Steve Binder: "What do you think would happen if you walked
out on the street today?" And he said "What do you mean?" I
said, "Well what do you think would happen?" And he looked
at me curiously and he said "Well, I don't know what do you
think would happen?" And I said "Nothing. This is 1968. You
walk down on the street on Sunset Boulevard, and I almost
promise you, guarantee you, nobody's gonna tear your clothes
off. Nobody's gonna hound you for autographs or whatever,
you know, they're gonna just accept you. These are different
times, you know." And that was the end of the conversation,
and it was a few days later, we rehearsed the show at our
offices in the piano room before we ever went to NBC with the
full orchestra and the staff and so forth. But the story on Sunset
is a few days later while we were rehearsing, Elvis came to
me and said "Let's go." I didn't even know what he was talking
about and I said "Lets go where?" He said "Downstairs." So
everybody grabbed their hats or coats or whatever and they
said "Let's go" and Elvis said "No, no. Only Steve and I are
going down there. You all, you can watch from the window,"
cause we were on like thethird floor. And he said "But we're
goin' down there, you know, to see what it's like on Sunset
Boulevard." We went down at the peak of traffic, like 5:00 in