It is not that I desrespect my elders. For one thing, I am about the same age as a bloke like T Bone Burnett. It is that, as Costello’s immensely boring “Spectacle” proved, there is nothing worse than pompous rock musos and T Bone Burnett is King Of the Hill and Costello is prince regent.
So please count me out on the upcoming The Speaking Clock Revue . According to brooklynvegan.com – “a multi-artist concert extravaganza – on October 20 at the Beacon Theater in New York City. Both evenings of the Revue will feature performances by Elton John & Leon Russell, John Mellencamp, Elvis Costello, Gregg Allman, Ralph Stanley, Jeff Bridges, Punch Brothers, Karen Elson, and newcomers The Secret Sisters. In addition, Jim James from My Morning Jacket will join the lineup in New York respectively.
If you want to live forever, go to this conceet. It will feel like a million years.
I can’t describe my horror at this line up.