I just filmed john while he was rehearsing with a band and an orchestra in Malmoe Sweden. I'm so lucky I'm going to be filming his concert here the 21st of november! I even got to say hey!
I saw John Cale three times,once in 1987 and twice in 1988---in little old Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada. Wonderful shows,one with guitarist Chris Spedding. Quite a coup,I think,to have gotten him to come here back then.
I loved 1919 when it came out! This live version is really good. All the songs on that album were brilliant, those lyrics, they still make me laugh! Just great! Bravo!
John Cale has been one of my man-gods since the first Velvet Underground album. What a great performance of one of his best songs. Thanks so much for posting.
John Cale is not a Freemason...I was joking...The song is just a figment of his imagination, an impressionistic vision of times past in Europe...Cale has always had a distinctive voice, but not a really strong one, and sometimes he struggles with the singing...But, he is an excellent and imaginative song writer...I first heard the Paris 1919 album when it came out back in the 70s, and I was impressed with his imagination, taste and skill as an arranger.
what a beautiful song... i still ask myself i one can understand the lyrics i really hardly try it... ah nevermind i love the pictures this song draws in my head...
ive always heard about this song, what i mean its always been around but i skipped on listening to it. what i knew about John Cale was of course Velvet Underground and the ep. i had Animal Justice which i thought was amazining .so this is the first time ive heard this and i must say what an amazing piece of music and my god the fucking lyrics blow me away...genius plain and simple
No, it's about the shaping of the world post WW1. The treaty of Versailles was signed there and then. What made you think that ? This would have been recorded in the 70's when he was still pretty young and rebellious, and the Masons are stuck up pricks for the most part.
I love John Cale. I only admire Lou Reed's stuff, it never really touches me - but I listen to Cale over and over again. I love the combination of professor and louche wastrel, classically trained viola prodigy and scary rock'n'roll nutcase. Also the fact that he writes really, really great songs. Like this one.
john cale really has had such ann impact on music if ou think about it, while remaining a sort of obscurity. that's awesome to touch so any people, with all the classic songs he's written and/or played on, all the classic albums he's produced, all the classic versions of hallelujah he's inspired lol he's one of the best
"Fly" & "Nothern Sky" w/ Nick Drake; THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (!!); Vintage Violence & Paris 1919; The Stooges LP; Patti Smith; Bummed ~ Happy Mondays;
The Dream Syndicate, Nico´s (& his) Marble Index & Deser Shore, The Modern Lovers, Music For A New Society & Words For The Dying, Brian Eno, Terry Riley...etc, etc. etc
@MattyStevensonBishop not to mention most of nico's albums. a lot of brian eno's good stuff in the 70s and his amazing collab wi lou reed - songs for drella (andy warhol's story in music).it was he that gave the world the VU's Sister Ray - which was like someone putting a hatchet through straight up rock. Cool music started with Sister Ray's Industrial madness! See he's an OBE, should be knighted but how could the british establishment make an ex-junkie a knight? very easily if they had balls!
@hektorpike lol, yeah you need to be a Beatle. And I too feel strongly that Sister Ray was and still is one of the most important musical statements that has ever been made.
I've only heard this song and album a few days ago for the first time and I can already see myself still listening to it 50 or so years down the road. Brilliant.
I rethought the wine reference at the end of the song. Maybe it implies alchohol consumption and romance or vice in Paris following the war, as there is some kind of "crowd...complaining, about darkened meetings." He is recognizing a contradiction in those events in the context of his own dispar and lonliness over the loss of his woman.
Cryptic lyrics by today's standards, that's for sure, but there's no doubt John Cale is brilliant. How much pop or rock music deals with the monumental consequences of war and how powerful leaders wrestle with the spoils of war and peace? He's really in a league of his own.
the song might refer to the quickly changing manners and mores at that time (c. 1919). Think: the "spectre" of communism (ghost), the women's and socialist movement, changing fashions, budding feminism, brought to a revolutionary head 1914-1920's.
