Nick Lowe & Elvis Costello at WBCN '78

[flaxonx3]

Were hand held cameras still new technology at that time?

[MaddenManification]

The poor dj couldn't get her thoughts together very well now could she?

[thepunkfish109]

1:30 thanks, camera guy! For years I've been desperate to know how light Elvis likes his coffee!!!

[LowBid86]

Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello and Mink DeVille in one show?!?! Incredible!

[surfric]

this is hilarious. what an idiot interviewing these geniuses...



[bettyfelon1]

Maybe he needed the milk for the coffee

[bettyfelon1]

Check out the video of Elvis at the A and P. Is this the same day? Same clothes.

[thewaymouth]

Elvis Costello at South Yarmouth's Cape Cod Coliseum in the summer of 1982 was brilliant. He has done a number of great shows in MA. He has shown a lot of love to the Boston area.

[auggdogrules]

so young....so young

[ManuelHung]

I have the feeling the cameraman was rather stoned... just a guess.

[biggibson49]

She's an idiot!

[taxingme2much]

Gonna say '82...

[taxingme2much]

This is a cool part of history here. Elvis hates MA. Remember his Cape Cod Coliseum gig?? The walls were sweating! I was there. Not a good night.

[BloodySock]

@taxingme2much when was that??? i wish i was there

[BloodySock]

@taxingme2much  when and where on cape was that?

[11111111jws]

I'll BCN you dumb ass station bellied up for piss management!

Gee, is the the reason ALL companies are dying and the acconomy is in the shitter?

I can't spell anymore. I guess I'll blame that on rotten scholl Unionisms.

[bladerunner750]

This is what happens when they let chicks become DJ's.

[11111111jws]

@bladerunner750 Got to agree in her case. She suckt. I couldn't ever follow her either. But she was the mummy & daddy beeach that became the Nancy Polookas of today!

[jeanlass]

Aw, look at those puppies! Thanks Mr. Lpstd!

[Lpstd1]

@jeanlass You're welcome, Ms. Lass!

[IRONSEAN7]

its 78,, these guys are famous ,, doin coke,,, her SPEED micromachine auction voice is creepn em out

[PAULLONDEN]

@IRONSEAN7

INfuckingDEED ,yapyapyap.that 'question' went in one ear and out the other ,with me tøø.~~~«d~_×b»~~~

[nicodagger]

@IRONSEAN7 it's creepin me out now.

[labprincess]

Where can I get a sweater like Nick's? :D

[TheMassageGuru]

God damn that stupid interviewer, she was talking at the speed of light and asked a bunch of overlapping questions in just a few seconds. SLOW THE FUCK down so I can hear what you are asking. No wonder Nick and Elvis had a hard time answering her questions.

[suburbanindie]

@TheMassageGuru She was probably nervous. I would be. lol

[crapple009]

The camera-man seems really interested in E.C.'s beverage at 1:26-1:37. Coffee?

[eclecticear]

Saw Elvis Costello walking down Broadway in NYC a week or more ago. It was surreal.

[downinthemarrow]

the camera closeups are hilarious. i love it when they zoom in on elvis's coffee cup. huh.

[ohwhatfunlifewas]

i LOVE nick's sweater. i'd rock that. and elvis looks adorable. even his teeth. :-)

[tomthefunky]

The old saying still holds true.....Women should be seen and not heard.

[kevhead66]

1:32 - Elvis likes cream in his coffee I guess.

[squid75]

Most uncomfortable interview ever.

[TheSchilz3]

I don´t really understand the question, actually either..:))

[beautydaddy]

Tracey Roach was always a shitty interviewer and most of the D.J's at BCN has a "snootfull."

[mikwid]

There is only one Elvis for me and Costello is it....

[Wiganmaher]

And on the subject of musical history - Nick Lowe first met Elvis Costello in the Grapes pub on Matthew Street Liverpool in 1973. This was the Beatles' old watering hole as well

[ucfbtm]

Great stuff.What an insight into how the 'punk' Elvis always was like,before his first Nashville transformation,(only 4 years later),and of course his subsequent stardom as all-around good guy on TV and film :) What a heartbreaker there isn't more.Gotta be cruel to be kind,eh? :) Cheers for this tho.Another valuable piece of music history.

[mrbuster123]

I concur

[droidsURlooking4]

I don't know. I found them both (Nick & Elvis) to be fairly condescending. I mean the dj is aggressive with her questions, but so what? Nick says, "Uh.. I don't understand the question". And then knocks on Journey (please, they're from New Jersey) in an attempt to trash american pop. I know it was bad but come on. Then Elvis goes off about Brandies. It's a fucking University. What does he expect? Oh, and I guess he hates The Rat too. Whatever Elvis. A bit disappointed here..

