Elvis Costello Free Show

[ricv64]

www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com Golden Gate Park !



Go Giants !

[RichieGoodtimes]

Doesn't fit in my budget.

[philaarts.com]

richie and i went to the same free metallica concert.

[ENothing]

So he's the opening act for The Barbary Coast Cloggers.

[ricv64]

like 6 or 7 stages you gotta plan your shows. Dave should buy the crowd drinks

[John A]

How can you have a bluegrass festival without the Hackensaw Boys?

[kozik]

Elvis Costello is a racist

[ricv64]

Write the organizer john , give me the word and I'll start a protest

[kozik]

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.

[ricv64]

And where is Bonnie Bramlett today ?