June 1, 1974

Infobox Album
Name = June 1, 1974
Type = Live album
Artist = Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico


Released = June 28, 1974
Recorded = June 1, 1974
Genre = Avant-garde rock and roll
Length = 45:54
Label = Island Records
Producer = Richard Williams
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6kdovwdva9ik link]
* Robert Christgau B+ [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=1916 link]
* "Spin" Rating|6|10Weisbard & Marks, 1995. p.129]
Chronology =Kevin Ayers
Last album ="The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories"
(1974)
This album ="June 1, 1974"
(1974)
Next album ="Lady June's Linguistic Leprosy"
(1974)
Misc =Extra chronology 2
Artist =John Cale
Type =Live
Last album = "Paris 1919"
(1973)
This album ="June 1, 1974"
(1974)
Next album ="Fear"
(1974)

Extra chronology 2
Artist = Brian Eno
Type =Live
Last album ="Here Come the Warm Jets"
(1973)
This album ="June 1, 1974"
(1974)
Next album ="Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)"
(1974)Extra chronology 2
Artist = Nico
Type =Live
Last album ="The End"
(1974)
This album ="June 1, 1974"
(1974)
Next album ="Drama of Exile"
(1981)

"June 1, 1974" is a live album officially attributed to Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico, although the concert also featured other well-known musicians, including Mike Oldfield and Robert Wyatt. It was recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in London, and manufactured and released just 27 days later by Island Records. The record is also informally known as the ACNE album, i.e. Ayers, Cale, Nico, Eno. The cover photograph was taken by Mick Rock in the foyer of the Rainbow theatre, shortly before the concert began. The bemused stare between John Cale and Kevin Ayers is explained by the fact that Cale had caught Ayers sleeping with his wife the night before the show. [ What's Welsh for Zen by John Cale (Bloomsbury 2003) ISBN-10: 0747546223 ] Other songs that were performed at the concert but did not make the LP include Kevin Ayers' "I've Got A Hard-On For You Baby" (with Cale on backing vocals) and John Cale's "Buffalo Ballet" and "Gun". [ [http://www.xs4all.nl/~werksman/cale/bio/1974.html Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend] ]

Track listing

ide A

#"Driving Me Backwards" (Eno)
#"Baby's on Fire" (Eno)
#"Heartbreak Hotel" (Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Presley)
#"The End" (Densmore, Krieger, Manzarek, Morrison)

ide B

#"May I?" (Ayers)
#"Shouting in a Bucket Blues" (Ayers)
#"Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes" (Ayers)
#"Everybody's Sometime and Some People's All the Time Blues" (Ayers)
#"Two Goes into Four" (Ayers)

Personnel

*Kevin Ayers – vocals (B1-5), guitar (B1-5), bass guitar (A1-2)
*Brian Eno – vocals (A1-2), synthesizer (A1-4, B5)
*John Cale – vocals (A3), piano (A2), viola (A1, B5)
*Nico – vocals (A4), harmonium (A4)
*Mike Oldfield – lead guitar (B4), acoustic guitar (B5)
*Ollie Halsall – piano (A1), guitar (A2-3, B4), lead guitar (B1-3), acoustic guitar (B5)
*John "Rabbit" Bundrick – organ(A1-3 & B1-5), organ, piano, electric piano (B1-3)
*Robert Wyatt – percussion (A1-3 B1-3 + 5)
*Doreen Chanter – backing vocals (A3)
*Archie Leggatt – bass guitar (A1-3 B1-3 + 5)
*Eddie Sparrow – drums(A2&3 B1-3), bass drum (A1), tympani (B5)
*Liza Strike – backing vocals (A3)
*Irene Chanter – backing vocals (A3)
*John Wood – engineer
*Phil Ault – assistant engineer
*Ray Doyle – assistant engineer

References & Sources

Notes

*cite book
last= Weisbard
first= Eric
coauthors= Craig Marks
title= Spin Alternative Record Guide
publisher= Vintage Books
year= 1995
isbn= 0679755748