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From the beginning Costello’s road crew seemed snotty. They seemed to be content at the fact that the sound would be as deafening as the massive speakers could crank out. UCB handed a few lucky by-standers cotton. | From the beginning Costello’s road crew seemed snotty. They seemed to be content at the fact that the sound would be as deafening as the massive speakers could crank out. UCB handed a few lucky by-standers cotton. | ||
[[Willie Alexander And The Boom Boom Band|Will Alexander and the Boom Boom band]] opened the show. Their debut album is basic rock; not bad, but certainly nothing special. And so went their performance. | [[Willie Alexander And The Boom Boom Band|Will Alexander and the Boom Boom band]] opened the show. Their debut album is basic rock; not bad, but certainly nothing special. And so went their performance. They opened the show with “Home Is.” Willie’s on-stage movements were animated and they were further enhanced by his unique way of showing the audience he could sing with gum in his mouth. During “Slippin and Slidin” and “Everybody Knows,” Willie was plagued by mike problems. For some reason this also happened to the [[Talking Heads]] when they appeared at Page Hall. Through it all Willie kept rocking. When a member of the audience called out “[[Cat Stevens]]!”, Willie replied “Cat Stevens? Is he here tonight? Stand up Cat-Gimme a break man.” | ||
Following several swigs from a handy bottle, Willie stripped to a revealing black silk t-shirt to sing “You’ve Lost That Lovin Feelin.” The Righteous Brothers have no competition. “Radio Heart” and “Hair” featured driving guitar solos, but they were not enough to make up for the overall mediocrity of Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band’s performance. | |||
Following the intermission, a skinny man in a grey suit a thin tie with red shoes appeared on stage and wasted no time in playing some of the most intense rock and roll seen by area crowds in a long time. | |||
Elvis Costello opened the show with what was best called a medley of songs from ''[[My Aim Is True]]''. It featured “[[Mystery Dance]],” “[[Waiting For The End Of The World|Waiting for the End of the World]]”, and “[[Less Than Zero]]”. Throughout Costello had no stage presence whatsoever. If anything, he looked pained. But the music caught me almost as much as the last time I say [[Bruce Springsteen|Bruce Springstein]]. Musically Costello is something special. | |||
He introduced two songs next. The first, “[[Lip Service]],” was a bitter tale of unrequited love (a trend in all of his songs). The second “[[(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea|I Don’t Want to Go to Chelsea]]” was superb. Elvis’s back-up band (which he never introduced) was excellent. The organist played an instrument that was reminiscent of Eric Burden and the Animals. It added the needed touch to the basic 60’s rock style that Costello emulates so well. | |||
Costello took off his guitar and peered through his Poindexter-type glasses into the audience. He then played a revved-up, dynamite version of “[[(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes|Red Shoes]].” The audience was into this man. He rewarded them with good music and assault. | |||
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