Elvis guests with Bonnie Raitt, Los Lobos, Sept. 27 '08

[johnfoyle]

From listserv-

Not yet unconfirmed, but EC is rumoured to be appearing at SEVA's 30th Anniversary event at the Oakland Paramount. It does fall in between the Treasure Island gig and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.

Cheers,
Ken(adian)

http://seva.convio.net/site/PageServer? ... th_concert

>>> Concert Line Up Announced!
David Crosby & Graham Nash, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Los Lobos and special surprise guests will celebrate Seva's 30th Anniversary on Saturday, September 27, at the fabulous Paramount Theatre in Oakland. Get complete details. <<

[johnfoyle]

Similarly -

GAMH SHOWS ON SALE SUNDAY, AUGUST 31 (unless noted):


-Guitar - Bass - Drums featuring Ry Cooder - Nick Lowe - Jim Keltner
(2nd Annual Benefit for the Richard deLone Special Housing Project) -
Thurs. & Fri. Oct. 2 & 3 (on sale now)

http://www.gamh.com/artist_pages/ry_cooder_100208.htm

[woz]

This is great news but I'm a little confused. What does "LA" refer to? I thought Los Angeles, but both of these shows are in the Bay area (Oakland and San Francisco).

Also, does the GAMH show include Elvis? The way I read the link is that Nick Lowe seems to be the headliner.

I had one of the most amazing times of my life at last years GAMH shows (other than my sister-in-law fainting but even that turned out to be fine) that it would be really hard for Elvis to top that show.

Anyway, thanks as always for the info.

[johnfoyle]

Sorry - my ignorance of U.S. geography is my lame excuse. Hopefully the edit. clarifies things.

As regards the GAMH show, if John Hiatt turned up it would be a Little Village show. I must dig out their disc. I saw a Dublin show they did and haven't even the slightest memory of it's content.

[migdd]

It could happen. Hiatt has these dates free on his fall tour schedule. However, he will be in Groningen on the 4th per his website: http://www.johnhiatt.com/

Little Village was the band that played on Hiatt's masterful Bring the Family album, one of my all-time desert island discs. It would be great for that gang to get back together for a one-nighter. We'll see.

[ahawkman]

Speaking of the GAMH benefit, wasn't last year's MAIT show supposed to be released on CD?

[jmm]

This show makes the trip west even more interesting!!!

[Emotional Toothpaste]

I still listen to the Little Village disc quite often. Good stuff. Would love to see them play together.

Does anyone have Ry Cooders newer works? I had my click-finger just a hair-trigger away from clicking on the "buy-now" for "I, Flathead" special edition yesterday.

[Harry Lime]

I still listen to the Little Village disc quite often. Good stuff. Would love to see them play together.

Does anyone have Ry Cooders newer works? I had my click-finger just a hair-trigger away from clicking on the "buy-now" for "I, Flathead" special edition yesterday.

"My Name Is Buddy" is awesome--if you like concept albums about socialist cats, that is. Some of the songs sound like "Boomer's Story" era Cooder, and some more modern. Highly recommended. I haven't heard "I, Flathead" yet but plan on buying it.

[ramalama]

The straight line distance between San Francisco and Groningen Airport Eelde is approximately 5461 miles or 8788 kilometers. That's a tough commute for a one-off (or two-off) show. My guess is they would have announced it as a Little Village show if it were happening, or really kept it a secret by billing it as a Ry Cooder & Guests show.

[johnfoyle]

Austin de Lone's carefully worded answer to a e-mail I sent him -

Hello John,
I'm sorry that i am unable to answer your question re: EC at the the
second annual RDSHP benefit.
I do know, however, that he will be playing at the Hardly Strictly
Bluegrass Festival on Sunday the 5th, and i will be playing with him.
Regards,
Austin de Lone


Make of that what you will!
I'd be getting a ticket , no matter who was playing , if only I was over there...