He is playing some kind of male character and it might be kind of comic or sarcastic too.
Also, I think there is a theme of personal sexual politics and romance in his words, something between the male protagonist and the woman of his affections.
I interpreted the Beaujulei wine falling on the street as blood in a repressed demonstration or revolution as a backdrop to his discussion of his sex/romance life.
I thought again. It seems like the character might be an old widower. He imagines his deceased wife appearing to him? How's that interpretation? :) His "bishop" and "church" may be analogies based on a desire to see his wife again? Whether in heaven or on earth, maybe the character fanticizes bringing his wife back? The wine coming down may still be blood of repression by his bourgeois state putting Europe back "in its place" or communion wine (a christ image) or both or something else
Efficiency, many managers hoped they expand and perfect. Managers took the behavorist psychology of JB Watson and transformed it into Taylorism, a behavorist management style and experiment that sought more detailed control of workers, but life went on. This character is more interested in the ghost than the clock she is flying from.
It's like all the things around him...efficiency, the political situation, religion,....are all of marginal importance to his grief of the loss of his woman, almost to the point that he is halucinating or going nuts?
Interesting how this might relate to the bigger picture, no? :)
"I only hope that one day John will be recognized as the Beethoven or something of his day. He knows so much about music, he's such a great musician." (Lou Reed - and he's absolutely right)
not sure... but "your a ghost" could refer to the rise in spiritualism and seances in France after ww1 as mothers tried to contact sons killed in the war ,,, madame blatevesky and so on ,,,,who knows
In Paris in 1919 there was the Treaty Of Versailles which re-drew the map of Europe, after the First World War. The AustroHungarian Empire disappeared, so did Prussia; Russia from being a Tzarist superpower became the Soviet Union. The whole album Paris 1919 refers to war (the field marshal of The Endless Plain Of Fortune, for example) mixed with Cale's personal stuff, like childhood memories of A Child's Christmas In Wales or his heroin habit in Hanky Panky Nohow, but the central theme is war
War, I was saying, & Europe. Half Past France seems to be a song about a soldier coming home. That Cale is referring to the end of WWI is clear from the title, 'cos theTreaty Of Versailles IS what happened in Paris in 1919. In this song he sings "The continent (Europe) is falling in disgrace", then he refers to Kaiser William; the (Catholic) Church rescuing the remains of France ("you're a ghost & I'm coming to claim you" etc.). It's sort of surreal, or hyperreal, poetry, you read it as you like
I purchased this record in the 80's, long ago and far away when I was a teenager after I'd already fallen in love with the Velvets. I don't think I went a day for 6 months without listening to it. Pure genius Mr Cale. And he's still got it!!! Great writer, magnificent voice with that Welsh Timber and what a brilliant classicaly trained musician. Thanx so much for posting. Reminds this old fart of those great old days when those big things used to spin around on the turntable
Yeah. Don't you hate that when you mention the great John Cale to someone and they say, oh you mean JJ Cale....yuck NO I don't! It's like comparing gold to plastic- reply to benopus
here here !!! JJ's ok,, but people who make the comment "oh you mean that guy who did Cocaine and Crazy Mama"""should be placed in cell given large dose of acid and have metal machine music played full volume,,,by the way... I hear reed is going to tour " MMM"in one of these "Album Concerts " just shows how ridiculous they're becomming
haha- actually what Reed's touring is better than MMM. It's like MMM mixed with improvisational Jazz and Reed's actual guitar playing. It's not bad- I use it for work music, but it's definitely cool in it's own way and more listenable than MMM.
when was this recorded? absolutely great! Does anyone know what kind of set did he play with such band? Always wanted to see him live with strings playing Words for the dying songs. This might have been the case.
The relationship of Lou Reed to John Cale is like an ant standing on the shoulder of a giant.
aquamoon22 1 month ago
@aquamoon22 John Cale seems like the nicer guy, but Lou Reed is awesome too.
