{"id":1722,"date":"2008-10-04T00:42:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T04:42:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-24T12:11:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T12:11:26","slug":"rock-video-holy-grails-john-cale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-video-holy-grails-john-cale\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Video Holy Grails: John Cale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yng-tpVTOhY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhile preparing for our upcoming intervention with <strong>Townsman Hrrundivbakshi<\/strong> I stumbled on a personal Rock Video Holy Grail: live performances by mid-70s <strong>John Cale<\/strong> of a couple of my favorite songs from <em>Fear<\/em>, the title track and &#8220;Buffalo Ballet&#8221;. (The titles the foreign production crew gave the songs are pretty funny.) Cale&#8217;s hair is long and greasy, friend of Rock Town Hall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/02\/08\/don_t_call_it_rockabilly_rth_interviews_\">Chris Spedding<\/a> is decked out in black leather and is about as thin as a B string, the sound and performances are shakey, in a satisfyingly human way&#8230; In past efforts to find cool videos of Cale I&#8217;ve found plenty of stuff from his bloated early &#8217;80s period and plenty of stuff from his more subdued Elder Statesman period of the last 15 years. I&#8217;ve seen all the crappy footage of the Velvet Underground that&#8217;s floating about. Until now I&#8217;ve never seen live clips of Cale from around the time of this relatively fertile period.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cmsDLaY6G3Q?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While preparing for our upcoming intervention with Townsman Hrrundivbakshi I stumbled on a personal Rock Video Holy Grail: live performances by mid-70s John Cale of a couple of my favorite songs from Fear, the title track and &#8220;Buffalo Ballet&#8221;. (The titles the foreign production crew gave the songs are pretty funny.) Cale&#8217;s hair is long <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-video-holy-grails-john-cale\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[323,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}