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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
You make a good point as usual, but John Cale is far from being a reactionary. He's a huge fan of Dr Dre and he certainly is not the type afraid to use technology in his music. Listen to Hobo Sapiens (almost entirely an electronic record) alone, and you'll get what I mean. He likes some daft stuff like Beck though, the old bugger.
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Sounds like Cale has come around a bit since the last time I bothered to read one of his interviews then. Mind that was ages ago, but it just turned me off severely to his opinions at the time. I also saw him live twice around that same time and it was horrible both times. Likely a low point in his career, he was playing in tiny bars so fucked up that he hit his face on the mic stand and didn't seem to notice. Chris Spedding sort of carried him through the first time, and the second time he was opening for Pere Ubu in a Seattle club with no reentry, so I just suffered through the same Neil Diamond wannabe set (seriously he was turning Paris 1919 into the Jazz Singer). Again, I know he's capable of much better, and in fact has done so since, but I was pretty put off back then.
I can't imagine a less appropriate thread to do it, but I gotta defend Beck too. I've seen him twice, both times when I didn't exactly choose too, and each time was completely blown away by his good sense on stage. He's a real showman and yeah the songs only have a smidge of substance, but sometimes charisma and a few hooks is enough.