Elvis to Play Bridge School Benefit, Oct 23/24, 2010?

[FAVEHOUR]

As if the Bay Area wasn't fortunate enough already in October when it comes to Elvis shows,

the rumor is that the lineup for this year's Bridge School Benefit will be:

October 23

Buffalo Springfield
Pearl Jam
Elvis Costello
Merle Haggard
Kris Kristofferson
Modest Mouse
Grizzly Bear

October 24

Buffalo Springfield
Pearl Jam
T-Bone Burnett's Speaking Clock Revue, featuring:
Elton John, Leon Russell, and Elvis Costello
John Mellencamp
Jeff Bridges and Ralph Stanley
Merle Haggard
Kris Kristofferson
Modest Mouse
Grizzly Bear


Dave

[bronxapostle]

pretty cool Dave...except for those grizzly bear AND modest mouse guys....they both STINK! anybody who thinks they are worth a dime, is just plain FULL OF CRAP! NO melody whatsoever, NO SONGS. HANG IT UP! PERE UBU took care of THAT need the RIGHT way 30 years ago.

[docinwestchester]

October 24

Buffalo Springfield
Pearl Jam
T-Bone Burnett's Speaking Clock Revue, featuring:
Elton John, Leon Russell, and Elvis Costello
John Mellencamp
Jeff Bridges and Ralph Stanley
Merle Haggard
Kris Kristofferson
Modest Mouse
Grizzly Bear


Dave

Cool cool cool.

[Jeremy Dylan]

Woah - BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD reunion?!

[sweetest punch]

This seems to be true: http://neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org ... -2010.html

[MOJO]

Cool, the DUDE will be there. Killer Bridge School lineup this year. Great benefit, good people. I will gladly donate the ticket price, plus more. To all the EC fans outside of the Bay Area, sorry. We are spoiled.

[johnfoyle]

http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci ... ck_check=1

10/21/2010

(extract)


For that, you get not only Buffalo Springfield but, on Saturday, Pearl Jam, Elvis Costello with Emmylou Harris (just added), Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams, Jackson Browne and David Lindley, Billy Idol, Modest Mouse and Grizzly Bear; and on Sunday, Buffalo Springfield and Pearl Jam again, and T-Bone Burnett's Speaking Clock Revue featuring Elton John & Leon Russell, Elvis Costello, Ralph Stanley, Neko Case and Jeff Bridges, Kris Kristofferson, Modest Mouse and Grizzly Bear.

[the_platypus]

pretty cool Dave...except for those grizzly bear AND modest mouse guys....they both STINK! anybody who thinks they are worth a dime, is just plain FULL OF CRAP! NO melody whatsoever, NO SONGS. HANG IT UP! PERE UBU took care of THAT need the RIGHT way 30 years ago.

Oh get off it, they're both great bands.
More than that, they're bound to attract the younger crowd-- hopefully this year's Bridge School is a lot more successful than last year's.
This is for the benefit of the kids, not of some crotchety gentleman in an Elvis Costello message board.

[Jeremy Dylan]

Elvis Costello with Emmylou Harris (just added),

Oh sure, make me feel even worse about living on the other side of the world, why don't you.

[And No Coffee Table]

http://twitter.com/#!/jimbrantley/status/28564465050

Elvis Costello and Emmylou Harris doing "Tell Me Why" by Neil Young at Bridge School Benefit show. Yes!

http://twitter.com/#!/Trafficologist/status/28565370802

Now, Elvis Costello with Emmy Lou. Doing "Love Hurts. " They slay me.

http://twitter.com/#!/kaceykyle/status/28565651859

Elvis Costello & Kris Kristofferson & Emmy Lou Harris...beautiful.

http://twitter.com/#!/EOTB/status/28566464076

Elvis Costello, Neil Young and Emmylou Harris are all on stage right now. Epic trio.

http://twitter.com/#!/metroactive/status/28566786433

Elvis Costello played with Neil & Emmylou after one with Kris Kristofferson & Lucinda

http://twitter.com/#!/oneBlair/status/28567115970

Elvis the C. & Emmylou Harris duet on Gram Parsons's "Wheels" -- sublime.

[sweetest punch]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/51942/224972

(...)
Even Elvis Costello was impressed by Idol’s set. “How great is Billy Idol?” he asked the crowd. “I haven’t seen him in thirty-three years, when he was on Top of the Pops.” Costello brought out Emmylou Harris for his entire set, beginning with a lovely duet on Neil Young’s “Tell Me Why.” They also song the Everly Brothers song “Love Hurts,” which Harris performed with Gram Parsons shortly before his death. Pegi Young and Lucinda Williams joined Costello for a powerful “Scarlet Tide.” “I found a razor blade since I first played here twenty years ago,” Costello said, in one of the night’s lighter moments. “Back then I looked like the Wolfman. I would have kept it had I known the Werewolf look was going to come back.”
(...)

