John Cale performing the Velvets Venus in Furs in the 1980s. Jim Capaldi singing That's Love in a video that features Eric Bogosian! Sarah McLachlan and The Chieftans perform Drawn to the Rhythm in 1995.
The Cale albums are available in a fine 2 CD set called, helpfully, "The Island Years." Friends who played on the ex-Velvet's records at this time included Roxy Music members Brian Eno, Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera, along with the Chanter Sisters (backing vocalists on Roxy tours -- the scary chorus of the live "Both Ends Burning" remains etched); Ferry/Roxy guitarist, Motorbikin' Chris Spedding; still-with-Genesis Phil Collins; prolific folk hero Richard Thompson, to name a few of the rock elite who wanted to make the Velvet connection.
Jim Capaldi wrote and drummed on many of the great hits of Traffic. At the time of his death in 2005 (from stomach cancer) he was working on plans for a Traffic reunion
