speaking of these dudes, here's lou singing who loves the sun last weekhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf8BcDJa9Iwhas he ever sung this before? who's he playing with? who loves the sun?
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 July 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah! Of course! It was cooking, but you got me there, cheers buddy.
― Officer Pupp, Thursday, 7 July 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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 ManWhite Light/White HeatI'm Set FreeLonesome Cowboy BillWho Loves The SunSweet JaneNew Ageunidentified bluesy instrumentalIt's Just Too MuchOceanI'll Be Your MirrorWhat Goes OnHead Held HighOh! Sweet Nuthin'Some Kinda Love
― tylerw, Friday, 8 July 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bobbldr/VU_RISD2.jpgsome 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 (thirteen years ago) link
http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~kg23187/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=6790&start=0
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man that sounds amazing, fingers crossed.
― sleeve, Friday, 15 July 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
The last minute or two of that Retinal Circus Heroin...wow.
― dan selzer, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that weird bending of the guitars/lou's voice -- "all of eeeevilllll n this town!"
― tylerw, Friday, 29 July 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O6_Q6XXQifg/TjINNlAMD7I/AAAAAAAAAhc/r-no1Ma06XU/s1600/VUWhiskeyHB.jpg
― tylerw, Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UQ5nz18lkv0/TjIMtv-97BI/AAAAAAAAAgA/cda0_NtGYiI/s1600/VUsetlist.jpginteresting that the velvets were playing goodnight ladies at some point...would be interested to hear their rendition.
― tylerw, Sunday, 31 July 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
how the fuck have the Matrix tapes not emerged yet
― Spikey, Monday, 1 August 2011 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
That typewritten Whisky newsletter is "especially groovey!"
― Sugar-coated Satan Sandwich (Dan Peterson), Monday, 1 August 2011 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
btw here's unterberger's piece on the matrix tapes, with an interview with the SOB who is holding them backhttp://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 (thirteen years ago) link
“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 (thirteen years ago) link
going back through this thread, i see i'm repeating myself. oh well.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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/
― tylerw, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CymbC_S-P5c/TjIM0aG7nII/AAAAAAAAAgo/KJ7UcUDFqBI/s1600/VUunioncard.jpegvu trainspotter heaven
― tylerw, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
wow. his tugboat pilots license! His 1968 W2!
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
essential parts of the VU experience
― tylerw, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
steak lobster chickpeas
― Ask The Answer Man (sexyDancer), Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Decent tipper.
― nickn, Friday, 5 August 2011 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
important new bloghttp://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr6x7zn7Ih1r2gpaao1_500.jpghttp://bananaunderground.tumblr.com
― tylerw, Thursday, 8 September 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
the ultimate vu trainspotting book? http://inevitablevucatalogue.wordpress.com/
― tylerw, Monday, 12 March 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
that looks cool.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 March 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, pretty fun. also pretty expensive.
― tylerw, Monday, 12 March 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
I'll let you tell me if it's any good.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 March 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
can we share custody? I'll let you have weekends.
― tylerw, Monday, 12 March 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Might be the only way we could swing it!
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 12 March 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
insane VU / lou reed comic book from the 70s?!http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy201/Aramchekster/LouReedLivetheBackHolesInSpacemagpg19.jpgpdf of the whole thang: http://www.divshare.com/download/16935302-8d0
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
what the hell
― Disco Bob & MC Criminal (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
That's plain crazy.
― AnotherDeadHero, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 08:24 (twelve years ago) link
Crazy comic book, crazy guy!
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
and yet... it all makes sense...Scary blue veins as we approach the neg!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy201/Aramchekster/LouReedLivetheBackHolesInSpacemagpg16.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
^ Lou dances Swan Lake in enormous tutu
― zappi, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bobbldr/mypix/Pers_Tools_Music/vu.jpgi guess Sundazed is putting this out? hmm
― tylerw, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
hmm. would maybe purchase... looks nice anyway
― Jilly Boel (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
It's the "lost" album...huh.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link