[sweetest punch]

??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-k9jS6e1wI

[bronxapostle]

Brand New Heartache
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A guy moved into town I ain't seen you around
Oh I feel a brand new heartache coming on
It happened once before when a guy moved in next door
Oh I feel a brand new heartache coming on

Why can't I trust in you?
Why do you try to make me blue the way you do?
You said you'd have a ball but you never showed at all
Oh I feel a brand new heartache coming on

Why can't I trust in you?
Why do you try to make me blue the way you do?
Tonight we had a date and you're three hours late
Oh I feel a brand new heartache coming on
Oh I feel a brand new heartache coming on

Brand New Heartache (Live 1981)
Written by Felice Bryant & Boudleaux Bryant
Performed by Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Musicians Elvis Costello - vocal, guitar
Steve Nieve - keyboards
Bruce Thomas - bass
Pete Thomas - drums
John McFee - guitar
Recorded July 30, 1981, Aberdeen, Scotland
Released July 26, 2004
Albums Almost Blue (Rhino/Edsel reissue), 2004
Length 2:29


Only known performance:
 July 30, 1981, Aberdeen, Scotland

[johnfoyle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJrOv0gpFcI

Elvis , Emmy 'n Kris Kristofferson doing April 5th

[johnfoyle]

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news ... cert_N.htm

Neil Young and friends rock out for Bridge School

By Marco R. della Cava, USA TODAY

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Wow, man. There's tie-dyed Woodstock emcee Wavy Gravy getting wanded by security. And backstage, check out psychedelic album cover maestro Stanley Mouse drawing up a storm. On stage? How about Buffalo Springfield, ripping through nearly a dozen of their chart-topping hits. Who says you can't go back in time?

Saturday's '60s throwback came courtesy of Neil and Pegi Young's annual — 24 years and counting — benefit concert to support The Bridge School, which helps children with severe physical handicaps. Although the lineup for the all-acoustic, eight-hour affair was typically eclectic, the undeniable focus was on Young's first ever reunion with the remaining members of his first band, formed with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay in the musical caldron of 1966 and disbanded two years later. Band members Bruce Palmer died in 2004 and Dewey Martin passed away in 2009.

The surviving trio did their late friends proud. Opening with a slightly slowed version of the Furay-led On The Way Home, Stills and Young dutifully fell into supporting roles as harmony singers. The rendition was tight; close your eyes and you could almost be tuning into an AM station from yesteryear.

Furay, dressed in a black cowboy shift with white buffalo motifs, stayed in the spotlight with A Child's Claim to Fame, Do I Have To Come Right Out And Say It and Kind Woman. But the men flanking him would soon show their stuff, making it instantly clear why Buffalo Springfield was fated to be a passing phenomenon. Stills' unbridled musicianship would soon demand David Crosby and Graham Nash for an outlet, while Young's unique songwriting and sound needed to take flight alone.

Young, wearing a brown suede jacket with long fringe, turned to the children in wheelchairs camped out on stage throughout the show and said, "This one's for all you kids," before launching into the poignant I Am A Child. Stills, noticeably formal in a sports coat and tie, matched Young's small masterpiece with his Springfield anthem, For What It's Worth. He then added Bluebird to the mix for good measure, to the hoots of many of the 22,000 packing the Shoreline Amphitheater despite incessant rain.

"We're Buffalo Springfield, thank you very much," Young said, seeming to relish the retro-pronouncement. Then the trio ripped into Young's roaring Mr. Soul, which would foreshadow his later work. The evening closed with an all-star jam of Young's Keep On Rocking In The Free World, which featured most of the evening's guests, including Pearl Jam, Elvis Costello, Emmy Lou Harris, Lucinda Williams and Jackson Browne.

Among the pre-Springfield reunion highlights was Kris Kristofferson singing a faint but heartfelt Me and Bobby Magee, after which he asked the crowd to send prayers to his ailing outlaw friend Merle Haggard, whose recent health issues prevented him from appearing on the Bridge School bill as planned. "Merle's the closest thing to Hank Williams as we got on this planet," he said.

In the shocking category was Billy Idol, who followed Kristofferson's mournful set with as raucous a 30-minute set of proto-punk that one could summon from acoustic instruments (and a set of drums). After bopping through his radio hit Dancing With Myself, Idol joked, "This is the crystal meth set," then ripped through a number of staples before wrapping up with Rebel Yell.

