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“Why? What happened?” Killed me
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Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, John Cale, Ingrid Superstar, Benedetta Barzini, Julie Garfield, Sterling Morrison at the Factory in New York City, 1966.
Photos by Larry Fink
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lou reed of the velvet underground, 1974.
Utterly dismayed that Art Bergmann has like a sum total of 600 listeners on his Spotify. Utterly, utterly disappointed that Young Canadians have only 500. What the hell. Where are all the people that listen to good music? Where are all the people that like a bit of class-conscious scratchy, catchy rock n roll? Where are the fans defending the slightly artily deranged Canadian punk corner.
Canadian punk's Lou Reed they called him. Good enough reason, a super cool artist and an awesome fellow at the end of it all, too.
#Young Canadians#punk rock#70s punk#Vancouver#Canada#there are other videos too; he almost looks like Lou in some of them. And also John Cale later worked on one of his albums!#Though he wasn't too pleased with the outcome apparently.#Lou Reed#John Cale#Velvet Underground#music#musicians#go listen to more of their/his stuff immediately#Art Bergmann#Canadian punk#Canadian propabanda#70s music#80s music#Youtube
Gruff Rhys performing the Velvet Underground's The Black Angel's Death Song along with John Cale.
Honestly if there is one correct decision made in history it was the way everyone heard Lou Reed the second he opened his mouth and decided 'yeah there's no way we're obscuring that voice with reverb'
#there's hardly ever any processing on Lou's vocals at all#Velvets or his best solo stuff — he's just raw and placed v close to you in the mix#occasionally the smallest amount of reverb but they never place him far away#cuz his voice is just so. Full rich pure; wonderful voice#Lou Reed#Velvet Underground#The Velvet Underground#production#music#musicians#rockstars
@radarsears Fontaines curated a Velvet Underground playlist a while ago (it's being re-broadcast I think because the BBC are marking John Cale's 80th birthday), plus a cover they'd done for a charity album last year during lockdown. The choice of song was also really good, because even with knowing the Velvet Underground nature of this song (and also knowing the song tbh) it works really well in Fontaines' own style. Grian's spoken word style vocals, and all the noisy, experimental sound that were John Cale's signature but fit right into Carlos' own noisy guitar sound. Quite a good cover.
I thought you'd be interested!
Putting this up here as a reminder and link for myself more than anything else, but I mean to borrow John Cale's autobiography from the Internet Archive. Supposedly it's "simple but very effective", it pulls back from nothing, and I'm quite fascinated to know more about his journey from Garnant to the speedy and short-lived days of the Velvet Underground. And his time doing experimental music with John Cage. And basically everything he's done after that (he just put out new music like last week).
It's called What's Welsh for Zen.
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Oh come on now they’re just tailoring articles for me (and Elis James)
Oh man, the way Cate Le Bon describes John Cale, as this outsider, as this person who is very much us but so different from us, who showed this other side of us than what’s normally on offer, who wagered out into the bigger world and made it on the big stage, and who people sometimes even forget is actually from Wales, yeah, I get that. That’s exactly how I think about Freddie Mercury to be honest
#I enjoyed reading that#I did send it to Elis James lol; he liked it#Music news!#John Cale#Velvet Underground#Cate Le Bon#Aaah!#He grew up v close to where I spent my teens… very different to other Indian musicians you see out there in the world#(And people often forget)#But he just did what he wanted! He didn’t feel the need to portray some sort of ethnic influence of his (look I understand it was maybe#Even dangerous for him to! Yet. Still it’s there and it’s something)#And god I look up to that
Oh come on now they’re just tailoring articles for me (and Elis James)
Does anyone just find Lou Reed’s voice to be so rich, so vibrant, so… able to fill up space completely and with density? I don’t know how to explain it. Just the quality of his voice, combined with his relaxed New York voice and accent. Just listening to Lou Reed talk can really fill up the space between your ears in a most satisfying way.
This is a treat. This has got everything. Elis James does a documentary and an interview with John Cale, and other Welsh musicians who were inspired by him, to celebrate Cale's upcoming 80th birthday.
It's available for 28 days from now, I want to tape a local copy to keep and just listen back to again and again and again.
#Welsh music#John Cale#Velvet Underground#(not the legendary Toronto venue. Although I'm up for making a documentary about it if anyone's in the mood to commission it lmao.#It's an excuse to go to Toronto isn't it? And I adore that club.)#Elis James#James Dean Bradfield#Kelly Lee Owens#Gruff Rhys#Wales#BBC Radio Wales#documentaries#music
Cause everybody knows (he's a femme fatale) The thing he does to please (he's a femme fatale) He's just a little tease (he's a femme fatale) See the way he walks Hear the way he talks
They really just should've let Nico sing Heroin. Hit album on your hands
John Cale
#John Cale's soft Welsh accent on The Gift??#It may appear I'm album hopping and that's only partly true#I put on Loaded before realising I'd meant to listen to White Light/White Heat and then I had to go back now didn't I#Velvet Underground#John Cale#(lowkey love it cuz older Welsh accents sound surprisingly similar to Indian accents and that is closer to what you'll ever hear even#on Indian indie bands' songs)
My new gender is the falsetto bit in Rock and Roll where Lou Reed sings, "she started dancing to that fiiine, fine music"