MattyStevensonBishop 2 weeks ago
@MattyStevensonBishop But I do have to say I tend to enjoy the Cale albums far more than Lous'
MattyStevensonBishop 2 weeks ago
I just filmed john while he was rehearsing with a band and an orchestra in Malmoe Sweden. I'm so lucky I'm going to be filming his concert here the 21st of november! I even got to say hey!
ibanezgr 2 months ago
perfect for breakfest... i don't know why but i always have a good start in the morning with this song
Bayareaistitutionfan 3 months ago
it really is just you.
luksusovy 3 months ago
Is it just me, or is this very much based on "Penny Lane"?
Ruiner10000000001 5 months ago
@Ruiner10000000001
I think it's just you.
ilivewith13deadcats 4 months ago
@Ruiner10000000001 its you
Malatrova 3 months ago
@Ruiner10000000001 just you bro
Bluke4x4 3 months ago
I bought a piano yesterday, just to play this song...
viernesbreton 6 months ago
bit o' naff but my grans birth place and date,now thats one to remember
OssyTuber 6 months ago
Paris 1919 live in Paris in 1919.
JosephJBird 7 months ago 3
It doesn't get any better than this!
vigil12348 7 months ago
goose bumps...
toukimumu 7 months ago
I saw John Cale three times,once in 1987 and twice in 1988---in little old Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada. Wonderful shows,one with guitarist Chris Spedding. Quite a coup,I think,to have gotten him to come here back then.
AmyandClaireshow 8 months ago
I loved 1919 when it came out! This live version is really good. All the songs on that album were brilliant, those lyrics, they still make me laugh! Just great! Bravo!
RoJoeLa55x 8 months ago 2
When was this?
twp1692 8 months ago
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@twp1692 Paris 1919 live in Paris in 1919.
JosephJBird 7 months ago
ich liebe diesen sprechgesang!
1910myself 8 months ago
Genius.
38Avril 9 months ago
John Cale has been one of my man-gods since the first Velvet Underground album. What a great performance of one of his best songs. Thanks so much for posting.
liesl20012 9 months ago
Been listening to this song/album since 1974,great to see it performed so well.
adamhood52 9 months ago
hot damn. anyone know where i could find footage of the rest of this set?
anirancc 9 months ago
this is the good stuff !!
bakabana1967 10 months ago
Wow, first time I'm hearing this song, it's awesome...
toukimumu 10 months ago
John Cale is not a Freemason...I was joking...The song is just a figment of his imagination, an impressionistic vision of times past in Europe...Cale has always had a distinctive voice, but not a really strong one, and sometimes he struggles with the singing...But, he is an excellent and imaginative song writer...I first heard the Paris 1919 album when it came out back in the 70s, and I was impressed with his imagination, taste and skill as an arranger.
frankdialogue 11 months ago
One of the most beautiful John Cale songs. This version is great.
dakarlion1 1 year ago
I can't get enough of this song!
archer1949 1 year ago
what a beautiful song... i still ask myself i one can understand the lyrics i really hardly try it... ah nevermind i love the pictures this song draws in my head...
Bayareaistitutionfan 1 year ago
Great version of a great song-is the yeah at the end of the clip John Cale appreciating how great it is, or the studio presenter?
marchadier1 1 year ago
Gives me goose pimples - such a great piece of music....
