Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
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Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Any news yet about the sickness of Elvis?
I hope it won't be cancelled / postponed.
I hope it won't be cancelled / postponed.
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Would be a shame if he had to postpone since the fabulous Massey Hall is celebrating its 120th birthday today.
No news on their twitter page: https://twitter.com/masseyhall
No news on their twitter page: https://twitter.com/masseyhall
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Looks like it's on:
Elvis Costello @ElvisCostello
Massey Hall here I come. Doc's orders obeyed. Hope to sing well for you. See you later. E.C.
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Twitter:
At Elvis Costello show opens with Working Week into Miracle Man
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
A MAIT show?And No Coffee Table wrote:Twitter:
At Elvis Costello show opens with Working Week into Miracle Man
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Maybe!
And now Alison
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
@janecstevenson seems to say "no dancing" was played after "Miracle Man"-- unless she just means no one happens to be dancing.And No Coffee Table wrote:Maybe!
And now Alison
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Looks like the streak ended with "Veronica."
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
@ElvisCostello starts his solo @masseyhall gig with side A of #MyAimIsTrue minus Blame It on Cain! Amazing start! http://pic.twitter.com/h3EIbSTgCp
I'm a little surprised he skipped Blame It On Cain, since he played it at some of last year's solo shows..@elviscostello does @thebeatles hey you've got 2 hide your love away @masseyhall #elviscostello http://pic.twitter.com/iqG6Mcc3Z4
Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Our beloved moderator, BlueChair, is attending this gig! 
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Ron Sexsmith just joined him on stage, it seems.
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Welcome to the Working Week
Miracle Man
No Dancing
Alison
Sneaky Feelings
Jack of All Parades
45
Either Side of the Same Town
Veronica
Last Boat Leaving
Watch Your Step
Ascension Day
New Amsterdam / You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Walkin' My Baby Back Home
Ghost Train
Beyond Belief
Watching the Detectives
Quiet About It
Payday / Mystery Dance
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
Shipbuilding
Cinco Minutos Con Vos
Come the Meantimes
Everyday I Write the Book (w/ Ron Sexsmith)
Almost Blue
Radio Soul
A Slow Drag With Josephine
Suit of Lights
Jimmie Standing in the Rain - incl. off-mic snippet of Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
My Three Sons
The Last Year of My Youth
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
Miracle Man
No Dancing
Alison
Sneaky Feelings
Jack of All Parades
45
Either Side of the Same Town
Veronica
Last Boat Leaving
Watch Your Step
Ascension Day
New Amsterdam / You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
Walkin' My Baby Back Home
Ghost Train
Beyond Belief
Watching the Detectives
Quiet About It
Payday / Mystery Dance
(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
Shipbuilding
Cinco Minutos Con Vos
Come the Meantimes
Everyday I Write the Book (w/ Ron Sexsmith)
Almost Blue
Radio Soul
A Slow Drag With Josephine
Suit of Lights
Jimmie Standing in the Rain - incl. off-mic snippet of Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
My Three Sons
The Last Year of My Youth
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Peggy Limb @PeggyLimb 2m
Elvis Costello was amazing at Massey Hall. Special guest Ron Sexsmith helped him "write the book" pic.twitter.com/oZLH9XK8QU
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
first FIVE songs off the FIRST lp...and THREE more from MAIT! awesome!!!
came home to partied up last night to realize, but first three to open show are the first 3 just like the LP too. way cool start.
came home to partied up last night to realize, but first three to open show are the first 3 just like the LP too. way cool start.
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Watching The Detectives: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLUvP2G5A_Y
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Fantastic uploads!!
Welcome To The Working Week / Miracle Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPJvmEEVVeI
No Dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYYXLELDQA
Alison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB-JprpK ... G5bX1wfW2g
Sneaky Feelings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5lj9ICJ ... G5bX1wfW2g
Welcome To The Working Week / Miracle Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPJvmEEVVeI
No Dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYYXLELDQA
Alison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB-JprpK ... G5bX1wfW2g
Sneaky Feelings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5lj9ICJ ... G5bX1wfW2g
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Elvis Costello wows Massey Hall crowd with marathon solo show
Jane Stevenson
Today at 1:10 PM
As he nears his 60th birthday in August, Elvis Costello’s aim remains true.
And then some.
