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John Cale setlists 2007
Glasgow 2007-01-22
Live at the ABC, Glasgow, UK - January 22, 2007.
The band:
Dustin Boyer: lead guitar
Michael Jerome: drums
Joseph Karnes: bass electric, upright bass
Setlist
- Intro Drone
- Reading My Mind
- Hey Ray
- Save Us
- Helen Of Troy
- Turn The Lights On
- Hush > Outta The Bag
- Model Beirut Recital
- A Day in the Life of the Common Cold
- Big White Cloud
- Walkin' The Dog
- Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
- Dirty Ass Rock 'n' Roll
- Ghost Story
- You Know More Than I Know
- Gravel Drive
- Cable Hogue
- Jumbo In Tha Modernworld 1 (cut disc change)
- Jumbo In Tha Modernworld 2
- / Pablo Picasso / Mary Lou
Review from The Herald:
John Cale, ABC, Glasgow
You could never accuse John Cale of resting on his now 40-year-old laurels. The creative force behind the Velvet Underground's more avant-garde moments has a new guise. The haircut told all. With close cropped sides and dyed pink tufts he looks every bit a new age punk.
Monday night's performance was a selection of recent material and some reworkings of classics, with Cale and his energetic young trio adopting a jagged new wave stance. The highlight was a new piece which he introduced only as "something you've not heard before". Whatever it was called, it had a marvellous filmic quality, combining electronica and driving percussion.
The mid-section was perhaps the closest the uncompromising Cale came to making the Celtic connection with three pieces on acoustic guitars, upright bass and minimal percussion. A severe and unerring riff held down for a quarter of an hour provided the backdrop for a segue of songs including Pablo Picasso and Mary Lou. Always the innovator, this was a bold, if not easy, attack on the ear. Those who expected the obvious would have been disappointed that there was neither a viola or a Velvet's track to be heard all evening."
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