
"See, the beauty of Cale in the beginning was that he really didn’t know very much about rock. In fact, he knew next to nothing. So, if you turned him loose on an instrument he wasn’t able to play any kind of cliched anything because he didn’t know any of the cliches. It was all original."
Sterling Morrison
Fear Is A Man's Best Friend (Est. 1999) is the ultimate unofficial John Cale website
In Concert
Essen 2011-10-06
Live at the Lichtburg, Essen, Germany - October 06, 2011. The performance is part of the Ruhr Triennale.
Performs Paris 1919 live in its entirety. Antarctica was played after Paris 1919. With the Bochumer Symphoniker. Conductor: Harry Curtis. Arrangements: Randall Woolf.
The band:
John Cale: vocals, guitar, keyboards
Dustin Boyer: lead guitar
Michael Jerome: drums
Joey Maramba: bass
Setlist
- Child's Christmas in Wales
- Hanky Panky Nohow
- The Endless Plain of Fortune
- Andalucia
- Paris 1919
- Graham Greene
- Half Past France
- Antarctica Starts Here
- Macbeth
Interval
- Pile A L'Heure - band + string section only
- Whaddya Mean By That - band
- Catastrofuk - band
- Perfection - band
- Riverbank - band + orchestra
- Captain Hook - band + orchestra
- Secret Corrida - band + orchestra
- Hedda Gabler - band + orchestra
- E: Jumbo In Tha Modernworld - band + horns + horns doubling as backing singers