We ended up talking for 30 to 45 minutes and afterward I scribbled notes - will put together proper post
It was GREAT
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That's truly awesome. I've had the pleasure of hanging out with my OTHER favorite songwriter, Bob Pollard, and he was genuine, hilarious, insightful, and friendly. As a music obsessive, I imagine that meeting a lot of my heroes would end up being a disappointment, but I've always assumed that Elvis would be really cool to hang out with.jmm wrote:We ended up talking for 30 to 45 minutes and afterward I scribbled notes - will put together proper post
It was GREAT
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jmm wrote:We ended up talking for 30 to 45 minutes and afterward I scribbled notes - will put together proper post
It was GREAT
30 to 45??? I am sure it was 33 to 45
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If only I was as clever as you to come up with that ...
or had the time to write the whole thing up - which will happen eventaully
or had the time to write the whole thing up - which will happen eventaully
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It's probably been mentioned before but I finally read 'Watchmen'. Didn't know that one of the chapters ends with a quote from The Comedians . I hope all song quotes from the graphic novel will be included in the film. I mean - that would be something.
. I hope all song quotes from the graphic novel will be included in the film. I mean - that would be something.I'm not buying my share of souvenirs
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http://daintykitty.typepad.com/dainty_k ... rospe.html
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Before I get into more sewing, here's a matchbox shrine I made to, ahem, Elvis Costello. Can't you see I could be, I could be your spooky girlfriend?
That lyric still stands true for me!
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Before I get into more sewing, here's a matchbox shrine I made to, ahem, Elvis Costello. Can't you see I could be, I could be your spooky girlfriend?
That lyric still stands true for me!
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I'm sorry but there is only one spooky girlfriend and we all know who that is 
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Reading The Sweet Forever by George Pelecanos -
"Over the next ten years, she ran into him maybe twice. Once down on 19th Street in 1980, when they were both standing in line to see Raging Bull at the Dupont. On that night Dimitri wore a new mask: an Elvis Costello pompadour and a deep-weave overcoat with heavily oilskin shoes, straight off the cover of Get Happy, his retro Teddy Boy look. She saw him a couple of years later at the Wax Museum, Graham Parker's Real Macaw tour. Karras wore a black sport jacket, pointed Italian shoes and a skinny black tie, like the Special Beat Service boys coming off the plane. Karras had begun to gray."
"Over the next ten years, she ran into him maybe twice. Once down on 19th Street in 1980, when they were both standing in line to see Raging Bull at the Dupont. On that night Dimitri wore a new mask: an Elvis Costello pompadour and a deep-weave overcoat with heavily oilskin shoes, straight off the cover of Get Happy, his retro Teddy Boy look. She saw him a couple of years later at the Wax Museum, Graham Parker's Real Macaw tour. Karras wore a black sport jacket, pointed Italian shoes and a skinny black tie, like the Special Beat Service boys coming off the plane. Karras had begun to gray."
Everyone just needs to fuckin’ relax. Smoke more weed, the world is ending.
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OK, finally a little more about the time I got to spend with EC in the NOLA airport the day after the Jazzfest show with AT et al.
I'll try not to go on at length to avoid the friends rolling their eyes looks I've received in the last few weeks ala "Let Me Tell You About Her" or it / the conversation in this case. Also somehow No Hiding Place seems like a warning not to go on too much. None of my "quotes" below should be taken as such they are what I remember and that certainly isn't 100% accurate.
I already wrote about the Robert Plant / Alison Krauss / T-Bone part about Fortune Teller with Allen was in the wings.
We started with the fact that my wife and I had been to the Spectacle taping with Tony Bennett. EC seemed quite interested in feedback on this front. He said he's still settling in and is looking forward to seeing how it edits down into a show. We talked about Diana being surprised on her blackberry when Tony was calling her to the stage. He said "at least it was clear it hadn't been set up, but you know with the boys that really is our line back and they were getting sick". He told us how terrified he was when he did the TV show with the Count Basie Orch and Tony back in the day that they showed a clip from during the show. He said the key to Spectacle will be getting good guests and the present plan is to film 13 episodes. He liked the suggestion that it might become a TV and Pop version of Piano Jazz and responded "I could do a lot worse"
This led the conversation to musical connections like those he was highlighting with Tony. He said "the jazz artists are very good at building on each other and giving credit but it doesn't happen as fluidly in rock n roll". I told him that I heard a bit of Hey Bulldog, that they had played back in May, in Stella Hurt. He gazed off for a few seconds like he was listening and then said "I can see why you might say that with the part that Steve plays." We specifically talked about Femme Fatale in the NOLA set. He seemed to doubt my estimate that at least 50% of the crowd wouldn't have known the song but "really liked the idea if it was true since they might look into the Velvets". This was a song they learned for Spectacle and decided to keep in the set. "That is the kind of connection that is great to make."
