John Cale's official promo videos

[Sheila Klein]

Recent readings have led me to two Cale videos, both of them weird and fascinating and both on YouTube.

Dead Or Alive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYlUnxZk4OM&t=14s
largely intact, apart from a brief TV-broadcast voiceover and a piece missing in the middle

Hallelujah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYlUnxZk4OM&t=14s
audio from Fragments Of A Rainy Season, but video apparently made for 2016 reissue rather than 1992 original

[peppergomez]

Ugh, one of them was wince worthy even by mid 80s standards

[threechordwonder]

Talking of Hallelujah, in case you didn't know, it's the subject of a documentary. See this article in UK Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/j ... ocumentary

or this one which links to the story of how Cale came to record it (or cover it, or reinterpret it ... )
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -praise-be

But what I really want is one of those hats.

[dial4]

Thanks. There was a DVD for Words for the dying but it cannot be found, almost nothing from the years 1960 to 1990...

[simonm]

not a promo vid but there's a short film he made around '66 called Police Car (no sound iirc!) - can be seen on ubuweb

[gazatthebop]

a promo video was recorded for "Changes made" in 1982

[gazatthebop]

https://vimeo.com/235298528/description ... Y0Xun-4FxA

[Sheila Klein]

The bunny movie is cool, but are you suggesting it's the promo video for "Changes Made"?

[threechordwonder]

https://vimeo.com/235298528/description ... Y0Xun-4FxA

Well, I didn't know any of that - neither the poem nor Cale's rendition of it - thanks.

Here's (hare's?) a link to the poem itself (no VU content though): https://www.silentearth.org/the-names-o ... 2Dcropper.

[gazatthebop]

anyone seen his new video. worst ever?