Elvis Costello Free Show

[john seabury]

In March 1979, Costello capped off this productive period in his extra-artistic life by getting himself into a scrap with Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young fame) and Bonnie Bramlett (a minor singer from the '60s) in a hotel bar in Ohio. Again motivated by an unclear principle, he did his best to offend them, finally resorting to a burst of profanity and bigotry, capped with the assertion that Ray Charles was a "blind, ignorant nigger."




There's no evidence that Costello was a racist -- he'd been active in Rock Against Racism before it was fashionable and was too smart in any event to let it show if he was -- but he was being as stupid, reckless and out of control as any of the broken-down '60s stars his energy, brains and invective were supposed to be an antidote for. In any event, Bramlett industriously publicized the exchange and Costello tried to explain and apologize. He took his lumps in a months-long transatlantic brouhaha; to this day some serious critics hold him in contempt.

He just said it to piss her off, drunk or not.

[JohnHoward]

"...he wears glasses that have no glass in them."

-Paul Cook

right from that ksan interview before their last show. very funny interview/ call in show.

[ricv64]

" Ave ya got big tits ? " - Steve Jones from the same interview

[JohnHoward]

one caller asks them to let CRIME open for them, and they suss him out as being in the band heh. that show must be on mp3 somewhere, anybody have it?

[Dave Navarro]

" Ave ya got big tits ? " - Steve Jones from the same interview

Radio host- "Whatta you got against Pete Townsend?"

Paul Cook- "..ugh...he's gawt uh big nose."

[Lonesome Cowboy Bill]

one caller asks them to let CRIME open for them, and they suss him out as being in the band heh. that show must be on mp3 somewhere, anybody have it?

the cow palace show? i got it somewhere......gimmie a day or so and I'll up it to rapidshare......

[ricv64]

http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.c...i?show=artists

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