After losing his voice three songs into his Ann Arbor, Mich., show on Friday night due to a cold and finally having to postpone after nine more tunes, the 59-year-old British singer-songwriter turned up much improved in Toronto on Saturday night at Massey Hall, also the day the celebrated venue turned 120 years old.
In fact, Costello - decked out in a gold fedora and purple pinstriped three piece suit with a simple backdrop of two signs that said On Air and Detour and a rainbow of lights behind him - proceeded to wow the crowd with a marathon solo show of three encores and thirty plus songs that stretched over two hours and 25 minutes.
If he was suffering healthwise, his dramatic and passionate vocal delivery that included whistling, expert acoustic and electric guitar playing (and occasionally piano on songs like Shipbuilding and Almost Blue) and animated storytelling between songs didn’t betray him.
In fact, Costello was taking the audience through his life and four decade career while happy to wear his influences like Paul McCartney (they co-wrote Veronica which he performed) and the recently deceased Jesse Winchester (Quiet About It and Payday, which he also covered) on his sleeve.
“I was eight years old when I joined the Beatles fan club, I never thought I’d write a song with Paul McCartney,” he explained.
He later covered The Beatles’ Hey, You’ve Got To hide Your Love Away, merging it with his own New Amsterdam.
And of Winchester, Costello said he wrote maybe the best lyric ever in rock and roll on Payday: “I got me this long-legged girl. To help me to spend my dough, A heart as big as your mama’s stove, And a body like Brigitte Bardot.”
Costello also generously paid tribute to those he had influenced, specifically Toronto singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith who was a surprise guest during the first encore joining him for Everyday I Write the Book.
Of Sexsmith, Costello said: “He taught me how to sing on my own during a tour of Japan.
Sexsmith sheepishy replied: “You’re sounding pretty tight tonight.”
Costello began at the beginning, kicking off the night with Welcome to the Working Week, Miracle Man, and No Dancing - a trio of songs in the order they appear on his acclaimed 1977 New Wave debut My Aim Is True. Later he moved onto deeper cuts from that album like Alison, Sneaky Feelings, Watching The Detectives, Mystery Dance and (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes.
But the “occasional Canadian” - as the husband of jazz-pop Nanaimo, B.C., artist Diana Krall and father of their twin boys called himself - really made the show about his family starting with Veronica, which he wrote about his grandmother.
“People have called me angry but they never met my grandma,” he joked. “She could hold a grudge.”
Last Boat Leaving and Jimmie Standing in The Rain was about his grandfather, a musician who played on cruise ships crossing the Atlantic, while Ghost Train and Suit of lights were about his big bandleader father who was clearly on his mind the night before Father's Day.
Costello’s last album was 2013’s Wise Up Ghost, his fine collaboration with The Roots - now best known as Jimmy Fallon’s house band on The Tonight Show - but songs from that record were kept to a mininum with Cinco Minutos Con Vos and Come the Meantimes coming during the second encore.
Still, they were well-received and the audience happily joined in on the call and response of Come The Meantimes much to Costello’s delight.
The third encore saw him close out the night with My Three Sons, The Last Year of My Youth - which he recently wrote the night before he had to fill in last minute for Lana Del Rey on David Letterman (“Because when you think of Lana Del Rey you think of me,” he joked) - and finally fan favourite (What’s So Funny ‘bout) Peace, Love and Understanding.
In a recent British documentary, Mystery Dance, he apparently said that Wise Up Ghost was the last of his career and that he wanted to concentrate on bringing up his young sons with Krall and would perform only when he needed the money.
I’m really hoping this wasn’t Costello’s farewell in Toronto given how vibrant a live performer and songwriter he still is.
Jane Stevenson
Today at 1:10 PM
As he nears his 60th birthday in August, Elvis Costello’s aim remains true.
And then some.
After losing his voice three songs into his Ann Arbor, Mich., show on Friday night due to a cold and finally having to postpone after nine more tunes, the 59-year-old British singer-songwriter turned up much improved in Toronto on Saturday night at Massey Hall, also the day the celebrated venue turned 120 years old.
In fact, Costello - decked out in a gold fedora and purple pinstriped three piece suit with a simple backdrop of two signs that said On Air and Detour and a rainbow of lights behind him - proceeded to wow the crowd with a marathon solo show of three encores and thirty plus songs that stretched over two hours and 25 minutes.