[HolidayInGuantanamo]

But the line of questioning was pretty muddled. Her first question was like, "You've been in the background producing music, and now you're out in front. Why?" What kind of a question was that? Duh, because the guy also wants to perform and play music?

And why extrapolate that just because the guy knocks Journey and Jeff.Starship then it's knocking ALL American pop? I think you're misinterpreting it just because of their manner of speaking. I don't think they were being condescending at all.

[droidsURlooking4]

Whatever. The opening question was irrelevant. It's just a line to start a conversation by telling people what he is up to. The Elvis bit I just found annoying since he had nothing good to say about anything in Boston (I said Brandeis before, I meant UMASS). Why do you go to another country, agree to do a radio interview and then just trash the whole city? Well, the Journey comment, I mean I can understand, because they did suck [in that poppy kind of way].

[HolidayInGuantanamo]

There you go again. I don't think I heard him say, "Boston is a pretty shit place, I hate it here!" It was more along the lines of, "We've had incidents here. Regularly." He wasn't shitting on Boston at all, he was just talking about the previous UMass gig that sucked because of the promoter and problems in some venues. To extrapolate that to "trash the whole city" just sounds like someone *wanting* to be offended.

[bathsheba56]

Well, the interviewer asked the question, and I think he answered it in a proper way. I mean, saying that the audience was enthusiastic, and he as an artist, was unable to give his best, certainly would be frustrating. And he certainly was brash in his younger days, and got into a lot of trouble. So what? Look at his long, prolific career. Don't look back.

[droidsURlooking4]

Remember this is 1978. American pop charts were/are pretty bad. The UK charts have always had a good amount of [what is now called] alternative music. US Record labels came up with the label 'Punk Rock' in order to degrade the underground music coming out of New York. It ended up backfiring on them, but the point is they didn't want teenagers listening to Patti Smith. So the US charts were generally pretty nauseating. But back to my earlier point; You don't come over here and trash everything.

[kevhead66]

I thought Journey was from the Bay Area

[droidsURlooking4]

Yeah, I think you are right. I guess I'm just thinking of all their fans.

[007cupcake007]

Love this interview!!!

HOWEVER, the woman doing the interview needs to get out of the way. She's too aggressive, talks too fast, talks too much, and she even has the nerve to interrupt her guests. What a shame. Would have enjoyed this "jewel" far more if it wasn't for jabber-jaws.

[07kje07]

omg, i love both of them!!

[joeyvanguard75]

what a fantastic clip!

i had the pleasure of meeting nick lowe recently, and i must say, what a legend and a true english gentleman.

I love the camera work on this clip, very questionable..

also, when nick says..'I'm sorry, I dont understand the question...'

Brilliant.

[stubbyguy]

Bad Bad interviewer.......I hope she got fired

[barrieev]

Elvis Costello saying: "That's cruel" about a Journey comment. How funny.

[JohnAndRowForever]

@barrieev "How funny" because of the sarcasm, or because actually think there's hypocritcal irony there?

[dkb1965]

this was back when bcn was worth listening to, unlike now when all the djs want to be howard stern

[astrodog23]

WOW what a mind blower! I was one of the people on the other side of the glass, on the BCN "Listener Line" at the time! Elvis was funny and engaging to all of us, really witty, but his manager Jake Rivera smashed up Barry Savenor's (a late Cambridge music fan) camera; Savenor sued Rivera and won. Tracy was awesome. Wow, I wonder who TAPED this?

[amzingrace4stacey]

THANK YOU YOUTUBE what a great clip!! my only regret? I was not on the scene at the time

[russelljdj]

This was taped in the Prudential Building Studio. They would move to the "Urban Allies" Building on Boylston Street around 1980 or so. I Think Tracy Roach is now a lawyer. She was in college studing law at the time she worked at BCN. WBCN The Greatest Rock Station of the Era no Doubt. Fuck KLOS, KMET, WNEW, and the rest of the fucking posers. WBCN Was the model!

[shraggy67]

Amazing clip! Slumberparty guy(above) your comment's idiotic. Lowe's comments about Journey does NOT reek(correct spelling)of jealousy at all. How U can NOT know that this class of artists from that time, despised the successful american top acts, is beyong me. He's not posturing, he's being honest. Get a clue PLEASE.

>This interviewer is so out of her league, it's not funny. She's all over the place, and obviously not able to string a sentence together. Cringe inducing! it's on their faces!

