Comments on Fragments of a Cale Season: Everytime the Dogs Bark

Boy, I'm awfully sorry to be doing this this way, ...

2009-03-19T18:35:00.000-04:00

Boy, I'm awfully sorry to be doing this this way, but hooked on phonics never worked for me and I don't understand your e-mail address at all, would you be interested in a cover version of John Cale's work I've found aggregated on the blogosphere? I've loved Cale for some time and happen to be fond of "Paris 1919" covered over at
apaschalcircus.wordpress.com

they've got the spirit, it seems, and it's nice to be reminded of those songs. Haven't thought about them in so long.

`Rachel

Great to see that there are still enthusiastic Joh...

2009-03-02T21:18:00.000-05:00

Great to see that there are still enthusiastic John Cale fans out there!! Not sure how many are left but the fact that Cale has not played live in North America since 2005 gives me worry that he has given up on U.S and Canada. Any word out there what he is up to. I understood a new album was on the way in early 2008 and have not heard anything since. There were only a small number of one-off shows in Europe last year….hopefully it’s not retirement.

Sorry I made a mess of that URL. Nechvatal’s work ...

2009-02-26T08:16:00.000-05:00

Sorry I made a mess of that URL. Nechvatal’s work can be seen under ‘artists’ at this gallery . . .

http://www.gracechosygallery.com

Howdy R. P. Thanks, and respect. Huge amount of sa...

2009-02-26T06:56:00.000-05:00

Howdy R. P.

Thanks, and respect. Huge amount of satisfaction here reading you. It’s bliss to hear you enthuse over Artificial Intelligence as it happens to be one of my favourites for all the same reasons as yours. I love the ‘connections’ with this album – like, the James Young book – Nico: Songs They Never Play On The Radio – and lyric writing with Larry Sloman using Burroughs’s ‘cut-up’ technique, most apparent on the track ‘Everytime the Dogs Bark’. Even the artwork of Dennis Nechvatal lends itself. Look at his similar works here . . . (Haha! Am I a touch fanatical over this album?)

http://www.gracechosygallery.com/GraceChosyGallery_pages/GraceChosyGallery_artistimages_folder/GraceChosyGallery_artistimages_Nechvatal.htm

Artificial Intelligence (title changed from Black Rose) was put together in Graham “Dids” Dowdall’s music room at the back of his terraced-house in Balham, south London.

Reading from Nico: Songs They Never Play On The Radio . . .

>>> London – April 1985. John Cale plunged into Dids’s miniature elf’s lair in Balham. Overweight, overcoat, over here. Hiding his wild coke-stary eyes beneath scratched Wayfarers, covering his beer-barrel gut with a stained sweatshirt and a No-Smoking sticker. This was the man who’d directed the aesthetic of New York’s most stylish pop-group. Distanced now, by more than a decade, from the marketing genius of Warhol and the savvy of Reed, he’d had to take on the narcotic, alcoholic and physical abuse alone. Yet beneath the overcoat, the distended belly and the bloated ego you sensed there might still exist a good-looking, almost likeable, Welsh grammar-school boy on the make.<<<

And in the biography, Sedition & Alchemy by Tim Mitchell . . .

>>> On Artificial Intelligence, two pieces of image-laden life on the edge, ‘Everytime the Dogs Bark’ and the dynamic ‘Satellite Walk’, bookend a familiar mixture of angular approaches to love and political intrigue. There is also, however, further expression given to Cale’s longing for an end to the chaos in his life. This is particularly the case in the mournful and beautiful ‘Dying on the Vine’ and in ‘Song of the Valley’, and it is a yearning that fights against the rest of the material and signals the fact that the way he was living his life was going to change dramatically soon. <<<

On July 14th 1985 – Eden, John and Risé’s daughter was born.

Many thanks again R. P. I dunno what to say now. Feel kind of empty. Guess I’ll put the album on ;–))

I certainly hope we will.

2009-02-03T13:24:00.000-05:00

I certainly hope we will.