Re: (TV) Cale

["Nick Powell" <nick@powelln.freeserve.co.uk>]

I just borrowed a cd from my local library called 'Close Watch:An
Introduction To John Cale' and on there it is 'Cable Hogue@.

Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: GaryM <garym@earthlink.net>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: (TV) Cale


>
>
> MICHAEL CARLUCCI wrote:
>
> >    Unless Philip & I have the only misprints, the Helen Of Troy LP's &
CD's
> > all spell Hogue, and the repeating chorus is Hogue, in the Cale song
anyway,
> >
> > can't speak for the Peckinpah film.
>
> DEFINITELY Houge. I saw this movie on TV in the 70s the only time I ever
did
> peyote, & since Cable dies for a stupid reason at the end, I thought it
was
> telling me I had to die too, & did my only ever suicide attempt (still
have my
> note - aren't drugs fun?)
>   Ran into Cale a bunch of times in the late 70s/early 80s, & he was
usually
> fucked up. He was in Rather Ripped Records in Berkeley arguing with a
customer
> who wanted to know about a record that Cale produced, & Cale was YELLING
at him
> that he never heard of the record. I did have a chance to meet Cale - one
of the
> last times I was in NYC (around '80 or so) a buddy of mine, Jim Goodwin
(AKA
> Huge Discounts) had joined Cale on keyboards & invited me to their
rehersal.
> Unfortunately I couldn't go - it started at 3AM.
>     The last time I was clubbing in NYC before moving to California was
around
> '9/78. A buddy & I went to Hurrah's to see the Cramps & an opening band
who's
> name I can't remember, but had ex-members of The Planets. We were tripping
&
> things were great, but there was some huge guy there that was spooking my
buddy
> out so bad that he wouldn't walk past him to go to the bathroom.
>    I knew the Cramps a bit from my days with The Pagans, as they played
together
> a bunch of times (Nick Knox from the Cramps & Mike "Tommy Gunn" Metoff of
the
> Pagans are cousins - in fact Mike was in the Cramps for awhile as Ikey
Knox),
> they did a wonderful headlining set. After they got off the stage, the
huge guy
> took the stage with another guy on guitar,using the Cramps equipment, &
were
> joined by the rhythm section from the opening band. The huge guy was
fucked up &
> couldn't get the mic to work, kept yelling & pointing to the mic. I was
talking
> to Char, Cramps manager, asked who that guy was & why he was using the
Cramps
> equipment. She said "oh, that's just Cale". Great music! It wasn't until a
> couple months later that I saw a pic of the event in Trowser Press &
discovered
> the other guitarist was Chris Spedding!
>   The night ended leaving Hurrahs & seeing Cale at a pay phone, holding
the
> receiver at arm's length & yelling HULLO? HULLO?
>
> best,
> Gary Mollica
>
>
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