[torrent] john cale - berlin solo 1983
Posted: 14 Dec 2004 11:04
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John Cale ?Berlin Solo 1983?
1. Ghost Story
2. Ship of Fools
3. Leaving it up to You
4. Amsterdam
5. Child?s Christmas in Wales
6. Antarctica Starts Here
7. Buffalo Ballet
8. Taking it all Away
9. Riverbank
10. Paris 1919
11. Guts
12. Chinese Envoy
13. Thoughtless Kind
14. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
15. Dead or Alive
16. I?m Waiting for the Man
17. Heartbreak Hotel
Encore # 1
18. Chorale
19. Fear is a Man?s Best Friend
Encore # 2
20. I Keep a Close Watch
Total playing time 76m 29s
This is my first effort, so please be understanding of any unintended screw-ups. It?s an audience recording, and it?s in stereo, but I am loathe to give it a sound grading. I made this myself and have therefore always been biased about the quality.
Over the years, I have played it more than any other live recording in my collection, so I would be interested to hear what others think about it. I still love this show and play it regularly. The official ?Fragments of a Rainy Season? album has a similar setlist but, for me, it lacks atmosphere and is too sterile.
This is an uncirculated recording of John Cale at the Quartier Latin theatre in West Berlin, on March 8th 1983. I recorded it with an Aiwa TP-S30 cassette machine, considered at the time to be a quality recorder. There was a stereo microphone you could buy for it and that?s what I used, taped down to the front of the balcony ledge, pointing at center stage.
The tape was transferred to CD with the help of Cool Edit 2000. The only gap in the original cassette recording came between ?Chinese Envoy? and ?Thoughtless Kind? when I flipped the tape, but I reckon I only lost about three seconds of applause. Anyway, I spliced it together and you should hardly notice the join. I didn?t use any of Cool Edit?s filtering stuff to enhance the sound. The only plug-in I utilized was the fade-in and fade-out facility.
If anybody is an expert and can improve the quality, I?d be delighted to hear the result.
I have included some artwork I made with Microsoft Word. I used some of the pictures I took that night. If you listen to the beginning and the end of ?Amsterdam? you?ll hear the distinctive ?ker-chunk? of my old camera actually taking those pictures.
The Quartier Latin was a small theatre on the Potsdamer Strasse, a few hundred yards from the Berlin Wall and right in the middle of the city?s most notorious and dangerous red light street. It?s still there, but is now a cabaret bar called the Wintergarten.
The theatre was small and basic but cosy, on a chilly eastern European evening. It was a very bohemian place, where people could sit where they liked and wander around at will. People sat in the aisles in groups, drinking, talking politics and rolling joints, as the seats slowly filled up.
I had got in early, gone straight up to the balcony, and taped my stereo microphone to the front of the balcony ledge, pointing directly to stage center. I waited an hour or so, watching the place below fill up.
There was no announcement, just the lights dimming down and John Cale walking into the light, all dressed in black, holding a bright red guitar. ?Hello, Berlin,? and we were off. He started the show on acoustic guitar and swapped over to electric piano every three or four songs.
Berlin crowds are notoriously reticent and, given the nature of this low-key, ?unplugged? set, they were surprisingly responsive. In part, this was as a result of being aroused from their usual torpor by a handful of drunken hecklers, wandering around downstairs shouting insults which outraged other members of the audience. Cale, unable to speak the language, seemed bemused and unsure if he was being abused or praised.
It seems the drunks had been expecting a full-on John Cale rock show, complete with hockey-mask, feedback and dead chickens. They were sorely disappointed and let it be known they weren?t happy. They can be heard throughout shouting ??quatsch!? (??load of rubbish!?) and ??scheisse!? (?you?re shit!?). It was hilarious. Most of the audience, however, loved Cale and kept telling them to shut up. At one point, around the time of ?Heartbreak Hotel?, a fight very nearly broke out.
