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In Reply to: RE: Saw Elvis Costello at the Opera House last night - dud gig - but the ferry ride ;-) posted by JDK on April 01, 2024 at 14:27:07
and sans "the attractions". If you were hoping for "Welcome to the Working Week" you would be disappointed.
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...Some of his songs are so great. "Oliver's Army," "Hand in Hand," etc.
But there's always one song one every album that I loathe to the point that I rarely play the record.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
He did the hits, but his voice and guitar playing are not what they were, which is understandable - I think he's 70 yo now.
Worst for me was his attitude to those songs. He made almost everything almost unrecognisable, turning his sharp, clean, clever writing into blurry messes with the timing and tuning wandering all over.
He even looks like a Bob Dylan fan now ..........
Anyway, it could have been worse. But not much worse ;-)
Trying to hide from entropy
John K
I witnessed so far but the band was fantastic. I gave up going on old geezers concerts decades ago. Feckers should get a day job instead of sucking the blood of virgins and clinging to the past imagining they are painters or sculptors meaning some sort of artists.
I saw his wife at the Hollywood bowl when she was attempting to be other than a jazz artist , and told a few stories , one saying that her young kids didn't appreciate her music, thinking it second rate because she didn't have any rocker songs like their dad did.
Turns out, much like Glen Campbell , she grew up in rural isolation on a farm, and turned to music as a form of self taught entertainment, only she had a piano in the basement .
not being a jazz tour , the Hollywood bowl performance I attended was not well attended, but I thought the material she choose was well performed. I got free tickets , with the back rows where I was expecting to sit being covered , to not look like empty seats, and roped off.
I love lots of old music and have seen many bands in their twilight.
Before I buy tix, I generally look for some recent performance clips from YouTube to see if the still have the live magic.
I'd rather keep my memories of their heyday.
I saw Buddy Guy about a year ago. He managed the show well. He had a great warm up band, Kingfish Christone. During the main set Buddy played and sang when you needed it, but a lot of the lead was taken over by his keyboard player. With 3 tunes to go he invited Kingfish to join him and walked off as the last song began.
Phil Collins took a similar approach on the "final" Genesis tour.
It is tough getting old.
Gsquared
more laurels to the great Ray Charles. I saw and his show preform at a converted casino pool area in Laughlin Nevada , about a half year before he died. Laughlin doesn't have showrooms like Vegas.
He was escorted out, walking kind of like a feeble old blind man, but once he hit the keyboard, it gave truth that great musicians can improve with age , but he did have the help of his supporting show to give him some breaks.
The Mrs bought these 2 years ago. His tour finished early when somebody in the band got covid. It took till now to reschedule. I don't know if I would have ever bothered with him.
I saw Buddy Guy a couple of times in the 80's and 90's. I can't believe he's still alive! In '87 he was with with Junior Wells. They were old then! And very fantastic!
Trying to hide from entropy
John K
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