I went to the Chautauqua lake institute again to see Elvis Costello in Concert. I would give it about a 8 out of ten. When Elvis first came he was wearing a grey suite, thick black glasses, and a purple hat. He brought about eight different guitars with him, which he interchanged in points throughout the show. The instruments the band had were a piano key accordion, acoustic guitars, a violin, and a ukulele. Elvis was very animated almost to a fault. at the end of almost every one of his songs he would hold up is guitar, pause, then strum one more time. During a lot the songs you would see Elvis jerking around over his guitar. There was a very distinct line between getting into the music and whatever Elvis was doing. Despite of this he played his guitars extremely well, his riffs were amazing, and he strummed very fast and expertly. When Elvis took pauses in between his songs he cracked jokes and had everybody laughing. When Elvis started singing he did not sound good, but after the first few songs his voice started sounding better. Another one of his problems is he was singing too loud into the microphone which made the speakers make cracking noises. The concert lasted about 2 hours and 15 minutes with a five song encore. The mood of this concert was very calm. Almost everyone sat in there seats the whole time and did not even try to dance. Even though the crowd was younger then usual. There was a little girl who kept trying to give Elvis a rose. He did not see the little girl the first two times she ran up, but the third time he took the rose, put it in a glass of water he had and signed a paper she had. Three people who sat right behind me seemed to be drunk and kept shouting out "I love you Elvis" and song names they wanted him to play.
Special thanks to my dad for the picture and the tickets.
-Austin
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