Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:13 PM
photo: Keith Morris
Dai Griffiths is in the department of music at Oxford Brookes University. He is into John Cale, writing "Home is Living Like a Man on the Run": John Cale’s Welsh Atlantic, which might have been the first academic academic article on Cale. It's in Welsh Music History (2000), p. 159-185. Griffiths wrote and recorded a song, a tribute inspired by the Slow Dazzle album.
MP3: Dai Griffiths - Bad Boy Line (John Cale circa 1975)
There are two Welsh phrases towards the end, that mean something like: 'A vengeful God! A terrifying God!'.
» "Home is Living Like a Man on the Run": John Cale’s Welsh Atlantic
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# re: "Bad Boy Line" - a John Cale tribute song
5/30/2009 12:49 AM by
This pretty bad I think. To adapt the style of a very original artist to pay hommage in my opinion in 90 percent of the cases (like here) goes awfully wrong. Yes you can play the piano like Cale...So what? The vocals sound forced and weak and should probably sound like Cales as well. I don´t see the point of this...Academic cover version...I don´t know. Maybe the article is interesting...
# re: "Bad Boy Line" - a John Cale tribute song
6/5/2009 1:14 AM by
I thought it was a pretty good effort
# re: "Bad Boy Line" - a John Cale tribute song
6/5/2009 9:39 AM by
Da iawn Dai, boyo. This is excitable stuff. Good luck to you. "All I needed was a garden" got me chuckling. Great take on Cale!
Peace,
Zig ;)
# re: "Bad Boy Line" - a John Cale tribute song
6/10/2009 1:27 AM by
uf....really terrible thing!! Why doing something like that??? Embarrassing
# re: "Bad Boy Line" - a John Cale tribute song
6/14/2009 11:29 PM by
I can't believe how negative some people are being--it's a pretty good Cale-inspired song, someone who loves JC obviously trying to channel his admiration into some music. Why so much hate, people?
# re: "Bad Boy Line" - a John Cale tribute song
6/15/2009 12:42 PM by
That's my man, Dustin. They’re not the loving kind.
Zig