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#40 Tiger Man - Elvis Presley Series Traditional Cache

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SweetPea57: After 9 years, this series has run its course. Having to drive almost an hour to do maintenance on this series is no longer feasible. Thanks to all who have found these caches!! Elvis has left the building!

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Hidden : 7/6/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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I'm a huge Elvis Presley fan, have been ever since I was a little girl.  When I was thinking of putting a series of 50 caches together, it came to mind to use Elvis Presley song titles for the cache names.  As you're searching for each cache, try to sing the song it's named for, I bet you'll know most of them:-)

I had planned on placing all 50 of them around Lohi Lake but ran out of room so had to continue on another road after placing as many as I could around that lake. Please be careful and pull off to the side of the road as far as possible and be cautious when getting out of your vehicle. All caches will be just a few meters from the road and you will be looking for camoed containers...vial shaped and square or round Lock n' Lock. You will also notice that in one area I didn't hide any caches for over a km, due to many cottages near the road.  I hope you enjoy this series as much as I enjoyed putting it together!!! (Thanks to Flashattimmies for helping me place all the caches!)

Please be advised that if you're using your smart phone as your gps, there will be some areas where there is no reception. If you're using a GPS itself, then you'll be fine.

#40...."Tiger Man" was performed and recorded by Elvis on the television special "68 Comeback Special". Recorded at NBC Studio 4, Burbank, California on June 27, 1968.

During the most captivating segment of Elvis Presley's phenomenal 1968 television comeback special, Presley reunited with original band members Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana. (Bass player Bill Black passed away in the mid-1960s.) To film that segment, Presley and the group performed two sets before a small, but rapt studio audience. A generous selection of performances from those concerts became available on video in 1985 under the title "Elvis: One Night With You," but RCA waited until 1998 to release TIGER MAN, a single CD of the performances. These performances quite simply capture Presley at his best, singing with a joy and fire absent from much of his '60s output. At the same time, Presley is clearly giving it his all, as if trying to undo in one brief set all the damage that years of safe, mediocre movies did to his image. An unusual and stunning aspect is that Presley "swaps axes" - the electric guitar - with Moore early in the set. Instead of Moore's groundbreaking country-blues fusion guitar licks, we hear something completely new and unexpected. Presley's wild, thrashing, and incendiary rhythmic lead guitar playing reveals a side of Elvis Presley's musicianship previously unheard on disc.He had played the electric guitar live before, on a very few occasions. And he played it on record both before and after the special.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)