[CostelLover]

I do know, however, that he will be playing at the Hardly Strictly
Bluegrass Festival on Sunday the 5th

Oooooh, this is exciting news for me! I may have to move mountains to get there, but I sure am going to try.

Now, what's this about a Treasure Island gig? Is there a link, or even a date, for it? Thanks for any info you might have!

[johnfoyle]

Now, what's this about a Treasure Island gig?

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB3 ... f=2&t=7323

[CostelLover]

Now, what's this about a Treasure Island gig?

http://www.elviscostellofans.com/phpBB3 ... f=2&t=7323

Thank you kindly!

Sadly, this looks like a private affair. Ah well, I'll be lucky if I can make the HSB show..... but I sure am going to try.

(Odd, isn't it, how none of these dates are mentioned on his official website? How's a fan to keep up?!?)

[johnfoyle]

Odd, isn't it, how none of these dates are mentioned on his official website? How's a fan to keep up?!?

Belated welcome, CostelLover. Elvis's official site is strictly for people who like 'She'; the rest of us check out here!

[CostelLover]

Belated welcome, CostelLover. Elvis's official site is strictly for people who like 'She'; the rest of us check out here!

Thank you for the welcome, johnfoyle!

I'm relieved to have found this site, especially since accessing the official site's Community has been frustrating beyond words. (it seems very "buggy"... if that's a correct term?) I still have much to learn about Our Man's music, and this looks like a great place to start.


But, ummm..... y'all won't kick me out if I admit to liking "She", will you?? I'm a sucker for romantic songs, and his voice is just so beautiful in it.

[johnfoyle]

So, is anyone here going to these shows?

[johnfoyle]

http://www.marinij.com/lifestyles/ci_10564214

Marin Independent-Journal, CA
09/26/2008

Respected rockers to play benefit in S.F. for Marin nonprofit

Paul Lliberatore

THERE ARE CERTAIN musicians I've admired and respected over the years for their integrity, their longevity and their chops.

Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner fall into that category - important figures in rock history who deserve to be called living legends.

So when they agreed to play together as a trio for the first time, and for a good cause that just happened to originate in Marin, it did not escape my attention.

Billing themselves as "Guitar - Bass - Drums," these distinguished gentlemen are playing two benefit concerts next week for the Richard de Lone Special Housing Project, a nonprofit founded by Mill Valley musician Austin de Lone and his wife, Lesley, to help their young son and others afflicted with Prader-Willi Syndrome, a rare disease that severely affects muscle tone and appetite. Elvis Costello performed in the first benefit for the fledgling organization last year.

Just to briefly offer background on this all-star trio: Revered as a master of slide guitar, the 61-year-old Cooder is No. 8 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."

On a visit to Cuba a decade ago, he discovered the phenomenal Buena Vista Social Club, putting world music on the top of the charts.

Next month, a new double CD, "Buena Vista Social Club at Carnegie Hall," will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the group's sold-out concert in New York City, the one you may remember that was filmed for Wim Wenders' sensational documentary.

Cooder's latest album, "I, Flathead," inspired by the early '60s Southern California hot rod and country music subculture, is the final release in his trilogy of historic CD packages about Los Angeles, all of them sophisticated explorations of American roots music.

Although he lives in Santa Monica, Cooder has strong Marin ties through his wife, whose aunt and uncle are from Mill Valley.

"We've always gone up there and had the greatest time," he told me. "And I've always felt the best audience in the world is in the Bay Area. That's another reason to do this because you know you're among friends, and you don't have to worry about your wardrobe or your lights or anything like that. It's just not an issue. It was always extremely copacetic. We're gonna see our old-time people up there and I know I'm gonna know a lot of them."

Cooder's percussionist son, Joaquin, opens the shows with his 10-piece orchestra, featuring sexy singer Juliette Commagere.

At 66, Keltner is the dean of L.A. session drummers. Something of an unsung hero, he's played on solo records by three of the Beatles - John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - as well as just about every other big name in rock.

