Tuesday, 12 May 2009
John Cale - Y Cymro
Who linked the high art world of experimental modernist music to art happenings with Warhol and the smacked-up confrontation of The Velvet Underground? A nice viola-playing Welsh-speaker, that's who: and now he's Wales's representative at the Venice Biennale (an important art thing).
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What a guy.
Did I ever tell you I had a smoke with Lou Reed? 14th October 1972 at around 5pm in the corridor outside Leicester student union concert hall sat on a huge red sofa.
Those were the days.
smoking.
But what were you smoking?
Something he smelled as he walked down the corridor... which was the reason he approached me with a smile...
Further to my previous nostalgicism... a bootleg of said gig (with a supporting band, promoting his first solo album) called 'Lou Reed Live at Leicester University 14/10/1972' or some variant of that, is available, but not to me, because I've never tracked it down. If there's anyone out there who knows anyone... lemme know.
Try the internet!
Did that, foolish Vole, but all I could find was bootleg LP art. Obviously the internet appeared too late to cater for my tastes.
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