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Elvis Costello & The Attractions | <center> '''Elvis Costello & The Attractions </center> | ||
Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles | <center> Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles </center> | ||
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The yellow posters outside the Los Angeles Whisky and the yellow pins handed to the punters make him out a Buddy Holly figure who murders young ladies in showers. Very gawky, very jaundiced. Very sinister. He could have been anything. OK, so he has a hit record in England (so have [[the Sex Pistols]] and [[ABBA|Abba]], so that doesn't help). He doesn't look like a punk, so what the hell is he doing at the Whisky? | |||
The man who quietly stepped behind the mike shoulders hunched with the weight of a big black guitar looked quite harmless, more like a bank teller than a psychopath; like Popeye before he'd had his spinach. Visual and eye-catching, if only in a negative way, in blue-grey jacket and trousers, black-rimmed NHS spectacles and a haircut that looks like a barber's nasty accident. No introductions, no hello-good-to-be-heres, just straight into the music, starting out this first show of a two-night stand in Hollywood with "[[(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes]]." Very good it was too, rolling along with a fine steady backbeat from [[The Attractions]] and strong vocals, surprisingly so, from a singer who seems intent on appearing a joke, if only to emphasise the fact that once he starts the music, the joke's on his detractors. Elvis Costello and his band play ripe, full rock 'n' roll. | The man who quietly stepped behind the mike shoulders hunched with the weight of a big black guitar looked quite harmless, more like a bank teller than a psychopath; like Popeye before he'd had his spinach. Visual and eye-catching, if only in a negative way, in blue-grey jacket and trousers, black-rimmed NHS spectacles and a haircut that looks like a barber's nasty accident. No introductions, no hello-good-to-be-heres, just straight into the music, starting out this first show of a two-night stand in Hollywood with "[[(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes]]." Very good it was too, rolling along with a fine steady backbeat from [[The Attractions]] and strong vocals, surprisingly so, from a singer who seems intent on appearing a joke, if only to emphasise the fact that once he starts the music, the joke's on his detractors. Elvis Costello and his band play ripe, full rock 'n' roll. | ||
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[[Sylvie Simmons]] reviews Elvis Costello & The Attractions, [[Concert 1977-11-18 Los Angeles|November 18, 1977]], Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles, CA. | [[Sylvie Simmons]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Attractions]], Friday, [[Concert 1977-11-18 Los Angeles|November 18, 1977]], Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles, CA. | ||
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