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• mw says:

  January 23, 2013 at 9:32 pm

  Nice review. I was at the same show and enjoyed it very much. 1919 is far from my favor­ite record, but it was nice hear­ing it live. And I really enjoyed the second half and “Captain Hook” was nearly tran­scend­ent. I’d seen Cale when he was tour­ing “Sabotage Live” and count that among my favor­ite shows. I usu­ally hate it when rock people use orches­tras but I thought it worked really well at that show. The arrange­ments were integ­ral, not just a pre­ten­sion as is usu­ally the case. Took my 13 year-year-old son since he’s a big fan of Cale’s work in “Songs for Drella”. It was his first con­cert, which reminded me of my first con­cert, which was when I was thir­teen, which was Jethro Tull, where drug deal­ers openly hawked weed and pills and the sta­di­um was a filled with a giant marijuana cloud. How things have changed, eh. BAM was a bunch of fifty and sixty year olds politely listen­ing to a sev­enty year old. Still, he enjoyed the show. Turned out his Cello teach­er was in the band. Small world, Brooklyn.
  If you’re inter­ested, here’s a great Cale per­form­ance from a strange location.

• mw says:

  January 23, 2013 at 9:33 pm

  Looks like the link did­n’t work. Guess I have to do it the ugly way: http://mwebphoto.com/videos/JohnCaleAtJR.mov

• Henry Holland says:

  January 23, 2013 at 10:07 pm

  “my first con­cert, which was when I was thir­teen, which was Jethro Tull”
  Hopefully it was the “A Passion Play” tour.

• mw says:

  January 23, 2013 at 10:29 pm

  Ha, Google tells me that yes, it was the “Passion Play” tour. YouTube con­firms my vague memory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y04QEfSvN4o&feature=player_embedded
  Lester Bangs even wrote some pos­it­ive things about it, though his sen­tence con­struc­tions ten­ded to pre­clude the pos­it­ive with phrases mod­i­fi­ers such as “even some­thing so vacuous.”

• AeC says:

  January 25, 2013 at 12:59 am

  I was at the Friday show (as well as Wednesday’s Nico trib­ute) too, and thought it was a blast. “Venus in Furs,” which I’ve long thought was a much bet­ter fit with Cale’s omini­ous bari­tone than Reed’s nas­al drone, was a phe­nom­en­al way to wrap things up, although I could­n’t help think­ing back to see­ing Cale at St. Anne’s Warehouse about sev­en years ago when he *opened* with “Venus,” then declined to play anoth­er Velvets tune for the entire night, which I thought was an enjoy­ably brazen move. I only wish he’d played “(I Keep a) Close Watch.”

• Henry Holland says:

  January 25, 2013 at 1:36 am

  Lucky you! I was born about 3 years too late, my first con­certs were in 1975 and I did­n’t start going to shows reg­u­larly until 1978 so I missed Tull on the APP and TAAB tours; ELP on the “Brain Salad Surgery” tour; Yes doing “Tales from Topographic Oceans”; Genesis doing “The Lamb”, Pink Floyd doing “Dark Side” with the old stuff. The one con­sol­a­tion: see­ing Yes on the “Relayer” tour at the Hollywood Bowl.
  Lester Bangs, yikes. I can­’t decide who’s a worse crit­ic from that era, him or Dave Marsh.
  Thanks for the Tull link, a pity that a full APP show was­n’t pro­fes­sion­ally filmed (see also: a “Brain Salad Surgery” show and “The Lamb”).

• check this says:

  January 25, 2013 at 9:44 am

  It was his first con­cert, which reminded me of my first con­cert, which was when I was thir­teen, which was Jethro Tull, where drug deal­ers openly hawked weed and pills and the sta­di­um was a filled with a giant marijuana cloud. How things have changed, eh.

• preston says:

  January 25, 2013 at 5:40 pm

  “my first con­cert, which was when I was thir­teen, which was Jethro Tull”
  “Hopefully it was the “A Passion Play” tour.”
  (sniff) wow…
  My most treas­ured hunk of vinyl is a “Passion Play” live bootleg, I have yet to find it on cd. My first Tull show was at ‘King’s Dominion’ near Richmond for the ‘Crest of the Knave’ tour. Yet anoth­er dif­fer­ent era…
  Thanks!

• Krishna H. says:

  March 17, 2013 at 1:46 am

  Paris 1919 was really awe­some! What a splen­did per­form­ance of John Cale.