

Ah, later on.

But John brought this thing, and I, I had these models for songs, some of which I'd been working on for a couple of years, and in my head, da, du-du, da, da, du-du, da, dun.

was.

How it all happened, Greg, when the Wiggles were going absolutely bonkers in America, Greg lived one of his dreams and he had Elvis' TCB band backing him on a couple of shows in Vegas and doing an Australian tour.

Yeah.

I was very lucky enough to, you know, be one of the hangers-on and get to meet Glenn and Ronnie Tutt at James Burton and that was just fantastic.

Well, Greg is my musical hero.

And I mean, I do love the Wiggles and everything, but I'm also a very big fan of Greg's work with the TCB band.

Elvis Presley's Taking Care of Business, the TCB band, which Greg toured with for many years.

And now, believe it or not, as part of this Denver to Diamond show that he's putting together, And starting to tour.

He's actually got a band.