Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

btw here's unterberger's piece on the matrix tapes, with an interview with the SOB who is holding them back
http://www.richieunterberger.com/vuexc10.html
(jk about the SOB thing. i love you dude, can i come over to your house)

“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.”

going back through this thread, i see i'm repeating myself. oh well.

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".

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/

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CymbC_S-P5c/TjIM0aG7nII/AAAAAAAAAgo/KJ7UcUDFqBI/s1600/VUunioncard.jpeg
vu trainspotter heaven

wow. his tugboat pilots license! His 1968 W2!

essential parts of the VU experience

steak lobster chickpeas

Decent tipper.

important new blog
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr6x7zn7Ih1r2gpaao1_500.jpg
http://bananaunderground.tumblr.com

that's pretty impressive how they don't move the banana on any of them.

the ultimate vu trainspotting book? http://inevitablevucatalogue.wordpress.com/

that looks cool.

yeah, pretty fun. also pretty expensive.

I'll let you tell me if it's any good.

can we share custody? I'll let you have weekends.

Might be the only way we could swing it!

insane VU / lou reed comic book from the 70s?!
http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy201/Aramchekster/LouReedLivetheBackHolesInSpacemagpg19.jpg
pdf of the whole thang: http://www.divshare.com/download/16935302-8d0

what the hell

That's plain crazy.

Crazy comic book, crazy guy!

and yet... it all makes sense...Scary blue veins as we approach the neg!

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy201/Aramchekster/LouReedLivetheBackHolesInSpacemagpg16.jpg

^ Lou dances Swan Lake in enormous tutu

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/bobbldr/mypix/Pers_Tools_Music/vu.jpg
i guess Sundazed is putting this out? hmm

can't see the tracklisting, is this a reissue of the live vol. 1 or 2...?

i think it's a rejigged version of VU and Another View comprised of studio sessions from 1969. confusing, yes.

hmm. would maybe purchase... looks nice anyway

It's the "lost" album...huh.

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

... the one with the sorta wildly inappropriate Roger Dean-style cover?

nah, it's this (not German btw, misremembered that bit)

http://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/89217.jpg

kinda love it honestly

extensive quotes from David Bowie in the liner notes lol

yeah that cover is cool. there's also this one
http://www.minilps.net/images/stories/shop_image/product/velvetshmcd2j.JPG

I think I might actually finish the Unterberger book this evening, after several weeks of squinting. It's like those Lewisohn Beatles tomes, numbing in its level of detail but hypnotic after a while.

Other recommended reading?

been wanting to read Bockris' trashy bio for years. Local library copy is "library only"! Who the fuck is going to sit in a library and read a Lou Reed bio all day.

i enjoyed that coffee table NY Art book that came out a couple years back. some great photos, wacky interviews. the new ellen willis anthology has her great VU essay in it (same one from stranded, i believe).
the unterberger book is great, though, it's my fave VU book, even though i rarely agree with his musical assessments (he seems to have no love for the avant garde side of the band). just a ton of info on my favorite band.
bockris bio is pretty trashy, but has some good stuff in it. lou is probably due a better bio at this point.

yeah I'm kinda amazed there aren't more. waiting for him to die I guess.

lou will outlive us all.

the comic book told me so
http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/yy201/Aramchekster/LouReedLivetheBackHolesInSpacemagpg05.jpg

Another amazing cover:

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/50b4c3b2b26705a7ed716ffb7c7ce798/2103097.jpg

"Franz Schöler präsentiert die Velvet Underground Story"

cover connection, xp:

http://moonsetgallery.com/catalog/images/Dianogah.jpg

Who the fuck is going to sit in a library and read a Lou Reed bio all day.

lol 18 y.o. underrated a would have gone back to the library every day for a month until he had the whole book memorized

just requested the Bockris book through interlibrary loan ... I'm Waiting for My Librarian

Ha, aero otm

lol 15 y.o. zappi went to library & looked through microfiche for any references to Warhol/Factory/Velvets or anything even vaguely related. then Up-tight came out, hoo boy.

Will read my copy of the Unterberger book while awaiting my turn out the community ILX copy of the limited edition memorabilia book

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa72/vulcangascompany1969/sunn_amps.jpg