Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to James Butler,
Is it this one?
Yes! Thank you.
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Point Chev, Saturday evening, one.
And Point Chev, Saturday evening, two. That's a shopping trolley.
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Hard News: The Velvet Underground Etc., in reply to Damian Christie,
I’d been told, and until 5 minutes ago reading this thread, always believed that Nico had died of a heroin overdose. Seemed believable.
No, Nico died of cycling.
She was living in Ibiza and got on a fitness kick -- and had a heart attack riding around the hills in the blazing sun. Probably wearing black.
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Note a Mr S Grigg in that Screaming Blamatics tour pic.
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Siouxsie the punk was "pretty" at the low-key motel press conference.
I did that interview, one of my first as deputy editor of RIU. She was nice and quite forthcoming, as was Steve Severin.
Robert Smith was guesting on guitar for that tour and I talked to him too, but he was basically incoherent and giggled a lot.
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Hard News: The Velvet Underground Etc., in reply to Doug Hood,
Hey Russell, was one of my favourite tours, me on sound,Ken West on lights, touring party of 3.
Do you remember driving to bFM and you put a Clean tape on the car stereo -- and Cale was all "take that rubbish off!" He was totally winding us up.
I also recall you having a little trouble filling one part of his rider :-)
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I'd just like to point out that much as I'd like to link y'all to the somewhat famous bootleg of John Cale's 1983 solo show at The Gluepot, I can't, because it was on Megaupload and the US government has sized the domain name and all the files on the site. Fuckers.
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Hard News: The Velvet Underground Etc., in reply to Mike O'Connell,
I heard Graeme Hill (Humphreys – Able Tasmans) at a Kings Arms kiwi music night quiz earlier this year relate an amusing anecdote about ’meeting/ John Cale when he was in the Bfm studio, probably on the same day you were there Russell – it didn’t end well!
Cale was such a curmudgeon, but he actually gave us a lot of his time and I liked him. He was funny.
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Hard News: The Velvet Underground Etc., in reply to BenWilson,
Wow, I can see why that never sold, and also why I've never started a band. I haven't got the patience for 42 minutes of the same baseline.
Dude. That's John Cale you're dissing there :-)
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Hard News: The Velvet Underground Etc., in reply to David Cohen,
Hardly anyone bought that first Velvet Underground, but everyone who did went on to form a cult. How else can one explain the ongoing enthusiasm for these "recently rediscovered"--ie, this has been lying around for years, but we really didn't think until now that anybody would actually PAY to listen to it--recordings of long-lost shows?
It does seem to have become a bit silly -- the six-disc set includes a rough mix from an acetate of the album that doesn't really seem that interesting, and the Ohio live recordings are apparently fairly poor.
On the other hand, the Gymnasium bootleg is great -- I've played it many, many times.
