Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

ha, well that's him warbling that one line on the 93 "im sticking with you" right?
just realized that the Peel Slowly & See box set is 20 years old this fall... crazy. i can remember saving my pennies and nickels!

Yes, it was that one.

did everyone read this recent/great article about morrison's post-VU life?
https://medium.com/@TheAlcalde/what-goes-on-524982f49915

I remember that box as it arrived at ours the same day I got us flights to New York, first time!

perfect timing

Yeah! I thought so.

Good article there too, thanks.

.. Although they suggest they didn't do much from WLWH, but they did most if not all of it, including "The Gift"

yeah three out of six songs...
funny that they didn't so sister ray in 93, guess they were too scared. i think i read that they tried it at a rehearsal...

Probably the length of it, they could do five other songs in the time.

ha, great article, never thought abt Morrison being the inspiration for "Tugboat"

yeah, pretty funny.
also wild that the UT band he joined kicked him out! great job, dudes.

just realized that the Peel Slowly & See box set is 20 years old this fall... crazy. i can remember saving my pennies and nickels!

got this second-hand a couple years later, with trade-in of my first batch of unwanted promos as a writer, at local CD Warehouse. Thought I didn't like the Velvets, based on friend who became obsessed w/them in 1993 around the time of the reunion (I'm still mostly cool on the first album) but hearing WL/WH and VU and Loaded was a proper revelation. And the liner notes... David Fricke is the king of the form.

great article, thanks!

i don't think the 93 live album is quite as bad as everyone seems to think... lou is the weak link, but the others sound good. mainly wish that sterling would've stepped out on lead more -- he only gets like two solos.

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I should probably revisit it, but whenever I see the cover, all I can think of is Lou singing "SHINYSHINY. SHINYBOOTSOFLEATHER."

lol yeah. lou really has trouble singing a lot of those songs.

My only memory of that 1993 live album is "Linger an-ah-ah-ah-on. Your pale blue eyes."

Never heard it but his guitar playing was pretty good when I saw them.

my byline on a true piece of VU trainspotting ephemera! omg.
http://41.media.tumblr.com/97a74ca2197ef4c7eed45cd12759db34/tumblr_nxckvmRhyL1qzy30io1_1280.png
it's a "newspaper" promo piece for the Loaded box set (including a flexidisc w/ a demo of "rock & roll")

congrats!

Wow, that is so cool!

I would subscribe to a Velvet Underground newspaper, as long as there wasn't a lot of ads.

Congrats btw!

David Fricke, watch out, there's a new kid in town.

haha, thank you. it is quite a thrill.

too cool!

rad!

"You know how people get when they're cornered? Like triangles."

VU trainspotting observation of the day: billy yule's drumming on the live at max's tape is hilarious

Haven't listened in many years but yeah, more or less.

It's really good on the version of Some Kinda Love though.

(Better than Clem Cattini)

That's my brother Doug's brother ... ah forget it.

(lol at your never ending hatred for Clem Cattini. Do you even like "Hurdy Gurdy Man"?)

by "hilarious" i don't even mean "bad" really (though it's sometimes bad). he's pretty entertaining (and seems to be having a fun time).

Seeing James Corden play Clem Cattini in that film about Joe Meek didn't help tbh.

some very cheesy fills in "I'm Waiting for the Man." Not terrible though

I still think that's Bonham on "Hurdy Gurdy Man." It's a better story that way.

I can't stand the drumming on Max's myself, it's so distracting

I like the story just as JPJ told it.
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It's a tad, uh, over-enthusiastic. Don't know what they were putting in those free burgers they were feeding young Billy at Max's.(xp)

i guess that's billy on the studio take of "oh sweet nuthin"? some good drumming there. dude was what, 17 years old?

Thought that was Tommy from Long Island.

wiki sez it was billy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Yule) but could be wrong

I always think it must be the other guy.

I can't stand the drumming on Max's myself, it's so distracting

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this, I really hate it, as far as I'm concerned that album belongs in the dustbin with Squeeze. I don't think I even own a copy anymore. I can live with the Billy tracks on Loaded tho.

yeah Loaded is fine

i dunno i enjoy max's whenever i put it on, but yeah, it does throw into relief how utterly central to the band's sound moe tucker was

Some good chat from Lou between numbers, "A tender love song, about love between man and subway...", something like that. Yeah, I haven't heard it in years either tbh.

that long "some kinda love" is a highlight ... i dig the off the rails "white light white heat" ... and the general ambiance.

but yes it pales in comparison to the live 1969/quine/matrix stuff of course

(Drum track on "Hurdy Gurdy Man" is not so great actually, it's certainly no "A Day In The Life" which it kind of resembles, drumfills-wise)