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Short, shameful confession: I got into John Cale as a teenager because I meant to check out a J. J. Cale album from the music library and thought it was the sam
by microtherion 7y ago
Short, shameful confession: I got into John Cale as a teenager because I meant to check out a J. J. Cale album from the music library and thought it was the same guy.
- dang 7y agoCale (this one) wrote a song about the confusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2Fp0Y0oCc#t=15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2Fp0Y0oCc#t=15. That was at the decadent end of his menacing phase.
- microtherion 7y agoThat's hilarious! And he DOES sound quite a bit like JJ in this song.
- dang 7y agoI remember hearing a version where he changed the words to "Never wrote a song called Cocaine, never wrote a song called Heroin", which is pretty funny given the VU. Addressing two rivals at once. J.J. Cale's style always struck me as transcendent laid-backness, while laid-back might be the very last term one could apply to John Cale.