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<center><h3> Elvis detected in LA: | <center><h3> Elvis detected in LA: critic on the case </h3></center> | ||
<center> '''Elvis Costello | <center> '''Elvis Costello ''' / Los Angeles </center> | ||
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<center> Sylvie Simmons | <center> Sylvie Simmons </center> | ||
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The yellow posters outside the Los Angeles Whisky and the yellow pins handed to the punters make him out a Buddy Holly figure who murders young ladies in showers. Very gawky, very jaundiced. Very sinister. He could have been anything. OK, so he has a hit record in England (so have the Sex Pistols and Abba, so that doesn't help). He doesn't look like a punk, so what the hell is he doing at the Whisky? | |||
The man who quietly stepped behind the mike shoulders hunched with the weight of a big black guitar looked quite harmless, more like a bank teller than a psychopath; like Popeye before he'd had his spinach. Visual and eye-catching, if only in a negative way, in blue-grey jacket and trousers, black-rimmed NHS spectacles and a haircut that looks like a barber's nasty accident. No introductions, no hello-good-to-be-heres, just straight into the music, starting out this first show of a two-night stand in Hollywood with "[[(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes]]." Very good it was too, rolling along with a fine steady backbeat from The Attractions and strong vocals, surprisingly so, from a singer who seems intent on appearing a joke, if only to emphasise the fact that once he starts the music, the joke's on his detractors. Elvis Costello and his band play ripe, full rock 'n' roll. | |||
The man who quietly stepped behind the mike shoulders hunched with the weight of a big black guitar looked quite harmless, more like a bank teller than a psychopath; like Popeye before he'd had his spinach. Visual and eye-catching, if only in a negative way, in blue-grey jacket and trousers, black-rimmed NHS spectacles and a haircut that looks like a barber's nasty accident. No introductions, no hello-good-to-be-heres, just straight into the music, starting out this first show of a two-night stand in Hollywood with "[[(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes]]." Very good it was too, rolling along with a fine steady backbeat from | |||
"[[Alison]]," from the album, was introduced as "a song I haven't done for a while, about someone I used to care about". Elvis' voice comes across clearer and crisper on this down-tempo late-night radio number, demonstrating a quite good vocal range. Advancing to the front of the stage, Costello grasped the microphone with passion, the whole emotional outburst aided by some very pretty organ sounds (a cross between Stevie Winwood and Southend Pier). He looked quite at home on this excellent number, uneasier on the first of the rockers. Perhaps the former suits his polite innocent appearance better. You can imagine girl-next-door or shy-librarian groupies lining up at the stage door. He didn't hang about for the quite rapturous applause, launching straight into "[[Miracle Man]]," one of the best, with impressive keyboards, steady rhythm from the drums and controlled guitar from Elvis to rock it along. | "[[Alison]]," from the album, was introduced as "a song I haven't done for a while, about someone I used to care about". Elvis' voice comes across clearer and crisper on this down-tempo late-night radio number, demonstrating a quite good vocal range. Advancing to the front of the stage, Costello grasped the microphone with passion, the whole emotional outburst aided by some very pretty organ sounds (a cross between Stevie Winwood and Southend Pier). He looked quite at home on this excellent number, uneasier on the first of the rockers. Perhaps the former suits his polite innocent appearance better. You can imagine girl-next-door or shy-librarian groupies lining up at the stage door. He didn't hang about for the quite rapturous applause, launching straight into "[[Miracle Man]]," one of the best, with impressive keyboards, steady rhythm from the drums and controlled guitar from Elvis to rock it along. | ||
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[[Sylvie Simmons]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Attractions]], Friday, [[Concert 1977-11-18 Los Angeles|November 18, 1977]], Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles | [[Sylvie Simmons]] reviews Elvis Costello & [[The Attractions]], Friday, [[Concert 1977-11-18 Los Angeles|November 18, 1977]], Whisky a Go Go, Los Angeles. | ||
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<small>Photo by [[Paul Cox]].</small><br> | |||
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