The drums on Eric Clapton's "Lay Down Sally"? - that would be Keltner. John Lennon's "Jealous Guy"? - Keltner. "Josie" by Steely Dan? Keltner again.

He and Cooder go way back, meeting in a recording studio in 1971.

"I've played with Ry pretty much ever since," he told me, mentioning that he's on every Cooder album but one over the past 40 years. "Ry's become like my brother, my knowledgeable brother. They don't call him a musicologist for nothing, although he hates the term. He's been like a teacher to me. I've learned so much from him."

At 59, Lowe is the snowy-haired youngster of the group. An originator of British pub rock and new wave, he wrote the 1980 hit "Cruel to Be Kind" and the Costello classic "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and Understanding."

The title of his latest CD, "At My Age," seems to explain the quote he gave recently to the New York Daily News, saying his greatest fear was "sticking with what you did when you were famous," not wanting "to become one of those thinning-haired, jowly old geezers who still does the same shtick they did when they were young."

The three of them played together in 1987 as a quartet on John Hiatt's album, "Bring the Family," a big critical success if nothing else. They reunited with Hiatt five years later as the short-lived Little Village, releasing one eponymous CD.

But Cooder grew to hate touring and performing, finding it, in his words, "an impossible task." Consequently, he spent the last couple of decades at home raising his son, producing albums and scoring music for movies.

So these concerts are especially meaningful to him. They mark his return to live performing.

"The Little Village thing notwithstanding, I haven't been on stage in a show of my own since the '80s," he informed me. "I used to hate and fear these things because I thought everything would go wrong, and it often did. Because I haven't done this in so damned long, I'm curious to see if I can handle it, and I think I can. I'm actually expecting it to be good. I'm thinking it's going to be most enjoyable."

IF YOU ROCK

- What: "Guitar - Bass - Drums," benefit for the Richard de Lone Special Housing Project for those with Prader-Willi Syndrome

- Who: Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, Jim Keltner

- Where: The Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell St., San Francisco

- When: 8 p.m. Oct. 2, 9 p.m. Oct 3

- Tickets: $100, $124 including dinner

- Information: www.tickets.com, www.gamhtickets.com

Paul Liberatore can be reached at liberatore@marinij.com

[Dr. Luther]

Last time that I looked, they had named an opening act (whom I didn't recognize) for the GAMH show.
Unfortunate -- as I thought that there was a pretty reasonable chance of EC opening.

[johnfoyle]

http://gyre.livejournal.com/823836.html

Gyre wrote,
@ 2008-09-28 02:36:00

Seva Foundation's 30th Anniversary

Hosted by Wavy Gravy
Ruthie Foster & Nina Gerber
Bonnie Raitt
Jackson Browne
Elvis Costello
David Crosby & Graham Nash
Los Lobos

Free tickets. Poster with Wavy G and Bonnie Raitt autographs. 2nd row orchestra seats. Awesome show.

Best part was Bonnie Raitt with Roy Rogers playing slide guitar. They all played as guests on each others' sets a lot too, which was great.

Some other great guest musicians that I recognized but cannot remember their names right now.

[johnfoyle]

From a Los Lobos forum -

http://www.jabfela.net/NBH/index.php?PH ... pic=5437.0


Will The Wolf Survive?
The Valley
Uncomplicated*
A Matter Of Time*
Peace
The Neighborhood
Bottle Up And Go**
Baby What You Want Me To Do?***

Not Fade Away >
Bertha****


* w/ Elvis Costello on vocals & guitar, Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar
** w/ Jack Cassady on bass, Jorma Kaukonen on guitar, Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar, ? on guitar
*** w/ Jack Cassady on bass, Jorma Kaukonen on guitar, Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar
**** w/ Jackson Browne on guitar

Bonnie brought Ruthie out to lend her splendid voice to one song. On another, Gnawin' On It, Bonnie brought out Roy Rogers on slide guitar and Steve Berlin on baritone sax. In introducing one song, remarking there'd be a lot of guests that night, she would be the queen bee of surprise artists and brought out Elvis Costello to join her on Love Has No Pride.

