New York Times, December 15, 1977: Difference between revisions
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Elvis Costello's New York debut Tuesday night at the Bottom Line was another of those eagerly awaited rock-and-roll occasions that make following the rock world here so amusing, Mr. Costello is a leading member of London's new wave, at least in the looser sense of that term, although he really owes more to the pub rockers like Graham Parker and the rhythm-and-blues revival lists like Southside Johnny than to the true punks. | Elvis Costello's New York debut Tuesday night at the Bottom Line was another of those eagerly awaited rock-and-roll occasions that make following the rock world here so amusing, Mr. Costello is a leading member of London's new wave, at least in the looser sense of that term, although he really owes more to the pub rockers like Graham Parker and the rhythm-and-blues revival lists like Southside Johnny than to the true punks. | ||
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Mr. Costello is like Mr. Parker, too, in the angry urgency of his voice and phrasing and in the spare and deliberately unpolished | Mr. Costello is like Mr. Parker, too, in the angry urgency of his voice and phrasing and in the spare and deliberately unpolished | ||
sound of his band. | sound of his band. | ||
Nearly all of these attributes were on hand at Tuesday's early show; if Mr. Costello was a victim of nerves, he subsumed it into his pre-existing image. The decent if slightly plodding band consists of Mr. Costello on rhythm guitar (there is no lead), plus a keyboard player (organ, mostly, which lends the sound a wailing, Animals-Doors flavor), bass and drums. Mr. Costello's voice was miced up higher than usual, which was all to the good in a rock world in which the vocals are often (mercifully) buried in the sonic. | Nearly all of these attributes were on hand at Tuesday's early show; if Mr. Costello was a victim of nerves, he subsumed it into his pre-existing image. The decent if slightly plodding band consists of Mr. Costello on rhythm guitar (there is no lead), plus a keyboard player (organ, mostly, which lends the sound a wailing, Animals-Doors flavor), bass and drums. Mr. Costello's voice was miced up higher than usual, which was all to the good in a rock world in which the vocals are often (mercifully) buried in the sonic. |
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