I think I may have said Paris 1999 at one point in this video. I must have been thinking about Prince! But, that would be an interesting mashup: Paris 1919 with 1999 🙂
I often walk around the house sing-saying, "My name is Arthur and I quit!" I always thought it was interesting that Flipper kinda lifted the "Chickensh*t" riff for "Sex Bomb" a few years later. Melodic or not, it's a great jam.
Hey Brian. Fun video. It always amazes me that most people don't know about the chicken incident, but everyone knows about Ozzy biting a bat, both are equally gross. 😂Look forward to the next Cale video. Cheers
As soon as you started reading, I knew where this was going. I've never read Cale's autobiography, but I'll get into my stack eventually. As you know, his background made him fairly immune to animal slaughter. Admittedly, I am sure I would have been shocked at that concert. Certainly a showstopper! I think I would like that EP, though, and I'm definitely interested in the Island Years.
Your measured tone with just the right amount of gravitas, along with the piano score, makes me think you have a future in audio book recordings, Brian! That Island Years comp makes it easier to snag some Cale for us Cale beginners. Onto Sabatoge 😎🎶
I was wondering if I should bring up the chicken incident from my last video where I featured a John Cale album. I decided not to, and I'm glad I did. Your thoughtful interpretation of that great text will have a lasting impact on the community. 🙃 How fitting that I played Guts last night.
Thanks for the kind words, Mark. My lasting impact on the community might be John Cale exhaustion! It's so cool that you played Guts last night. What a cool coincidence 🙂👍
It was almost like a reading of fractured fairy tales although it was indeed true. I will have to try and listen to something from the Island years. Looking forward to Part 11.
A fractured fairy tale is a great way to put it. He has led a very intriguing life, but I would not want to go through some of the things he has gone through, like drug addiction 🙂 Part 11 should be out before the end of 2025! 🤭
Hi Brian! This film series has more sequels than Friday The 13th! appropriate with Halloween in a couple of weeks. Sounds like shares your love for a roast chicken.,😂 “Maybe…unbelievably part 10 of my seemingly never ending John Cale series. Don’t worry, it’ll end someday”…John Cale must’ve been fun at parties. “He was also projecting a very menacing stage presence”
Mike - I guess I am challenging myself to see this through. I am not sure how many episodes there will be, but it will be an interesting experiment and then it will end. Everyone loves a roast chicken, I think 🍗 I feel that Cale would be a better party guest now than he would have been in the mid-1970s! He's 82, so what damage could he possibly do?
Brian, still really enjoying this series. All three (3) albums seem to have been released in 1977. So, I do have one digital bootleg from April, 1977 at the Roundhouse in London. 01 Helen of Troy 02 Paris 1919 03 Darling I Need You 04 Guts 05 Evidence 06 Antarctica Starts Here 07 Fear Is A Man's Best Friend - Band Introduction 08 Dirtyass Rock 'n' Roll 09 Don't Know Why She Came 10 Leaving It Up To You 11 Gu // n > [tape flip in the middle of the song, I think] 12 Pablo Picasso 13 Heartbreak Hotel 14 Cable Hogue 15 Baby What You Want Me To Do - audience recording Thanks, Chris
Hi Chris - That is a fantastic set list! Don't Know Why She Came I think was only ever released on the live LP Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, which suffers from uneven sound quality 🙂
"Don't worry, it.will.end.one.day." 😅 Enjoyed that book extract. One gig I'm pleased I missed. The bass player on that EP was in Richie Blackmore's Rainbow when I saw them live in '76. I've been listening to, and enjoying 'Helen of Troy' since I found it, and have bought that Island Years CD comp after your Part Nine. Or was it Part Eight?!
I really don't think that I have never heard anything from Rainbow! I could be wrong, but nothing comes to mind. Of course, I know who Richie Blackmore is. I just read part of the Wikipedia entry and it says: "...their commercial breakthrough [was] the single "Since You Been Gone" from their fourth studio album Down to Earth." I streamed that and it is totally new. Strange. I clearly know less than I thought I did 🙂
@@EmbryonicRobot Vastly different from Cale's output! Hard rock, with proggy keyboards. 'Since You Been Gone' came after they'd peaked creatively. 'Stargazer', 'Tarot Woman', 'Man on the Silver Mountain' are classics. Can't imagine they're up your street though.
As a veg head, I cannot endorse this very violent chicken story. Even after that story I've still pre-ordered the deluxe Paris 1919 & The Academy In Peril. Drugs will make people do all sorts of stupid shit. This also fits in with your latest EP thread perfectly. I don't have Guts, but I have Sabotage. I also have that Island Years CD. I had that before the individual albums. It was weird for me to hear them outside of the comp for a while which in my mind was one great big epic session of Cale madness.
I assumed that you would not approve of the insane chicken incident. Even I, as a meat eater, find it to be a little too much. This is why I avoid drugs. Well, that and the expense. I'm hoping that a local retailer will have the Cale reissues. Getting them from his label is way too expensive. The Island Years is probably the best way to be introduced to those three records. It's an epic collection!