[teutoburgforest]

That was interesting! What Elvis say about Boston during the static?

Was Nick Lowe stoned or ... what?

[SlumberPartyTheater]

Elvis Costello is a poser. Nick Lowe is bad ass, but it's a shame he had to take a pot shots at more successful artists. Underground or not, comments like that wreak of jealousy and spite.

[finylvinyl66]

Elvis Costello might be the greatest rock songwriter of the last 30 years and is anything but a poser.

[brez9091]

i was at this shoe too. a very memorable one!

[germurph51]

I was at that show that night and I will never forget it. EC & the Attractions put on one of the best sets of music I've ever seen.

Costello was magic. The band was stunning.

And they did "Angels Want To Wear My Red Shoes" TWICE!

[HitmanFL]

this has got to be the worst radio interviewer ever!!

[Mrelephantman]

'BCN USED to be great!Remember Duane Ingalls Glasscock D.I.G.

[maryquant1967]

Remember "the big mattress"? The "cosmic muffin"? BCN around 78 was great. Not anymore.

[Mrelephantman]

Sure remember the "big mattress" and the "cosmic muffin" ahh those were the days.

[openmcc]

I heard around this time '77/'78 that, after a gig, Elvis had gone to a party in Southie with the Boston band, The Atlantics. Later, Atlantics' bandmembers looked around & noticed that Elvis and the (Atl.) drummer's girlfriend were missing. A search revealed Elvis vigorously boning her in an adjacent bedroom. The band grabbed the skinny and naked Elvis and threw him out into the freezing February streets of South Boston & locked him out. He spent the night in someone's car wrapped in a blanket.

[openmcc]

The Atlantics' drummer NOT The Attractions' Drummer.

[jonbecker03]

yuh. drummers always seem to have the hottest girlfriends................

[boomac62]

but....why?

[boomac62]

BCN was my station back in the 70's and early 80's....long since moved away however,

[danelectroman70]

good choice. in '95 it went totally corporate and switched to Grunge, forcing Laquidara to spend the last few yrs on radio over at Classic Hits 100.7 All the other long time radio jocks quickly followed. All radio has sucked for the last 25 yrs anyway. Get SIRIUS and have it the way you want it. Commercial Free and unlimited selection of music for any and all tastes bar none!

[boomac62]

Thanks for the update and the sad ,if not unpredictable, direction of wbcn. Well...I am not happy to hear that but at least I know. Many a time i had my coffee with ken after listening to Charles and "Carlos" (the computer?)...Peace

Yeah, radio sucks...nothing wrong with satellite radio at all!

[b0bydigital]

i heard a rumor that bcn used to be a pretty bad ass station

[SufjanStevens420]

A great glimpse into the inner cup of Elvis Costello.

[mannystreet]

Three minutes of ridiculous rambling questions with the answers cut out! Good grief! :P Nice to see Nick and Elvis in their youth though.

[simonbath]

god what a slovenly issue this clip is...

[chezzeeX]

Good to see them being interviewed,badly as well by that woman.Also it was probably filmed by a member of the radio station who brought their video camera in that day especially to film them.Quite an interesting and authentic clip.

[chickiesgrettagirl]

Oh boy nice clip

[danelectroman70]

Good Rip by Nick Lowe on Journey and Jefferson Starship! THESE GUYS were the last of the greats to make new Rock and Roll the way it was always meant to be and simply can't be done by ANY group within the last 25 yrs! Got that,METAL and GRUNGE?

[paul4003]

where did you get this? is there any more!!!!

[tommyrock69]

They don't make stars like these anymore...

[jonbecker03]

nick lowe is the voice of the giecko gecko!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (either nick, or someone who grew up in or around the same locality where lowe spent his youth.)

[openmcc]

no way.

I guarantee that's not even an Englishman doing the gecko's voice, but an American doing a bad accent. It's all over the place.

[jonbecker03]

i guess you'd call it an "estuary" accent. or a "mockney" accent, if the man happens to be american...............

[SFShoim]

Sorry, mate, but that's an American doing a bad Aussie accent....

[anitaw61]

Could have been cool footage, but whoever filmed it was clearly very Elvis-centric. Let's see Nick!

[fawneyedgirl]

Very nice -- too bad footage cuts off in the most interesting parts. Still cool to see such legendary performers speaking so candidly.

[scottwired217]

Elvis is totally hung over

[JHipster]

I love the close-up on the coffee cup to illustrate that point.

[bexappeal]

Awesome!!!!!

[Zooromance]

Who knew EC was a Journey fan?

[glassberg8068]

Man! Fantastic stuff!! Is there more?