If he was suffering healthwise, his dramatic and passionate vocal delivery that included whistling, expert acoustic and electric guitar playing (and occasionally piano on songs like Shipbuilding and Almost Blue) and animated storytelling between songs didn’t betray him.
In fact, Costello was taking the audience through his life and four decade career while happy to wear his influences like Paul McCartney (they co-wrote Veronica which he performed) and the recently deceased Jesse Winchester (Quiet About It and Payday, which he also covered) on his sleeve.
“I was eight years old when I joined the Beatles fan club, I never thought I’d write a song with Paul McCartney,” he explained.
He later covered The Beatles’ Hey, You’ve Got To hide Your Love Away, merging it with his own New Amsterdam.
And of Winchester, Costello said he wrote maybe the best lyric ever in rock and roll on Payday: “I got me this long-legged girl. To help me to spend my dough, A heart as big as your mama’s stove, And a body like Brigitte Bardot.”
Costello also generously paid tribute to those he had influenced, specifically Toronto singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith who was a surprise guest during the first encore joining him for Everyday I Write the Book.
Of Sexsmith, Costello said: “He taught me how to sing on my own during a tour of Japan.
Sexsmith sheepishy replied: “You’re sounding pretty tight tonight.”
Costello began at the beginning, kicking off the night with Welcome to the Working Week, Miracle Man, and No Dancing - a trio of songs in the order they appear on his acclaimed 1977 New Wave debut My Aim Is True. Later he moved onto deeper cuts from that album like Alison, Sneaky Feelings, Watching The Detectives, Mystery Dance and (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes.
But the “occasional Canadian” - as the husband of jazz-pop Nanaimo, B.C., artist Diana Krall and father of their twin boys called himself - really made the show about his family starting with Veronica, which he wrote about his grandmother.
“People have called me angry but they never met my grandma,” he joked. “She could hold a grudge.”
Last Boat Leaving and Jimmie Standing in The Rain was about his grandfather, a musician who played on cruise ships crossing the Atlantic, while Ghost Train and Suit of lights were about his big bandleader father who was clearly on his mind the night before Father's Day.
Costello’s last album was 2013’s Wise Up Ghost, his fine collaboration with The Roots - now best known as Jimmy Fallon’s house band on The Tonight Show - but songs from that record were kept to a mininum with Cinco Minutos Con Vos and Come the Meantimes coming during the second encore.
Still, they were well-received and the audience happily joined in on the call and response of Come The Meantimes much to Costello’s delight.
The third encore saw him close out the night with My Three Sons, The Last Year of My Youth - which he recently wrote the night before he had to fill in last minute for Lana Del Rey on David Letterman (“Because when you think of Lana Del Rey you think of me,” he joked) - and finally fan favourite (What’s So Funny ‘bout) Peace, Love and Understanding.
In a recent British documentary, Mystery Dance, he apparently said that Wise Up Ghost was the last of his career and that he wanted to concentrate on bringing up his young sons with Krall and would perform only when he needed the money.
I’m really hoping this wasn’t Costello’s farewell in Toronto given how vibrant a live performer and songwriter he still is.
Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
More from the same videographer:
Jack Of All Parades - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q73EfcI_g1I
45 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf9Rrjkkpi0
Either Side Of The Same Town - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beRRTREPcMw
Veronica - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RliTdOqwxBs
Last Boat Leaving - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1fqWd9br1g
Watch Your Step - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17eGRRL2KeI
Ascension Day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkeAa_3r8Eg
New Amsterdam / You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKdAxD06RTE
Walkin' My Baby Back Home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_evE6FhON4
Beyond Belief - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWrMmLX9YI
Watching The Detectives - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eiHFXMHjZ4
Quiet About It - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YynyIRJTkkA
Jack Of All Parades - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q73EfcI_g1I
45 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf9Rrjkkpi0
Either Side Of The Same Town - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beRRTREPcMw
Veronica - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RliTdOqwxBs
Last Boat Leaving - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1fqWd9br1g
Watch Your Step - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17eGRRL2KeI
Ascension Day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkeAa_3r8Eg
New Amsterdam / You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKdAxD06RTE
Walkin' My Baby Back Home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_evE6FhON4
Beyond Belief - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWrMmLX9YI
Watching The Detectives - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eiHFXMHjZ4
Quiet About It - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YynyIRJTkkA
sweetest punch wrote:Fantastic uploads!!
