Elvis Costello Fan Forum

Looks like I might be able to hit Durham. There's a good chance I'll be at Merlefest this year, which is only two hours drive away, and if I forgo the last day of the festival, I could probably make it over.

the_platypus wrote:It does seem to have the ability to whittle a lyric down to its core message.

I tried it with some non-EC songs yesterday.

Original text:
"Who let the dogs out? Who, who who who who?"
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I love the internet.

Are you using the Werner Herzog translating software?

It's a nice episode. Maron style allows him to admit to not doing any research and run through some familiar territory in a way that doesn't piss off his guests. The EC stuff is early days, but it's a great little chat and closes with Lowe doing some stellar renditions of The Beast In Me and Sensiti...

Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts Grammy Award-winning bluegrass singer, hit country songwriter, prolific recording artist, radio DJ, awards show host, harmony singer and guitarist for Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson, tai chi master... Jim Lauderdale's journey from banjo-playing Beatles fa...

Thank you muchly. Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts Grammy Award-winning bluegrass singer, hit country songwriter, prolific recording artist, radio DJ, awards show host, harmony singer and guitarist for Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson, tai chi master... Jim Lauderdale's journey from banjo-p...

Katy Perry performed Hey Jude.

I hear Neil Young and Crazy Horse did a barn burning rendition of 'I Saw Her Standing There'.

Hopefully, it'll be timed to hit bookshelves just when I finish Pete Townshend's.

I'd rather have ALMOST BLUE V2 to be honest.

AKUS is featuring Jerry Douglas and Katy Perry? I wonder if she's playing accordion or second dobro.

Brilliant Mistake with the Sugarcanes. That Stuart Duncan fiddle line and Jim's harmonies in the chorus... It's like he wrote the song for that band and it just took a while to get to them. Black and White World with the Roots. PLU when he hosted Letterman. Best advertisement for the Imposters you ...

Hey! I'm a 21 year old white person.

Costello is one of those figures who seems much more easy to imitate than he is. Same with Sean Connery.

A Pete Townshend episode of Spectacle would've been really something.

I haven't heard Adele's first record or Duffy's second. But the former's second and the latter's first are cracking good listens.

To my writing classes I used to open by saying that anybody who could talk could also write. Having cheered them up with this easy-to-grasp ladder, I then replaced it with a huge and loathsome snake: "How many people in this class, would you say, can talk? I mean really talk?" That had its...

Nice! If I make it back to the States next year, I hope I can get to a Shit show.

I really love this show. It's such a simple and brilliant concept.

That's ridiculous accusation. And for christ's sake, it's pretty simple:

If you think the album is too expensive, do not purchase it.

docinwestchester wrote:Sounds like fun. And lucrative if it's a hit.

BTW, what ever happened to the Keith Moon biopic that Myers was supposed to star in?

It keeps getting delayed - they've yet to settle on a version of the screenplay that Roger Daltrey is comfortable with. Myers would be too old for the part now though.

I don't know why you think Krall embarrasses herself. I thought it was an excellent choice for her and a great rendition - tender and smokey.

I handed him a copy of the screenplay from the front row of the Sydney Opera House concert hall. A few days later, he sent me an email inviting me to his hotel with my recording equipment to do the recording.

2012 is looking to be a great year for live music and a terrible one for my bank balance. I already have tix to see NICK LOWE at the Sydney Opera House ROGER DALTREY at the Enmore Theatre (best venue in Australia) FLORENCE + THE MACHINE at the Sydney Entertainment Centre JOHN HIATT at the Metro Thea...

And therefore, if MP3s have no intrinsic value, shouldn't they be free anyway? Would you download if the artist offered mp3s legally for free? 1. MP3s have no intrinsic value. The content of them does. It's the same as CDs. CDs are worth a cent or two each. You're not paying for the CD - you're pay...

So selling digital verssions of your album is in fact ripping off the buyer, because he/she has no legal way of selling his purchase second hand? No. They're buying the right to own it, not sell it on. I don't think that's a consideration that's at the front of many purchaser's minds. It's an album...