Detroit1967 1 year ago
Best artist
aug3r00 1 year ago 2
@aug3r00 yes!
jackoxpass 11 months ago
this is just fucking brilliant.
jayfraser2007 1 year ago 2
THis IS NICE!! I Like
kawanisumills 1 year ago
There will never be another like him - an absolute genius. God bless John Cale!
comercuuy 1 year ago 3
ive always heard about this song, what i mean its always been around but i skipped on listening to it. what i knew about John Cale was of course Velvet Underground and the ep. i had Animal Justice which i thought was amazining .so this is the first time ive heard this and i must say what an amazing piece of music and my god the fucking lyrics blow me away...genius plain and simple
tlm315 1 year ago
He's still in very fine voice. You know he is coming to Melbourne in Australia very soon. It might be worthwhile seeing him live.
zapkvr 1 year ago
fantastic. thanks for posting. awesome, just awesome!
goldbugnz 1 year ago
I'm so obsessed with this song right now. Its incredible. Cant stop listening to it.
KateBushFan88 1 year ago 2
It's all about Cale's FreeMasonic sympathies.
frankdialogue 1 year ago
@frankdialogue is john cale a freemason ? is the song about that ?
stiggyh 1 year ago
@stiggyh Are you a complete tool?
UTubeGoFuckYourself 1 year ago
@UTubeGoFuckYourself no .. but you are...
stiggyh 1 year ago
@stiggyh
No, it's about the shaping of the world post WW1. The treaty of Versailles was signed there and then. What made you think that ? This would have been recorded in the 70's when he was still pretty young and rebellious, and the Masons are stuck up pricks for the most part.
trollfinger 1 year ago
@trollfinger i see ;) it was just a comment that stated it
stiggyh 1 year ago
bella bella bella bella!
fiammaC1 1 year ago
I'm a ghost!!!! apparently. That is NOT news to me. Cale is pretty good - Like to listen to him once in a while.
He is in good voice here.
broken1394 1 year ago
jesus for a minute i thought it was talking heads!
jamierourketen 1 year ago
owww, speechless
gordonk67 1 year ago
Pure Genius!!! Beautiful, Brilliant, Timeless!!!
aquamoon22 1 year ago
this is so amazing; i last saw Cale in Toronto at the Edge playing this to an audience of 200 people. This is incredible!
sandy
StyleAndSteeze 1 year ago
This is better than the album version. Sheer ingenuity by Mr Cale.
Johnnystrychnine 1 year ago
sobriety is better than heroin or cocaine\4 u
leftfootlouie 1 year ago
omg unbelievable
trustterry11 1 year ago
remembering songs for drella...
sradplus 1 year ago
This album is a masterpiece and has real staying power with subsequent generations. Buy it. You don't need to know what it all means.
peterzang 1 year ago
wunderschön LOVEVA
morgenschweis 1 year ago
One of Cale's best songs
VIDEOFREAK076 1 year ago
beautiful song and a great version
kjaninka 1 year ago
gee
it makes me shiver
bbsininho 1 year ago
AMAZING!!
toweronepower 1 year ago
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uItravioIet 1 year ago
The Continent's just fallen in disgrace
William William William Rogers put it in its place
Blood and tears from old Japan
Caravans and lots of jam and maids of honor
singing crying singing tediously
mrshow1 1 year ago
I love John Cale. I only admire Lou Reed's stuff, it never really touches me - but I listen to Cale over and over again. I love the combination of professor and louche wastrel, classically trained viola prodigy and scary rock'n'roll nutcase. Also the fact that he writes really, really great songs. Like this one.
lexo30 1 year ago 3
john cale really has had such ann impact on music if ou think about it, while remaining a sort of obscurity. that's awesome to touch so any people, with all the classic songs he's written and/or played on, all the classic albums he's produced, all the classic versions of hallelujah he's inspired lol he's one of the best
"Fly" & "Nothern Sky" w/ Nick Drake; THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (!!); Vintage Violence & Paris 1919; The Stooges LP; Patti Smith; Bummed ~ Happy Mondays;
etc, etc, etc
MattyStevensonBishop 2 years ago 18
@MattyStevensonBishop
its all about the mondays
and its not
seen him for 4 pound in belfast in 1996
peeps are blind
and when they are awake
they are blind
should take a lot of credit for his rearrangement of hallelujuah
odyjamess 2 years ago
@MattyStevensonBishop, also
The Dream Syndicate, Nico´s (& his) Marble Index & Deser Shore, The Modern Lovers, Music For A New Society & Words For The Dying, Brian Eno, Terry Riley...etc, etc. etc
ForARide 1 year ago
@MattyStevensonBishop not to mention most of nico's albums. a lot of brian eno's good stuff in the 70s and his amazing collab wi lou reed - songs for drella (andy warhol's story in music).it was he that gave the world the VU's Sister Ray - which was like someone putting a hatchet through straight up rock. Cool music started with Sister Ray's Industrial madness! See he's an OBE, should be knighted but how could the british establishment make an ex-junkie a knight? very easily if they had balls!