@@EmbryonicRobot I've ordered them off a local record store, so I'm sure you won't have to get them direct from the chicken killer. Do you have he's newest album? Thoughts? I gotta say I'm intrigued. I think Acetate is the newest album of his that I've got and really like and even that's old now.
@@benrankins4446 His last two are quite different, IMHO, but I like them. They are less rock, if that means anything. There are lots of collabs on Mercy. After Black Acetate he released a live album plus Shifty Adventures in Nooky Wood, which is OK, but it's not a fav. There are some good tracks on there, plus some auto-tuning! He also re-worked Music for a New Society, which is pretty good.
@@EmbryonicRobot Actually I think I may have that live album after Acetate on CD. It came with a dvd of the show. Now the question is where is it? Also why with that amazing sonorous baritone why would you auto tune it?
I thought I had mistakenly tuned in PBS as your delivery was so "Masterpiece Theater"-like. Do they have Emmy's for best YT performances? They should after that performance. Chicken heads and Ozzy Osbourne impressions aside, I have that Animal Justice album, but it's on CD. It makes a bit more sense after hearing that story. I agree that "Heda Gabbler" is the better track (did I spell that right?). I also have that "Guts" compilation. I could actually follow along on this episode lol. Just kidding, I could always follow along on these Cale videos which has a lot to say considering some of Cale's interesting hijinks.
Ha ha. Maybe I should have joined the drama club in high school. It's too late now. I believe Maria Wesley used to do her own irreverent VC awards. They were very amusing. My vote would always go to Stevie at Stevie's Vinyl Cupboard. Now, I have to check the spelling. It's Hedda Gabler, so you were very close.
I think I may have said Paris 1999 at one point in this video. I must have been thinking about Prince! But, that would be an interesting mashup: Paris 1919 with 1999 🙂
I’m all in for this mashup!! 😂
@@EightVinylLow Sounds like it would be pretty incredible 🙂
I often walk around the house sing-saying, "My name is Arthur and I quit!" I always thought it was interesting that Flipper kinda lifted the "Chickensh*t" riff for "Sex Bomb" a few years later. Melodic or not, it's a great jam.
Interesting trivia about Sex Bomb. I am certain that I have never heard that Flipper track before. Thanks for that! 👍
Nice exploration. John Cale one of those artists that I try and buy everything I see. It’s about the journey as much as about the destination.
Yes, it is a journey! I also buy whatever I see from Cale, but there isn't much left that I don't have, which is a good thing 🙂
Hey Brian. Fun video. It always amazes me that most people don't know about the chicken incident, but everyone knows about Ozzy biting a bat, both are equally gross. 😂Look forward to the next Cale video. Cheers
As soon as you started reading, I knew where this was going. I've never read Cale's autobiography, but I'll get into my stack eventually. As you know, his background made him fairly immune to animal slaughter. Admittedly, I am sure I would have been shocked at that concert. Certainly a showstopper! I think I would like that EP, though, and I'm definitely interested in the Island Years.
Your measured tone with just the right amount of gravitas, along with the piano score, makes me think you have a future in audio book recordings, Brian! That Island Years comp makes it easier to snag some Cale for us Cale beginners. Onto Sabatoge 😎🎶
Hi Ed, I'll keep that possible second career path in mind!
I have that Cale book...it's a bumpy ride! The Animal Justice EP I have still to find and hear.
I keep thinking that I should reread the Cale book. I read it when it came out, which is almost 25 years ago! I have probably forgotten most of it 😔
I re-read it a couple of years ago. I found the constant self-analysis a big wearing.
Great review Brian....I played Hedda Gabbler many,many times....the other tracks one play was enough as far as I was concerned !!
I do see what you mean. Hedda Gabler stands above the others 👍
I was wondering if I should bring up the chicken incident from my last video where I featured a John Cale album. I decided not to, and I'm glad I did. Your thoughtful interpretation of that great text will have a lasting impact on the community. 🙃 How fitting that I played Guts last night.
Thanks for the kind words, Mark. My lasting impact on the community might be John Cale exhaustion! It's so cool that you played Guts last night. What a cool coincidence 🙂👍
@@EmbryonicRobot I was looking for Halloween covers, and that obviously stood out.
It was almost like a reading of fractured fairy tales although it was indeed true. I will have to try and listen to something from the Island years. Looking forward to Part 11.
