John Cale's official promo videos

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John Cale's official promo videos

Post by Sheila Klein » 05 Jul 2022 19:51

Recent readings have led me to two Cale videos, both of them weird and fascinating and both on YouTube.

Dead Or Alive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYlUnxZk4OM&t=14s
largely intact, apart from a brief TV-broadcast voiceover and a piece missing in the middle

Hallelujah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYlUnxZk4OM&t=14s
audio from Fragments Of A Rainy Season, but video apparently made for 2016 reissue rather than 1992 original

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Re: John Cale's official promo videos

Post by peppergomez » 06 Jul 2022 21:03

Ugh, one of them was wince worthy even by mid 80s standards

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Re: John Cale's official promo videos

Post by threechordwonder » 06 Jul 2022 23:10

Talking of Hallelujah, in case you didn't know, it's the subject of a documentary. See this article in UK Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/j ... ocumentary

or this one which links to the story of how Cale came to record it (or cover it, or reinterpret it ... )
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -praise-be

But what I really want is one of those hats.

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John Cale's legacy

Post by dial4 » 07 Jul 2022 17:04

Thanks. There was a DVD for Words for the dying but it cannot be found, almost nothing from the years 1960 to 1990...

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Re: John Cale's official promo videos

Post by simonm » 07 Jul 2022 23:53

not a promo vid but there's a short film he made around '66 called Police Car (no sound iirc!) - can be seen on ubuweb

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Re: John Cale's official promo videos

Post by gazatthebop » 08 Jul 2022 10:40

a promo video was recorded for "Changes made" in 1982


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Re: John Cale's official promo videos

Post by Sheila Klein » 08 Jul 2022 18:07

The bunny movie is cool, but are you suggesting it's the promo video for "Changes Made"?

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Re: John Cale's official promo videos

Post by threechordwonder » 09 Jul 2022 09:46

Well, I didn't know any of that - neither the poem nor Cale's rendition of it - thanks.

Here's (hare's?) a link to the poem itself (no VU content though): https://www.silentearth.org/the-names-o ... 2Dcropper.

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Re: John Cale's official promo videos

Post by gazatthebop » 01 Aug 2022 21:50

anyone seen his new video. worst ever?

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