All the sets were really good. After the first break, following Bonnie Raitt's set, Elvis Costello came out and did three acoustic songs, ending with What's So Funny about Peace Love and Understanding. Jackson Browne had a good band. I especially liked his guitarist, Mark Goldenberg. Crosby and Nash were in fine voice. I enjoyed hearing Deja Vu and Guinivere. There was humorous patter between songs with Nash at one point commenting, "Forty years of this shit!"

There was a longer break to set up for Los Lobos and to get people to bid on silent auction items in the lobby. Off to one side of the stage, Terry Hagerty, guitarist for the Sons of Champlin, played solo electric guitar.

Cesar wasn't there last night, (too much birthday celebration the night before?) but I thought they sounded good. The set started about 11:45 and the energy level of the audience was not good. Dave was trying to raise it up, getting people to clap along. They brought out Elvis and Bonnie for a song or two. I was delighted to see Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Cassidy join in for a couple of numbers, and surprised that I recognized them from our balcony seats. Jackson Browne joined the guys for the closing number Not Fade Away/Bertha.

[johnfoyle]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 137MPL.DTL

Seva's 30th celebrated by lineup full of stars

Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Critic

Sunday, September 28, 2008


Clown/activist Wavy Gravy will be long remembered for "What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000," but his enduring contribution takes place around the world from Woodstock, where he saves eyeballs in the Third World.

In a procession of different T-shirts, with the ever-present fish purse he carries on a stick, Gravy presided over a 30th anniversary of Seva - the remarkable organization he dreamed up with visionary doctor, Larry Brilliant, current chief of the philanthropic arm of Google - in which he hosted an extraordinary array of leading rock musicians who gladly joined each other's sets and sang the praises of Gravy and his good works for nearly five hours Saturday at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland.

Bonnie Raitt set the tone early in the evening. After opening with an acoustic version of James Taylor's "Rainy Day Man," she asked the surprise opening act back onstage, gospel belter Ruthie Foster, whom Gravy invited to join the show after seeing her earlier that day at the San Francisco Blues Festival. Slide guitar ace Roy Rogers and saxophonist Steve Berlin joined in for a blues guitar duel on "Gnawin' on It," and Jackson Browne came out to sing "Thing Called Love" with her.

She brought the house down when she introduced yet another surprise, Elvis Costello, who dug hard into the Raitt staple, "Love Has No Pride," as two white-haired gentlemen silently entered from the wings and joined harmony vocals on the chorus: David Crosby and Graham Nash.

"This is a power-packed lineup tonight," Raitt crowed, "and there's going to be a lot of people guesting on each other's sets, but I'm going to be the queen bee of that department."

Before it was over, and Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady of Hot Tuna had jumped onstage in the concert's final moments with Los Lobos - which had already hosted Browne, Costello and Raitt on its set - the event had become a kind of musical mix and match from this tidy repertory company, pausing only for encomiums to Gravy, Seva and the work they do fighting blindness amid the dire poverty of Asia.

Costello was nothing short of amazing. He opened the concert's second half alone on acoustic guitar with a startling new song, "Down Among the Wine and Spirits," followed by a ribald T Bone Burnett collaboration, also unheard of, "From Sulphur to Sugar Cane," and took his brief solo turn to a rousing finish with "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding." He also with Los Lobos - Raitt decorating the sound with bottleneck. His earlier duet with Raitt - Crosby and Nash filling out the choruses - was worth the entire evening's price of admission alone.

Browne followed Raitt with a dense, largely leaden set drawn mainly from his new album, "Time the Conqueror," greatly enhanced by roof-raising vocalists Chavonne Morris and Alethea Mills, who brought so much needed vitality and joy to his performance.

