Cale has said that while the debut had some moments of fragility and beauty, White Light/White Heat was “consciously anti-beauty”. The title track sets a harsh opening; bassist Cale overdubbing a piano that has been described as “a cross between Jerry Lee Lewis and Henry Cowell “. Along with brash…
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The band recorded an album’s worth of material for Elektra Records in 1968.
Yule had first seen the Velvets perform at a student event at Harvard University in Cambridge in early 1968
After the completion of Wheels of Fire in mid-1968, the band members had grown tired of their exhausting touring schedule and increasingly loud jamming, and wanted to go their separate ways. Baker stated in a 2006 interview with Music Mart magazine, “It just got to the point where Eric said…
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when the band played at the Boston Tea Party later that year, the band stayed at Yule’s apartment on River Street
Cream were eventually persuaded to do one final album, appropriately titled Goodbye . The album was recorded in late 1968 and released in early 1969, after the band had broken up. It comprised six songs, three live recordings dating from a concert at The Forum in Los Angeles on 19…
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In 1968, the Stones, acting on a suggestion by Ian Stewart, put a control room in a van and created the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio so they would not be limited to the standard 9–5 operating hours of most recording studios.
Oh, he shouted at me on stage, he turned his bass up so loud that he deafened me on the first gig. What he does is that he apologises and apologises, but I’m afraid, to do it on a Cream reunion gig, that was the end. He killed the magic,…
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The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus , which originally began as an idea about “the new shape of the rock-and-roll concert tour”, was filmed at the end of 1968.
The group covered the 1968 Orpheus hit “Can’t Find the Time” for the soundtrack of the Jim Carrey movie Me, Myself & Irene (2000). The song’s writer, Bruce Arnold, traded verses with Darius on several occasions when the band played live on the West Coast. The band kept to an…
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