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No matter how he tried, Elvis Costello couldn't spin it last Friday night. The real star of Costello's current tour — the Spectacular Spinning Songbook, on the road for the first time in 25 years — never made it onstage at the Pearl. And Costello never provided an adequate explanation as to why fans who paid $65 to $113 per ticket in Las Vegas were denied the full production mounted one night [[Concert 2011-05-12 Los Angeles|earlier]] in LA or three nights [[Concert 2011-05-15 Chicago|later]] in Chicago. | |||
"It's Friday the 13th, so we don't want to court the subject of luck too much," the 56-year-old British rocker offered after he and his three-piece backing band, The Imposters, had reeled off six numbers without producing the 14-foot wheel, which normally dials up each night's setlist in real time. Later, he actually kept a straight face while purporting that the roulette-like prop had been denied access by the city's gaming powers-that-be: "They don't like competition here." And Costello apparently told one local entertainment reporter that the wheel was simply too large to fit inside the Pearl, a venue that has hosted MTV's Video Music Awards, among other massive concert events. A Palms spokesperson later denied that claim, attributing the wheel's absence to "routing issues." | |||
So what happens when you take a band accustomed to bringing audience members to the stage to spin for songs — a concept the ''Los Angeles Times'' called "the most invigorating kind of living room party, where attendees challenge one another in a combination of ''Name That Tune'' and ''Top That!''" — and strip it back to basics? Not much. Where Neil Young & Crazy Horse raged onstage during a Vegas getaway from 2003's ''Greendale'' theatrics, Elvis and his Imposters appeared, and often sounded, bored to be here. | |||
The classics-heavy setlist looked solid enough by concert's end: "Radio, Radio," "Everyday I Write the Book," "Watching the Detectives," "Clubland," "Oliver's Army," "Alison," "Pump It Up." But few felt more than perfunctory, and some were downright ragged — a far cry from the power shown by Costello on past visits. "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" started intensely, only to devolve into a faux-funk jam session more appropriate for Phishheads than an overwhelmingly older Pearl crowd. | |||
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Costello ultimately did produce a wheel … on an iPad screen atop a music stand. A gaggle of ladies came up to "spin it," then stayed onstage to dance distractingly during the encore. A cliché about insults and injuries comes to mind. | |||
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[[Spencer Patterson]] reviews | [[Spencer Patterson]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Imposters]], Friday, [[Concert 2011-05-13 Las Vegas|May{{n}}13, 2011]], Pearl Palms Concert Theater, Las Vegas, Nevada. | ||
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