Nick Lowe & Elvis Costello at WBCN '78

[@neilchair]

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

[@bikenband]

I learned nothing from this interview other than Elvis Costello takes cream in his coffee.

[@eclecticear]

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

[@bofusnco]

I seen them on this tour on May 18, 1978 in Indianapolis for .99 cents. WOW!

[@popmonika]

Love the fact you have two legendary artists at the prime of their creative powers with two great albums out (Jesus of cool for Nick and this year's model for Costello) and the first thing the interviewer does is to near enough bash Nick Lowe for daring to make music??

[@LowBid86]

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

[@donjohnson9688]

Rockpile

[@friendlier]

I saw this tour in Cleveland. Amazing.

[@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

[@Ronno310]

WBCN was an amazing station that was my go to for years during my years in New England decades ago ! If you live in So Cal or stream , check out KCSN 88.5fm and you will be very happy !

[@ChriTur]

They were great in the late 80's when I lived there

[@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?

[@tombodensick4437]

Killer producer for STIFF records who had an incredible debut with JESUS OF COOL in 1978

[@joesycamore2899]

Saw Elvis three times. The first time Nick Lowe played bass for them

[@downinthemarrow]

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

[@krisscanlon4051]

Love it too however God knows what was in the cup???

[@boomac62]

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

[@JeffreyOakarPhotos]

Damn, it breaks up and goes static when she asks him about what he said about the band Boston in Newsweek. WHAT DID HE SAY!! I would love to know.

[@mikwid]

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

[@joem.8077]

Wish I’d been at that show!

[@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!

[@jeanlass]

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

[@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.

[@auggdogrules]

so young....so young

[@brez9091]

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

[@fillmystocking]

Aww.. sweet young Elvis :>

[@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.

[@jakeg.7562]

Wow! Thanks for reminding me, I totally forgot about that show! I was there too with all of my buddies. We were still teenagers! I remember that The Clash played the night before and the night after. Remember how hot it was? The Cape Cod Coliseum was in total bedlam and chaos the night EC and The Attractions played. And it was unbearably hot because it was in the summer! AND IT WAS GENERAL ADMISSION TO BOOT! We all were together at the start of the show but at the end we were all separated. I made it to the very front of the stage, first row, cause back then I enjoyed pushing people out of the way! Almost 40 YEARS LATER I'm much more mellow now.

[@labprincess]

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

[@BloodySock]

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

[@BloodySock]

@taxingme2much when and where on cape was that?

[@teutoburgforest]

That was interesting! What Elvis say about Boston during the static? Was Nick Lowe stoned or ... what?

[@Lpstd1]

@jeanlass You're welcome, Ms. Lass!

[@droidsURlooking4]

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

[@crapple009]

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

[@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.

[@ed.z.]

Great point droids, the US music scene was dying in 1978 and Elvis Costello saved music for us. He deserves our gratitude. Thank you Elvis, so many fascinating albums. Including the greatest country album.

[@paul4003]

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

[@ed.z.]

Complete English gentleman. Take notice my fellow Americans.

[@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.)

[@vinnietodaro4023]

Nick seems to have a hard time answering simple, if inarticulate, questions.. Oh wait, he's stoned. I like the fact they pissed on Journey and Starship. Elvis' coffee is interesting..... perhaps not just coffee? Nick stepped to the front cause he finally got the chance to do a solo (err... Rockpile) album. He could not step in front of Graham or Elvis!!! No one talks about how talented Brinsley Schwartz was, but they gave rise to Nick and at least two great members of the Rumour.

[@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!

[@tommyrock69]

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

[@coltsrock760]

Well, no, but however, the way of filming was changing around this time.

[@patriciofernandez2711]

Was EC gargling nails at this point?

[@gary2892]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@TheSchilz3]

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

[@finylvinyl66]

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

[@MaddenManification]

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

[@donjohnson9688]

She was fine. Nick was just being a bit salty

[@rrdream2400]

Tracy Roach was a very good DJ at WBCN but that first question went on for a long time didn't it

[@suburbanindie]

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

[@RTRoberto]

no. Nick was correct. Journey really did suck, though Perry did have a good voice.

[@vinnietodaro4023]

Like we could there was no vodka in that coffee!!!

[@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.

[@boomac62]

but....why?

[@maryquant1967]

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

[@Bostonharborwater]

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

[@bettyfelon1]

Maybe he needed the milk for the coffee

[@jonbecker03]

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

[@jonbecker03]

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

[@krisscanlon4051]

Nick seems overly disinterested in USA at this point or he's horribly hungover 😅 it's the music not the people ole Basher lol

[@squid75]

Most uncomfortable interview ever.

[@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].

[@stubbyguy]

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

[@bladerunner750]

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

[@tomthefunky]

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

[@mikefowler2417]

This interviewer is terrible. EC and NL are legends.

[@debs4mysweetbaby]

terrible interviewer!!