Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

i think it's cookin ? maybe? try that.

speaking of these dudes, here's lou singing who loves the sun last week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf8BcDJa9Iw
has he ever sung this before? who's he playing with? who loves the sun?

Ah! Of course! It was cooking, but you got me there, cheers buddy.

some other exciting VU trainspotting news -- two samples from this tape seem to have shown up? http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90/velvet-underground-1970-05-00-philadelphia-119687.html quality is pretty good. not that a new max's bootleg is the most thrilling thing, but still cool. setlist looks neat.
The Joseph Freeman tape
“ I recorded an entire set at Max's (around the same time as Polk's). The tape was recorded on a Sony TCS-124 a portable stereo cassette recorder with an external single stereo mic. The quality of the tape is very good and has never been bootlegged. I may be interested in having this tape surface as a legitimate release...
--Joseph Freeman, in a message posted in the Velvet Underground Discussion Forum on March 2, 1999
”
I'm Waiting For The Man
White Light/White Heat
I'm Set Free
Lonesome Cowboy Bill
Who Loves The Sun
Sweet Jane
New Age
unidentified bluesy instrumental
It's Just Too Much
Ocean
I'll Be Your Mirror
What Goes On
Head Held High
Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
Some Kinda Love

that philly show linked above is interesting too -- moe-less trio of lou, doug, sterling. some totally drum-less songs...

you mean the Second Fret stuff yeah? that's a good one, super blissed out "Train Comin Round The Bend".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bobbldr/VU_RISD2.jpg
some talk of a good quality 1967 recording of the VU/Exploding Plasitc Inevitable at Rhode Island School of Design emerging....!

http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~kg23187/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6790&start=0

oh man that sounds amazing, fingers crossed.

yeah, right? eesh, hope it is true! guy posted this a while back, but it sounds like he's been successful in tracking the tape down:
There is a tape of the Velvets playing at the RI School of Design in 1967. I have heard it, though that was approximately 30 years ago. The owner of the tape, an acquaintance of mine, has also been missing for approximately 30 years. I have been trying to find him in vain. He used to tape concerts that were held in the Providence area and would not let me copy it. It was on a 7" tape reel. He got into some trouble with some druggies and vanished one day. No one ever found out where he and his wife went. I remember the tape well, it was from the WL/WH period and was very clear with a great Sister Ray.

the ultimate in velvet underground trainspotting -- the VU rehearses! http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8045359178/rehearsing-for-the-inevitable-i-know-im-in-the
enjoy!
(i actually think sleeve supplied me with the matrix recordings, so credit where credit is due.)

The last minute or two of that Retinal Circus Heroin...wow.

yeah that weird bending of the guitars/lou's voice -- "all of eeeevilllll n this town!"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O6_Q6XXQifg/TjINNlAMD7I/AAAAAAAAAhc/r-no1Ma06XU/s1600/VUWhiskeyHB.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UQ5nz18lkv0/TjIMtv-97BI/AAAAAAAAAgA/cda0_NtGYiI/s1600/VUsetlist.jpg
interesting that the velvets were playing goodnight ladies at some point...would be interested to hear their rendition.

how the fuck have the Matrix tapes not emerged yet

yeah pretty irritating right? i'm sure that the powers that be think there's more than enough late 1969 VU out there officially, but it seems like someone like Rhino Handmade would jump at the chance to put out a deluxe box set of all this stuff. i know that the guy who owns the tapes has licensed similar projects to the Doors and Jefferson Airplane, but I think there's some kind of argument going on between him and the VU camp.

I blame Lou... or, failing that, Mike Love... hold on tho, Mo's gone all Tea Party, I blame her

yeah lou must've put the kibosh on any/all VU reissues. they haven't really done anything since the deluxe VU & nico, right? aside from that sundazed vinyl version of the quine tapes.

That typewritten Whisky newsletter is "especially groovey!"

btw here's unterberger's piece on the matrix tapes, with an interview with the SOB who is holding them back
http://www.richieunterberger.com/vuexc10.html
(jk about the SOB thing. i love you dude, can i come over to your house)

“They’re beautiful tapes. We listened to some playback of a little bit of the tapes about a year ago over at some studio in Berkeley, and they sounded just great. One of their fans who was [there] said, ‘Oh, these are the holy grail of Velvet Underground tapes.’ If there’s a market for them, they should come to me.”

going back through this thread, i see i'm repeating myself. oh well.

Just noticed in that Whiskey newsletter thing, playing with Moby Grape "for the first time anywhere", the Flying Burrito Brothers, "a new group formed by two former Byrds, Chris Hillman and Graham Parsons".

hee hee, bet they sucked that night.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fokpCjkmNpY/TjIMpYf7S7I/AAAAAAAAAfo/OnUzB-2P6SQ/s1600/VUmaxsreceipt.jpg

this is all coming from over here, which is selling some serious VU ephemera from the "sterling morrison collection"

http://velvetundergroundmemorabilia.blogspot.com/

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CymbC_S-P5c/TjIM0aG7nII/AAAAAAAAAgo/KJ7UcUDFqBI/s1600/VUunioncard.jpeg
vu trainspotter heaven

wow. his tugboat pilots license! His 1968 W2!

essential parts of the VU experience

steak lobster chickpeas

Decent tipper.

important new blog
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr6x7zn7Ih1r2gpaao1_500.jpg
http://bananaunderground.tumblr.com

that's pretty impressive how they don't move the banana on any of them.

the ultimate vu trainspotting book? http://inevitablevucatalogue.wordpress.com/

that looks cool.

yeah, pretty fun. also pretty expensive.

I'll let you tell me if it's any good.

can we share custody? I'll let you have weekends.

Might be the only way we could swing it!

insane VU / lou reed comic book from the 70s?!
http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy201/Aramchekster/LouReedLivetheBackHolesInSpacemagpg19.jpg
pdf of the whole thang: http://www.divshare.com/download/16935302-8d0

what the hell

That's plain crazy.

Crazy comic book, crazy guy!

and yet... it all makes sense...Scary blue veins as we approach the neg!

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy201/Aramchekster/LouReedLivetheBackHolesInSpacemagpg16.jpg

^ Lou dances Swan Lake in enormous tutu

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bobbldr/mypix/Pers_Tools_Music/vu.jpg
i guess Sundazed is putting this out? hmm

can't see the tracklisting, is this a reissue of the live vol. 1 or 2...?

i think it's a rejigged version of VU and Another View comprised of studio sessions from 1969. confusing, yes.

hmm. would maybe purchase... looks nice anyway

It's the "lost" album...huh.