Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

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

― Officer Pupp, Thursday, 7 July 2011 20:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― tylerw, Friday, 8 July 2011 01:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― tylerw, Friday, 8 July 2011 01:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― sleeve, Friday, 8 July 2011 04:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

some talk of a good quality 1967 recording of the VU/Exploding Plasitc Inevitable at Rhode Island School of Design emerging....!

― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

oh man that sounds amazing, fingers crossed.

― sleeve, Friday, 15 July 2011 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― tylerw, Friday, 15 July 2011 21:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.)

― tylerw, Monday, 25 July 2011 21:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― dan selzer, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink

― tylerw, Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

interesting that the velvets were playing goodnight ladies at some point...would be interested to hear their rendition.

― tylerw, Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

how the fuck have the Matrix tapes not emerged yet

― Spikey, Monday, 1 August 2011 03:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― tylerw, Monday, 1 August 2011 14:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Monday, 1 August 2011 15:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

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.

― tylerw, Monday, 1 August 2011 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

That typewritten Whisky newsletter is "especially groovey!"

― Sugar-coated Satan Sandwich (Dan Peterson), Monday, 1 August 2011 15:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

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)

― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

“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.”

― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

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".

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 August 2011 15:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

hee hee, bet they sucked that night.

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

http://velvetundergroundmemorabilia.blogspot.com/

― tylerw, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

vu trainspotter heaven

― tylerw, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

wow. his tugboat pilots license! His 1968 W2!

― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

essential parts of the VU experience

― tylerw, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

steak lobster chickpeas

― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

Decent tipper.

― nickn, Friday, 5 August 2011 05:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

important new blog

http://bananaunderground.tumblr.com

― tylerw, Thursday, 8 September 2011 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― the wheelie king (wk), Thursday, 8 September 2011 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― tylerw, Monday, 12 March 2012 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

that looks cool.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 March 2012 22:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, pretty fun. also pretty expensive.

― tylerw, Monday, 12 March 2012 22:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 March 2012 22:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― tylerw, Monday, 12 March 2012 22:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Might be the only way we could swing it!

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 March 2012 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

insane VU / lou reed comic book from the 70s?!

pdf of the whole thang: http://www.divshare.com/download/16935302-8d0

― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

what the hell

― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

That's plain crazy.

― AnotherDeadHero, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 08:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

Crazy comic book, crazy guy!

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 11:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

^ Lou dances Swan Lake in enormous tutu

― zappi, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

i guess Sundazed is putting this out? hmm

― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― Jilly Boel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

hmm. would maybe purchase... looks nice anyway

― Jilly Boel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

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

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

the lone Velvet's vinyl I have is a random German reissue of the 2nd LP from like 1972. will see if I can find the cover... this would be a nice addition

― Jilly Boel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

... the one with the sorta wildly inappropriate Roger Dean-style cover?

― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:36 (1 year ago) Permalink