He was very interested in who else we'd seen at Jazzfest as he'd only arrived in time to prepare for the set with Allen et al. He was particularly interested in how much we liked the set from Big Sam's Funky Nation. Sam had given him their new CD titled Peace, Love and Understanding and he'd yet to listen to it. The mix they played of traditionally based funk built around trombone but fused with hip hop really was exciting. EC said "yeah, I think that's where some great stuff is happening these days". we also talked in particular about James Cotten and his band, Buckwheat Zydeco and Robert Plant / Alison Krauss with T-Bone among others. I told him that although I didn't really expect it in that setting I still would have loved to hear her do Scarlet Tide. He said - not the right venue, and the same was true with him not doing Ascension Day in his set. He really would have liked to but it just didn't fit. Besides Jazzfest he highly recommended Merlefest and especially Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.
However he was very happy Pete has suggested that they close the set with When the Saints Go Marching in. He'd never played it before and said it was the perfect end. He also talked about how he'd always been disappointed with playing Everyday IWtB since the initial tour with the back-up singers. Because of how they recorded it he never felt they could get it quite right. He said it was only in the rehearsals in the last couple of weeks that they came upon the new way of doing it and he was really happy with it now (after what 20 years!). He "really likes how the new stuff is sounding live" and intended to fill out the 50 minute Police opening shows by "starting and ending with something they know and the rest is mine". He said that he had resisted the opening slots but tried it out with the Dylan shows and liked that the audience "didn't really know his stuff and he could play what he wanted". We talked about those shows and in particular how Bedlam was such a different song during them.
He talked about how much fun it is to play with AT and the extended band. How he liked the two new songs AT played. He actually apologized for how bad his voice was at the Tower of London show last year when we told him we were there. Said he caught a cold and was really struggling. I told him how after he let go in Fortune Teller that night his voiced seemed to get out of the way and he responded "it's a great song to sing"
We talked about Momofuku at length. He wasn't to happy to hear that my vinyl copy arrived before the release date but it did mean that I'd heard it. He said "nobody is selling records these days and we have to find a new way to make it work". he was happy to hear that I enjoyed that old visceral feeling of opening the album. He said " they were able to record it so quickly because the folks in the session just clicked (and it just as easily might not have worked". He gave credit to the fact that the people in the studio ranged in age from 53 to 23 and the "young folks were full of new ideas about how to just try things and they all threw themselves into it". He smiled at my speculation that he sat down to write My 3 Sons after the magic numbers show with Rosanne Cash last year. He said "it's a good story but that's not how it happened". He talked about how great Rosanne is and how much he enjoys working with her
I asked when the new stuff recorded with T-Bone will be coming out. He smiled and said "don’t believe what you read on the internet even if I wrote it”. While he wouldn't confirm a release he did seem to indicate that a fall tour with T-Bone once he's finished with RP & AK might be a possibility. I guess we'll need to keep an eye out for more on The Coward Bros!
I feel like I've already gone on too long and will close except to add that he couldn't have been nicer and more accommodating. He closed by thanking us for the support through the years. Quite a thrill
I'll try not to go on at length to avoid the friends rolling their eyes looks I've received in the last few weeks ala "Let Me Tell You About Her" or it / the conversation in this case. Also somehow No Hiding Place seems like a warning not to go on too much. None of my "quotes" below should be taken as such they are what I remember and that certainly isn't 100% accurate.
I already wrote about the Robert Plant / Alison Krauss / T-Bone part about Fortune Teller with Allen was in the wings.
