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{{tags}}[[Concert 1978-03-01 Amherst|Student Union Ballroom]] {{-}} [[Amherst]] {{-}} [[University Of Massachusetts]] {{-}} [[The Attractions]] {{-}} [[Mystery Dance]] {{-}} [[Less Than Zero]] {{-}} [[Radio, Radio]] {{-}} [[(I{{nb}}Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea]] {{-}} [[Bruce Springsteen]] {{-}} [[Willie Alexander And The Boom Boom Band]] | {{tags}}[[Concert 1978-03-01 Amherst|Student Union Ballroom]] {{-}} [[Amherst]] {{-}} [[University Of Massachusetts]] {{-}} [[The Attractions]] {{-}} [[Mystery Dance]] {{-}} [[Less Than Zero]] {{-}} [[Radio, Radio]] {{-}} [[(I{{nb}}Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea]] {{-}} [[Bruce Springsteen]] {{-}} [[Willie Alexander And The Boom Boom Band]] {{-}} [[My Aim Is True]] {{-}} [[Buddy Holly]] {{-}} [[Bob Dylan]] | ||
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[[Jack Flynn]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Attractions]] and opening act [[Willie Alexander And The Boom Boom Band]] Wednesday, [[Concert 1978-03-01 Amherst|March 1, 1978]], Student Union Ballroom, University Of Massachusetts, Amherst. | [[Jack Flynn]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Attractions]] and opening act [[Willie Alexander And The Boom Boom Band|Willie Alexander]], Wednesday, [[Concert 1978-03-01 Amherst|March 1, 1978]], Student Union Ballroom, University Of Massachusetts, Amherst. | ||
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[[Chris Hamel]] also reports on the concert in the March 7 edition. | |||
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<center><h3> Elvis Costello </h3></center> | |||
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<center> Chris Hamel </center> | |||
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At his first area performance last week at UMass, Elvis Costello got too close to "punk rock" for my taste, but still turned in a convincing show. I made the Amherst trip partly to see his personality, and though he wasn't giving interviews, I wasn't let down by his stage image. | |||
Costello played a good deal of new material, as well as selections from his debut lp, ''My Aim Is True''. That album has a rock 'n' roll feel to it that Costello dumps in concert for a "punk sound" that is blaring and frantic. | |||
That sound might help Costello to be part of rock's latest movement, but it removes a lot of the taste that ''My Aim Is True'' had. | |||
Costello appeared for the show sporting a sharkskin suit, thin, dark necktie, close-cropped hair, his trademark horn-rimmed spectacles, and what are best described as "clod-hoppers" on his feet. He is a sight and, I think, intentionally so. | |||
Though he does have presence, and acts angry, gifted and sometimes just weird, Costello also seems to want to be rock star. That ambition is hardly unique, but because Elvis is a member of the New Wave, it seems contradictory. | |||
He looks a great deal like the late Buddy Holly, one of rock 'n' roll's cornerstone figures, and he may do that intentionally, too. But Costello also has a lot to do with Bob Dylan on other levels. | |||
Aside from standing at the mic in a pose like Dylan's, Elvis has some of Dylan's anger and social observation, and he appears to regard himself as a culture spokesman. | |||
Perhaps, as they say, there are new waves, but it's the same old ocean. Pun intended. | |||
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[[image:1978-03-04 Springfield Daily News page 05.jpg|x120px|March 4, page 5.]] | |||
[[image:1978-03-07 Springfield Daily News page 11.jpg|x120px|March 7, page 11.]] | |||
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