"All that stuff I couldn't do on the viola I'm doing now. After all that time when people were just not interested in hearing the instrument, I'm pursuing it."John Cale
Fear Is A Man's Best Friend (Est. 1999) is the ultimate unofficial John Cale website
Equipment
Want to know what John Cale uses to create his music? Check out his musical hardware.
The musical hardware
The musical software
He uses Apple's MainStage when he plays live. In the studio he uses that program's Ultrabeat feature, the iMPC app or the Koala sampler app.
Amplifiers
When John Cale plugged in his bass, there was no escape. After the Velvet Underground were endorsed by Vox Instruments the famous Westminster Bass Amp was brought in. Endless hassles to get to damned thing to work.
Chairs
Cale dragged a chair across the floor to create the scraping sounds on European Son on the The Velvet Underground & Nico album. Not to be confused with the child's game musical chairs.
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Order the remastered and expanded Paris 1919 album (2LP, CD) via Domino Records
Order the remastered and expanded The Academy in Peril album (LP, CD) via Domino Records