A fractured fairy tale is a great way to put it. He has led a very intriguing life, but I would not want to go through some of the things he has gone through, like drug addiction 🙂 Part 11 should be out before the end of 2025! 🤭
Hi Brian! This film series has more sequels than Friday The 13th! appropriate with Halloween in a couple of weeks. Sounds like shares your love for a roast chicken.,😂 “Maybe…unbelievably part 10 of my seemingly never ending John Cale series. Don’t worry, it’ll end someday”…John Cale must’ve been fun at parties. “He was also projecting a very menacing stage presence”
Mike - I guess I am challenging myself to see this through. I am not sure how many episodes there will be, but it will be an interesting experiment and then it will end. Everyone loves a roast chicken, I think 🍗 I feel that Cale would be a better party guest now than he would have been in the mid-1970s! He's 82, so what damage could he possibly do?
Brian, still really enjoying this series. All three (3) albums seem to have been released in 1977. So, I do have one digital bootleg from April, 1977 at the Roundhouse in London.
01 Helen of Troy
02 Paris 1919
03 Darling I Need You
04 Guts
05 Evidence
06 Antarctica Starts Here
07 Fear Is A Man's Best Friend - Band Introduction
08 Dirtyass Rock 'n' Roll
09 Don't Know Why She Came
10 Leaving It Up To You
11 Gu // n > [tape flip in the middle of the song, I think]
12 Pablo Picasso
13 Heartbreak Hotel
14 Cable Hogue
15 Baby What You Want Me To Do - audience recording
Thanks, Chris
Hi Chris - That is a fantastic set list! Don't Know Why She Came I think was only ever released on the live LP Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, which suffers from uneven sound quality 🙂
Thanks for mentioning the Cowgirls album. I found that I had not entered my Danceteria CD into Discogs!
You're welcome 😊🙂
"Don't worry, it.will.end.one.day." 😅
Enjoyed that book extract. One gig I'm pleased I missed. The bass player on that EP was in Richie Blackmore's Rainbow when I saw them live in '76. I've been listening to, and enjoying 'Helen of Troy' since I found it, and have bought that Island Years CD comp after your Part Nine. Or was it Part Eight?!
I really don't think that I have never heard anything from Rainbow! I could be wrong, but nothing comes to mind. Of course, I know who Richie Blackmore is. I just read part of the Wikipedia entry and it says: "...their commercial breakthrough [was] the single "Since You Been Gone" from their fourth studio album Down to Earth." I streamed that and it is totally new. Strange. I clearly know less than I thought I did 🙂
@@EmbryonicRobot Vastly different from Cale's output! Hard rock, with proggy keyboards. 'Since You Been Gone' came after they'd peaked creatively. 'Stargazer', 'Tarot Woman', 'Man on the Silver Mountain' are classics. Can't imagine they're up your street though.
As a veg head, I cannot endorse this very violent chicken story. Even after that story I've still pre-ordered the deluxe Paris 1919 & The Academy In Peril. Drugs will make people do all sorts of stupid shit. This also fits in with your latest EP thread perfectly. I don't have Guts, but I have Sabotage. I also have that Island Years CD. I had that before the individual albums. It was weird for me to hear them outside of the comp for a while which in my mind was one great big epic session of Cale madness.
I assumed that you would not approve of the insane chicken incident. Even I, as a meat eater, find it to be a little too much. This is why I avoid drugs. Well, that and the expense. I'm hoping that a local retailer will have the Cale reissues. Getting them from his label is way too expensive. The Island Years is probably the best way to be introduced to those three records. It's an epic collection!
@@EmbryonicRobot I've ordered them off a local record store, so I'm sure you won't have to get them direct from the chicken killer. Do you have he's newest album? Thoughts? I gotta say I'm intrigued. I think Acetate is the newest album of his that I've got and really like and even that's old now.
@@benrankins4446 His last two are quite different, IMHO, but I like them. They are less rock, if that means anything. There are lots of collabs on Mercy. After Black Acetate he released a live album plus Shifty Adventures in Nooky Wood, which is OK, but it's not a fav. There are some good tracks on there, plus some auto-tuning! He also re-worked Music for a New Society, which is pretty good.
@@EmbryonicRobot Actually I think I may have that live album after Acetate on CD. It came with a dvd of the show. Now the question is where is it? Also why with that amazing sonorous baritone why would you auto tune it?
@@benrankins4446 I had the same question!
I thought I had mistakenly tuned in PBS as your delivery was so "Masterpiece Theater"-like. Do they have Emmy's for best YT performances? They should after that performance. Chicken heads and Ozzy Osbourne impressions aside, I have that Animal Justice album, but it's on CD. It makes a bit more sense after hearing that story. I agree that "Heda Gabbler" is the better track (did I spell that right?). I also have that "Guts" compilation. I could actually follow along on this episode lol. Just kidding, I could always follow along on these Cale videos which has a lot to say considering some of Cale's interesting hijinks.
Ha ha. Maybe I should have joined the drama club in high school. It's too late now. I believe Maria Wesley used to do her own irreverent VC awards. They were very amusing. My vote would always go to Stevie at Stevie's Vinyl Cupboard. Now, I have to check the spelling. It's Hedda Gabler, so you were very close.
@@EmbryonicRobot Rats! I meant to go back and check the spelling on that before I sent it.