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Now he's distanced himself, turned menace into an act. Unlike the album, the tour is a military exercise, blanks for bullets, shows of just over half an hour up and down California. | Now he's distanced himself, turned menace into an act. Unlike the album, the tour is a military exercise, blanks for bullets, shows of just over half an hour up and down California. | ||
Elvis gigs used to be like reading his diary and getting caught in the act; he needed to confess and threaten — but he didn't like it — you for seeing his weakness. Tonight, from " | Elvis gigs used to be like reading his diary and getting caught in the act; he needed to confess and threaten — but he didn't like it — you for seeing his weakness. Tonight, from "I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea" on, all the unease is in the Attractions' music, Steve Naive's organ is peeping and poking then swirling like fog, Bruce's bass pointing out the tunes and the drums stuttering and running on top like an unbalanced heartbeat. Elvis works around the last two albums, acting out the songs — "Green Shirt" in particular, hands scraping through the spike top in mock hysteria, Costello trapped in lights like the stars in prison uniform on the ''Band On The Run'' cover. | ||
But it's all peculiarly polite and friendly. The standard showpiece, "Watching The Detectives" closes after "Lipstick Vogue," stopping and starting and drifting off into intentionally dangerous places, but somehow there's no danger, it's a professional career. | But it's all peculiarly polite and friendly. The standard showpiece, "Watching The Detectives" closes after "Lipstick Vogue," stopping and starting and drifting off into intentionally dangerous places, but somehow there's no danger, it's a professional career. | ||
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It gets harder to bite the hand that overfeeds you and as for me, well, sometimes it takes more than a little finger to blow you away. | It gets harder to bite the hand that overfeeds you and as for me, well, sometimes it takes more than a little finger to blow you away. | ||
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{{tags}}[[Concert 1979-02-17 Santa Barbara|Arlington Theatre]] {{-}} [[Santa Barbara]] {{-}} [[CA|California]] {{-}} [[The Attractions]] {{-}} [[Steve Nieve|Steve Naive]] {{-}} [[Bruce Thomas]] {{-}} [[Pete Thomas]] {{-}} [[Goon Squad]] {{-}} [[Armed Forces]] {{-}} [[(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea]] {{-}} [[Green Shirt]] {{-}} [[Watching The Detectives]] {{-}} [[Lipstick Vogue]] {{-}} [[Pump It Up]] {{-}} [[Paul McCartney|Band On The Run]] {{-}} [[:Category:1st US Tour|1st US Tour]] {{-}} [[Oliver's Army]] | |||
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{{Bibliography next | {{Bibliography next | ||
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<small>Cover and | <small>Cover and page scans.</small><br> | ||
[[image:1979-03-03 Record Mirror cover.jpg|x120px|border]] | [[image:1979-03-03 Record Mirror cover.jpg|x120px|border]] | ||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Mirror Wikipedia: Record Mirror] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Mirror Wikipedia: Record Mirror] | ||
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/57779449@N02/albums/72157719258844789 Flickr:][https://www.flickr.com/photos/57779449@N02/51200545476/ {{t}}] [[Michael Kane]] | |||
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