"Elvis & Friends Return" at Riverside
Ballroom in Green Bay, WI, 11/18/11.
Chad Gates
invited Jimmy to join him for this show, along with Jesse Aron and the EAS Band.
It was night filled with Roy Orbison, Elvis and a tribute to The Judds.
The show was held at the
historic Riverside Ballroom in Green Bay, WI, which had a special meaning to
Jimmy. This was
the same stage that Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper performed on
in 1959,
a few days before the crash. The hall had been remodeled since then, but
they kept the stage
and a dressing room that has hundreds of performers' signatures that date so far
back the
signatures are so faded you cannot read them. These are the pictures of
that wonderful
ballroom: