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Three weeks ago, Elvis appeared at the Paramount courtesy of the Catch A Rising Star series of concerts, to a full house. After one of the most gripping concert sets it has been my pleasure to experience, some pencil neck in the balcony threw an M-80 at the stage, as is currently the rage at concerts. Pent-up road tensions exploded and the musicians threw down their instruments, returning only at Elvis' urging to finish the song they were performing. Wrapping up with a bit of stage and instrument destruction a la The Who they left a breathless, thunderstruck audience. Refusing to do an encore hopefully taught someone a lesson. It's not the first time Elvis has related to an audience on such a one to one level. In [[Concert 1977-11-18 Los Angeles|L.A.]] he dove into the front row to defend a young lady's honor from an attacker — chivalry is not dead. | Three weeks ago, Elvis appeared at the Paramount courtesy of the Catch A Rising Star series of concerts, to a full house. After one of the most gripping concert sets it has been my pleasure to experience, some pencil neck in the balcony threw an M-80 at the stage, as is currently the rage at concerts. Pent-up road tensions exploded and the musicians threw down their instruments, returning only at Elvis' urging to finish the song they were performing. Wrapping up with a bit of stage and instrument destruction a la The Who they left a breathless, thunderstruck audience. Refusing to do an encore hopefully taught someone a lesson. It's not the first time Elvis has related to an audience on such a one to one level. In [[Concert 1977-11-18 Los Angeles (early)|L.A.]] he dove into the front row to defend a young lady's honor from an attacker — chivalry is not dead. | ||
As opposed to the incendiary burnout of the Sex Pistols or the camp appeal of the Ramones, Elvis stands on his own. He glared out at everyone there and right through them with the look of a man who is ready to take stardom on its own terms without sacrificing any of that rare quality known as "artistic integrity." The man has something to say and has his own way to rock and as far as he's concerned if you don't like it then you're no better than the people he strikes out at in his songs, or as the current [[:File:1978-03-09 Rolling Stone advertisement.jpg|ad campaign]] so aptly puts it: "Elvis Costello — Is he on your list? — Are you on His?" | As opposed to the incendiary burnout of the Sex Pistols or the camp appeal of the Ramones, Elvis stands on his own. He glared out at everyone there and right through them with the look of a man who is ready to take stardom on its own terms without sacrificing any of that rare quality known as "artistic integrity." The man has something to say and has his own way to rock and as far as he's concerned if you don't like it then you're no better than the people he strikes out at in his songs, or as the current [[:File:1978-03-09 Rolling Stone advertisement.jpg|ad campaign]] so aptly puts it: "Elvis Costello — Is he on your list? — Are you on His?" | ||
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