Doom & Gloom From The Tomb: A Blog

shaking things up a bit, I've posted a couple of cool R. Crumb-hosted radio shows originally broadcast on the BBC. fun!

couple of new things up: Earth live in 2006 and "The Great Lost Velvet Underground Album."

Thanks so much for that VU one!

Doing some catching up, but that Pavement gig from the Terror Twilight tour is superb, and your critique of what happened to their sound on TT is spot on. Keep up the great work!

thanks dudes, glad you're enjoying it. The lost VU album is currently my favorite VU album! Which is saying something! Once again, good to be reminded how much those guys accomplished in such a short span of time. those were different times! And yeah, the Pavement show hopefully proves that they were actually a solid live band up til the end -- ramshackle, sure, but in a powerful way.

Q: Do you have any more Soft Boys/Hitchcock stuff to share? I'm on a serious kick right now...

was planning on putting up a RH & Egyptians show from 1992 soon, which I think is waaaaay better than the live disc that came with the Luminous Groove box set ... sometime this week probably. i actually don't have any other Soft Boys live shows -- would love to find more!

The boot you shared is the only one I've seen from the original run. I just this week filled some glaring holes in my collection - Live at Portland Arms, Two Halves, and The Day They Ate Brick.

Looking forward to the Egyptians set - the Luminous Groove one was kinda bad, at least compared to how I remember them live.

yeah, i know there are a few original Soft Boys live recordings out there, but I haven't tracked them down. Portland Arms is incredible, one of the funnier live albums ever. i agree, though, I was a little disappointed by the Luminous Groove live disc, even though there is good stuff on there. This one I've got is in an unplugged sorta setting, but the backing vocals/arrangements/setlist are perfect.

You folks should go see Richie Unterberger audio-visual, multi media presentation for his Velvet Underground book if he comes to your town (he was just in the UK, is now in Philly with NY shows next. I saw the dc appearance last night

what is he showing/playing? i need to get that book, it actually looks great.

great blog, thank you!

x-post. Richie is showing unleased photos, video clip focussing on dancers and light show from way back, clip from 72 of Lou, Cale and Nico in Europe; audio from an acetate; pre-Velvets stuff...

too much VU is never enough! thnx tylerw!!!

yeah, there'll be plenty more VU forthcoming.

more good stuff! a Tom Verlaine show from 1987 is up now. if you haven't heard Verlaine live in the 80s, you haven't heard Verlaine! guitar ecstasy.

now up! covers of syd barrett, nikki sudden, arthur lee, buck owens and grant mclennan by ... me. be nice!

Listening now - these are good! I like your voice. "Terrapin" might be a little too faithful, but I don't know how one could arrange it differently and make it work.

thanks! "Terrapin" (and Syd Barrett) is hard to do justice to. So much of it depends on his weird timing ...

just put up an excellent Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians live show from 1992.

Thanks so much! Robyn always equals win in my book.

More more more. Yo La Tengo in London, circa xmas 1999. Also a re-up of the previous YLT radio show I posted a couple months ago ...

is this the show with the peel intro, and trouble with ira's guitar? i was at this show, and have cherishbed a boot of it for years... 'night falls on hoboken' is so wonderful here.

yeah, i believe so -- Ira sorta struggles throughout the night, but there's still some great stuff. the date I have written down is Dec. 4 1999. John Cale cover here is worth the download!

Huh, I'm interested to hear this. I saw YLT around that time, the tour with Susie Ibarra where she played gong on "Night Falls On Hoboken". They opened with it that night too, and it was pretty stunning: maybe 40 minutes? Longer? I loved it but then I was already blissed out from Lambchop's opening set, still the best set I've ever seen by any band. But YLT was fun too, despite Ira only letting one solo rip all night (on "Cherry Chapstick"). It wasn't what I'd hoped to see, but I've loved "Night Falls On Hoboken" since. It's a perfect late (American) summer song, for the end of the day when the heat dissipates and the crickets start chirping.

yeah, seeing that song live really made it the standout from that album for me, and i usually prefer ira in full-on gonzo mode.

wow, 40 minutes? crazy. would've loved to see that, esp. w/ Susie Ibarra. Was that the tour where David Kilgour and Mac from Superchunk were playing with them as well? this version of "Night Falls" isn't 40 minutes, I don't even think it's quite as long as the album version. But it is lovely. Even though it's maybe a strange thing to open a show with, I'm not sure where else you could play it in a set.

