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Audience recording


From The Herald:

"John Cale, ABC, Glasgow

You could never accuse John Cale of resting on his now 40-year-old laurels. The creative force behind the Velvet Underground's more avant-garde moments has a new guise. The haircut told all. With close cropped sides and dyed pink tufts he looks every bit a new age punk.

Monday night's performance was a selection of recent material and some reworkings of classics, with Cale and his energetic young trio adopting a jagged new wave stance. The highlight was a new piece which he introduced only as "something you've not heard before". Whatever it was called, it had a marvellous filmic quality, combining electronica and driving percussion.

The mid-section was perhaps the closest the uncompromising Cale came to making the Celtic connection with three pieces on acoustic guitars, upright bass and minimal percussion. A severe and unerring riff held down for a quarter of an hour provided the backdrop for a segue of songs including Pablo Picasso and Mary Lou. Always the innovator, this was a bold, if not easy, attack on the ear. Those who expected the obvious would have been disappointed that there was neither a viola or a Velvet's track to be heard all evening."

JC
Dustin Boyer – lead guitar
Michael Jerome – drums
Joseph Karnes – bass