John Cale Ronnie Scott's Jazz club, London, 21 April 1985
One of my very best, and most unusual, recordings that I found in a box of cassettes over the weekend. This is a solo John Cale show at a tiny venue in London. Maybe 250 people attended.
I sat at one of the tables at the front maybe 10 feet away from Cale. He plays the show on guitar and piano basically sitting at the piano stool the whole time. Recording was tricky as he was so close and the venue was quite bright!
Some great versions of classic Cale tracks and a blistering cover of "Heartbreak Hotel" have made this recording one of my all time favourites. Hope you all share that view.
Quality: Excellent throughout, though some tape hiss.
Track listing
01 Ghost story 02 Ship of fools 03 Amsterdam 04 Leaving it up to you 05 A child's christmas in Wales 06 Cattle chorus 07 Guts 08 Chinese envoy 09 Hedda Gabler 10 Thoughtless kind 11 Cable Hogue 12 Riverbank 13 Paris 1919 14 Heartbreak Hotel 15 Mercenaries 16 Fear 17 I keep a close watch
John Cale
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One of my very best, and most unusual, recordings that I found in a
box of cassettes over the weekend. This is a solo John Cale show at
a tiny venue in London. Maybe 250 people attended.
I sat at one of the tables at the front maybe 10 feet away from Cale.
He plays the show on guitar and piano basically sitting at the piano
stool the whole time. Recording was tricky as he was so close and the
venue was quite bright!
Some great versions of classic Cale tracks and a blistering cover of
"Heartbreak Hotel" have made this recording one of my all time
favourites. Hope you all share that view.
Lineage: Master recording, walkman pro, TDK AD90, Nakamichi DR-3,
Soundforge, WAV, FLACs
Quality: Excellent throughout, though some tape hiss.
Track listing
01 Ghost story
02 Ship of fools
03 Amsterdam
04 Leaving it up to you
05 A child's christmas in Wales
06 Cattle chorus
07 Guts
08 Chinese envoy
09 Hedda Gabler
10 Thoughtless kind
11 Cable Hogue
12 Riverbank
13 Paris 1919
14 Heartbreak Hotel
15 Mercenaries
16 Fear
17 I keep a close watch
Enjoy!!