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<center><h3>Joe Bastianich on Elvis | <center><h3> Joe Bastianich on <br> Elvis Costello's "Man Out of Time" </h3></center> | ||
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'''A ''MasterChef'' regular understands Elvis Costello differently through a middle-aged lens | |||
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Joe Bastianich, 46, co-owns restaurants in New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Singapore and Italy, and is a judge on the U.S. version of | Joe Bastianich, 46, co-owns restaurants in New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Singapore and Italy, and is a judge on the U.S. version of ''MasterChef''. He spoke to Marc Myers. | ||
When I'm not managing my restaurants, I play guitar and sing to unwind. When I strum the chords to Elvis Costello 's "Man Out of Time," I get goose bumps. The song not only takes me back to the 1980s but also makes me think about my future. | |||
When | When I was in high school in Queens, N.Y., in the early 1980s, I listened mostly to formulaic rock, like the Beatles and Kiss. At Boston College in the late '80s, I began listening to Elvis Costello. His songs and lyrics didn't fit into neat patterns. The music might be melancholy one minute but then build to an optimistic crescendo the next. | ||
While I was in college, I spent summers in Italy with my cousin, a professional musician. He turned me on to a cassette of Elvis's 1982 album ''Imperial Bedroom'', which included "Man Out of Time." The song opens chaotically, with rhythmic guitar chords and screaming, but abruptly settles into a midtempo ballad. | |||
There's a crowd of instruments layered in — organ, piano and guitars — and Elvis's voice is both melodic and wonderfully off-key. The song keeps building until it releases with, ''"To murder my love is a crime / But will you still love / A man out of time."'' To me, back then, the chorus was a metaphor for a man out of sync with everyone else, which is how I felt about myself. | |||
Now, that I've already lived half my live and I'm always so busy, I hear the line differently — as a man running out of time. At the end, the song shifts back to the chaotic opener. It's like tuning the radio dial from static to a station, listening to a song and moving into static again. | |||
Elvis and his wife, singer-pianist Diana Krall, come often to Babbo, my restaurant in New York. I've never had the courage to say hello. I wouldn't want to disturb his privacy. I suppose I'm also secretly afraid that if things didn't go well, the experience might ruin how I feel about a favorite song. So I leave it alone. | |||
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[[Marc Myers]] interviews chef Joe Bastianich about | [[Marc Myers]] interviews chef Joe Bastianich about "[[Man Out Of Time]]." | ||
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<br><small> | <br><small>Photo by [[Kevin Cummins]]/Getty Images. (From [[Concert 1982-12-21 Liverpool|December 21, 1982, Liverpool]].)</small> | ||
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