hektorpike 2 weeks ago
@hektorpike lol, yeah you need to be a Beatle. And I too feel strongly that Sister Ray was and still is one of the most important musical statements that has ever been made.
MattyStevensonBishop 2 weeks ago
I've only heard this song and album a few days ago for the first time and I can already see myself still listening to it 50 or so years down the road. Brilliant.
UncleErnie71 2 years ago 6
One of the greatest songs of the 20th Century
jh8856 2 years ago 4
@jh8856 John Cale is great.
fastladyuk 2 years ago 2
jezus, is er nog wel ruimte voor publiek?
Rupasera 2 years ago
Hadn't heard this before, thanks for posting.
TheSanityInspector 2 years ago
Just in case anyone is interested.....
When Past and Future Collide: John Cale Performs Paris 1919 Live in its Entirety
Saturday 21st November
8.00pm
The Coal Exchange, Cardiff Bay
Tickets: £22.50 (sbf): Ticketline UK Box Office 02920 230130
royaledeluxe 2 years ago 2
I rethought the wine reference at the end of the song. Maybe it implies alchohol consumption and romance or vice in Paris following the war, as there is some kind of "crowd...complaining, about darkened meetings." He is recognizing a contradiction in those events in the context of his own dispar and lonliness over the loss of his woman.
firetaker25 2 years ago
Reminds me a bit of The Beatles' "Day in the Life," and a few other tunes.
firetaker25 2 years ago
CANCION DE SU ALBUM PARIS 1919 DE 1973.
jorgealbertobaron 2 years ago
Amazing.
geekfreaklover 2 years ago
Hes bloody good.
richard79l 2 years ago
ive seen him twice in odense denmark a town of only 200.000 :)))))
stiggyh 2 years ago
Cryptic lyrics by today's standards, that's for sure, but there's no doubt John Cale is brilliant. How much pop or rock music deals with the monumental consequences of war and how powerful leaders wrestle with the spoils of war and peace? He's really in a league of his own.
Varasovas57 2 years ago 3
good version, but its much better raw
natche2 2 years ago
This has got to be one of the most cryptic song lyrics ever written. I've heard the song a million times but only a few snippets make sense to me.
But Caravans and lots of jam and maids of honor?
Blood and tears from old Japan?
anybody know more?
NicoDraak74 2 years ago 2
The Treaty of Versailles in Paris in the year 1919
eaterHP 2 years ago 2
that I know. But even with that knowledge, do the lyrics make sense to you, or do they show some kind of correlation?
I love them though.
NicoDraak74 2 years ago
ah yes I get point, most of the lyrics are about the consequences of the treaty but yeah the song is pretty cryptic
eaterHP 2 years ago
the song might refer to the quickly changing manners and mores at that time (c. 1919). Think: the "spectre" of communism (ghost), the women's and socialist movement, changing fashions, budding feminism, brought to a revolutionary head 1914-1920's.
He is playing some kind of male character and it might be kind of comic or sarcastic too.
I'm still working on it too.
firetaker25 2 years ago
Also, I think there is a theme of personal sexual politics and romance in his words, something between the male protagonist and the woman of his affections.
