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

Live and rare: "Bootleg" CD

Cale & Strings

John Cale & Strings

About this bootleg

CD Germany. Released in 1993.

Two versions of this professionally recorded bootleg exist. One version does not include Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.

Live at the Art Project Munich, Germany, September 6, 1992, except Queen Victoria and Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Queen Victoria taken from the More Fans promo CD (also on the CDEP Hallelujah (1991).

Musicians:
John Cale: Steinway, vocals
B.J. Cole: pedal steel guitar
Tiye Giraud: vocal
Ron Lawrence: viola
Bob Neuwirth: harmonica
Laura Seaton: violin
David Soldier: violin
Jason White: vocal
Mary Wooten: cello (erroneously listed as vocals)

Setlist

  1. Broken Hearts
  2. Paris 1919
  3. Heartbreak Hotel
  4. Cordoba
  5. Dying On The Vine
  6. Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
  7. Life Under Water
  8. Hallelujah
  9. Queen Victoria (a.k.a. The Queen And Me)
  10. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

Kevin Carroll attended this show:

I was at this show, seated in the orchestra section. Strangely I was the only person in that area, everyone else were in the upper level. There was a film crew with a camera set up by the sound board. So somewhere there is a film of the show. Just before the show started, a man in an expensive suit came and sat next to me, he seemed agitated and kept twitching, possible on something, so I didn't talk with him. The set opened with Broken Hearts and Bob Neuwirth came out and hit a bad note on his harmonica, then left the stage. After Life Under Water, everyone left the stage, and then after a while Cale came back to do Hallelujah then left. He typically only does one encore. But the crowd kept clapping and refused to leave, and after a lengthy time, the man next to me said "this is bullshit" climbed up on stage and went across to a back door. That's when I realized he was probably the tour manager. So after a little while longer, Cale comes out in sweat clothes, sits at the piano and performs Streets Of Laredo as a final encore. The recording equipment had already been taken down, which is probably why it doesn't appear on the CD.