Lou Reed John Cale 1989-12-03 New York audience recording
Songs For Drella
"Next Wave" Festival
Brooklyn Academy Of Music
New York
03 December 1989
track 01: Small Town 2.40
track 02: Open House 4.34
track 03: Style It Takes 3.23
track 04: Work 3.24
track 05: The Trouble With Classicists 4.05
track 06: Starlight 4.00
track 07: Faces And Names 4.51
track 08: Images 3.51
track 09: Slip Away 3.55
track 10: It Wasn't Me 3.48
track 11: I Believe 3.18
track 12: Nobody But You 4.02
track 13: A Dream 6.56
track 14: Forever Changed 5.36
track 15: Hello It's Me 3.23
track 16: Pale Blue Eyes 4.17
Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
John Cale: keyboards, bowed instruments, vocals
Maureen Tucker: vocals (track 16)
lineage: (2nd or 3rd generation) Maxell UDII 90 cassette - WAV - FLAC (level 8) - you
original recording engineer unknown
transfer to wav August 2009 by lurid_uk
uploaded to Dime August 2009 by lurid_uk
This was the last of the 4 "formal" Songs For Drella performances at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music. (The 2 shows at St Ann's Church in January 1989 were officially termed "works in progress"). The piece had been commissioned as part of the BAM's "Next Wave" Festival, and was performed on 29th and 30th November and then again on the 2nd and 3rd December 1989. I was fortunate enough to see the latter 2 shows: Lou and John played the pieces absolutely deadpan, in front of a very stark backdrop onto which were projected various still images. Each of the shows was identical in format and content until the final show, when Moe Tucker joined Lou and John onstage for a nice rendition of "Pale Blue Eyes". An additional performance, possible on 4th or 5th December (without audience) was filmed for the commercial video release.
After these 4 performances, the piece was partly reprised at the Cartier Foundation, Paris, 15 June 1990 and was presented again in it's entirety in Japan in August 1990.
I hung around at the stage door after this show: Moe was happy to talk and sign autographs, Lou would sign but wouldn't talk, and John just swept past imperiously.....
scans included:
1. "Songs For Drella" Press Kit
2. tickets and programme for the show
3. a pile of contemporary press cuttings
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