We started with the fact that my wife and I had been to the Spectacle taping with Tony Bennett. EC seemed quite interested in feedback on this front. He said he's still settling in and is looking forward to seeing how it edits down into a show. We talked about Diana being surprised on her blackberry when Tony was calling her to the stage. He said "at least it was clear it hadn't been set up, but you know with the boys that really is our line back and they were getting sick". He told us how terrified he was when he did the TV show with the Count Basie Orch and Tony back in the day that they showed a clip from during the show. He said the key to Spectacle will be getting good guests and the present plan is to film 13 episodes. He liked the suggestion that it might become a TV and Pop version of Piano Jazz and responded "I could do a lot worse"
This led the conversation to musical connections like those he was highlighting with Tony. He said "the jazz artists are very good at building on each other and giving credit but it doesn't happen as fluidly in rock n roll". I told him that I heard a bit of Hey Bulldog, that they had played back in May, in Stella Hurt. He gazed off for a few seconds like he was listening and then said "I can see why you might say that with the part that Steve plays." We specifically talked about Femme Fatale in the NOLA set. He seemed to doubt my estimate that at least 50% of the crowd wouldn't have known the song but "really liked the idea if it was true since they might look into the Velvets". This was a song they learned for Spectacle and decided to keep in the set. "That is the kind of connection that is great to make."
He was very interested in who else we'd seen at Jazzfest as he'd only arrived in time to prepare for the set with Allen et al. He was particularly interested in how much we liked the set from Big Sam's Funky Nation. Sam had given him their new CD titled Peace, Love and Understanding and he'd yet to listen to it. The mix they played of traditionally based funk built around trombone but fused with hip hop really was exciting. EC said "yeah, I think that's where some great stuff is happening these days". we also talked in particular about James Cotten and his band, Buckwheat Zydeco and Robert Plant / Alison Krauss with T-Bone among others. I told him that although I didn't really expect it in that setting I still would have loved to hear her do Scarlet Tide. He said - not the right venue, and the same was true with him not doing Ascension Day in his set. He really would have liked to but it just didn't fit. Besides Jazzfest he highly recommended Merlefest and especially Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.
However he was very happy Pete has suggested that they close the set with When the Saints Go Marching in. He'd never played it before and said it was the perfect end. He also talked about how he'd always been disappointed with playing Everyday IWtB since the initial tour with the back-up singers. Because of how they recorded it he never felt they could get it quite right. He said it was only in the rehearsals in the last couple of weeks that they came upon the new way of doing it and he was really happy with it now (after what 20 years!). He "really likes how the new stuff is sounding live" and intended to fill out the 50 minute Police opening shows by "starting and ending with something they know and the rest is mine". He said that he had resisted the opening slots but tried it out with the Dylan shows and liked that the audience "didn't really know his stuff and he could play what he wanted". We talked about those shows and in particular how Bedlam was such a different song during them.
He talked about how much fun it is to play with AT and the extended band. How he liked the two new songs AT played. He actually apologized for how bad his voice was at the Tower of London show last year when we told him we were there. Said he caught a cold and was really struggling. I told him how after he let go in Fortune Teller that night his voiced seemed to get out of the way and he responded "it's a great song to sing"
We talked about Momofuku at length. He wasn't to happy to hear that my vinyl copy arrived before the release date but it did mean that I'd heard it. He said "nobody is selling records these days and we have to find a new way to make it work". he was happy to hear that I enjoyed that old visceral feeling of opening the album. He said " they were able to record it so quickly because the folks in the session just clicked (and it just as easily might not have worked". He gave credit to the fact that the people in the studio ranged in age from 53 to 23 and the "young folks were full of new ideas about how to just try things and they all threw themselves into it". He smiled at my speculation that he sat down to write My 3 Sons after the magic numbers show with Rosanne Cash last year. He said "it's a good story but that's not how it happened". He talked about how great Rosanne is and how much he enjoys working with her
I asked when the new stuff recorded with T-Bone will be coming out. He smiled and said "don’t believe what you read on the internet even if I wrote it”. While he wouldn't confirm a release he did seem to indicate that a fall tour with T-Bone once he's finished with RP & AK might be a possibility. I guess we'll need to keep an eye out for more on The Coward Bros!
I feel like I've already gone on too long and will close except to add that he couldn't have been nicer and more accommodating. He closed by thanking us for the support through the years. Quite a thrill
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More bitching anonymously than length, no? Thanks for details, there were almost enough of them! Quite a conversation, that! Was he how you imagined to talk to? Did you pinch yourself at any moment? Were you overawed, or did it seem easy and natural?jmm wrote:Also somehow No Hiding Place seems like a warning not to go on too much.
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I'd actually met him briefly twice before so that certainly helped a bunch but I was kind of pinching myself the whole time.
