I was bored, so I googled a bit. Dave Lichtenstein (the then drummer of John Cale) was born David Hoyt Lichtenstein in 1954 as son of famous Roy Lichtenstein, pop art artist, and nowadays known as David Laredo, owner of a restaurant chain (or so). Name change because of not lumping together with daddy (so it is written,...).
Actually it´s the cupboard (this interview is just before Cale´s gig started). John Cale had been signed up as headliner by Alan Bangs who was sacked and replaced by the guy here: Ken Jantz. He foolishly signed up Huey Lewis & The News and Level 42 as support acts, their fans being in the majority. I think Cale was just pissed off and sent out the drummer to do the interview with that nerd. It turned out to be quite a weird gig in front of a hostile crowd but Cale won them over in the end.
John could have saved PIL from their creative bankruptcy, if he took more interest in British New Wave. The irony is that Sex Pistols demo was produced by his guitarist, Chris Spedding and the album was produced by his engineer, Chris Thomas.
James Blomberg john was on hard drugs, alot of coke, he wanted nothing to do with an interview at the time, place was packed and he was scared shitless so he got wasted early
This must be the difficult time for John Cale. Reed, Bowie, Iggy, Eno, and even Lyndon, whose performance John was about to watch on TV, had the commercial breakthrough, meanwhile he remained as relatively obscure figure and should have felt he was left behind. To make the situation worse, John is a big guy and his erratic behaviors scared a lot of people away at that time.
