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The plusses of the performance were the guitar solos by Bill Loosigian (the rhythm/lead guitarist of the Boom Boom Band) and the paper airplanes with messages and requests thrown onstage by members of the audience. The total effect of Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band was forty-five minutes of amusing, inane, and questionable antics by Willie to a background of hard rock and roll that ended in a semi-enthusiastic attempt to bring an encore that never came. | The plusses of the performance were the guitar solos by Bill Loosigian (the rhythm/lead guitarist of the Boom Boom Band) and the paper airplanes with messages and requests thrown onstage by members of the audience. The total effect of Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band was forty-five minutes of amusing, inane, and questionable antics by Willie to a background of hard rock and roll that ended in a semi-enthusiastic attempt to bring an encore that never came. | ||
After a twenty minute break for equipment change, and then an unfortunate problem with cameras, Elvis Costello ran on with his band | After a twenty minute break for equipment change, and then an unfortunate problem with cameras, Elvis Costello ran on with his band, The Attractions, and immediately broke into one of his better known songs, "Mystery Dance." Elvis was dressed in a gray silk suit which appeared to have several permanent suitcase wrinkles creased on the pantlegs. | ||
On stage, the person of Elvis Costello is difficult to characterize. He stations himself in front of the microphone and furiously and expressively spits out his lyrics. Either his motions are all appropriately jerky in a sort of practised uncoordination that seems tailor-made for him, or he falls into a trance-like state of total inaction, eyes fixed in space and arms hanging loosely at his sides; either way, the mood is intense and the crowd is mad for him. After seeing him in concert (for any amount of time), one recognizes in him both a genius and a certain charisma — Elvis Costello has all the talent and all the force of the next big thing. | On stage, the person of Elvis Costello is difficult to characterize. He stations himself in front of the microphone and furiously and expressively spits out his lyrics. Either his motions are all appropriately jerky in a sort of practised uncoordination that seems tailor-made for him, or he falls into a trance-like state of total inaction, eyes fixed in space and arms hanging loosely at his sides; either way, the mood is intense and the crowd is mad for him. After seeing him in concert (for any amount of time), one recognizes in him both a genius and a certain charisma — Elvis Costello has all the talent and all the force of the next big thing. |
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