John Cale
Fear Is A Man's Best Friend - John Cale

Timeline: 1998

Jesus Lizard

Co-producing The Jesus Lizard EP

Co-produces with Andy Gill and Jim O'Rourke the track Needles For Teeth on the self-titled EP by American rock band Jesus Lizard.

The song is included on the Conflict & Catalysis: Productions & Arrangements 1966-2006 compilation album (2012).

Cale at the Paradiso in Amsterdam

On Dutch NPS Television

On February 26 Dutch televison shows footage of the February 25 show at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

The show was billed as With A Little Help From My Friends. He shared the stage with Siouxsie & The Creatures, Carol van Dijk (singer with Bettie Serveert) and Het Metropool Orkest conducted by Dick Bakker.

Cale and Carol van Dijk at the Paradiso in Amsterdam

Performs Chinese Envoy, Paris 1919 and Dying On The Vine with the Orchestra, Silent Spring with Carol van Dijk, and Murdering Mouth and I Was Me with Siouxsie. The footage is repeated regularly over the years on Dutch Television.

Cale Documentary

First airing (on March 25) of John Cale, a BBC Wales documentary by James Marsh. Contains interviews with Cale, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Chris Spedding, Maureen Tucker, La Monte Young, biographer Victor Bockris, choreographer Ed Wubbe et al.

Live footage of Ship of Fools, Dance Music, Heartbreak Hotel and Memphis, and the Velvets 1993 reunion tour. Filmed in Garnant, Wales, New York and Rotterdam. Released on DVD in 2006.

Federico Garcìa Lorca - De Granada a la Luna

Daybreak

Records Daybreak, a translation of La Aurora from Poeta en Nueva York by Federico Garcìa Lorca. This is released on the double tribute CD Federico Garcìa Lorca - De Granada a la Luna.

Dance Music

Dance Music

Release of Dance Music, music for the ballet for Nico. The album was recorded live in The Netherlands, Fall 1997, by Ice Nine, except España by John Cale (recorded at L.P.G. Studio, NYC, by Jack Wall) and Nibelungen by Nico from her The Marble Index album (note: this is a bonus track from the CD re-issue, and not included on the original vinyl version; mixed by John Cale in May 1990)

Nico's spoken words in Ari Sleepy Too were edited and reassembled by John Cale from the flexi disc that came with The Andy Warhol Index Book (1967).

Silent Shadows On Cinemaroc Island: 56 Ludlow Street 1962-1964 Volume II

Silent Shadows on Cinemaroc Island

Plays sonics on Jack Smith's Silent Shadows on Cinemaroc Island: 56 Ludlow Street 1962-1964 Volume II album. The sessions for this album were in 1962-1964.


Rock 'n' Roll Heart

Lou Reed Documentary

Features in Rock and Roll Heart, a documentary about Lou Reed, directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Other interviewees include Patti Smith, David Bowie and Joe Dallesandro.

The DVD of this documentary contains 15 extra minutes.



The Hope Blister

The Hope Blister

The Hope Blister cover Hanky Panky Nohow on their ...smile's ok album.



Somewhere In The City

Somewhere In The City

Release of the Somewhere In The City soundtrack.

He composes five short instrumental pieces for this movie directed by Ramin Niami, which also features the track Indistinct Notion Of Cool from the Walking on Locusts album.


I Douar

Alan Stivell

Produces the I Douar (One Earth) album by Celtic musician Alan Stivell. He also plays bass on one track: Ever.



Dream Thrum

Dollhouse Noah

The Hall Of Mirrors In The Palace At Versailles, a track from the Church of Anthrax album, is used in the soundtrack of the Dream Thrum video by Dollhouse Noah, screened at the Design Festa in Tokyo, Japan on November 22 & 23.



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