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| Backbeat Tours LLC |
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| Last 3 months | 115 | 265 | 270 | 5 | 97% | 4.6 | ||
| Last 6 months | 189 | 458 | 466 | 8 | 98% | 4.7 | ||
| Last 12 months | 244 | 581 | 590 | 9 | 98% | 4.6 | ||
| All | 653 | 1494 | 1524 | 30 | 97% | 4.6 |
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Ratings by Activity
(Each activity's ratings from the last 12 months)
(Each activity's ratings from the last 12 months)
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| Memphis Mojo Tour: the Best of Memphis | 507 | 99% | 4.8 |
| Memphis Walking Ghost Tour | 43 | 90% | 3.9 |
| Extended Memphis Mojo Tour | 19 | 100% | 4.9 |
| Hound Dog Tour: Elvis Presley's Memphis | 9 | 100% | 5.0 |
| Graceland Tour: Musical Bus Ride and Platinum Pass | 3 | 100% | 3.8 |
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Enjoyed ourselves
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| Fri, Mar 21, 08 2:30 PM | kmqqmk | Male | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family With Children | |
| Memphis Joe's knowledge of Memphis was good and his enthusiasm was great. Music was pretty good too. | ||||||
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LOTS OF FUN
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| Sat, Mar 22, 08 2:30 PM | davegibbons | Male | 60-69 | Combination | Group of Friends | |
| What a delightful way to spend an afternoon in Memphis and learn a lot about the music of Memphis and environs and its origins. Our on-board guide and one man entertainment section was fantastic. Have fun! | ||||||
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entertaining and informative
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| Sun, Mar 23, 08 2:30 PM | jcchait | Male | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family With Children | |
| Entertaining and knowlegeable tour guide. I do wonder if he embellished a bit on some of the stories he told about Memphis, however it did not matter. Learned alot and had a great time. Music a bonus, not something you ordinarly get on a tour | ||||||
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The history of Memphis music in a nutshell
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| Sun, Mar 23, 08 2:30 PM | memphis2008 | Female | 30-39 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family With Children | |
| My family and I enjoyed the tour very much. We especially liked learning about all of the different types of music that have their roots in Memphis. The tour guide was very interesting and funny! My seven-year-old daughter really loved playing music along with the tour guide. We got to see many neat sites of Memphis that we would not have been able to find on our own. We highly recommend this tour because it is fun for the whole family. | ||||||
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GREAT Tour! Very unique way to see Memphis!
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| Tue, Mar 25, 08 2:30 PM | francelli7 | Female | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Couple on a Date | |
| We loved our tour - mostly because of our very talented and quick-witted tour guide "Memphis Joe". He is a verbal genius and a fantastic musician! | ||||||
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The most fun filled tour of my life!
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| Wed, Mar 26, 08 10:00 AM | SJAguilar68 | Female | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Individual | |
| I took the Hound Dog tour and the entertainment on the bus was phenomenal. I rode on the Miss Clawdy bus and Memphis Jones was an excellent tour guide. I recommend this tour especially to all Elvis fans who will appreciate it more. I learned so much more about Elvis' life that I'll remain a fan for life. I highly recommend Back Beat tours. I am planning to return to Memphis and take the other tours such as the Mojo tour from Back Beat. | ||||||
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Fun Mo-Jo Bus Tour
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| Thu, Mar 27, 08 2:30 PM | JohnnyS | Male | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Group of Friends | |
| A great tour. The musician was fantastic, the narrative for the sights complete and told in a manner that was fun and informative. I highly recommend this tour. | ||||||
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T he Mojo Tour is the best way to see Memphis!
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| Thu, Mar 27, 08 2:30 PM | lkgabrie | Male | 20-29 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Other | |
| Everyone in my group absolutely loved the tour. So much history and fun at the same time. It really was as they said, "A 9 hour tour packed into 90 minutes." If you love music, history, and fun, you MUST take this tour. | ||||||
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It was a very fun and unique tour.
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| Thu, Mar 27, 08 2:30 PM | lnoborikawa | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family With Children | |
| Memphis Jones is a great musician and loved his singing. He made the tour interesting with his insight into the history of the singers and town. The music enhanced the tour and encouraged audience participation with the musical instruments provided. | ||||||
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Surprisingly un-cheesy and thoroughly enjoyable!
