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Elvis Costello and Rubinoos provide short, good show


Bobby Byrd

ATLANTA — Tickets to Elvis Costello's show Saturday were by far the toughest to obtain of the still-new year. On top of that, for those of us lucky enough to get tickets weeks ago, there was a three hour wait in an intermittent monsoon to get in (The Agora Ballroom has many rotten seats, and worth lining up in the rain to avoid them.)

Eventually, though, it all paid off. Elvis treated his fans to a fine (if characteristically short) performance, displaying the awesome power that made him a hero to begin with.

Surprisingly, the night was a success before Costello ever took the stage. The Rubinoos were superb, the altogether too rare opening act that gives the headliner a good fight.

The Rubinoos (pronounced roo-bin-ooze) is a four man group from Berkeley, Ca., playing with the combined sense of joy and rebellion that created rock and roll two decades ago.

Costello's crowds are at least partly composed of idiots in safety pins and black leather, who incorrectly believe that Elvis is punk rock. They had no idea what to make of the Rubinoos, who offered them a dose of 60's-flavored rock ranging from the early Beatles to power pop, with hard rock thrown in for good measure.

The middle of the set shone as the Rubinoos dealt up three classic covers in a row — the Beatles' "Please Please Me," the Ventures' "Walk Don't Run" and Tommy James and the Shondells' "I Think We're Alone Now." Each further confused the Idiots Who Thought They Were At A Punk Rock Show.

One highlight of the Rubinoos' hour was "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend," a shouting anthem saturated with the spirit of rock and roll romance. With any luck at all and a little hit of justice around here, the Rubinoos won't languish in obscurity for long.

Obscurity is a problem that Elvis Costello no longer has to worry about. By now almost everyone knows that he (real name — Declan McManus) is not a Presley impersonator, but a gut-crunching British rock and roller.

Costello, not exactly renowned for lengthy performances, played for the expected 70 minutes, but each one was intense. He ripped through 19 selections, showcasing cuts from Armed Forces, his new album and This Year's Model, his previous one.

Some of the new material worked well, and some didn't. "Oliver's Army," backed on the LP with the stately chords of a grand piano, suffered little from the substitution of soaring guitar. "Green Shirt," on the other hand, was even more listless than the studio version.

Throughout the set, Costello's band, the Attractions, was tight and crisp — more so than they were last May. Steve Naive, whose name alone deserves stardom, was consistently on the mark on the Farfisa organ, adding fullness to Costello's stark sound.

Although he didn't do "Alison," his most famous song, he did cover much of his better material, particularly "Lip Service," "Pump It Up," "No Action" and "The Beat," all from This Year's Model.

The night's finest song was "Radio, Radio," Costello's scathing attack on the world of Top 40. One line says it all: "The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools trying to anesthetize the way that you feel."

He introduced the song by telling the crowd "We been here all day and we been listening to the radio. And if you think that Toto and Foreigner are where it's at, then there's something seriously wrong with you."

That, of course, is what Elvis is all about — a shouting, angered, embittered reaffirmation of the brutal power and force of rock and roll. When he first broke loose, he stunned us with an intensity and force that we could not ignore. We still can't.

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The Red and Black, March 6, 1979


Bobby Byrd reviews Elvis Costello & The Attractions and opening act The Rubinoos, Saturday, March 3, 1979, Agora Ballroom, Atlanta, Georgia.

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