I interpreted the Beaujulei wine falling on the street as blood in a repressed demonstration or revolution as a backdrop to his discussion of his sex/romance life.
firetaker25 2 years ago
I thought again. It seems like the character might be an old widower. He imagines his deceased wife appearing to him? How's that interpretation? :) His "bishop" and "church" may be analogies based on a desire to see his wife again? Whether in heaven or on earth, maybe the character fanticizes bringing his wife back? The wine coming down may still be blood of repression by his bourgeois state putting Europe back "in its place" or communion wine (a christ image) or both or something else
firetaker25 2 years ago
Efficiency, many managers hoped they expand and perfect. Managers took the behavorist psychology of JB Watson and transformed it into Taylorism, a behavorist management style and experiment that sought more detailed control of workers, but life went on. This character is more interested in the ghost than the clock she is flying from.
firetaker25 2 years ago
It's like all the things around him...efficiency, the political situation, religion,....are all of marginal importance to his grief of the loss of his woman, almost to the point that he is halucinating or going nuts?
Interesting how this might relate to the bigger picture, no? :)
firetaker25 2 years ago
"I only hope that one day John will be recognized as the Beethoven or something of his day. He knows so much about music, he's such a great musician." (Lou Reed - and he's absolutely right)
MrMsBaart 2 years ago 4
ah! it just fills you up and makes you smile
melboose 2 years ago
amazing
pevainer 2 years ago
such a brilliant composer
Nakkinak 2 years ago 5
Stunning. brilliant. awesome.
TomVfan 2 years ago
the smile on her face at 4.00 says it all.
spurtfather 2 years ago
It's a much-loved classic, I have never got tired of it. Awesome!
Varasovas57 2 years ago
pure genius cale
lesassassins 2 years ago 10
This song is awe inspiring
Nisstyre56 2 years ago
you are a genious
gloriagomezguzman 2 years ago
YES YES YES!!! He's done this every time I've seen him I thin and it's a favourite...
GemandJoe 2 years ago
Fantastic !
gouberville 2 years ago
greatness! bring back the orchestra into today and kill modern shit!
AsphaltedLife 2 years ago
Bring both of them together. No point in not moving forward, but always keep what made music great.
trollfinger 2 years ago 2
His personality is so ridiculous in The End... that one book about Nico.
tokyohalogen 2 years ago
Niechcacy przeczytalem (to co jest ponizej to nie ja juz pisalem) i jednak chociaz w zabobony nie wierze nie moglem nie zrobic tego.
nNIE CZYtaj tego
JA PRZECZYTAŁAM I ŻAŁUJE !!! WYBACZCIE!!!!
jeSLI NIE SKOPIUJESZ I NIE WKLEISZ TEGO NA 10 WIDEO TWOJA MAMA UMRZE W 4 GODZINACH!!!
aldaris40 2 years ago
Leave him alone, he is just perfect. And who knows what the lyric is really about? He knows, maybe. But you can´t be sure.
Cale is gorgeous, perfect!
SadLisa777 2 years ago
John Cale is a true genius......very ecclectic and absolutely of great talent!
rickk4art 2 years ago 22
not sure... but "your a ghost" could refer to the rise in spiritualism and seances in France after ww1 as mothers tried to contact sons killed in the war ,,, madame blatevesky and so on ,,,,who knows
mugwamp4 2 years ago
I think the character in the song has just lost someone...
GemandJoe 2 years ago
What is the song about? I like it very much but I don't understand it's meaning.
