JOHN CALE ROCKAPLAST 1983 TIMESTAMPS / SETLIST 0:30 Ghost Story 3:05 Old Cracked Wooden Glass [Woody Guthrie] 4:15 Ship of Fools 7:10 Leaving it Up to You 11:00 Amsterdam 14:00 Child’s Christmas in Wales 18:00 Buffalo Ballet 20:50 Antartica Starts Here 23:25 Taking it All Away 26:10 Riverbank 29:45 Paris 1919 33:45 Guts 36:45 Chinese Envoy 40:30 Thoughtless Kind 43:00 Only Time Will Tell 45:45 Cable Hogue 49:25 Dead or Alive 52:40 Waiting For the Man [Velvet Underground] 57:30 Heartbreak Hotel [Elvis Presley] 1:03:30 Chorale 1:06:30 Fear is a Man’s Best Friend 1:11:15 Close Watch 1:15:10 Streets of Laredo
Traveled from Alaska to see Cale in 1984 at a small Bill Graham club in San Francisco. Got there in the afternoon, standing outside the entrance... looking at the poster bill for Cale. A beat up Plymouth Horizon pulls up... passenger gets out (you can probably guess where this is going), stands RIGHT next to me looking at the poster. As I turned to tell this jack-ass to back off, I see Cale whirling around in his dark trenchcoat, guitar case in hand... heading off into the club. I hung around outside... about 20 minutes later, Cale is on the stage doing a sound check. I tore off a small poster hanging in the alcove of the club, found a pen in my pocket and walked up to the stage.... sheepishly held out my pen and stolen poster (using the back) and meekly asked for an autograph. John mumbled "what's your name?"... told him and I got my personal note. Many, many years later on MySpace (remember THAT?), I exchanged notes with John, gave him the whole story which he seemed to sincerely enjoy. 1983-84 is when he was early in his sobriety, but still very dour. This Rockpalast show features an almost identical setlist that I saw in 1984, and both were him solo. This was the first time I saw a show by an established star.. solo, and in club setting. No stadium, light show, huge crowd, massive sound system.... intimate, yet more powerful than anything I had ever seen. Thank you for this upload... I would upload the show I saw, but all I could capture with my not-so-portable cassette recorder was a few minutes of Ship Of Fools during the soundcheck. This performance vividly brings it all back.
I've seen him twice. I have a little story about the first time......in Brighton. Half way through the gig a guitar string broke and John looked across at his musician in increasing exasperation as the whole concert had just stopped and there was total silence. Suddenly a man at the back shouted, "John Cale you are a genius". John stood for a moment, looked at his keyboard and said, "Now calm down".
Mr John Davies Cale Godfather OG 35% THC delta 9 and I do believe the journey did her well He's the best musician ever but, you have to be one with the galaxy to understand that I'd like to have a radio station that played nothing but Cale The best of John Cale would be a 12 album set with a bootleg thrown in What's strange is that unenlightened androids always find fault with him He sends such a positive message and has so much fun doing it Long Live John Cale !
Thank you for uploading this, I just found it from your comments you left on my Songs From Drella, great music, needs to be shared so much more. Nice to see how he gives credit to where he got the ideas from. I have to say that never heard anyone turn "Heartbreak Hotel" into something as demonic and dark as this....only John Cale, who gave us "The Gift" and "Sister Ray" true brilliance, thank you!
I mean, only when JC is playing Reed's version(as written) Cale's version.. hysterical and totally relatable; not to mention years of University made quite apparent..
Glad you enjoyed it! In case you're interested, I have a John Cale full concert playlist, with 93 gigs in chronological order. Some of them are absolutely insane, especially from the mid 70's until mid 80's, and each one different, as is common with the Welsh Wizard. Here's the link, hope there's something for you: ruclips.net/p/PLNINWcxxj9hFYurceT-GkVl2VKrjYIibi
@@aloneandi I suppose it's Music For A New Society, a deconstructed and fragmented, yet brilliantly arranged masterpiece. Not for everybody's liking, due to it's dark and claustrophobic, some may say depressive character. But underneath the surface (although, there seems to be no surface here, it's the subconscious that sets the tone) lies a melancholic and fragile beauty. If you like Nico's trilogy The Marble Index, Desert Shore and The End, in which of each Cale was heavily involved in as arranger and producer, you will relish this one. It's like the twin brother to Nico's and Cale's collaborative output. But I also enjoy his 2016 rearranged and reworked version M:FANS. Actually I like all of his albums, the 70's and 80's era you probably know. Hobo Sapiens and Black Acetat from the early millennium are very rewarding listenings too. But for me it's not only his studio output that is so remarkable in terms of musical versatility and creativity, but maybe even more so his live output. It is said and known that he never performs his songs the same live, always creating something new, by either reconstructing and rearranging the sound, the instrumentation or genre of the songs. Asked in an interview why he always reworked his songs and didn't stick to a certain version, he replied it would simply bore him having to play the same stuff over and over again while on tour. I've seen him about twenty times live since the early 80's, and I can assure you non was the same, almost as if you had different artists playing each time. Taking his massive influence as a musician and producer in the shaping of the early alternative sound into account, I can only say: pure genius!