Crosby and Nash, looking as comfortable as a well-worn pair of shoes and singing impossibly like a couple of choir boys, brought out songwriter Joel Rafael. The duo has been performing Rafael's song "This Is My Country" on their recent Crosby, Stills and Nash tour. Rafael, a Woody Guthrie admirer from San Diego County, convinced the duo to sing harmonies on his recording of the song, a pointed political protest song in the plain-speaking tradition of Guthrie with a ringing chorus that struck pay dirt with the Paramount crowd. Crosby, Nash and Rafael left the stage to a standing ovation.

It is, as was pointed out frequently during the course of the evening, an amazing thing. A bunch of people came together to sing songs and listen to music in one room on one side of the world, and hundreds of successful surgeries restore sight to people take place on the other. Starting with a Christmastime concert at the Oakland Auditorium by the Grateful Dead in 1979 that raised $100,000, Seva has been funded by a parade of rock stars inveigled, coaxed, cajoled and pestered into it by the relentless Gravy, a man whose compassion knows no bounds and who sees the human comedy for what it is.

He is someone still delightfully stuck in the '60s, puffs of wooly, gray hair sticking out from under his white derby, dressed head to toe in tie-dye, his twinkling eyes a little red-rimmed, believing for all he's worth that he can change the world. And doing it.

Actor Peter Coyote, acting as host to the concert's second half, drove the point home. "You gotta admit," he said, "the hippies were right."

E-mail Joel Selvin at jselvin@sfchronicle.com.

[martinfoyle]

Torrents

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... ?id=216393

Elvis Costello
September 27, 2008
30th Anniversary Seva Foundation Benefit
Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA
Recorded By: RasBobre
SP=CMC-18 > Edirol 09 > Audacity > FLAC Frontend V1.7.1

Please visit Seva Foundation's website at http://www.seva.org to learn more about this great organization.

01 - Intro
02 - Among The Wine & Spirits
03 - Sulphur to Sugar Cane
04 - What's So Funny About Peace, Love & Understanding

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... ?id=216380

Los Lobos w/Special Guests
September 27, 2008
30th Anniversary Seva Foundation Benefit
Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA
Recorded By: RasBobre
SP=CMC-18 > Edirol 09 > Audacity > FLAC Frontend V1.7.1

Please visit Seva Foundation's website at http://www.seva.org to learn more about this great organization.

Will The Wolf Survive?
The Valley
Uncomplicated*
A Matter Of Time*
Peace
The Neighborhood
Bottle Up And Go**
Baby What You Want Me To Do?***

Not Fade Away >
Bertha****


* w/ Elvis Costello on vocals & guitar, Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar
** w/ Jack Cassady on bass, Jorma Kaukonen on guitar, Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar, ? on guitar
*** w/ Jack Cassady on bass, Jorma Kaukonen on guitar, Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar
**** w/ Jackson Browne on guitar

Comment in both torrents

The entire show was multi-camera videotaped for Seva's archives. We can only hope that it eventually becomes a commercially available DVD set (with proceeds to the eminently charitable Seva organization). Please visit their site at http://www.seva.org and contribute - they are literally giving sight to the blind - each operation - including transportion for the recipient - only costs $30!

The lineup was:

Ruthie Foster with Nina Gerber

Bonnie Raitt (and band) with one song joined by Ruthie Foster, one joined by Roy Rogers, one song joined by Jackson Browne, one song joined by Elvis Costello, and one joined by Elvis and Crosby and Nash.

Elvis Costello

Jackson Browne Band

Crosby and Nash

(tweener solo guitar by) Terry Haggerty

Los Lobos (with guests, as detailed in this torrent)

Meanwhile, until and if the video gets released, I sure hope that good audience tapes are shared, cause it was a great show!

Best wishes,
Easy Ed
(PS I was part of the video crew - my job was mixing the audio for the videotaping. What a delight and education it was working with Bonnie's soundman, Jackson's soundman - who just finished recording Jackson's new cd, and Elvis' soundman).

[johnfoyle]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/ar ... type=music


Elvis Costello performs at the Seva Foundation's 30th Anniversary concert.

[sweetest punch]

Elvis and Bonnie in "Love Has No Pride": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs06w74CSWk