As for Bridge School staples — and Young pals — Pearl Jam captured the crowd with a compact set of recognizable hits such as Better Man and Nothingman. But the real treat was seeing Young join his favorite Seattle rockers for Walk With Me, the lead song on Young's new album Le Noise. While Young stomped through the song's monster chords, Eddie Vedder took over lead vocal duties while his "Uncle Neil," as the Pearl Jam frontman referred to Young, looked on with an approving smile. If one day Young decides he's too old to rock in the name of Bridge School, take one guess as to who may wind up leading the benefit charge.

[blureu]

I wonder if Rosanne will record April 5th on her upcoming project with Billy Bragg and Joe Henry? Guest vocals from Kris & Elvis?



http://www.billboard.com/news/billy-bra ... 2904.story

[johnfoyle]

http://bgwashburn.wordpress.com/2010/10 ... ream-came/

(extract)

The next act was Elvis Costello, accompanied by Emmylou Harris. They did a few Gram Parsons songs, including Sleepless Nights, which Emmylou dedicated to Ben Keith. Ben and L.A. Johnson were two close associates of Neil Young who died in recent months. The night had a few remembrances for both, L.A. Johnson was a key figure in the Bridge School, as well as being a long-time friend of Neil’s. They met at Woodstock.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh-UxQ1w ... re=related

Rocking in the Free World, Bridge School Concert, 2010

Even Elvis Costello was impressed by Idol’s set. “How great is Billy Idol?” he asked the crowd. “I haven’t seen him in thirty-three years, when he was on Top of the Pops.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oJ3uVdIA-M

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell - Bridge School

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99GKARaN2oQ

Billy Idol - Dancing with Myself - Bridge School

[johnfoyle]

http://www.spin.com/articles/buffalo-sp ... dge-school

Barry Walters on October 25, 201

(extract)


Sunday afternoon's unquestionable highlight was T-Bone Burnett's Speaking Clock Revue. Pairing exceptionally proficient musicians with equally expressive singers is the Academy and Grammy Award-winning musician's specialty. Here he assembled a large band for Elvis Costello, Neko Case, actor Jeff Bridges, bluegrass pioneer Ralph Stanley, and Elton John with Leon Russell.

Costello remains a consummate songwriter and entertainer: Saturday night he accommodated Emmylou Harris, who wasn't on the bill but contributed sweet harmony vocals throughout his set to songs like the standard "Love Hurts." Sunday afternoon a well-dressed Costello premiered songs from his excellent forthcoming album National Ransom; his only oldie was set opener "Brilliant Mistake."

[wardo68]

Hmm. I wonder if EC and Stills had a chance to talk about the "old days"...

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/photos/53622/225350/6

[johnfoyle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qWc3VUivDc

Elvis Costello - Tell Me Why - Bridge School

http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/inde ... ell_Me_Why

[sweetest punch]

The set with Emmylou is on Dime: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... ?id=328469

Elvis Costello with Emmylou Harris
Bridge School Benefit
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA
October 23, 2010 Saturday

01 intro
02 Tell Me Why
03 Sleepless Nights
04 A Slow Drag With Josephine
05 Love Hurts
06 Wheels
07 April 5th *
08 The Scarlet Tide
09 Brand New Heartache

total running time 35m21s

* with Kris Kristofferson

[sweetest punch]

Love Hurts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRerDhedhPs

[johnfoyle]

Photos -

http://www.soundspike.com/news/article/ ... it_in.html

http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainmen ... ck_check=1

[docinwestchester]

The entire Speaking Clock Revue set from Oct 24, 2010 is on The Trader's Den:
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/sho ... hp?t=86769

*Elvis Costello*

King of America
A Slow Drag with Josephine
Jimmie Standing in the Rain
Sulphur to Sugarcane
National Ransom

*Neko Case*

Hold On, Hold On
Vengeance Is Sleeping
Dirty Knife

*Jeff Bridges*

Fallin' & Flyin' (w/Elvis Costello)
Brand New Angel

*Ralph Stanley*

(Unknown)
Lift Him Up
Man Of Constant Sorrow

*Elton John & Leon Russell*

If It Wasn't For Bad
Jimmie Rodgers' Dream
A Dream Come True
Gone to Shiloh (w/Neil Young)
Hearts Have Turned to Stone
When Love is Dying
Monkey Suit
Hey Ahab
There's No Tomorrow (w/Elvis Costello, Neko Case, Jeff Bridges, and Ralph Stanley)


Great performance and recording.

[charliestumpy]

Ta for 'Tell me why' link - nice.