Royal Festival Hall Life Along the Borderline – A Tribute to Nico Saturday 11 October 2008, 7.30pm John Cale, composer, co-founder of the Velvet Underground and producer of Nico’s most renowned albums presents an iconoclastic tribute to this beloved icon. A very special line-up of artists including James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers), Guillemots, Mark Lanegan, The Fiery Furnaces, Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse), Peter Murphy (Bauhaus), Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance), Liz Green and Nick Franglen, re-imagine her songs in this unique event.
read comments (7)John Cale – Gideon’s Bible
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From the album Vintage Violence (1970). Musicians: Harvey Brooks: bass John Cale: bass, guitar, keyboards, viola Ernie Coralla: guitar Garland Jeffreys: guitar, backing vocals Sandy Konikoff: drums Stan Szelest: piano GIDEON’S BIBLE Holding on, with both eyes, to things that don’t exist Peering through the cutting wrist, at grand old mother greedy Rolling out the cotton ship, upon the carpet pillow Throttling children callously, a messy day with Clancy Gideon lied and Gideon died The force of China felt Gideon smiled as Gideon died The thought of China held. Rolling out the golden robes and other foreign language Stretching out the verbs and nouns together in the greeting Some that felt the blade often, some deep confused emotion Struck eye first against the wall of China under fire. Gideon lied and Gideon died The force of China felt Gideon smiled as Gideon died The thought of China held.
John Cale and Lou Reed perform “Style It Takes” from their LP “Songs for Drella”. Click on “newoldtymer’s videos” to see all my VU stuff.
John Cale and Lou Reed perform “Style It Takes” from their LP “Songs for Drella”. Click on “newoldtymer’s videos” to see all my VU stuff.