Welcome To The Working Week / Miracle Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPJvmEEVVeI
No Dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYYXLELDQA
Alison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB-JprpK ... G5bX1wfW2g
Sneaky Feelings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5lj9ICJ ... G5bX1wfW2g
Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
More:
Ghost Train - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2tvtIEXNBI
Red Shoes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ioCAoWYOl4
Payday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrOq-KgYY8
Cinco Minutos Con Vos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJUJICHicts
Come The Meantimes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDvUhO0iBvk
Everyday I Write The Book - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT7vjzSiThw
Almost Blue - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GpNaDmWHCc
A Slow Drag With Josephine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJZuTRFUZJk
Jimmie Standing In The Rain - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eUevaKbrcU
Ghost Train - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2tvtIEXNBI
Red Shoes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ioCAoWYOl4
Payday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrOq-KgYY8
Cinco Minutos Con Vos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJUJICHicts
Come The Meantimes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDvUhO0iBvk
Everyday I Write The Book - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT7vjzSiThw
Almost Blue - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GpNaDmWHCc
A Slow Drag With Josephine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJZuTRFUZJk
Jimmie Standing In The Rain - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eUevaKbrcU
Azmuda wrote:More from the same videographer:
Jack Of All Parades - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q73EfcI_g1I
45 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf9Rrjkkpi0
Either Side Of The Same Town - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beRRTREPcMw
Veronica - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RliTdOqwxBs
Last Boat Leaving - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1fqWd9br1g
Watch Your Step - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17eGRRL2KeI
Ascension Day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkeAa_3r8Eg
New Amsterdam / You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKdAxD06RTE
Walkin' My Baby Back Home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_evE6FhON4
Beyond Belief - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWrMmLX9YI
Watching The Detectives - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eiHFXMHjZ4
Quiet About It - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YynyIRJTkkA
sweetest punch wrote:Fantastic uploads!!
Welcome To The Working Week / Miracle Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPJvmEEVVeI
No Dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYYXLELDQA
Alison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB-JprpK ... G5bX1wfW2g
Sneaky Feelings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5lj9ICJ ... G5bX1wfW2g
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/mus ... e19183715/
Why Elvis Costello at Massey Hall was simply brilliant
Elvis Costello took the stage at Toronto’s Massey Hall on Saturday night, swiftly and alone – he was at the microphone, guitar in hand, before most of the audience even realized he’d made his entrance. He smiled impishly, chewed some gum and launched into a furiously paced acoustic rendition of Welcome to the Working Week.
Costello, it soon became clear, was there to work. He played alone for nearly two and a half hours, including three encores, offering a 32-song set that spanned his career, from his earliest punkish hits to work so fresh he seemed to be rewriting it as he sang. Throughout, he was simply brilliant: charismatic, playful and endlessly energetic.
By the time he hit the set’s fourth song, Alison, so much of what would make the evening special was apparent. Costello worked even his most familiar songs down to their basic structures, and then rebuilt them with new flourishes and turns. Alison, in particular, thrived: The song is a towering work of art, one of the best pop songs of the 20th century, and on this night it rang with new clarity and sadness.
Much of the show’s success was built on Costello’s voice, which, even as he approaches 60, is still nuanced and rich and capable of remarkable acrobatics. It lent heft to the eerie staccato melody of Beyond Belief, rethought as a shimmering, finger-picked near-boogie; it brought the room to complete silence during a haunting rendition of Shipbuilding, played on electric piano to open the first encore. Costello informed the crowd that he’d had to cut the previous evening’s show short, having lost his ability to sing. But in Toronto on Saturday, he was in full and glorious voice.
Late in the evening, he was joined by another fine voice, Toronto’s Ron Sexsmith, who’d spent the first half of the show nearly bursting out of his seat with excitement, fidgeting along to every one of Costello’s hyper-rhythmic twists and turns. He rose from his spot two-thirds of the way through the set and made his way to the side doors, heading backstage. He appeared again at the end of the first encore, joining Costello for a ramshackle rendition of Everyday I Write the Book.