My wife said right after "I can't believe that you just talked to him for that long" because I'm not the best conversationalist. I certainly give EC the credit for it being as long and varied as it was
It was unbeleivably cool and very natural
My wife said right after "I can't believe that you just talked to him for that long" because I'm not the best conversationalist. I certainly give EC the credit for it being as long and varied as it was
It was unbeleivably cool and very natural
I too am a limited, primitive kind of man
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I can't get this to play - maybe someone with more time than me to waste might like to give it a go -
http://thejanehazedexperience.blogspot. ... tello.html
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Chipunkery and Elvis Costello
Did you ever ask yourself, what would an Elvis Costello song sound like if it were the chipmunks doing it? Neither had I, but I recorded the song today mucking about and it sounded better twice as fast. I've tried to edit it to where it sounds funniest.
http://thejanehazedexperience.blogspot. ... tello.html
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Chipunkery and Elvis Costello
Did you ever ask yourself, what would an Elvis Costello song sound like if it were the chipmunks doing it? Neither had I, but I recorded the song today mucking about and it sounded better twice as fast. I've tried to edit it to where it sounds funniest.
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Played easily for me and very quick to load. Quite fetching - No Hiding Place re-recorded and sped up to chipmunk speed. The first version of NHP anywhere?!? it's a classic EC track, lends itself to even this sort of abuse!
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Walking by a shop here in Salzburg, Austria and what do I hear but Drum and Bones ; I went in heard the rest of ´fuku while browsing and bought some Austrian jazz.
http://www.musikladen-salzburg.at/
http://www.musikladen-salzburg.at/
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How unexpected is that? Did it sound great coming out of the shop? How was Pollini?
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This isn't actually hearing EC, but a reference to him. I was watching a 'Taxi' mini-marathon on NickatNight. In this particular episode Latka decided he was tired of being cute, likeable Latka and changes his personality into Vic Ferari, who is a hip, man-about-town playboy. In one scene, Vic (Latka) is listening to his stereo on headphones while working on a taxi. Louie comes into the garage and begins to scratch the record to get Vic to take off the headphones. Vic rips off his headphones and yells to Louie,"You're messing with Elvis Costello."
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My travels bring me to Prague, Czech Republic. Staying in the Angelo Hotel, it's interesting to see the foyers decor of large black 'n white photos of Jazz greats . It was still a surprise when the piped music of jazz classics gave way, during breakfast this morning, to Someone Took The Words Away from North.
www.angelohotel.com
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Heard Alison in Spencer's in the mall. It was amazing, since it made Spencer's bearable.
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Gina Gershon want's to ' perform' with Elvis or Tom Waits -
http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Video.aspx?ci=567617
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And how many males have read this and not thought "I'd like to perform with Gina?"johnfoyle wrote:Gina Gershon want's to ' perform' with Elvis or Tom Waits
Nothing like a bit of double entendre for a Monday...
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Sitting in a swanky restaurant in London's Covent Garden on Thursday 26th, at 1430hrs GMT the song Toledo played. I was hoping it would be the album but it was only that track.
Who’s this kid with his mumbo jumbo?
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On 'You've Been Framed" last night Elvis singing "Ain't Misbehavin'" was used as the music for a number of hilarious clips. For people outside the UK this is a show of comedy calamities captured on camcorder.
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That should read "For people outside the UK this is a show of staged comedy calamities captured on camcorder trying to make people believe that these calamities happened quite by accident and a camcorder happened to be recording at the time".Mikeh wrote:For people outside the UK this is a show of comedy calamities captured on camcorder.
Who’s this kid with his mumbo jumbo?
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Sat on a beach in Mojacar, Southern Spain reading "Hurting Distance" by Sophie Hannah. Main character is searching for her boyfriend who has disappeared, she goes to his local pub and asks behind the bar and get this response, "Yeah we know him, call him Elvis cos he looks like Elvis Costello, well a bigger version, like Elvis Costello after hes eaten all the pies!!"
On a sidenote can highly recommend Sophie Hannah, shes a poet from Yorkshire who has written three psychological/crime novels that are very entertaining
On a sidenote can highly recommend Sophie Hannah, shes a poet from Yorkshire who has written three psychological/crime novels that are very entertaining
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Years ago I went on a Club Med vacation in St. Lucia. There was a French guy there who looked exactly like a meduim to small size Elvis (you know how his size has changed). He even had the glasses. I engaged him in conversation and I was surprised he didn't even know who Elvis was. He said he would check it out when he got home. I wonder if he ever did and what he thought when he saw that he had a twin.