Everyone Loves Elvis
- Otis Westinghouse
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Everyone Loves Elvis
We have a conference on right now, and today I spoke to three people who have seen Elvis, or have been very keen to, and who rate him highly. One saw him in Iowa on the GH!! tour and again at the Beacon NY last year. One saw him with Ron Sexsmith supporting on the ATUB tour, in the UK. (How many dates was that? No Ron at the Roundhouse when I saw him.) One who lives in Madrid and is missing him this week, I think. Elvis lovers are all around you, you merely have to ask.
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I was in a taxi, and mentioned to the driver that I was seeing Elvis Costello that night.
He replied "Is he still going? I suppose there's always a living to be made, just look at Tony Hadley".
I managed to restrain myself, but it's upsetting how under appreciated he is in his own land.
He replied "Is he still going? I suppose there's always a living to be made, just look at Tony Hadley".
I managed to restrain myself, but it's upsetting how under appreciated he is in his own land.
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Re: Everyone Loves Elvis
At EC's 3/10 show in Knoxville, we ran into another couple that are members of our church (a "liberal religion", we are - some brand us as a "cult," but that's another matter...LOL). Vince still gives me shit at church because my wife scored first row tix at the last moment and they were about halfway back in the venue (although I don't really think there was a bad seat in the house...).Otis Westinghouse wrote:We have a conference on right now, and today I spoke to three people who have seen Elvis, or have been very keen to, and who rate him highly. One saw him in Iowa on the GH!! tour and again at the Beacon NY last year. One saw him with Ron Sexsmith supporting on the ATUB tour, in the UK. (How many dates was that? No Ron at the Roundhouse when I saw him.) One who lives in Madrid and is missing him this week, I think. Elvis lovers are all around you, you merely have to ask.
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- Otis Westinghouse
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He's not a 'Costellohead' (I like that term, I'm taking it), but I'm working on it. I just found out that one of my former English teachers is a huge EC fan. She put a rather large (and really kinda scary) poster of him up in her classroom. I must say, he looks nice next to the ghetto Shakespeare. I just wish I'd known when I still had her class, it probably would've helped my grade out a bit.
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See what I mean! By 'you' I meant all the ones who come or have come to this borad. It's great. And you are basically what I was at your age, a massive Costello and Bowie fan. You're not into Joy Division, by any chance, are you? Very different proposition. Kind of eternally hip. Utterly unique. Still my favourite band of all time, despite their short life. It was great having them around when I was a teenager.
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- Otis Westinghouse
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It's no worse here than it is anywhere else. Teenagers are musically inept anywhere. Just be glad you got an early start. The Elvis fans start cropping up here and there once you're in universitythomasso wrote:Well, here in Canada it's even worse. It's either 50 Cent or some other lame rapper. You trying being a teenage Costello lover in a world full of musical laziness and ignorance...
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There are teenagers who truly have been raised on good music and gain a reputation among their classmates as having unique tastes.
My daughter Allison just turned 13 years old. Her favorite musician is Miles Davis, and she can hum, in order, and name the tunes in order on Kind of Blue, In A Silent Way, ESP, and Blue Mles. She loves Sketches of Spain. Yesterday, she raided my Time/Life CD series Tophits of the 50's and was burning a compliation disk.
Her IPod:
Three XTC Albums
Gang of Four Entertainment
Los Lobos Compliation that I made for her (and others)
Soundtracks to Kill Bill Vol I and II
Soundtrack - Pulp Fiction
Soundtrack - Chicago
Soundtrack - Oceans 11 and Oceans 12
Crystal Method - Legion of Boom
Chemical Brothers - Various
Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man
Elvis Costello Hits compiliation
David Bowie - Changes
Beatles #1's
Soundtrack - Be Cool
Various Ojays songs
Beck Odelay
Eurythmics HIts
The First Pretenders album
The Cure Mixed Up
So...a teenager can understand the difference between a quality sound and the standard tripe that so many of her peers listen to.
To be fair, she does not like KOA, MLAR, and ATUB. She does like WIWC and GH.
My daughter Allison just turned 13 years old. Her favorite musician is Miles Davis, and she can hum, in order, and name the tunes in order on Kind of Blue, In A Silent Way, ESP, and Blue Mles. She loves Sketches of Spain. Yesterday, she raided my Time/Life CD series Tophits of the 50's and was burning a compliation disk.
Her IPod:
Three XTC Albums
Gang of Four Entertainment
Los Lobos Compliation that I made for her (and others)
Soundtracks to Kill Bill Vol I and II
Soundtrack - Pulp Fiction
Soundtrack - Chicago
Soundtrack - Oceans 11 and Oceans 12
Crystal Method - Legion of Boom
Chemical Brothers - Various
Elvis Costello - The Delivery Man
Elvis Costello Hits compiliation
David Bowie - Changes
Beatles #1's
Soundtrack - Be Cool
Various Ojays songs
Beck Odelay
Eurythmics HIts
The First Pretenders album
The Cure Mixed Up
So...a teenager can understand the difference between a quality sound and the standard tripe that so many of her peers listen to.
To be fair, she does not like KOA, MLAR, and ATUB. She does like WIWC and GH.
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