I hand painted his face on a bright yellow t-shirt with black fabric paint but, I left out the nose cause I wasn't sure I could get it right So I go to the Whiskey a go go to see him live and wait for him at the back door So he shows up and saw my shirt and wants to sign it no-one has a pen so we see the show and after someone gave me a magic marker and I approached his limousine and he gladly signs it with the word nose and an arrow pointing at where it should be
He must have been desperate to stay relevent at this point in his career. Bowie had the mainstream success with Let’s Dance in 1983 and Iggy was going to release his breakthrough album Blah Blah Blah next year. Lou is already a big name as the godfather of punk. No wonder he was intoxicated and not in good shape throughout 80s. Cale probably would haven’t imagined he manage to outlive most of them and still play live releasing a series of interesting work.
JOHN CALE ROCKAPLAST 1983
TIMESTAMPS / SETLIST
0:30 Ghost Story
3:05 Old Cracked Wooden Glass [Woody Guthrie]
4:15 Ship of Fools
7:10 Leaving it Up to You
11:00 Amsterdam
14:00 Child’s Christmas in Wales
18:00 Buffalo Ballet
20:50 Antartica Starts Here
23:25 Taking it All Away
26:10 Riverbank
29:45 Paris 1919
33:45 Guts
36:45 Chinese Envoy
40:30 Thoughtless Kind
43:00 Only Time Will Tell
45:45 Cable Hogue
49:25 Dead or Alive
52:40 Waiting For the Man [Velvet Underground]
57:30 Heartbreak Hotel [Elvis Presley]
1:03:30 Chorale
1:06:30 Fear is a Man’s Best Friend
1:11:15 Close Watch
1:15:10 Streets of Laredo
Great to see this! Cale, constitutionally incapable of giving a lazy or boring performance, was truly at the top of his game for this one.
War anwesend. Und die Eintrittskarte noch in meiner Sammlung.
Die Stimme,die Wut, der Musiker....klasse
Traveled from Alaska to see Cale in 1984 at a small Bill Graham club in San Francisco. Got there in the afternoon, standing outside the entrance... looking at the poster bill for Cale. A beat up Plymouth Horizon pulls up... passenger gets out (you can probably guess where this is going), stands RIGHT next to me looking at the poster. As I turned to tell this jack-ass to back off, I see Cale whirling around in his dark trenchcoat, guitar case in hand... heading off into the club. I hung around outside... about 20 minutes later, Cale is on the stage doing a sound check. I tore off a small poster hanging in the alcove of the club, found a pen in my pocket and walked up to the stage.... sheepishly held out my pen and stolen poster (using the back) and meekly asked for an autograph. John mumbled "what's your name?"... told him and I got my personal note. Many, many years later on MySpace (remember THAT?), I exchanged notes with John, gave him the whole story which he seemed to sincerely enjoy.
1983-84 is when he was early in his sobriety, but still very dour. This Rockpalast show features an almost identical setlist that I saw in 1984, and both were him solo.
This was the first time I saw a show by an established star.. solo, and in club setting. No stadium, light show, huge crowd, massive sound system.... intimate, yet more powerful than anything I had ever seen.
Thank you for this upload... I would upload the show I saw, but all I could capture with my not-so-portable cassette recorder was a few minutes of Ship Of Fools during the soundcheck. This performance vividly brings it all back.
I've seen him twice. I have a little story about the first time......in Brighton. Half way through the gig a guitar string broke and John looked across at his musician in increasing exasperation as the whole concert had just stopped and there was total silence. Suddenly a man at the back shouted, "John Cale you are a genius". John stood for a moment, looked at his keyboard and said, "Now calm down".
