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The whole dinner party — including pianist Paul Carrack, bassist James Eller, drummer Bobby Irwin and guitarist Martin Belmont, all of whom are members of Lowe's Noise to Go band — dissolves in fits of horselaughter. "Acceptable?" cries Lowe in mock horror. "To whom?" | The whole dinner party — including pianist Paul Carrack, bassist James Eller, drummer Bobby Irwin and guitarist Martin Belmont, all of whom are members of Lowe's Noise to Go band — dissolves in fits of horselaughter. "Acceptable?" cries Lowe in mock horror. "To whom?" | ||
For starters, there are the several hundred thoroughly plastered St. Patrick's Day revelers who cheer on Noise to Go later this night in Albany's small, sweaty club, J.B. Scott's. Most of these fans probably don't know that Lowe's production of albums by Elvis Costello, Graham Parker and the Damned forms a capsule history of England's 1976-1977 rock revolution. Or that Lowe's own LPs — from his 1978 U.S. solo debut, ''Pure Pop for Now People'', through the new ''Nick the Knife'' | For starters, there are the several hundred thoroughly plastered St. Patrick's Day revelers who cheer on Noise to Go later this night in Albany's small, sweaty club, J.B. Scott's. Most of these fans probably don't know that Lowe's production of albums by Elvis Costello, Graham Parker and the Damned forms a capsule history of England's 1976-1977 rock revolution. Or that Lowe's own LPs — from his 1978 U.S. solo debut, ''Pure Pop for Now People'', through the new ''Nick the Knife'' — are really funhouse mirror images of America's own deep pop roots in rockabilly, country and R&B. But they remember the pop 'n' party glory that was Lowe's last band, Rockpile, and they recognize in his new songs the same beguiling vintage-AM charm of his greatest hits, "Cruel to Be Kind" and "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass." The drunken ovation he gets at the end of the night indicates that everyone finds Lowe's ideas, in Confucius' words, "totally acceptable." | ||
But what Nick Lowe, the thirty-three-year-old son of a Royal Air Force career man, cannot understand is why his American fans take his music so seriously. Since the release of ''Pure Pop for Now People'', this pop fox with the wide rubbery smile and snappy interview patter has been hailed as rock's New Wave savior, a Jesus of cool whose commercial instincts, love of laughs and allegiance to American pop have revitalized the mainstream rock marketplace. As far as Lowe is concerned, though, he is just taking us all to the cleaners. | But what Nick Lowe, the thirty-three-year-old son of a Royal Air Force career man, cannot understand is why his American fans take his music so seriously. Since the release of ''Pure Pop for Now People'', this pop fox with the wide rubbery smile and snappy interview patter has been hailed as rock's New Wave savior, a Jesus of cool whose commercial instincts, love of laughs and allegiance to American pop have revitalized the mainstream rock marketplace. As far as Lowe is concerned, though, he is just taking us all to the cleaners. |
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