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| Fri, Mar 28, 08 2:30 PM | melangel0220 | Female | 30-39 | Local | Couple on a Date | |
| I am from here, and my date has lived here for well over a decade ~ but we learned more on this tour about Memphis music history than we'd been exposed to all along. The tour was thoroughly entertaining, enjoyable, educational ... our guide, "Memphis Jones," was very knowledgable about Memphis music history and was able to convey interesting information in an entertaining way. We are definitely going to take any out-of-towners who visit us on this same tour whenever they come into town. I very enthusiastically recommend this tour as a great way to learn and enjoy oneself doing so!! | ||||||
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Bring on the Mojo!
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| Sun, Mar 30, 08 2:30 PM | divachickie | Female | 30-39 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Group of Friends | |
| We read about the Backbeat tour in a hotel brochure and decided to try the Mojo tour. It was a blast riding on Miss Clawdy while being entertained by the wonderfully informative Memphis Jones. He can sing, he can play guitar, and he can dish out the trivia about the city and its music history. He really knows his stuff! It was especially fun playing in the back-up band with our shakers, tambourines, and mini bongo drums. We would highly recommend this tour to anybody visiting Memphis for the first time. It's a great way to get the lay of the land while learning interesting tidbits about the musical history and its stars who've made Memphis what it is. | ||||||
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Almost Perfect
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| Fri, Apr 4, 08 2:30 PM | lesleyboyer | Female | 60-69 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Group of Friends | |
| This was the piece de resitance of a Medicare Maidens Mempis Madness Tour and it almost was. We boarded the bus and began the tour, and were surprise that the musician had to tell the bus driver where to go. The musician began talking, and talking and talking - pointing out things of interest. After nearly 25 minutes he played his first song. It was good. He was good, but the music didn't start soon enough. He later explained that he was "short handed" because the tour guide didn't come. So he was having to do the talking tour AND play the keyboard. He was good at both, but not simultaneously. No one could be. At the very beginning, as we got on the bus,we saw tamborines on the front seat. Finally, for the last 15 minutes of the tour, I reached over and asked the musician if we could play them. It seemed he had forgotton all about us playing along with him. My group enjoyed this, but it fell short of expectations, because he was understaffed. | ||||||
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Enntertaining, good
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| Fri, Apr 4, 08 2:30 PM | movadu08 | Female | 40-49 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family With Children | |
| Different, creative, good host/guide. The only negative detail that made the tour a bit uncomfortable was the extreme cold temperature inside the bus; specially since it was a very cloudy and rainy day. It would also have helped if the stop at Sun Studio had been a bit longer. The place was so packed with visitors that it was practically impossible to even buy a hot cup of chocolate or walk to the bathroom. | ||||||
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Interesting and Fun
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| Sat, Apr 5, 08 7:30 PM | eileenflora | Female | 40-49 | Local | Family Without Children | |
| My family was here from out of town and we really enjoyed this walking tour, it gave us a little bit of history about Memphis and we heard good stories. It was very fun going into the Cayenne Moon. We would have liked to have gone inside more establishments but for the price and the time it was a very fun tour. Our guide was funny and approachable and knew his stuff. | ||||||
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Enjoyable with Caveats
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| Sun, Apr 6, 08 10:00 AM | kbranan | Female | 50-59 | Domestic Tourist(s) | Family With Children | |
| My daughter, 16, and I took this tour based on a different tour we had taken previously and how much we had enjoyed it. The upside: There was a great deal of interesting information about Elvis on this tour. Not the least of which is the fact that one can rent out the apartment where the Presley family lived at Lauderdale Courts!! The tour around the city to get a glimpse of places associated With Elvis' life was very interesting. Our bus driver was extremely knowledgeable of Elvis lore and trivia. Also, having taken another tour that included some Elvis info, this tour did not feel like a duplication of that at all. The tour is very upbeat, and it is fun to use the hand-held instruments provided to join in the songs. The not-so-upside: The songs sung on the tour were mostly very early-Elvis tunes. While these were pertinent, they weren't (for the most part) the most well known. Where were Heartbreak Hotel, Can't Help Falling In Love, All Shook Up, Love Me Tender, Are You Lonesome Tonight, Return to Sender, Crying in the Chapel. We would have loved to hear the background info on the recording of Are you Lonesome Tonight, wherein Elvis starts laughing and can't stop. Also, while we know that Elvis recorded at Sun Studios, the tour there is only partially about Elvis. It's an interesting tour, but would have chosen to leave that part out and learn more about Elvis only, since the tour billing is about him. (The Sun Studios tour time - in all - was 1 hour and 20 minutes of the total 2 hours and 45 minute tour.) Also - and we fully realize this couldn't be helped - the *old* circa 1962 bus we were supposed to tour on was in disrepair. Instead, we toured on a 15 passenger shuttle bus. It wasn't quite the same, as we had the older bus experience on our first tour. | ||||||
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