March 2012
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Cale at 70
By Professor Byrdflugh (USA)
One hundred thousand people know John Cale, they just don’t know it. He’s a visitor, you see, someone who comes in and out of our subconscious, casually appearing on the songs of our lives, the ones that carry us away, as the musical landscape falls into disgrace. John Cale turns 70 in two days of this writing, seventy glorious years of life, mayhem, passion and...
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Song X
By Isabel Vogt (Germany) It was seven o’clock in the morning, greedy angels sailing the China Sea, when the man who couldn’t afford to orgy slowly sipped his tea. Standing waiting for a man to show was a lady in a ten gallon hat. She’d lost her map of Mexico, went half past France instead. When Patrick Lee met King Harry where the Headless Horsemen drink they didn’t see Carmen Miranda, but they...
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Bring Me The Biography Of John Davies Cale!
Hi Caleists,
Seven years ago there was another John Cale forum called Look HorizOn. And the few faithful members - Andalucia, Bsc. Biscuit, Worm, Checkpoint Charlie, Killer83Z, and Sir Raven (myself), had much fun chattering away to each other about our musical hero, John Cale.
There was a great deal of imaginative role play between the group, and the use of the ‘then popular’ emoticon was put to...
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To a Musical Survivor
By John Bickerton (UK) I You came from wild valleys Where wild folk live and Wild winds blow Beneath the green hills Black pits below Choked with dust and noise From there you emerged With continental grace, A rich fertile mind, An otherwordly gaze, Instruments in hand, and a method skilful in its primitiveness II We hear shrill atonal wails Notes that pierce our ears You made music layered like...
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The Muse
(Apologies to Waldo Jeffers)
By Carol Giammona Schulz (USA) Nora Albert wanted to pay tribute to John Cale She’d been listening to his music non-stop for two-and-a-half years And she’d tried to get her friends and family to listen, too But only her mother did, and only when Nora put it on. And after all, It was because of him that she’d come to know Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, and Elbow (Even they...
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