Which club in SF?
that is totally still worth uploading
John Cale is the best musician ever
I've been listening to him for over 44 years
He made over 60 albums and I've only heard about a dozen
Mr John Davies Cale Godfather OG 35% THC delta 9 and I do believe the journey did her well
He's the best musician ever but, you have to be one with the galaxy to understand that
I'd like to have a radio station that played nothing but Cale
The best of John Cale would be a 12 album set with a bootleg thrown in
What's strange is that unenlightened androids always find fault with him
He sends such a positive message and has so much fun doing it
Long Live John Cale !
soon i'm uploading Cale's 1981 Indianapolis show from Honi Soit tour
ruclips.net/video/cP7BVoFxmqc/видео.html
Black fabric paint from the album Fear
terrifying and so talented
Did he sing that lady godiva song or was that someone else
@leahflower9924 Yes that was John Cale singing Lady Godiva
Thank you for uploading this, I just found it from your comments you left on my Songs From Drella, great music, needs to be shared so much more. Nice to see how he gives credit to where he got the ideas from. I have to say that never heard anyone turn "Heartbreak Hotel" into something as demonic and dark as this....only John Cale, who gave us "The Gift" and "Sister Ray" true brilliance, thank you!
John Cale Godfather OG 35%THC delta 9 and I do believe the journey did her well
Thanks for uploading it. 🙏🙏🙏
waiting for the man is fuckin scary
john is scary
lol i literally cried first time i saw that
I mean, only when JC is playing Reed's version(as written) Cale's version.. hysterical and totally relatable; not to mention years of University made quite apparent..
Thanks for this...what an incredible performance!
Glad you enjoyed it! In case you're interested, I have a John Cale full concert playlist, with 93 gigs in chronological order. Some of them are absolutely insane, especially from the mid 70's until mid 80's, and each one different, as is common with the Welsh Wizard. Here's the link, hope there's something for you: ruclips.net/p/PLNINWcxxj9hFYurceT-GkVl2VKrjYIibi
@@ForARide Ahh nice! Was just looking for a live video performance that supported his Fear album. What are some of your fav albums of his?
@@aloneandi I suppose it's Music For A New Society, a deconstructed and fragmented, yet brilliantly arranged masterpiece. Not for everybody's liking, due to it's dark and claustrophobic, some may say depressive character. But underneath the surface (although, there seems to be no surface here, it's the subconscious that sets the tone) lies a melancholic and fragile beauty. If you like Nico's trilogy The Marble Index, Desert Shore and The End, in which of each Cale was heavily involved in as arranger and producer, you will relish this one. It's like the twin brother to Nico's and Cale's collaborative output. But I also enjoy his 2016 rearranged and reworked version M:FANS. Actually I like all of his albums, the 70's and 80's era you probably know. Hobo Sapiens and Black Acetat from the early millennium are very rewarding listenings too. But for me it's not only his studio output that is so remarkable in terms of musical versatility and creativity, but maybe even more so his live output. It is said and known that he never performs his songs the same live, always creating something new, by either reconstructing and rearranging the sound, the instrumentation or genre of the songs. Asked in an interview why he always reworked his songs and didn't stick to a certain version, he replied it would simply bore him having to play the same stuff over and over again while on tour. I've seen him about twenty times live since the early 80's, and I can assure you non was the same, almost as if you had different artists playing each time. Taking his massive influence as a musician and producer in the shaping of the early alternative sound into account, I can only say: pure genius!
Social media where are you Talk to me Pete Veronesi are you out there?
I hand painted his face on a bright yellow t-shirt with black fabric paint but, I left out the nose cause I wasn't sure I could get it right So I go to the Whiskey a go go to see him live and wait for him at the back door So he shows up and saw my shirt and wants to sign it no-one has a pen so we see the show and after someone gave me a magic marker and I approached his limousine and he gladly signs it with the word nose and an arrow pointing at where it should be
56:07
The magical finger = 52:36
AHHAHA is right my friend
oh lord!
Close Watch 😞😎wonder who's story? honestly - letting John Cale get away? WHO😮
29:48 Paris 1919
10.01x10.07
Added to my John Cale full concerts playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLNINWcxxj9hFYurceT-GkVl2VKrjYIibi&feature=shared
link is broken :c
@@anthonymagana5879 cheers, just fixed it
oh shit this is awesome thanks!@@ForARide
he cannot resist a leather trouser.
Hot german guy in the beginning
He must have been desperate to stay relevent at this point in his career. Bowie had the mainstream success with Let’s Dance in 1983 and Iggy was going to release his breakthrough album Blah Blah Blah next year. Lou is already a big name as the godfather of punk. No wonder he was intoxicated and not in good shape throughout 80s. Cale probably would haven’t imagined he manage to outlive most of them and still play live releasing a series of interesting work.
Unenlightened androids always find fault with John Cale