John Cale, Lou Reed, Patti Smith and David Byrne - Live, The Ocean Club, 1976
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2022
- 1. Ghost Story
2. Buffalo Ballet
3. You Know More Than I Know
4. Guts
5. I’m Waiting For The Man
6. I Keep A Close Watch
7. The Jeweler
8. Gun
9. Pablo Picasso
10. Cable Hogue
11. Baby What You Want Me To Do - Розваги
I bought about 9 or so Cale albums- on vinyl- Vintage Violence, Paris 1919, Carribean Sunset, Music For a New Society, Fear, Slow Dazzle, Honi Soit, Sabotage/Live and a bunch more on CD- but it was always amazing to hear the songs live- the pure melodic power of his tunes always blows me away. I only saw him live once in the 80's and once in the 90's, but it was a real treat. He delivers the most intense- performances. He is the great answer to what made the Velvet Underground not just an American rock band- but a step above any garage band of the 60's. He was Avante Garde with a vengeance.
GRANDLIFE CULTURE
THE ART BARS
Summer 1976. I was living on Bleecker Street, across from the Village Gate. It was a wild time; everyone was young and the Village was hanging on to a Bohemian last stand. I was just out of college and driving a red VW Super Beetle, 1974 vintage. My friend Sue and I were out for a ride and heading south on a dark lonely stretch of lower Broadway toward Chambers Street. We were searching for The Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, a new bar opened by Max’s Kansas City founder Mickey Ruskin. Smoking a joint and thinking back to my middle-teen wonder years of the late ’60s, Max’s had always existed as some sort of Holy Grail, the latest birthplace of beyond cool. The place opened in 1965 on a deserted block of Park Avenue, just north of Union Square and now, ten years later, Mickey was still one step ahead. He always believed that money followed the art, even if it meant cabbing it nearly a dozen blocks below Canal Street to Chambers. It was still a non-neighborhood and largely uncharted territory, at least to me.
Max’s had already staked its claim as the art bar of the decade, if not the century, where the worlds of Pop, Color Field and Concept were lined up at the bar and hanging on the walls. The place was somehow both elitist and democratic, ironic yet obvious in all the best possible ways. Now The Ocean Club, as everyone called it, was about to see if lightning really could strike twice.
Driving those 20 blocks south of Bleecker, Sue and I finally landed on Chambers Street near West Broadway, parked the car and strolled inside. The place was packed and everyone was there. Mickey Ruskin was in position at the end of the bar sipping a Sauza Conmemorativo. Ellen Barkin was waiting tables. Lou Reed, John Cale, David Byrne, and Patti Smith were on the small stage at the back of the dining room. We stood there watching and listening as lightning struck twice.
Back then I was still just a kid from Long Island with a car I drove in college and a version of a high school girlfriend at my side. Trying hard to be bad while having a good time, I was staring at my future without knowing. I was never sure if I could get in, no less fit in. Eventually I did, though fitting in was another story.
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cale.... that voice... on the edge.... great collection of songs... true gem... thx!
What the… how is this not way way more popular. Not only is the music good but it’s literally got Byrne, Patti, reed and cale all on a 45min live set. I wonder what the story behind this was?
lower manhattan ocean club
if i remember correctly, John was doing a show backed by David and Patti, Lou happened to be in the audience so he joined them for Im waiting for the man
Thank you for this been looking for performances with Lou and Patti hard to find - Lou is playing Great guitar in this performance
Thanks for this fantastic upload
never heard of this before, wonderful ☮❤
How didn't I know about this?! Thanks a lot for posting!
Mick Ronson played also
From the Spiders from Mars?
@@MarkTheGun Yes
Wow!
Yep thats Mick Ronson at about 24 min in on Gun. Thanks for posting!
👁El ojo
what........... how this e x i s t
Where is the Ocean Club?
Wtf
Patti Smith’s lyrics on Waiting For The Man are cringe af and definitely wouldn’t fly today, but otherwise I love this recording and listen to it religiously
The paper trail for this is dubious. It is definitely not them all playing at once. I have read seemingly endless threads on this now, and there is no actual detailed provenance claimed anywhere, just the assertion. Possibly this is real and a single show. Possibly this is just BS. Possibly it is a hyped claim for a nonethless interesting recording. I don't accept claims
by authority, that's how we got christianity. There is a plausibility issue, - Talking Heads is a band already, where are the others, and what was Byrne doing there, and why have none of them ever mentioned it, despite many volumes of biography and cultural history, any of whose authors would have seen this as a critical event.
I have a PDF of the January 1977 Rock Scene magazine with a two-page article on the show. Written by the editor Lisa Robinson, and featuring 20 different photos of them all onstage and backstage afterward. Not sure where you would find this issue, but it proves the show did happen. It begins: "THE NIGHTS
JOHN CALE
AND
LOU REED
PERFORMED
TOGETHER
AGAIN ....
By Lisa Robinson
We'd heard about it a week in
advance. John Cale would perform
two consecutive midnights at
Mickey Ruskin's Lower Manhattan
Ocean Club. Who could miss
this??
John said he wanted to have
some fun and help his friend
Mickey celebrate the opening of his
new place. John asked (and received)
the assistance of leader/
guitarist of the Talking Heads,
David Byrne. And, on the afternoon
of the event, I got a whispered
telephone call informing
me that Lou Reed would show up.
In his capacity as musician. (Nico,
of course, was in Paris, and could
not be reached for comment.)
Midnight: I arrived early to be
sure I'd secure a seat. Jane Freidman
had reserved plenty for what
looked like a Rock Scene photo
spread come to life. Here, the
Ramones. There, Television-with
the notable exception of Tom Verlaine,
conspicuous by his absence.
Danny Fields, James Wolcott,
Lenny Kaye, Ivan Kral, Jay Dee
Daugherty, Richard " DNV" Sohl,
Patti Smith, Marbles, Rachel (Lou
Reed's constant companion).
Photographers Bob Gruen and
Rich Aaron were busy.
Twelve thirty: Lou, John and
David get onstage and tune up.
Patti's road manager Moe Slatin
says that Lou turns his guitar up so
high he blows out his amps." Goes on from there.
where can you find this PDF?@@friendlier