It looks like that was March 4, 2000, so a little after the 1999 show you posted. I don't really know how long it was, but it was very very long and great. They could end the main set with that song, but maybe it would kill momentum. As it was, it was captivating. I don't think that was the Mac/Kilgour tour; I saw that one too, but I think it was a few years later.

the few times i saw them play this, they opened with it, and it was a perfect opener...

do any of y'allz have favorite YLT bootlegs/live recordings? The QEH and KCRW things are by far teh best ones I have, though the nyctaper.com hannukah things are good. I've got a few that are really BAD. Not that the performance itself is bad, but something about the sound on a lot of them just doesn't translate. Vocals too loud, or not loud enough, or the guitars don't sound powerful or something ... It's funny -- I love seeing them live, but can't find that perfect bootleg.

There's a "Balck Sessions" french radio session from 1997 that is pretty great. I also have a boot from Pustervik’s Bar, Göteborg, Sweden (11/15/97) that has a pretty good mix.

I know what you mean about the balance seems off on most YLT bootlegs. That's why I only have a few.

For some reason, I have a boot (11/15/07, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) from that "Freewhelin' Yo La Tengo" tour a few years back. Sound is fine, but the show is kinda blah. My understanding is that most people felt theat whole tour was kind of blah.

heyo, because it's been almost three months since I've posted any Neil Young (crazy, I know), I've put up another installment of my Neil Young Bad News series of rarities/live/etc. This time around -- the 90s! omg. the promo single of ARC is included, don't worry!

Hey Tyler do you happen to know of any live Verlaine recordings from the shows he did in 2006?

hey! yeah, there are definitely some live recordings from that tour. I think I have one from NYC? band was the same from the 80s except for Jay Dee Daugherty I think?

Yeah I saw him two nights at Bowery Ballroom-- it was so goddamn incandescent. The drummer was the only new face-- young dude named Lou somebody, a hard hitter but he had swing.

I thought the album from that year was an excellent display of songwriting, but once I'd heard the new songs live I couldn't enjoy the album versions anymore. I keep hoping I'll come across a good live recording from that tour.

i think that might be the show i have -- i'll get it up on the site soon. amazingly, i still have never seen Verlaine live. Another great boot I have is at the Bowery in 1998 or so -- mostly instrumental stuff w/ Jimmy Ripp and a guest spot from Patti Smith. Gorgeous stuff.

Was that him and Ripp doing their live movie accompaniment thing maybe? I never caught that.

yeah, i think so? i know they do that, but I'm not sure if there were actually movies played at this show. Anyway, there's this 15-minute long version of "Spiritual" from Warm & Cool that is sooooo beautiful ...

That sounds amazing. The rapport between those two is interesting to hear & watch, so different to the Lloyd/Verlaine dynamic.

Congratulations, Tyler.

"Bring me little water, sylvie" playing right now.

Congrats to you and yours Tyler. Beautiful girl!

thanks dudes! overwhelmed, underprepared, but mostly very, very happy! my wife and I hadn't heard the song "Sylvie" before, but we were searching around to see what cultural connections the name had, and discovered it. amazing song!

Congratulations, Tyler! It'll be brutal, but hopefully not too brutal. Rock out to "New Mama". For some crazy reason, with kid #1 in the very early days we listened to Magical Mystery Tour a lot.

congrats tyler! if you father as well as you blog your little one is in good hands! : )

yeah more congrats from over here, love the picture on the blog.

Congratulations! That's wonderful! Hurrah for lucky Sylvie, tylerw, and mom!

thanks again for all the congrats, ILM-ers. And we're back, sorta! Sylvie is resting peacefully and I've posted a very very cool Big Star Sister Lovers-era radio show. It's loose!

annnnd now a recording of the Go-Betweens' last show of the 1980s! it's a good one.

new post: Bob Dylan & the Hawks, late 1965, recorded by Allen Ginsberg (?)!

Hey, amazing work on the blog. I'm a big fan.

I was wondering if you'd be able to re-up some stuff when you get chance? All the Television links are down :(