“He taught me how to sing one of my own songs,” Costello said by way of introducing Sexsmith. But over the course of a few hours, it was clear that Elvis was the teacher here. In each of his liquid melodies, you could hear the genius that has influenced Sexsmith and countless others. His songs, stripped bare, were elemental and undeniable.
Why Elvis Costello at Massey Hall was simply brilliant
Elvis Costello took the stage at Toronto’s Massey Hall on Saturday night, swiftly and alone – he was at the microphone, guitar in hand, before most of the audience even realized he’d made his entrance. He smiled impishly, chewed some gum and launched into a furiously paced acoustic rendition of Welcome to the Working Week.
Costello, it soon became clear, was there to work. He played alone for nearly two and a half hours, including three encores, offering a 32-song set that spanned his career, from his earliest punkish hits to work so fresh he seemed to be rewriting it as he sang. Throughout, he was simply brilliant: charismatic, playful and endlessly energetic.
By the time he hit the set’s fourth song, Alison, so much of what would make the evening special was apparent. Costello worked even his most familiar songs down to their basic structures, and then rebuilt them with new flourishes and turns. Alison, in particular, thrived: The song is a towering work of art, one of the best pop songs of the 20th century, and on this night it rang with new clarity and sadness.
Much of the show’s success was built on Costello’s voice, which, even as he approaches 60, is still nuanced and rich and capable of remarkable acrobatics. It lent heft to the eerie staccato melody of Beyond Belief, rethought as a shimmering, finger-picked near-boogie; it brought the room to complete silence during a haunting rendition of Shipbuilding, played on electric piano to open the first encore. Costello informed the crowd that he’d had to cut the previous evening’s show short, having lost his ability to sing. But in Toronto on Saturday, he was in full and glorious voice.
Late in the evening, he was joined by another fine voice, Toronto’s Ron Sexsmith, who’d spent the first half of the show nearly bursting out of his seat with excitement, fidgeting along to every one of Costello’s hyper-rhythmic twists and turns. He rose from his spot two-thirds of the way through the set and made his way to the side doors, heading backstage. He appeared again at the end of the first encore, joining Costello for a ramshackle rendition of Everyday I Write the Book.
“He taught me how to sing one of my own songs,” Costello said by way of introducing Sexsmith. But over the course of a few hours, it was clear that Elvis was the teacher here. In each of his liquid melodies, you could hear the genius that has influenced Sexsmith and countless others. His songs, stripped bare, were elemental and undeniable.
Since you put me down, it seems i've been very gloomy. You may laugh but pretty girls look right through me.
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
darn...would videographer (if you got them!) kindly share here the two i most want to see please?Azmuda wrote:More:
Ghost Train - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2tvtIEXNBI
Red Shoes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ioCAoWYOl4
Payday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrOq-KgYY8
Cinco Minutos Con Vos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJUJICHicts
Come The Meantimes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDvUhO0iBvk
Everyday I Write The Book - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT7vjzSiThw
Almost Blue - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GpNaDmWHCc
A Slow Drag With Josephine - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJZuTRFUZJk
Jimmie Standing In The Rain - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eUevaKbrcU
Azmuda wrote:More from the same videographer:
Jack Of All Parades - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q73EfcI_g1I
45 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf9Rrjkkpi0
Either Side Of The Same Town - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beRRTREPcMw
Veronica - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RliTdOqwxBs
Last Boat Leaving - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1fqWd9br1g
Watch Your Step - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17eGRRL2KeI
Ascension Day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkeAa_3r8Eg
New Amsterdam / You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKdAxD06RTE
Walkin' My Baby Back Home - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_evE6FhON4
Beyond Belief - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OWrMmLX9YI
Watching The Detectives - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eiHFXMHjZ4
Quiet About It - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YynyIRJTkkA
sweetest punch wrote:Fantastic uploads!!
Welcome To The Working Week / Miracle Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPJvmEEVVeI
No Dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuYYXLELDQA
Alison: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB-JprpK ... G5bX1wfW2g
Sneaky Feelings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5lj9ICJ ... G5bX1wfW2g
MY THREE SONS and LAST YEAR OF YOUTH! thanks, ba
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Re: Elvis solo, Toronto (ON), Canada, June 14, 2014
Was this the first time Miracle Man and Sneaky Feelings have been played solo? And Working Week for that matter?
Who’s this kid with his mumbo jumbo?