Handbill for John Cale on Saturday, 19th of February, 1977 at the New Yorker Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The New Yorker Theatre as it looked around that time:
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The following is from the very nice Last Pogo Jumps Again site at http://www.thelastpogo.net/ and
three of the above images
were borrowed
from that site.
"John Cale would play the New Yorker (Gary Topp's new venue) theatre
in February of 1977, fanning the flames that the Ramones
had sparked four months earlier when they kick-started the "punk" scene
in Toronto on September 24, 1976 on the very same stage.
Cale was (and still is) a living legend, and did not disappoint. He ended his
blistering set on his hands and knees, gathering up mike
and amp chords in his mouth, crawling off the stage, hundreds of pounds of
amps and mikes falling and trailing behind him, pure
anarchic and hilarious theatrics, feedback humming and screeching, until finally
hiding behind the curtain stage right.
The Wizard of Fucking Oz. And the packed house might have collectively thought: "Whoa.
We're definitely not in Kansas anymore."
The first encore was Cable Hogue, and then This Heart of Mine. The Ballad of
Cable Hogue was a 1970 movie directed by bad-ass
genius Sam Peckinpah that was also shown often at The Original 99 Cent Roxy.
Cale would later write Honi Soit (qui mal y pense),
which could be translated, more or less, as "Do unto others as you would
have others do unto you," the cut-line of the movie.
Or more accurately, "Evil be to him who thinks Evil." - Colin
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The following snippet of a Newspaper article has been borrowed from Hans Werksman's fine Fear Is A Man's Best Friend site:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~werksman/cale/live_reviews/cale_in_canada_ny.html
Bit of newpaper announcing the gig.
Another poster...
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