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<center><h3> Saved by the El! </h3></center> | <center><h3> Saved by the El! </h3></center> | ||
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'''Elvis Costello & The Attractions <br> | |||
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Projected Passion, Intense Emotion and Trans-Global Express can pale into history. With the word that Afrodiziak and The TKO Horns were going on the road with Elvis Costello And The Attractions, we ''knew'' that this was gong to be the closest '80s Hitsville UK will get to the legendary power of the '60s sock-it-to-me soul review. But first, showing that Americans are no slouches either at playing American music, came Rank And File. | Projected Passion, Intense Emotion and Trans-Global Express can pale into history. With the word that Afrodiziak and The TKO Horns were going on the road with Elvis Costello And The Attractions, we ''knew'' that this was gong to be the closest '80s Hitsville UK will get to the legendary power of the '60s sock-it-to-me soul review. But first, showing that Americans are no slouches either at playing American music, came Rank And File. | ||
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Elvis had blown out the previous evening's gig with voice problems, and by "Man Out Of Time," the soaring elastic grace of his ''Bedroom'' croon was rasping into a rough-hewn bark. On the ropes but not out for the count, Elvis beat the unbeatable through sheer effort of will and the skill to turn his weakness into a positive strength. Since he could barely float like a butterfly, he instead stung like a bee. | Elvis had blown out the previous evening's gig with voice problems, and by "Man Out Of Time," the soaring elastic grace of his ''Bedroom'' croon was rasping into a rough-hewn bark. On the ropes but not out for the count, Elvis beat the unbeatable through sheer effort of will and the skill to turn his weakness into a positive strength. Since he could barely float like a butterfly, he instead stung like a bee. | ||
His vocal urgency and directness stripped the distancing ambiguity from the heart of his songs; where he couldn't hold a high note, a brief, tremulous quaver will still tear you apart. Soul standards he covers tonight include The O'Jays' " | His vocal urgency and directness stripped the distancing ambiguity from the heart of his songs; where he couldn't hold a high note, a brief, tremulous quaver will still tear you apart. Soul standards he covers tonight include The O'Jays' "Back Stabbers" which segues into a storming "King Horse," Smokey's "From Head To Toe" and The Originals' plangent ballad "The Bells" which climaxes in wave upon wave of resounding piano and guitar. | ||
Far more than a prop, Elvis' guitar shivers the blood in angular metal slashes in a psychotic "Chelsea" where stalk the spectres of Verlaine and Quine, only to be followed by a staggering "New Lace Sleeves" rapturously inevitable yet chillingly spiked with the unworldly neurosis of McGuinn-like morse-coding. | Far more than a prop, Elvis' guitar shivers the blood in angular metal slashes in a psychotic "Chelsea" where stalk the spectres of Verlaine and Quine, only to be followed by a staggering "New Lace Sleeves" rapturously inevitable yet chillingly spiked with the unworldly neurosis of McGuinn-like morse-coding. | ||
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