Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

ilxor tylerw, while waiting for LITA'a Words and Music--1965: "Pickwick City," w good links---
https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/693384672559923200/pickwick-city-i-highly-recommend-that-all-vu

I'd differ in that the "Soundsville" album is all great, not just the Lou tracks. It was clearly a creative environment. I tracked it down on Discogs (yeah, I know, hard work) but it wasn't that expensive - probably because they were printed and sold in bulk, back in the day. The 7" singles are a fortune, but the albums aren't...

I didn't know the Beach Boys tribute album, and .. I guess I'm gonna have to get that magazine.

.. oh that one actually came out in the UK! Must be Lou's first release here...

Jaysus, Ugly Things charges a minimum of $22 to ship to Canada (Priority International Shipping). Anyone got a line on an extra copy & want to send me one via lettermail?

they list lots of places that carry it incl. a couple in canada.
http://ugly-things.com/about/where-to-buy-ugly-things/

The one in Germany is closed because the owner died, it says. I'll try the shop in France called Bimbo Tower :-)

how old is this list

Isn't that VU UT thing a couple of issues old? Trying to think. There is a new edition just out that I'm not sure what the contents are. Last issue had the Troggs.
It may be that you are stuck having to go to source for back issues. I think it sells out elsewhere. Not 100% sure. Otherwise Rough Trade get copies which might mean less postage.

This Pickwick related article is in the Summer 2022 issue (#60)

more trainspotting — i'd read this hilarious interview before, but never seen the scans til last week:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FadFRTAUcAAIS5R?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FadFSejVsAAn8GN?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

God, that's terrific (I can't tell if the interviewer is thick/clueless, or doing a "bit" to egg them on)

Assuming it is DA Levy himself doing the interview would mean the line between doing a bit & earnest questioning is razor-thin

haha yeah, exactly

Jaysus, Ugly Things charges a minimum of $22 to ship to Canada (Priority International Shipping). Anyone got a line on an extra copy & want to send me one via lettermail?

― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, August 25, 2022 3:22 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Send me an email I can probably sort you out.

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tyler are those scans from the Levy book? I don't recall them being in there but I might have missed them

Never read that before, apart from I think Sterling talking about the Fugs.

I think new issue of UT Is just out and hopefully hasn't made it across Atlantic yet. To UK at least. So not sure if there are other outlets around Europe. I'm waiting to hear it's arrived anyway.
NOt sure if Rough Trade or anywhere in the UK saves on postage since it is outside EU. Sounds like a good reason to rejoin really dunnit.

BUt not going to help if it's going to Canada.

xp - not sure if they're in the Levy book, I think my friend found 'em in here:

https://clevelandmemory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/search/collection/general%21press/searchterm/Levy%2C%20Darryl%20Allen%20%5BD.A.%20Levy%5D%21Buddhist%20Third%20Class%20Junkmail%20Oracle/field/subjec%21subjec/mode/all%21exact/conn/and%21and/order/nosort

more VU stuff

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0238/8053/products/LingerOnTheVelvetUnderground_1024x1024.jpg?v=1656601148

https://cargorecordsdirect.co.uk/products/linger-on-the-velvet-underground

VU pricey

Tracy Wilson may be stocking it in the US https://www.courtesydesk.shop/

nice — was wondering if Forced Exposure would have it, too.
The Sterling Morrison interview with Ignacio Julia is definitely the best / most comprehensive Q&A he ever did, not sure if there will be more / different stuff in there in this new book.

Maureen: I'll go to Heaven. She's already into it? Lifelong, maybe.

Of course, a good Catholic girl.

INT. What's it going to be like?
MAUREEN: Psychedelic...color clouds...

they list lots of places that carry it incl. a couple in canada.
http://ugly-things.com/about/where-to-buy-ugly-things🕸/🕸

*Jaysus, Ugly Things charges a minimum of $22 to ship to Canada (Priority International Shipping). Anyone got a line on an extra copy & want to send me one via lettermail?

― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, August 25, 2022 3:22 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink*

Send me an email I can probably sort you out.

That's where I got my copy last weekend. On the way home a can of beer burst in my bag and I only just dried out the mag and read the article today. Truly, one of the most trainspottery pieces of VU lore of all time!

Mine arrived yesterday, via Juno (UK)

exhibit A for sterl as the sickest guitar player ever: https://t.co/3iCx97jeMe

— Tyler Wilcox (@tywilc) August 29, 2022

What does it mean when Lou Reed says "Everybody's college" in the first response from that interview?

Thanks for exhibit A!

Assume it means "Everybody is a college graduate." Don't know why he would say that, but then again that is often the case.

Nico - ‘All That Is My Own’ - clanking martial finale from Desertshore LP, 1970.https://t.co/rid1dRKGiw pic.twitter.com/Kk8ogTFZKZ

— Johnnie Johnstone (@tnpcollection) September 3, 2022

Velvet Underground,
Andy Warhol pic.twitter.com/fHBbCVuRBu

— Pat Thomas (@PatThomas1964) September 4, 2022

last night i dreamed i was doug yule and lou reed hate-fucked my throat. this new release better be worth it!

in unrelated news maybe it's time for me to look into getting a prazosin scrip

Okay, now I want to hear this thing, not for the demos of known songs so much as several I'd never heard of, even from bootleg mavens:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/sep/08/laurie-anderson-on-lou-reeds-lost-demo-tape-he-really-wasnt-that-interested-in-his-past Good comments from Anderson, hope she'll say more about it/him in this regard.

lmao rush

Lou Reed :: Transformer | Transformedhttps://t.co/QMe8Ym9VFD

To celebrate a 1/2 century of Transformer, here’s an alt version of the album, cobbled together from live performances, NYC apartment demos and internet sessions, stretching from the early 1970s to the 21st century. pic.twitter.com/Zzzi3GRbR5

— aquarium drunkard (@aquadrunkard) September 6, 2022

Has anybody run down where exactly the stuff on the Todd Haynes soundtrack comes from? Picked up a vinyl copy today & there aren't explanations for what the source is for the Theater of Eternal Music excerpt (or anything else).

https://www.criterion.com/films/33386-the-velvet-underground

No 4K?!? If ever a doco needed it, it’s this one.

The original master is 4K so maybe someday.

A lot of the archival stuff used was in 16mm so it should still look pretty great in HD. Past that, any added resolution is more about improving the film grain as all the captured detail is already there.

Actually, I completely forgot they stacked a lot of those films on top of each other, so yeah, 4K would have DEFINITELY been better!

exactly

"Words & Music, May 1965" releases today

Thanks. I guess that I just didn't know that until you told me.

Ah I see what you did there..

ok, sorry.

(the lyrical reference to "Heroin" icydk)

I didn’t know. I saw bits and pieces of it coming out but had no idea whether and when the whole thing was out