John Cale - Pablo Picasso/Love Me Two Times (Rockpalast 1984)

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[MegaHightown]

met john cale in de seventies in amsterdam in paradiso we shared some heavy stuff and wow he played pablo picasso fantastic what a great musicus and singer you just have to feel the man playing great!! hightown

[Ghaiyst]

Thats great! He's highly insired by the doors!

[serpikris]

proof genius can perform while fucked up. Plus, Jonathan Richman is playing here, soon. 

[cyclooctyne]

Oh no! Dave Young isn´t lost! He´s playing the bass with Element of Crime. Great band here though, I think it must be among the best John Cale has been playing with. See this beast of a drummer, he´s Roy Lichtenstein´s son.

[zazeify]

them Welsh fuckers iz crazy.

[awstewart77]

Wow this is gold. Great sound, great video, great song, fuckin amazing performance. 3 thumbs up.

[FunkUrRoots]

mais c'est Horrible !!!!! c'est quoi cette horreur ?

[taariqtaariq]

Cale has snorted all of Columbia !!

[warhols25]

Pablo Picasso sounds here like Stones' Satisfaction

[goweropolis]

Is that Guy Pratt (future Pink Floyd sideman) on bass?

[lesalondelordure]

 he never hung a painting in the salon de lordure either

[clearvoyance]

Wow he's wearing the original Ray Ban doesn't he. Gosh where did mine go?

[Icarois1]

Super!!

[fedexsnake]

MEGADRUGS... STILL GOOD MUSIC TOO :-)

[Triumph100Rider]

Cale produced the original Modern Lovers version of the song.

[ScottAln05]

"Picasso" was originally a Jonathon Richman tune, right? Cale (or perhaps just the guitarist) changed the music here to sound like Neil Young's "Mister Soul." Blurting out the vocals. I like the aggression, but not the result.

[Reint25]

Does anybody know the name of the lead guitarist? I think he's playing fantastic here. Great rockabilly licks, great sound.

[ForARide]

It´s Dave Young, who also apears on Cale´s Caribbean Sunset LP, which unfortunately still hasen´t been released as CD yet.

[Reint25]

Thank you very much! I will track it down. Does he make his own music, or other projects where he plays stuff like this? I find it strange that I can find so little information about him on the internet while he sounds so great and unique in my ears.

[deepseabattles]

@ForARide David Young all so co-produces and co-writes a few songs on Artificial Intelligence, a total lost gem

Check my channel for some selections

[keefp]

Dave Young. Played with Cale around this time and on at least 2 albums. Great guitarist.

[bollockface]

Play one the drummer knows!

[RexNunc]

Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole.

[kidcalabria]

Thanks for posting this, & all other Cale clips. The original recording of Pablo Picasso is on the first album by The Modern Lovers, which Cale produced. A classic album, the only one with that fantastic original line-up of Jonathan Richman (vcls, gtr) Ernie Brooks (bs) who then played with lots of different people from the New York scene ( I saw him live with Elliot Murphy), Jerry Harrison (orgn) who joined Talkin' Heads, & David Robinson (drms) who joined The Cars. I really like this clip

[dayvee247]

Give me a break. Everyone knows the words to Love Me Two Times. John Cale showed what a drugged up hack he really was. I have to hand it to the drummer for displaying his true feelings for John the Forgetful.

[phoreyez]

Yeah, but do you remember the words to "Pablo Picasso?" I can't believe you made this comment...youmust really be out of "medicine"

[dayvee247]

I don't shoot heroine, unlike John Cale. He was so wasted, he had the wrong lyrics in the wrong places. Just look at the expressions on the band's faces. They were fed up with Cale, and him standing off alone backstage was his way of saying, "Bollocks! I screwed that one up!" He is human and subject to criticism, as with any artist. I met the man once, and he was anything but friendly.

[rightnowORneverever]

Luckily, Cale is back on the track...for already quite a lot of years. I saw him last weekend in Cardiff. He was great! And I also met him and he was unbelievable friendly. After all he is a survivor... I hope he'll give us music for some more years.

[Reint25]

Were does he 'display his true feelings'. I missed that I guess?

[dayvee247]

When he slammed his drum sticks down and walked off. Symbolic? maybe.

[Reint25]

Oh that! Yeah, perhaps... I saw him perform a few months ago, and he was great, haunting. I guess he's a lot more 'clean' than we was.

[ForARide]

The reason why the drummer slammed his drum sticks had nothing to do with Cale getting the lyrics wrong.

It was because of the awful crowd response to some of Cale´s experimental outbursts (Heartbreak Hotel , Streets Of Laredo, Caribbean Sunset - all of wich I have also uploaded).

Althoug Cale headlined that Rockpalast Show, most of people there came for Huey Lewis & The News and Level 42. They were just to ignorant to appreciate something different.

[abartawe]

comment on the comments !

ant one ever hear the expression,

'critics are like eunichs'

they know how to talk about it, how others should do it, BUT CANT DO IT THEMSELVES !!!

John Cale is the business, always was always will be.

so ASSHOLES, be gratefull for seeing/hearing the man, he is part of a dying breed of musicians.

[peterzang]

@abartawe We come on this site to dig John Cale and all we meet with is your bile. Who are you even talking to? And btw the way, you got the Critics reference wrong. But aside from that, brilliant

[maelstone]

"But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters.

I am only a public clown.

I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries.

It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem.

But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest.

Pablo Picasso, 1952

[maelstone]

the words of picasso is very close to some things that cale might say and philosophy about...

good artists...with insight...

[maelstone]

the difference between an artist and a celebrity is thoughtworthy , and the same regarding the money involved in art, thats why i posted the quote...if it was provocative ,then it succeeded... :-)....i`m a big fan of JC, and if you go to my channel there is two videos of unreleased JC-songs...

[stargazer00]

idiota

[ForARide]

First of all this song was written by Jonathan Richman.

Secondly I can´t recall Cale anywhere in this song calling Picasso an ugly old man either. So I don´t know what you´ve been hearing.

But Cale definitally relates to people who don´t seem to be listening properly calling them ASSHOLES!

[wilw6]

Thanks for sharing all the Cale stuff. enjoying immensely.

[JasonBNYC]

Definitely not his best backup band ever . . . but still great! Thanks.

[wopke]

What's wrong with this band? I remember seeing this on Rockpalast way back in the eighties and recorded it on audio-cassette. This was my first encounter with Cale and Ihave been a lifelong fan ever since. I love the Strat sound! Thanks for posting this vid, ForAride!

[larida1204]

It's real but you can hear the squeaks from the lead and some not so good drums. I like, but he's played with better musicians, sure

[ssballs]

How great!Thanks for posting,i saw him in the 70's in Paradiso doing PP.Great band!

[jackcandy61]

Boy, is this great! And I thought I knew these songs...

[dreadOFdread]

cale is a rock god; go shout it from the mountain.

[PHOBICandPARANOID]

absolutely

[Sakhalinskii]

And omg! I've heard that Cale riff on Circus! Wow...

[Sakhalinskii]

Cale's guitar is just awesome.

[moribundlust]

ha, intimidating stage gay