Walking in Memphis (is not safe)

Memphis was a real shock, it was great and it had tons of potential but it was also sketchy as hell. The first day we arrived at our hotel, turned on the TV and the news report notifying us that Memphis was officially the 2nd most dangerous city in America! Great start.

We basically had to get cabs everywhere because its certainly not safe to walk any time of day or night!

Thats not to say that the place wasn't cool, there is plenty of music history here, its pretty much the birthplace of rock and roll. Beale St is where its at downtown, 3 blocks of bars all featuring live blues, soul and country, and same as Nashville the bands were all really good.
The street is pretty cool, you can drink anywhere and take beers in anywhere you want to. They are famous for their Big ass beers!
Its also home to BB Kings first blues club. BB is a memphis legend and he still plays in his club every now and then.
We visited the famous Sun Studios, this is one of the most famous recording studios ever, if not the most famous. Elvis and Johnny Cash recorded their first songs here, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and BB king recorded here early on. U2 even recorded Rattle and Hum here, the place is rock n roll heaven.
The studio is pretty much unchanged, including the foyer, which you might recognise if you have seen Walk the Line, the movie about Johnny Cash.

This Microphone is an original one, used by everyone mentioned previously in the post, and now by Sarah and I.
You can now rent the studio for $100 per hour and record your own record, pretty sweet deal. Especially with all the sweet equipment you get to use!
This was U2's drumkit.
After Sun we went and visited the Stax museum of soul. Stax was a soul record Label based in memphis, with acts like Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Booker T and the MGs and Rufus Thomas. The Museum is a replica of the original Building, which was an old cinema.


They had a bunch of cool stuff in there, but nothing comes close to this Bad boy. Isaac hayes' Cadillac. Totally Pimping!
No Chrome for Isaac, Just solid gold rollin'.
Memphis is famous for one other thing apart from Music and thats BBQ, they got the best Ribs here in the world. And the best place to eat em is Rendevous, this place is unchanged in 60 or so years,
They serve the ribs dry on a paper plate and they are awesome. Slow cooked in a BBQ pit all day, and easily the best I have ever had!
I'll catch ya'll up with Gracelands tommorrow. Cheers