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<center><h3> Elvis wows L.A. </h3></center> | |||
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<center> Andrew Barnum </center> | |||
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Everybody secretly loves Elvis Costello, and at the same time fears his every word, recoiling at his anger. | |||
And he don't care. | And he don't care. | ||
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Elvis re-opened the rule book. | Elvis re-opened the rule book. | ||
When I first saw Elvis in L.A. | When I first saw Elvis in L.A. last year I was interested in this twitchy 28-year-old looking 22-year-old. His band was an energy wired group of faces almost under a trance from the power of the music they were fortunate enough to unleash. Elvis was semi-tough, all spaz attack gestures and twangy electro-sonic guitars. | ||
His stuff was great and even the rather naive, excuse the pun, "new wave" audience pogoed and screamed very nicely. | His stuff was great and even the rather naive, excuse the pun, "new wave" audience pogoed and screamed very nicely. | ||
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That's the guy, tearing it up, pumping it up, spitting it out, really wild and already he hates this hall and the sound system, but who cares? The crowd absorbs his anger and dances. The people at the Civic in L.A. were smart enough to take the seating out for this one. The writhing mass looks like a huge sock hop. Neat. | That's the guy, tearing it up, pumping it up, spitting it out, really wild and already he hates this hall and the sound system, but who cares? The crowd absorbs his anger and dances. The people at the Civic in L.A. were smart enough to take the seating out for this one. The writhing mass looks like a huge sock hop. Neat. | ||
His band The Attractions load up and machine their way through what seems like 100 songs. Elvis just doesn't let up. There's Watching | His band The Attractions load up and machine their way through what seems like 100 songs. Elvis just doesn't let up. There's "Watching The Detectives" a love-hate classic; "No Action" and from the new model, excuse me, album, "This Year's Girl" and "Radio, Radio." (Costello albums list different tracks in different countries. Oz didn't get "Radio" — ed), it's an amazing song that's become really big, and ironically the lyrics totally slander everything to do with the mechanics of a hit. Get a listen, it's mean. | ||
Meanwhile back at the show Twitching Jack Jive is powering to an appreciative rabble, still real angry at the sound. As he finished his last song he did something I wasn't ready for ... midsong he removed his guitar and, with a psychotic pas de deux, trashed his amplifier and stormed off. | |||
The performance was nevertheless energy-filled, strange, ugly ... all those words. Anyone with any sense had fun. | |||
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'''RAM, No. 91, August 25, 1978 | |||
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[[Andrew Barnum]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Attractions]], Tuesday, [[Concert 1978-05-30 Santa Monica|May 30, 1978]], Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California. | |||
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==External links== | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_Magazine Wikipedia: RAM Magazine] | |||
*[http://www.elviscostello.info/articles/r/ram.780825.html elviscostello.info] | |||
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