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Rochester — Elvis Costello's third album, ''Armed Forces'', has gone gold only two months after its release, and Saturday night's show at the Auditorium Theater here offered further evidence that he's well on the way to the huge success he deserves — and badly wants. But Costello's 80-minute set, dominated by material from ''Armed Forces'', demonstrated that stardom will be on his terms: he rocks hard and doesn't budge an inch, to his audience or anyone else. | Rochester — Elvis Costello's third album, ''Armed Forces'', has gone gold only two months after its release, and Saturday night's show at the Auditorium Theater here offered further evidence that he's well on the way to the huge success he deserves — and badly wants. But Costello's 80-minute set, dominated by material from ''Armed Forces'', demonstrated that stardom will be on his terms: he rocks hard and doesn't budge an inch, to his audience or anyone else. | ||
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Elvis Costello wants success badly, not for the big bucks, but because he thinks he has something to say. During Nick Lowe's "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding," the lights (excellent throughout the show) bathed Elvis in bright white while the band was colored in blood red — the message being that Elvis is "light in the darkness of insanity." Well, maybe yes, maybe no, but at any rate, don't miss him at I.C. next month. | Elvis Costello wants success badly, not for the big bucks, but because he thinks he has something to say. During Nick Lowe's "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding," the lights (excellent throughout the show) bathed Elvis in bright white while the band was colored in blood red — the message being that Elvis is "light in the darkness of insanity." Well, maybe yes, maybe no, but at any rate, don't miss him at I.C. next month. | ||
There'll be even less cause to miss him if [[the Rubinoos]] are the opening act again. The two-guitars/bass/drums outfit from Berkeley opened with an a capella sendup of fifties bands, moved into a rocker built around the theme from "The Munsters" and continued with original numbers like "Hold Me" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" that betrayed a rock sensibility frozen somewhere before | There'll be even less cause to miss him if [[the Rubinoos]] are the opening act again. The two-guitars/bass/drums outfit from Berkeley opened with an a capella sendup of fifties bands, moved into a rocker built around the theme from "The Munsters" and continued with original numbers like "Hold Me" and "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" that betrayed a rock sensibility frozen somewhere before ''Rubber Soul''. Giving the game away, they then played first-rate covers of "Please Please Me" ("That was of course by the Rutles, our favorite band") and Tommy James and the Shondells' "I Think We're Alone Now." They closed with a Ted Nugent parody, "Rock and Roll Is Dead, and We Don't Care." What can you expect from a band that got their name because their lead singer's last name is Rubin? The Rubinoos recall overnight camp and AM radio in the summer of 1967, and there's nothing wrong with that. | ||
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