Elvis Costello - 1981-02-07 Passaic

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Elvis Costello And The Attractions
Capitol Theatre
Passaic, NJ
7 February 1981


01. Shot With His Own Gun - EC & Steve Nieve
02. Accidents Will Happen
03. Strict Time
04. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
05. You'll Never Be A Man
06. This Year's Girl
07. Watch Your Step
08. The Imposter
09. Clowntime Is Over
10. Clubland
11. Alison
12. Big Tears
13. New Lace Sleeves - Martin Belmont joins the band
14. Lovers Walk
15. I've Been Born Again - King Horse
16. He's Got You
17. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
18. Don't Look Back
19. Temptation
20. High Fidelity
21. Need Your Love So Bad
22. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding?
23. Radio, Radio
24. Big Sister's Clothes
25. From A Whisper To A Scream - with Glenn Tilbrook
26. Watching The Detectives - including Master Blaster (Jammin')


Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar
Steve Nieve - keyboards
Bruce Thomas - bass guitar
Pete Thomas - drums

Martin Belmont - lead guitar
Glenn Tilbrook - vocals, guitar on track 25


Recorder: Unknown
Lineage: Unknown

Comments by area51GM:

40 years (and a bit) on ..........................................

The final gig in the United States for Elvis, the Attractions and Squeeze and a final sense of coming to the end of the road in this recording where there are no fresh songs performed and a few are definitely given a perfunctory reading for once.

That's not to say that the audience wasn't lapping it up and Elvis is the one who seems less inhibited or jaded throughout though there are again a few songs where he deviated from the original melody line though whether to rest his voice (though there's been no sign of him having any vocal problems in any of the previously recorded concerts), or because he fancied a change only he knows! So, not a lot to report from this concert which GP kindly sent me as an upgrade to my high generation recording, thanks Gio. Steve plays a staccato series of phrases in "Red Shoes" at the lines "She said drop dead and left with another guy" but otherwise seems to have been fairly low key throughout the concert. The version of "Walk And Don't Look Back" is heavily bass driven whereas before the song had featured Martin Belmont's lead more prominently. Both sources have a cut at the end of "Watching The Detectives" but only a few seconds are lost.

Lineage: FLAC files from GP from low generation cassette > TLH > Nero 9 for pitch and volume adjustment and track separation > TLH > FLAC > you