I hope you enjoy it.
Andy
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John Cale ?Berlin Solo 1983?
1. Ghost Story
2. Ship of Fools
3. Leaving it up to You
4. Amsterdam
5. Child?s Christmas in Wales
6. Antarctica Starts Here
7. Buffalo Ballet
8. Taking it all Away
9. Riverbank
10. Paris 1919
11. Guts
12. Chinese Envoy
13. Thoughtless Kind
14. The Ballad of Cable Hogue
15. Dead or Alive
16. I?m Waiting for the Man
17. Heartbreak Hotel
Encore # 1
18. Chorale
19. Fear is a Man?s Best Friend
Encore # 2
20. I Keep a Close Watch
Total playing time 76m 29s
This is my first effort, so please be understanding of any unintended screw-ups. It?s an audience recording, and it?s in stereo, but I am loathe to give it a sound grading. I made this myself and have therefore always been biased about the quality.
Over the years, I have played it more than any other live recording in my collection, so I would be interested to hear what others think about it. I still love this show and play it regularly. The official ?Fragments of a Rainy Season? album has a similar setlist but, for me, it lacks atmosphere and is too sterile.
This is an uncirculated recording of John Cale at the Quartier Latin theatre in West Berlin, on March 8th 1983. I recorded it with an Aiwa TP-S30 cassette machine, considered at the time to be a quality recorder. There was a stereo microphone you could buy for it and that?s what I used, taped down to the front of the balcony ledge, pointing at center stage.
The tape was transferred to CD with the help of Cool Edit 2000. The only gap in the original cassette recording came between ?Chinese Envoy? and ?Thoughtless Kind? when I flipped the tape, but I reckon I only lost about three seconds of applause. Anyway, I spliced it together and you should hardly notice the join. I didn?t use any of Cool Edit?s filtering stuff to enhance the sound. The only plug-in I utilized was the fade-in and fade-out facility.
If anybody is an expert and can improve the quality, I?d be delighted to hear the result.
I have included some artwork I made with Microsoft Word. I used some of the pictures I took that night. If you listen to the beginning and the end of ?Amsterdam? you?ll hear the distinctive ?ker-chunk? of my old camera actually taking those pictures.
The Quartier Latin was a small theatre on the Potsdamer Strasse, a few hundred yards from the Berlin Wall and right in the middle of the city?s most notorious and dangerous red light street. It?s still there, but is now a cabaret bar called the Wintergarten.
The theatre was small and basic but cosy, on a chilly eastern European evening. It was a very bohemian place, where people could sit where they liked and wander around at will. People sat in the aisles in groups, drinking, talking politics and rolling joints, as the seats slowly filled up.
I had got in early, gone straight up to the balcony, and taped my stereo microphone to the front of the balcony ledge, pointing directly to stage center. I waited an hour or so, watching the place below fill up.
There was no announcement, just the lights dimming down and John Cale walking into the light, all dressed in black, holding a bright red guitar. ?Hello, Berlin,? and we were off. He started the show on acoustic guitar and swapped over to electric piano every three or four songs.
Berlin crowds are notoriously reticent and, given the nature of this low-key, ?unplugged? set, they were surprisingly responsive. In part, this was as a result of being aroused from their usual torpor by a handful of drunken hecklers, wandering around downstairs shouting insults which outraged other members of the audience. Cale, unable to speak the language, seemed bemused and unsure if he was being abused or praised.
It seems the drunks had been expecting a full-on John Cale rock show, complete with hockey-mask, feedback and dead chickens. They were sorely disappointed and let it be known they weren?t happy. They can be heard throughout shouting ??quatsch!? (??load of rubbish!?) and ??scheisse!? (?you?re shit!?). It was hilarious. Most of the audience, however, loved Cale and kept telling them to shut up. At one point, around the time of ?Heartbreak Hotel?, a fight very nearly broke out.
I hope you enjoy it.
Andy
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