Sick Of It All - Call To Arms

The next hurdle was Scotty Moore. Parker did not like the guitarist, whose maturity and experience, backed up by service in the Navy (he visited Korea at the beginning of the decade of the Cold War), contrasted with the innocence of Elvis. Scotty did not say anything, but silently watched the colonel try to taunt everyone. He even had a secret (it is legal to assume that for the owner of the "Amusement Party" he was like a bone in his throat): when Moore was still the official impresario of Presley, he sent a copy of their first record to San Tom Diskin, Parker's right hand, which in return sent him a letter of refusal. This first refusal was a pebble in the colonel’s garden, who most of all hated secrets, if he was not their only attorney. “From day one it became clear that the colonel and I did not need Bill,” says Moore.- Over time, it became increasingly apparent. Elvis was used to listening to me, which the colonel did not like at all, and he did everything to separate us. ”