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<center><h3> Elvis Costello at the Warfield | <center><h3> Elvis Costello at the Warfield </h3></center> | ||
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In front of a packed house at the Warfield on Thursday, Elvis Costello and the Imposters fired out a no-nonsense barrage of 30-plus songs, delivered one after another virtually without pause. | In front of a packed house at the Warfield on Thursday, Elvis Costello and the Imposters fired out a no-nonsense barrage of 30-plus songs, delivered one after another virtually without pause. | ||
While | While Costello's last two visits to the Bay Area saw him exploring New Orleans R&B with Allen Toussaint and playing country-tinged music with a pickup band at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, this one was just Elvis and the Imposters (featuring two-thirds of the original Attractions) doing their thing, with no new album to promote except a couple of recent repackages of the old stuff. | ||
Until a flurry of hits at the end ("Radio Radio," "Pump It Up," "Peace, Love and Understanding"), the focus was on lesser-known material from the Costello catalog, along with nice renditions of two Lennon-penned Beatles tunes, "All | Until a flurry of hits at the end ("Radio, Radio," "Pump It Up," "Peace, Love and Understanding"), the focus was on lesser-known material from the Costello catalog, along with nice renditions of two Lennon-penned Beatles tunes, "All I've Got to Do" and "Hey Bulldog." | ||
The more familiar tunes were often presented in dramatically new arrangements. "Alison," performed solo on acoustic guitar, was a high point, with Costello crafting a new melody for the | The more familiar tunes were often presented in dramatically new arrangements. "Alison," performed solo on acoustic guitar, was a high point, with Costello crafting a new melody for the song's second verse. Other reinventions didn't work so well: "Chelsea" lost its snaky riff and pretty much everything else that was cool about it. | ||
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'''San Jose Mercury News, May 4, 2007 | '''San Jose Mercury News, May 4, 2007 | ||
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[[Shay Quillen]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Imposters]], Thursday, [[Concert 2007-05-03 San Francisco|May 3, 2007]], Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, | [[Shay Quillen]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Imposters]], Thursday, [[Concert 2007-05-03 San Francisco|May 3, 2007]], Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California. | ||
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