John Cale | Artifacts

Описание: Interview Conducted: February 10, 2000

With a career spanning over 50 years, John Cale (born 1942 in Gernant, Wales) has spent half a century weaving his creative output between the worlds of avant-garde and pop music. From his time as a key member in LaMonte Young’s Theatre of Eternal Music, to his work as a founding member of The Velvet Underground, as well as a prolific career as a boundary pushing solo artist and producer with over fifty albums to his name, Cale has produced and collaborated with some of the most important figures in contemporary music from Patti Smith and Brian Eno, to Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Modern Lovers, Nick Drake and The Happy Mondays.

Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to Artifacts
1:22 Intro
2:03 The Trans-Atlantic Crossing
4:32 LaMonte Young
9:32 Fluxus
15:54 Improvisation
19:40 Downtown in the 1960s
25:01 Drugs
27:30 The Factory
31:23 Meeting Lou Reed
45:14 Moving Uptown
49:33 The Velvet Underground
52:52 Credits

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