Elvis Costello Fan Forum

bronxapostle wrote:...HEATHEN TOWN...
...FLIRTING KIND...

Two of his best.

And No Coffee Table wrote:No Hiding Place?

One would think.

Howling in a Vacuum

Jeremy Dylan wrote:He's working his way through THE SUN SESSIONS!

Can't wait until Tomorrow Night.

So -- allow me to report that Ruth Davies is a bad-ass.

(I had been entirely unaware of her, previously.)

I'll be at the early show too. Having a drink at the nearby Amsterdam Cafe at 6 if anyone wants to stop by. I'll have a bright orange Elvis button on :). Tony I'll try to drop by -- but it's an outside chance. I've got parental-related activities until 7 or so. I'll look for you at the show, regard...

Jeremy Dylan wrote:Once again - screw all of youse who get to go to this.

Understood.

johnfoyle wrote:Who here is going? Enjoy - wish I was there!

I'll be at both shows tonight -- and Nick in Mill Valley tomorrow.
And then GG Park on Sunday.

Big weekend.

I suspect the "debut" -- at least with a fair amount of the lineup -- will be at the Hardly Strictly Festival in San Francisco, October 1st.

I suspect that this will get recorded.
Three different versions of the Clover show surfaced, that I know of.

rsternb1 wrote:
I always feared that Elvis was a closet Palestinian symathiser...

I had always feared that he liked Bruce Springsteen's music.
And that he didn't really need corrective lenses.

bronxapostle wrote:
Concert 1979-03-30
Passaic, NJ, Capitol Theatre

I had a tape of that show at one point.
First time I'd heard High Fidelity -- and it was the early treatment, of course.
Great version -- to the best of my recollection.
I was actually quite disappointed when the album version came out.

Huh.
All the pictures I'd seen previously from the Old Waldorf, he was playing a Telecaster.
(And dressed differently.)

I guess they were all from the night before.

One can only guess at the degree of humiliation.

My first Costello concert:

CraigatCoF wrote:Jimmie Standing in the Rain (EC solo, not with orchestra)

Well, wtf?
This song would lend itself well to a bit of the ol' orchestration, I would think.

CraigatCoF wrote:replacing Jimmie Standing in the Rain...

Lester Burnham wrote:

wordnat wrote:....I'll kill myself via auto-erotic asphyxia:

I've Lost You
Dr. Watson, I Presume
Slow Drag with Josephine
Lucky Dog

BRILLIANT songs!

Quoted for posterity!!!

Yeah -- I bet he backs out.

"Jimmie Standing in the Rain"

Wow.
That should be nice.


(Why has the setlist surfaced...?)

At least a couple of these first-time posters are obviously being prompted by "special interest groups", or a figurehead or two of the "cause", to express their displeasure with the "Israel-hating" Elvis Costello . ( Or perhaps it's merely Sean Hannity . ) They can't be...

wardo68 wrote:Those snippets weren't there when the Lies & Inventions section first appeared.

I feel used.
Cheap.

Yeah -- that sounds a bit more realistic.
It would have seen the "light of day" in some fashion, official or otherwise, you'd think.

As per elviscostello.com : http://www.elviscostello.com/#/lies-inventions July 16th 1977 Elvis Costello and the Attractions re-record "My Aim Is True" in one day at a small studio in Cornwall. The intention is for Stiff Records to substitute the recording by the new group for the original ...

I used to take a notepad to every Costello show.
I'd get the complete, accurate setlist -- along with notes about many of the song performances.

I have, it appears, become jaded and/or aged.

CD Japan have "Release Cancelled" posted in the description for this item. Damn. Hope that this isn't true. This show is dear to me. U.S. Amazon has it listed now -- which means nothing with respect to the actual status of this item, as they often list inaccuracies. http://www.amazon.com/...