Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

ha, nicely done, simon. you got a link for info on this Yule/Jesus album?

you got a link for info on this Yule/Jesus album?

All in good time. Which means you'll have to wait til the LP is available before I post anything.

I can't believe anyone thought it was anything other than a spoof! Although my obsession with the Human Centipede and friendship with a couple of Loves may have helped me recognise this fact.

― emil.y, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:19 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

It was the welsh accent of the non-Cale variety. that & the fact it was on S!m0n's youtube and he'd been posting about the Human Centipede for the last week. Very nicely done an' that, though.

I realise now that I should've done it as John Cale's version of The Ostrich & done it in an OTT Welsh accent. & made a separate Youtube account to post it on. Something like StewReid64.

It was the lyrics that gave it away!

Is there a d/l link? Would like to hear it anyway...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKhbmRwBA50

There ^

& there's a new comment today

"This sounds almost identical to 'Do the Ostrich' by The Primitives which I beleive was a bit of a hit at the time. If this was never released Im guessing they changed the lyrics/music very slightly and released the ostrich version instead"

I do not know this person. I believe they are serious.

Ach, I guess youtube is the new YSI?

god damn it

will someone PM me the password for Nuns Are On The Seawall files? now that the thing is invite only I can't look at it and the pw I thought it was is wrong.

isn't it "cookin"?

yeah I thought there was a "vinyl" after it but that is a record label

thanking u

oops it is "cookinG"

How do you get invited to join Nuns Are On The Seawall? I only managed to download The Psychopath's Rolling Stones before it went invite only.

investigating that -- thevelvetforum.tk would be a good place to haunt. I think the dude who runs that blog posts there.

meanwhile, there's this: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=540
dunno if it's good or not.

looks like the nuns site is back up and running. still sort of scared of it, but an amazing resource!

Just got the Hilltop boot on vinyl. blowing my fucking mind

yeah that thing is one-of-a-kind, the only LOUD outdoor gig of the Velvets that has surfaced so far. really different dynamics and sound when they turned it way up.

yeah, parts of the "what goes on" on that bootleg are mindblowing. if you haven't seen it, i did a sort of sampler of the professor tapes over here: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/838951975/move-right-in-the-velvet-underground-at-the

Ossum scenes

The Velvet Underground in Boston (1967, USA, 33 min.), which Warhol shot during a concert at the Boston Tea Party, features a variety of filmmaking techniques—sudden in-and-out zooms, sweeping panning shots, in-camera edits that create single frame images and bursts of light like paparazzi flash bulbs going off—that mirror the kinesthetic experience of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, with its strobe lights, whip dancers, colorful slide shows, multi-screen projections, liberal use of amphetamines, and overpowering sound of The Velvet Underground.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/10587

... features a variety of filmmaking techniques that most people try when given a movie/video camera for the first time, ....

movie itself sounds sorta painful, but i wonder if the sound is any good? i guess it'll all be cut up thanks to "in camera edits"...

Friday, November 12, 2010
VELVET UNDERGROUND FILM DISCOVERIES
Two complete screenings, at 8:00 pm & 10:00 pm
Admission: $7.00

Moore College of Art & Design
20th & Race Streets, Philadelphia
(215) 965-4099

Read more: http://theworldsamess.blogspot.com/2010/11/velvet-underground-films-to-screen-in.html#ixzz15OO3KwJr

When will someone find their guest appearance on the Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell show?

holy fuck @ this

including one film with color, synchronous sound footage of the band playing live in Boston in 1967

one of only two known films with synchronous sound of the band performing live

also how does that blog code its text so that if you c/p a line you are also c/p'ing "Read more: http://theworldsamess.blogspot.com/2010/11/velvet-underground-films-to-screen-in.html#ixzz15RjU7sGL";? that's clever.

nyt does the same iirc, i guess it is a thing you can do now

it's some java scripting and it's annoying as fuck.

yeah seems like newspapers are doing this autofill thing now. that's the first blog i've seen doing it tho. irritating.

politico.com's been doing that since it started

crazy times. is lou for or against it, do you think?

it has always amazed me that a band who was clearly around filmmakers all the time left behind so little actual footage

would love to see this of course

yeah, there are literally films of dudes eating bananas in the Factory.

hours and hours of a building.

if you look closely though, the VU are playing on top of the empire state building during that movie.

I'm gonna make an art project...Empire State with a soundtrack of Sister Ray or What Goes On seamlessly looping for 8 hours.

hours and hours of a building.

have watched this for about fifteen minutes at the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh...it is almost indescribably beautiful fwiw

crazy times. is lou for or against it, do you think?

think lou has always been pretty pro-javascript but a late career turnaround isn't impossible

im officially obsessed with velvet underground bootlegs. what's the definitive version of the gymnasium show? 'psychedelic sounds from the gymnasium" has booker t after sister ray which is not in the other widely circulated boot

On "The Singles 1966-69" there's a radio spot at the end, at at the end of the radio spot there's a mix of Beginning To See The Light where the drums sound way different. Anyone know where that's from?

Well, bear in mind the current CD has the 'non-closet' mix, so its either

1) From the 'non-closet' mix, originally issued on the first pressings of the UK edition, and all the ones (LP, etc) ever available in Japan
2) The 'closet' mix, issued 'later' in the UK, and that was always issued as the LP version everywhere else.

Back when, I ended up paying plenty for a jap copy, and less than a year later the CD version came out.

Anyway, back to the promo, I'd assume it's from the 'closet' mix.

I thangyew.

closet mix would be correct, imho.

I checked out the two cd version of Live 1969 from my public library and was sort of surprised and stoked over some of the differences between it and my 2lp version of it.
Like "Sweet Bonnie Brown/It's Just Too Much." I couldn't believe there was a VU song I hadn't heard, but I was still glad. I'm also certain that there are different takes of some songs.

Definitely not the closet mix, since that's the CD I have, but maybe it's the non-closet mix? The difference is on the closet mix the drums are panned center and are softer, and on the radio promo they're panned more to the left and at the end during "how does it feel to be loved" there's a much more prominent pounding floor tom sound.

Could the Closet mix on the Peel Slowly And See box be different from yours?

I just realized I still have my old CD from before the box set came out. I just checked and it's definitely not a closet vs. non-closet issue.

I have a CD from the mid '90s pre-peel slowly box, and then I have the box.

unreleased mix alert!

Eh, maybe not. On closer listen I guess it is the closet mix, it's just that the radio promo is less bassy and more distorted and that tom sticks out more?

It's probably Tom Wilson talking over a copy of the album playing with a bit more reverb.