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John Cale (natural March 9, 1942) is a Welsh musician, songwriter & record producer. He is better known for his operate around rock music, but has worked inside a kind of styles all over the years. He is mayhap better known for with been the member of the rock band The Velvet Underground. John Cale should non become confused by using singer & songwriter J.J. Cale or composer John Cage.
Early Life and Career Cale was natural around Garnant in the heavily industrial Amman Valley, & Welsh is his first language. With found the talent for piano, he studied music at a University of London, and travelled to the USA to continue his musical how to training, thanks to the facilitate & influence of Aaron Copland. Arriving at New York City, he met a total of influential composers. By having John Cage he participated in an Xviii-hour piano swimming marathon. Extra significantly, Cale played inside La Monte Young's ensemble the Theater of Eternal Music (also referred to as a Dream Syndicate, which should not become confused by having a Eighties band of the equivalent title). a heavy drone-laden music he played there proved to exist as a large influence within his function by owning his next class action, the Velvet Underground.
The Velvet Underground Around 1965, he joined Lou Reed (who is exactly the week older than Cale) in the newly-formed Velvet Underground, but left around 1968, due in a share to originative disagreements by using Reed. Cale appears on the Velvet Underground's foremost 2 albums, The Velvet Underground and Nico and White Light/White Heat. He sings in two or three songs, plays bass guitar, piano and organ and co-wrote some of a lesson, however maybe his virtually all distinctive contributions come the electrically amplified viola drones which add greatly to the overall atmosphere of the records. He is said to own influenced a healthy of the early V.U. very much to a higher degree any more members (& typically disagreed sustaining Lou Reed about a counsel the class action should require). Fallowing Cale left a class action, he seemed to choose a coarse, additional experamentalist tendences by using him. 3 albums of his early experimental operate were freed inside 2001. One of his collaborators in these recordings is Velvets' guitar player Sterling Morrison.
Later career Fallowing allowing the Velvet Underground, Cale produced a total of albums, including Nico's The Marble Index, and began to produce solo records. His foremost, Vintage Violence come within 1970, below which he collaborated by owning eventually an additional definitive musician, Terry Riley, on the mainly subservient Church of Anthrax. His solo record of 1973, Paris 1919, is regarded by many as a classic. These are manufactured higher of elegantly crafted & tastily ordered songs using obscure & complex lyrics, apparently sustaining underlying political concerns. Cale recede to the United Kingdom and made the series of solo albums which moved inside the freshly counsel. the neat elegance was at present replaced by a dark & threatening barely-suppressed aggression, mayhap virtually all evidently evident inside his somewhat disturbing handle of Elvis' "Heartbreak Hotel". His survive performances typically fitted by having a nascent punk rock developing on two sides of the Atlantic Ocean: it were typically loudly, abrasive & confrontational - when you took 1 gig he chopped the ward off a dead chicken with a meat cleaver, & his band walked offstage around protest. Cale's drummer--the vegetarian--was so bothered he quit a class action. Cale besides continued to act as a record producer. Around 1974, he joined Island Records, and worked therein capacity by owning Squeeze, Patti Smith, and Sham 69, among others. He produced the total of significant protopunk records, including debuts by Patti Smith, The Stooges and The Modern Lovers. Around 1982, Cale released a thin Music For The Just released Society. By any standard, these are the bleak, torturesome record, it's been known as "understated, and perhaps a masterpiece." [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:38q5g4httv8z~T1] Getting married & got the toddler, he took an extended break from either performing, making the comeback inside 1989 with settings of poems by Dylan Thomas, most notably, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, which he performed on stage inside the concert held in Cardiff in 1999 to celebrate the opening of the Welsh Assembly. Songs for Drella, a tribute to one time Velvet Underground manager Andy Warhol, saw him reunited with Lou Reed, & Nico (1998) was the tribute to Nico. Cale has besides written the total of film soundtracks, often applying thomas more classically influenced instrumentation. Cale's autobiography, ''What's Welsh for Zen?, was published within 1999.
Album discography
Early recordings: New York in the 1960s
With the Velvet Underground
† Although Cale got left A Velvet Underground deuce years prior to it freed their 1970 album Loaded, he was briefly required in the demonstration stages of that record. the 1997 2CD reprint of that album contains a demonstration of "Ocean" that features Cale swimming a organ.
Solo
Collaborations
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John Cale Homepage Features a complete biography, discography, lyrics and pictures. John Cale Live in Detroit Concert photography by Jennifer Jeffery from a 1998 performance. What's Welsh for Web Source of information on Cale's solo career, from the creator of the Velvet Underground web page. Rolling Stone.com: John Cale Includes a biography, discography, photos, articles, links and message board. Philm Freax Digital Archive: John Cale Photos of a 1971 performance of Cale and Nico at London's Roundhouse, plus Rolling Stone's coverage of the concert. All Music Guide: John Cale Solo discography and bio. IMDb: John Cale Film scores and appearances, from the Internet Movie Database. Fear is a Man's Best Friend News, lyrics and tour dates, as well as a biography, pictures and audio files. |
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