Lou Reed John Cale 1989-12-02 New York audience recording

"Songs For Drella"
Brooklyn Academy Of Music
New York
02 December 1989

track 01: Small Town 2.31
track 02: Open House 4.15
track 03: Style It Takes 3.20
track 04: Work 3.18
track 05: The Trouble With Classicists 3.55
track 06: Starlight 4.01
track 07: Faces And Names 4.42
track 08: Images 4.15
track 09: Slip Away 3.35
track 10: It Wasn't Me 3.41
track 11: I Believe 3.21
track 12: Nobody But You 4.02
track 13: A Dream 6.56
track 14: Forever Changed 5.36
track 15: Hello It's Me 2.54

Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
John Cale: keyboards, bowed instruments, vocals

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This was the third of the 4 "formal" Songs For Drella performances at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music. (The 2 shows at St Ann's Church in January 1989 were officially termed "works in progress"). The piece had been commissioned as part of the BAM's "No Wave" Festival, and was performed on 29th and 30th November and then again on the 2nd and 3rd December 1989. I was fortunate enough to see the latter 2 shows: Lou and John played the pieces absolutely deadpan, in front of a very stark backdrop onto which were projected various still images. Each of the shows was identical in format and content until the final show, when Moe Tucker joined Lou and John onstage for a nice rendition of "Pale Blue Eyes". An additional performance, possibly on the 4th or 5th of December (without audience) was filmed for the commercial video release.

After these 4 performances, the piece was partly reprised at the VU "reunion" at the Cartier Foundation, Paris, 15 June 1990 and was presented again in it's entirety in Japan in August 1990.

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