Mitch Tyo said << On a couple Naked City bootlegs I've found floating around the net, I've heard John Zorn refer to "You Will Be Shot" as being from "The Elvis Presley Murder File."
Hi Mitch and everybody, About the "Elvis Will Be Shot in some Murder Files" interrogation... Arthur Gadney give a answer on this list (june 2002): http://mailman.xmission.com/pipermail/zorn-list/2002-June/000273.html Arthur, do you care if I quote you?
The Elvis Presley Murder Files were just a bunch of compositions which Zorn wrote inspired by the myths about Elvis' death. I don't remember all of them, but apart from "You Will be Shot", "Ny Flat Top Box" was certainly also one of them. I think it was more of a joke than anything else.
Another point is Zorn's speech (bootleg of the NC's concert nov 3, 1989 in Bremen, 14th piece in the list I have) to introduce "You Will Be Shot". An american friend of mine helps me in the writing... (my english is very bad especialy when it's spoken like in this recording...) "The next piece is dedicated to Elvis Presley. [a noisy-word thing like chruwa?] It's from a series of articles that come out when someone discovered a file cabinet that hadn't been opened. We learned a lot about Elvis in this file cabinet, for instance the shroud of Turin is actually the shroud of Elvis. Mont Vesuvius is actually Mont Elvis. This is from the Elvis Presley Murder Files: You Will Be Shot. Thank you very much for your kind indulgence" Then countdown and music... Arthur (or anyone else): do you have more information now? E.P. Murder Files or Murder File? One piece or several? Which one? Written for NC? Or the NC's version is an arrangement of an older composition? "You Will Be Shot" is a NC's piece to be put in a file collection already opened? Thanx a lot, New year for a lot of all good things! Nicolas.