Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Lovely sentiments, jardine . I, too, started "paying attention" fairly early on. December 6, 1977. My brother bought My Aim Is True on his birthday. It grabbed us immediately, unequivocally. Who could have possibly imagined where the path would take us over the following 40+ years. All I c...

FAVEHOUR wrote:.....As far as the look, though, c’mon, Elvis wouldn’t be wearing a red bomber jacket like that in 78, with no tie!

Excellent point.

Alright you guys, break it up.

It's 1979.
You can tell by the hair alone.

I vaguely recall that there were multiple copies of #00001 popping up back in the day. Jake Riviera, being Jake Riviera, I believe.


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(I may be confusing the recollection with the Imperial Bedroom promo. I'm not sure, now. It's all becoming a big blur...)

On first glance, I thought that this thread was a Memorial.
Yikes. Sent a chill.

Very happy that you are celebrating a birthday, in the flesh, Mr. Nieve.

Truly a special musician...

Wow.
Nice setlist.

Yosemite is fairly awesome.
But, yeah...

I wouldn't bank on Costello's vocals at 10,000 feet. (I believe Gillian Welch performed "White Rabbit" somewhere at high-altitude in Colorado a few years back -- and thought better of it, after the fact.) Hate to possibly curse him and all, but he's never really been one to back down from ...

...I flew to Nashville in January 1982 to see the Almost Blue/Almost 82 show at Opryland. After having a terrible seat at the Palladium for New Years Eve (though I was still blown away by the show), I had front row center for this one... If there was an empty seat very close to yours, it was mine. ...

That "organ mix" was on the "Bunch of Stiffs" compilation. Of that much I am certain. It was the first place I heard it -- and it was a real jolt, being totally unexpected. http://fredpopdom.free.fr/images/Stiff-Records/Bunch-Of-Stiffs---Front.gif https://img.discogs.com/Xubs8ddo...

The alternate "Comedians" is wonderful.
Strings heavy.

The entire BluRay production is fantastic.
Spectacular video definition.
Great audio quality.

Perhaps the finest document of live music, ever.

Wow -- sound quality is much improved.
(And it wasn't too bad previously.)

sweetest punch wrote:Tommy's Coming Home is now registered at ASCAP.
This problably means that this song will appear on the upcoming Flowers In The Dirt Archive Collection.

A tremendous song.

Am I mistaken, or is that Costello/Nieve "I Want You" a rarity, at the very least? This song was played by Elvis and Steve many times on the 1999 " Lonely World Tour " and again on their 2003 European Tour. A full list of performances of this song is here: Performances of I Want...

Am I mistaken, or is that Costello/Nieve "I Want You" a rarity, at the very least?

johnfoyle wrote:Or is it on TV ?

It was.
Costello & The Imposters, straight out of the gate on the broadcast.

PLU
Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
Bedlam


I think that's it.
(I haven't actually watched it yet.)

I've always viewed "Georgie and Her Rival" as Costello's take on Prince's "I Could Never Take the Place Of Your Man".

I'm probably entirely mistaken.
Nonetheless -- both are tremendous, under-rated pop songs.

A ballad treatment.
It was lovely.

Interacted with him, briefly, in the lobby at the Santa Rosa show.

A Grand Man.

The hat is now one of the props.
It hangs on the chair until the sit-down segment, and then is donned.

The sound guy is fine. It was the venue. And even then, it didn't really get compromised until the three of them where onstage. That's really when it went downhill. Trying to mix mandolin, guitar, slide, Elvis screaming, and 3-part harmonies in that barn is probably impossible. The night before soun...

MOJO wrote:...but sound dude was a total loser. The show could have been much better with a real sound guy...

I think you missed my point.

The sound problem was inherent to the venue.

The place is cavernous -- high overhead.
The house equipment seems to be an attempt to compensate.
(Heavy-handed.)
It wasn't all that bad -- but, yeah, it had its problems.

Santa Rosa sounded really good.

Right. Thank you.
I was feeling really old for a bit there.

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