Thanks!
oberonne 2 years ago 2
search on google: lyrics paris 1919
bakabana1966 2 years ago
Thanks for answering!
oberonne 2 years ago
In Paris in 1919 there was the Treaty Of Versailles which re-drew the map of Europe, after the First World War. The AustroHungarian Empire disappeared, so did Prussia; Russia from being a Tzarist superpower became the Soviet Union. The whole album Paris 1919 refers to war (the field marshal of The Endless Plain Of Fortune, for example) mixed with Cale's personal stuff, like childhood memories of A Child's Christmas In Wales or his heroin habit in Hanky Panky Nohow, but the central theme is war
kidcalabria 2 years ago 2
War, I was saying, & Europe. Half Past France seems to be a song about a soldier coming home. That Cale is referring to the end of WWI is clear from the title, 'cos theTreaty Of Versailles IS what happened in Paris in 1919. In this song he sings "The continent (Europe) is falling in disgrace", then he refers to Kaiser William; the (Catholic) Church rescuing the remains of France ("you're a ghost & I'm coming to claim you" etc.). It's sort of surreal, or hyperreal, poetry, you read it as you like
kidcalabria 2 years ago 2
Thanks!
oberonne 2 years ago
@oberonne He set out to put music to Dylan Thomas' poems. That's why it's hard to understand..
triplettam 1 year ago
@oberonne Not sure about the meaning of the lyrics, but the Treaty of Versailles was signed in Paris in 1919, officially ending World War 1.
mrianburke 1 year ago
Any idea what year this video was shot?
gambamama 2 years ago
Paradiso, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
jhellegers 2 years ago
I purchased this record in the 80's, long ago and far away when I was a teenager after I'd already fallen in love with the Velvets. I don't think I went a day for 6 months without listening to it. Pure genius Mr Cale. And he's still got it!!! Great writer, magnificent voice with that Welsh Timber and what a brilliant classicaly trained musician. Thanx so much for posting. Reminds this old fart of those great old days when those big things used to spin around on the turntable
vicphine 2 years ago
Velvet was a complete, fuckin' chaos. After it it was just "Sir Lou Reed".
Hopefully the world will stop talking about Sir self rightous, pompus ego Mr. Reed.
The main man was, and will ever be Mr. John Cale. Let Lou rest in the minors pond, and let John Cale expand into his major skies!
JacKass00001 2 years ago 5
Well yeah but, you don't have to be so mean about it.
SomtaLoser 2 years ago
Thanks for sharing a great song!
plattform5163 2 years ago
Yes yes yes yes yes YES!
OsvaldoPaese 2 years ago 2
do you had live version of honky panky nohow?
limunan 3 years ago
Pure awesome. I was in awe when our teacher showed us this vid in class. Fell in love with the rythm, tunes and his voice. Pure genius.
Shikayami 3 years ago
What class was it??? That's so cool!
OsvaldoPaese 3 years ago
I actually prefer the Piano Mix that was included on the expanded CD Rhino put out a couple years ago.
ronniebarzel 3 years ago
He is not unknown, everyone with a bit history knowledge know about him and is forever grateful for what this genious shared with us.
aasmundolsen 3 years ago
imo Helen of Troy was better than Paris 1919
WKaliber1 3 years ago
reed's heroin is better than jjcale's cocaine
bakabana1966 3 years ago
what does that mean
WKaliber1 3 years ago
cause you think one is better than the other,
music is the best.
bakabana1966 3 years ago
Just to point out that this is John Cale, and not J.J. Cale.
benopus111 3 years ago
Yeah. Don't you hate that when you mention the great John Cale to someone and they say, oh you mean JJ Cale....yuck NO I don't! It's like comparing gold to plastic- reply to benopus
vicphine 2 years ago 3
here here !!! JJ's ok,, but people who make the comment "oh you mean that guy who did Cocaine and Crazy Mama"""should be placed in cell given large dose of acid and have metal machine music played full volume,,,by the way... I hear reed is going to tour " MMM"in one of these "Album Concerts " just shows how ridiculous they're becomming
mugwamp4 2 years ago
haha- actually what Reed's touring is better than MMM. It's like MMM mixed with improvisational Jazz and Reed's actual guitar playing. It's not bad- I use it for work music, but it's definitely cool in it's own way and more listenable than MMM.
