Saw John Cale

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John Cale played a concert at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) that was the 50th Anniversary of The Velvet Underground and Nico, the album with the Andy Warhol banana on the cover and they played the whole album. And they was John Cale and his band plus the Wordless Orchestra, Kurt Vile, Animal Collective, MGMT, Connan Mockassin, Caroline Polachek (who sang some of the Nico songs,) and Thee Oh Sees.

The lighting and set was terrific, energy was great, there were mistakes and sloppy moments, but even those were great. And the finale was a big giant wall of sound. I never thought I would ever see someone like John Cale and there he was playing music. I recognized faces in the crowd but I suck at placing them with names, but there were obviously a lot of musicians in the audience.

And everyone had these big shit-eating grins on their faces.

IT WAS FUCKING GREAT!