KNIGHT@MAINE (Michael Knight) (10/23/86)
Hofmann writes: > Crawford lists Elvis Costello, the Who and >other mainstream rock acts as his influences. Flame on!!! Elvis is one of the last people I'd accuse of being mainstream. Sure he had a big hit with Punch the Clock, but that's the only really big album. If he were really mainstream, you'd hear more stuff of his on the the comercial top-xx stations. Course I don't listen to that drivel any more than I have to so maybe I'm missing it. Doubt it though. I've been a Costello fan since '78 so I think I know what I'm saying. He has much more of a cult following than anything else. Mainstream? Be real. Next thing I know you'll be calling Peter Gabrial mainstream, speaking of which I got tickets to the 11-21 concert in Worchester. Just barely. I've heard from some friends that it sold out and they booked a second show for Saturday 11-22 for which they got tickets. Guess it's just the price of success. Hope he plays some stuff from 'The Lamb lies down on Broadway'; it should really flip out the tender braincells of the lollie- pop preppie yuppie types who're going, but who haven't heard any of Gabrials 'other-stuff'. Flame off... Michael Knight 'Enter the world of man, who does not exist...' The KnightRider.
rps@apollo.UUCP.UUCP (10/26/86)
> Next thing I know you'll be calling Peter Gabrial mainstream, speaking > of which I got tickets to the 11-21 concert in Worchester. Just barely. > > Michael Knight I think this pretty much says it all. Yes, anyone who plays in the Worchester Centrum (in such company as Lionel Ritchie and Twisted Sister) isn't exactly doing fringe pop music. -- "I am the son and the heir Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar" Rob Stanzel ARPA: rps%apollo@eddie.mit.edu Apollo Computer UUCP: ...{decvax!wanginst, mit-eddie}!apollo!rps -------