punkace 2 years ago
@bakabana1966 Not the same Cale. John Cale was in the Velvet Underground with Reed.
smilodon 1 year ago
@bakabana1966 \
you are a fool . John Cale isn't JJ Cale. John Cale sings in his own song " I didn't write cocaine",
taariqtaariq 1 year ago
@bakabana1966 wtf has jjj cale got to do with the equation
mugwamp4 1 year ago
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zurapDOR 1 year ago
john cale the most unknown music genius of our time........
jfk144 3 years ago 4
pardon moi, ¡¡¡GREAT BOSS!!!
glorigog 3 years ago
Graet Boss!!!
glorigog 3 years ago
Certainly one of the best live clips on YT both artistically and technically! Surprising they made it possible, thanks for all involved!
kykyah 3 years ago 3
John's songs on Songs For Drella - concert, all on You Tube. I don't have the words . Forever Changed - Style - Dream
ZenPapageno 3 years ago
search on google> 'name of the song' + lyrics
bakabana1966 3 years ago
also academy in peril is a very good album !
titally mad!!
sounds mostly like classical music with strings etc
is mad music but so creative and unique
and he did other great albums
pontello3 3 years ago 2
King Harry on that album is an amazing song!
Cale arranges numerous accoustic instruments, each playing s differnt tune, and with every listening you discover something new.
And then there´s Cale whispering and hissing:
"All Hail King Harry...You´re Wives Are All Dead/Sail Away, Say I/France Can Burn..."
Subversive and sinister stuff!
ForARide 3 years ago
What a great tune, and live it's electrifying! I finally got this album as a remaster, and find it to be most entertaining! Cale's a genius!
bartonim 3 years ago 4
Much better out of the Velvet Underground.
jencomackey 3 years ago
It sounds so imperial. I love it.
trollfinger 3 years ago
o melhor album de J Cale juntamente com Words from Dying,um mestre que nos visitou este ano de 2008.
bigtusa2 3 years ago
Beautiful. A real treat!
ariadne111 3 years ago
This video won't play without stuttering badly these days...
eiamjw 3 years ago
Great Version of a classic John Cale track, the album is awesome as well. Thanks for the upload.
DeanMeredithMusic 3 years ago 4
Brilliant. One of his best songs, and what a marvellous performance.
BeastOfGuinness 3 years ago 4
This is quite honestly the most priceless gem I've ever dicovered on YouTube. Simply brilliant song and performance. I love John Cale!!!
Bjx
brotherjohnno 3 years ago 5
i like the live version more than the recorded version
polakadek1234 3 years ago 3
Agree totally. There is something magical about this performance.
brotherjohnno 3 years ago 3
This is really beautiful.
serpikris 3 years ago 4
after all, music is the best...............
bakabana1966 3 years ago
I love John Cale
JoeyM1982 3 years ago 4
Lovely!
mothberries 3 years ago 3
Thank you very much for posting this!
gerardocf 3 years ago 3
wonderful orchestration!
xhaxhkazulu 3 years ago
Fucking Guenious!
CRAWBURGER 3 years ago
Cool video, I always have liked this song. The jacket John is wearing looks awesome. Anyone know where to get one?
rbesett 3 years ago
fantastic performance.
the jacket kooks like it could be Yojhi Yamamoto. Try vintage designer or resale shops in NY, Paris, Tokyo......
dancer3502 3 years ago
the jacket kooks like it could be Yojhi Yamamoto. Try vintage designer or resale shops in NY, Paris, Tokyo......
dancer3502 3 years ago
Oh man! This is great.
Seanmoc01 3 years ago
haha- I want to see him play "Venus" in this set up.
punkace 3 years ago
awesome!
jolivia 3 years ago
chill.
mseales 3 years ago
when was this recorded? absolutely great! Does anyone know what kind of set did he play with such band? Always wanted to see him live with strings playing Words for the dying songs. This might have been the case.
Fantastico
cigabite 3 years ago