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<center><h3> This Elvis still rocks </h3></center> | <center><h3> This Elvis still rocks </h3></center> | ||
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<center> Jane Ganahl </center> | <center> Jane Ganahl </center> | ||
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'''A long career shows no signs of tapering off as his music just gets better | |||
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Sometimes I amuse myself by imagining what currently popular music my generation will still be listening to as it gets older and grayer. What will still be relevant when, as the Beatles liked to ponder, we're 64? | Sometimes I amuse myself by imagining what currently popular music my generation will still be listening to as it gets older and grayer. What will still be relevant when, as the Beatles liked to ponder, we're 64? | ||
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For two hours and 15 delicious minutes, Costello commanded the sold-out show. With minimalist lighting and just his longtime sidekick keyboard player Steve Nieve to accompany him, Costello turned the Warfield into a muggy cabaret. | For two hours and 15 delicious minutes, Costello commanded the sold-out show. With minimalist lighting and just his longtime sidekick keyboard player Steve Nieve to accompany him, Costello turned the Warfield into a muggy cabaret. | ||
He started the evening daringly with a new song, the refrain of which was classic Costello: ''"I love you just as much/as I hate your guts."'' In this intimate setting, some songs — played for pop punch on albums — became moody ballads ("Temptation" for example.) Others took on a larger life: "Rocking Horse Road" was an urgent plea, and "All This Useless Beauty" became epic, a chance for Costello to show off his distinctive vocals, which were strong and unfaltering Thursday night. | He started the evening daringly with a new song, the refrain of which was classic Costello: ''"I love you just as much / as I hate your guts."'' In this intimate setting, some songs — played for pop punch on albums — became moody ballads ("Temptation" for example.) Others took on a larger life: "Rocking Horse Road" was an urgent plea, and "All This Useless Beauty" became epic, a chance for Costello to show off his distinctive vocals, which were strong and unfaltering Thursday night. | ||
Costello did several songs from his Bacharach collaboration (always easy to spot as the ones not sounding like 100 percent Costello), and three or four new songs. | Costello did several songs from his Bacharach collaboration (always easy to spot as the ones not sounding like 100 percent Costello), and three or four new songs. | ||
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I can only imagine how good he'll be in 20 more years. | I can only imagine how good he'll be in 20 more years. | ||
''Elvis Costello plays the Paramount Theatre in Oakland Friday night. The show is sold out. | {{cx}} | ||
'''Elvis Costello plays the Paramount Theatre in Oakland [[Concert 1999-10-01 Oakland|Friday]] night. The show is sold out. | |||
© 1999 San Francisco Examiner | © 1999 San Francisco Examiner | ||
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<small>Photo by [[Bob McLeod]].</small><br> | <small>Photo by [[Bob McLeod]].</small><br> | ||
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