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Post by jk on Jun 11, 2023 4:10:37 GMT -5
Angus MacLise (1938–1979) played for a while with LaMonte Young's Theatre of Eternal Music, whose core consisted of Young, his wife Marian Zazeela, Tony Conrad and John Cale. MacLise is best remembered, however, as The Velvet Underground's first drummer. That said, his approach to music was too experimental and his life-style too erratic (he often missed gigs by hours and even days) and he and the band soon parted company. (See the wiki page for a more detailed explanation.) I spent an hour or more sifting through tracks by MacLise on YouTube, as I felt he deserved a post in this thread, but I had great trouble finding anything even halfway listenable! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_MacLiseI discovered this more appropriate (read: more listenable) choice a few days ago. Chumlum was written to accompany an avant-garde film of that name (I believe it's on YouTube). To quote commenter Matthew McLaughlin, "I think he is playing gamelan because I remember that Ira Cohen, the great poet and photographer who was also a close friend of Angus', talked about his gamelan in his poem 'Ballad of the Gone Maclise'." "In the poem one can lay down the heartline, the harp can bring the tears muffled by the sound of the drum your gamelans cut by the Buddha's Knife of compassion" [ Source]
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Moon Dawg Vol II
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Post by Moon Dawg Vol II on Jul 15, 2023 7:02:23 GMT -5
Off/on topic: I could imagine Dennis Wilson being an effective drummer for The Velvet Underground.
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Post by jk on Jul 15, 2023 9:04:20 GMT -5
Off/on topic: I could imagine Dennis Wilson being an effective drummer for The Velvet Underground. Interesting imagining Dennis playing with another band. I'm not sure whether the combination of DW and Lou Reed would have worked! Of course, then you could have had Dennis backing John Cale on "Mr Wilson".
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Post by jk on Oct 28, 2023 14:17:29 GMT -5
"Subtly played in the background of the new film Past Lives to great effect" is Matt-nb3yb's three-month-old comment on "You Know More Than I Know" from John Cale's 1974 album Fear. And that's precisely where I heard it last night (brilliant film, by the way): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_(John_Cale_album)
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