We couldn't hear. Back then we didn't have the monitors they have now. We didn't have anything. We had Scotty, Bill, myself, and 40,000 people out there. You really couldn't hear anybody. We'd just have to watch Elvis's rear end, his arms, and his feet to tell exactly where he was in the song. He conducted with his rear end. When we were at the Cotton Bowl, Elvis had this long cord, and he went from the middle of the fifty-yard line, where our stage was, to the fence, which had to be fifty or sixty yards away. We just kept watching him. We were doing the last song, 'Hound Dog', and he was just all over the place. How we knew where he was in the song is beyond me, but when he walked back, he was where he was supposed to be and we were there too. It was sheer luck. But we had to watch him every minute, because we never knew what he was going to do next.
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