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Elvis Costello endures. Early into his wondrous Thursday appearance at the Warner Theatre, the Liverpool legend reminded the crowd that he'd played the same venue once before — "38 years ago," he said. | Elvis Costello endures. Early into his wondrous Thursday appearance at the Warner Theatre, the Liverpool legend reminded the crowd that he'd played the same venue once before — "38 years ago," he said. | ||
To Costello's hardcore flock, that 1978 Warner concert, which came on his first U.S. tour, remains a gig for the ages. The show was broadcast live locally on WHFS, a long-dead FM station, but back then the coolest alternative rock outlet the D.C. market had ever had. One critic from the George Washington University student newspaper, in a [[George Washington University Hatchet, March 1978|review]] that has been making the rounds on Costello fan websites since the Internet appeared, presciently predicted after the show that the "new star on the rock scene has enough material to stick it out a few years." (Not so prescient: The same critic in that same review appended "unlike Bruce Springsteen" to his prediction.) And Costello cemented the Warner show's immortality in 2008 by officially releasing the recording as a live album on its 30-year anniversary. | To Costello's hardcore flock, that 1978 Warner concert, which came on his first U.S. tour, remains a gig for the ages. The show was broadcast live locally on WHFS, a long-dead FM station, but back then the coolest alternative rock outlet the D.C. market had ever had. One critic from the George Washington University student newspaper, in a [[George Washington University Hatchet, March 6, 1978|review]] that has been making the rounds on Costello fan websites since the Internet appeared, presciently predicted after the show that the "new star on the rock scene has enough material to stick it out a few years." (Not so prescient: The same critic in that same review appended "unlike Bruce Springsteen" to his prediction.) And Costello cemented the Warner show's immortality in 2008 by officially releasing the recording as a live album on its 30-year anniversary. | ||
So if Costello had a lot to live up to on his return visit, he more than filled the bill. His two-hour, 45-minute set both wore out the fans in the packed house, most of whom were old enough to have also attended that vintage set, and left them wanting more. | So if Costello had a lot to live up to on his return visit, he more than filled the bill. His two-hour, 45-minute set both wore out the fans in the packed house, most of whom were old enough to have also attended that vintage set, and left them wanting more. |
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