On March 9, 1942, John Cale was born.

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John Cale

Not to be confused with J. J. Cale, or John Cale from White House Down.

John Davies Cale, OBE (born 9 March 1942) is a Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground. Over his five-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles across rock, drone, classical, avant-garde and electronic music.

He studied music at Goldsmiths College, University of London, before relocating to New York City's downtown music scene in the mid-1960s, where he performed as part of the Theatre of Eternal Music and formed the Velvet Underground. Since leaving the band in 1968, he has released 16 solo studio albums. Of his solo work, Cale is perhaps best known for his album Paris 1919, and his cover version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", plus his mid-1970s Island Records trilogy of albums: Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen of Troy.

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The Velvet Underground (1964–1968)
Main article: The Velvet Underground

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The very first commercially available recording of the Velvet Underground, an instrumental track called "Loop" given away with Aspen Magazine, was a feedback experiment written and conducted by Cale. His creative relationship with Reed was integral to the sound of the Velvet Underground's first two albums, The Velvet Underground & Nico (recorded in 1966, released in 1967) and White Light/White Heat (recorded in 1967, released in 1968).

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White Light/White Heat

This article is about the 1968 album. For the song, see White Light/White Heat (song).


Studio album by the Velvet Underground

Released: January 30, 1968
Recorded: September 4–16, 1967

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White Light/White Heat is the second studio album by American rock band the Velvet Underground, released in 1968 by record label Verve. It was the band's last studio recording of new material with bassist and founding member John Cale.

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I wasn't expecting this:

John Cale - I've Got a Secret - higher resolution

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John Cale was the guest on this September 16, 1963 episode of I've Got a Secret. His secret centered around his participation in an 18 hour 40 minute piano performance, the first full length presentation of Erik Satie's "Vexations" held at the Pocket Theater. ( Not mentioned, pianists John Cage, David Tudor, Christian Wolff, Philip Corner, Viola Farber, Robert Wood, MacRae Cook, David Del Tredici, James Tenney, Howard Klein (the New York Times reviewer), Joshua Rifkin, with two reserves, and with Cale all took turns playing the piece that is three lines long, the required 840 times on September 9, 1963, from 6 p.m. to 12:40 p.m. the following day. John Cage was the fifth of the many pianists who followed after John Cale who was, of course, the fourth. More importantly, Cage arranged for the entire performance having been introduced to this music while in Paris in 1949. A page of sheet music of the piece was lent to him by Henri Sauguet, and Cage kept a photostat of it with him then, finally performing it 14 years later. I read of this in David Revill's book "The Roaring Silence." ) Seated also on the I've Got a Secret stage was Off Broadway actor, Karl Schenzer, who's secret was that he was the only person to stay for the entire piano concert.

In early 1965, John Cale co-founded The Velvet Underground with Lou Reed.

Here's a tune I recorded on an open reel Sony TC-366 from a WTJU broadcast over thirty years ago:

Gun

John Cale
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Gun · John Cale

Fear

℗ 1974 Island Records, a division of Universal Music Operations Limited

Released on: 1974-01-01

Producer: John Cale
Studio Personnel, Mixer: John Wood
Composer Lyricist: John Cale

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Since Gary Rossington just died (in 2023), here's a song associated with Lynyrd Skynyrd. (This comment refers to the 2023 thread. Gary Rossington died on March 5, 2023. https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=archives&date=2023x3x6)

J.J Cale / Call Me The Breeze

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Zoë Tauran - Therapie (Official Video)

The way this starts, it sounds just like Bryan Ferry's cover of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall":

John Cale - I'm waiting for the man

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Live at Grugahalle Essen (Germany), October 13th 1984

John Cale is not in this, but this is too good not to include:

Waiting for the Man - Reed and Bowie

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Lou Reed and David Bowie.

Music
SONG: Waiting For The Man (Sounds of the 70s - Bob Harris, Recorded 18.1.72, 2000 Remaster)
ARTIST: David Bowie & The Spiders From Mars
ALBUM: Waiting For The Man

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Back to John Cale and Lou Reed:

John Cale and Lou Reed on Sunday Night (1989)

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John Cale and Lou Reed perform two songs on Sunday Night ( later called "Night Music" ) show #120 in 1989.

1. "You Got The Style It Takes" (00:00)
2. "Nobody But You" (03:17)

Mon Mar 11, 2024: On March 9, 1942, John Cale was born.

Thu Mar 9, 2023: On this day, March 9, 1942, John Cale was born.

Fri Mar 9, 2018: Happy 76th birthday, John Cale, born on March 9, 1942.