I think it's funny that was a fake Nazz there when the real one was available and in the area.
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 July 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
Lou Mitchell meet Lou Rawls
― nickn, Monday, 1 July 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
Any reason...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBd4SuDNsGQ
― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 1 July 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
Thought he was James Brown for a day.
― nickn, Monday, 1 July 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
anyway that was Lou Rawls doing Season of the Witch
― brownie
is it a patch on the version by enoch light and the light brigade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAZ0VlfKrTA
― Quilter Ray (rushomancy), Monday, 1 July 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
i lost it when Gumby showed up in that Soul Man video
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
Eddie Murphy?
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
Oh no, not him.I just watched that and felt really weird having successfully avoided anything to do with that movie for so long.
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 01:41 (four years ago) link
Has anyone attempted to compile a two-disc "best of the Complete Matrix Tapes" playlist with the best versions of all the songs that are duplicated on it? This stuff is so great but I'm not sure I need four versions of Heroin.
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, 12 July 2019 07:04 (four years ago) link
Not to cop out but my chief pleasure in listening to the Matrix Tapes is hearing them do whole shows - the continuity of it is the thing. Otherwise a trackwise upgrade of 1969 Live would probably be a solid start (albeit missing the End Cole Ave stuff).
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 12 July 2019 07:27 (four years ago) link
More Dallas '69 footage, I think this has some shots which aren't in the previous one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYaO-F4dCRw
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, 12 July 2019 10:19 (four years ago) link
Some great shots in this one.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Friday, 12 July 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
Yes indeed
― Vini C. Riley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 12 July 2019 11:39 (four years ago) link
Has anyone attempted to compile a two-disc "best of the Complete Matrix Tapes" playlist with the best versions of all the songs that are duplicated on it? This stuff is so great but I'm not sure I need four versions of Heroin.― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, July 12, 2019 7:04 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, July 12, 2019 7:04 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yes, the super deluxe edition of the third album has this exact thing
― Mark G, Friday, 12 July 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
Perfect, thanks!
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Friday, 12 July 2019 12:26 (four years ago) link
Wow that Enoch Light track slays
― One Eye Open, Friday, 12 July 2019 13:11 (four years ago) link
Retweeted by Ned today:
Lou Reed is spokesman for the Velvet Underground at a literature and electronic media class run by Dr Joseph Kruppa at Texas University, 23 October 1969. 'Because of media censorship, nobody has heard any real music, nothing to make your hair stand on end.' Daily Texan 24 Oct 69 pic.twitter.com/vcs9Jr1Wnx— Arthur (@ratherarthur) August 3, 2020
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 August 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
Was that in tandem with those Dallas ‘69 videos that are broken upthread?
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 August 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
Sort of. Same tour. This thing was in Austin.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 August 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
Checking upthread, this was the next week.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 August 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
https://recordmecca.com/wp-content/uploads/mqc/1063_large_2.jpg
― budo jeru, Monday, 3 August 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
Cool. Did they end up taking Emitt Rhodes to lunch at the end of that tour?
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 August 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
They were supposed to, but only Doug showed up to meet Emitt at the Taco Bell.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 August 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
Lol
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 3 August 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
that gig poster is dancing perilously close to Horrible 70s album titles like I've Got My Own Album To Do territory
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 3 August 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
May 11, 1965Pickwick Studios, near Long Island City, New YorkJohn Cale - Lou Reed - Jerry Vance or Jimmie Sims1. Buzz Buzz Buzz (one complete take + a couple of attempts breaking down)2. Why Don't You Smile Now3. Heroin (take 1)4. Heroin (take 2)5. Untitled Piano Piece 16. Untitled Piano Piece 1
John Cale - Lou Reed - Jerry Vance or Jimmie Sims
1. Buzz Buzz Buzz (one complete take + a couple of attempts breaking down)2. Why Don't You Smile Now3. Heroin (take 1)4. Heroin (take 2)5. Untitled Piano Piece 16. Untitled Piano Piece 1
this has been mentioned elsewhere on ILM, but i just encountered this swedish garage group's cover of "why don't you smile now" from 1967, two years after the all night workers 45. and it's cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=dyaus17wWZ4Downliners Sect – Why Don't You Smile Now
― budo jeru, Monday, 10 August 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/5NUMPrDUwuxq0hy5fD9_0eC2a50=/fit-in/600x604/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-8916819-1471422077-4109.jpeg.jpg
― budo jeru, Monday, 10 August 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
Cool
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2020 22:48 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EfFp0DnU0AAQHTU?format=jpg&name=900x900
1963
― tylerw, Monday, 10 August 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
Nice! Somehow never knew or remembered his middle name.
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 10 August 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
Downliners Sect weren't Swedish, they were a C-Team Brit Blues band that lucked into the All-Night Workers tape while looking for obscure US R&B songs to cover. It later popped up on Rhino's Nuggets II box.
IIRC tho, there was a Swede Garage cover of The Sect's version.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 10 August 2020 23:04 (three years ago) link
right, i slipped up because as far as i can tell that particular downliners sect 7" only had a swedish release. anyway the "nuggets ii" inclusion explains why it sounded strangely familiar ...
― budo jeru, Monday, 10 August 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
Well, it's a nice to own, that single.
(I don't, and I know neither do you, but.)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 07:27 (three years ago) link
https://img.discogs.com/PSvLs63xRvw3I2T3Ie-dsTLvCuE=/fit-in/498x496/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1968470-1276709142.jpeg.jpg
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 07:37 (three years ago) link
... somebody had good memories of that summer at Tanglewood.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 07:40 (three years ago) link
Interestingly Downliners Sect reformed in the wake of punk and recorded a session for John Peel in 1977.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 07:43 (three years ago) link
did anybody spring for this ?
I Met Myself In A Dream… That's the Story of the Third Album (The Velvet Underground Appreciation Society)M.C. Kostek, Alfredo García, and Ignacio Juliá
https://inevitablevucatalogue.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/cover-front.jpg
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
on a related note, i'm wondering if there are enough discographies / sessionographies / etc. to merit themselves a bibliography (print and online) of all the different sources that have come to inform our collective knowledge of the "complete VU" (including pre-VU curiosities and juvenilia).
it's my understanding (and i'm happy to be corrected here) that richie unterberger's WL/WH is more or less the final say on the matter, although i imagine that even this towering achievement could be aided by supplemental material. even so, it would be interesting to chart how the "what goes on" VUAS zines evolved into MC kostek's "VU handbook," to catalogue the iterations of olivier landemaine's web page, to highlight the role of non-VU work shedding light (branden w. joseph's "beyond the dream syndicate"), etc. has this been done, here or elsewhere ?
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 12 August 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
probably not, but I agree!
― sleeve, Thursday, 13 August 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
well, there's this, for starters
http://olivier.landemaine.free.fr/vu/biblio/books/books.html
― budo jeru, Thursday, 13 August 2020 02:03 (three years ago) link
Current edition of Uncut has some interesting stuff in on the band taht i don't think I've seen tapped before. new interview with Jonathon Richman who saw them 60 or 70x, One With Doug Yule , stuff on the final post-Lou line up.Ties in with forthcoming documentary by Todd Haynes,
― Stevolende, Saturday, 27 March 2021 10:52 (three years ago) link
I posted about this in another thread, but yeah, it's a pretty great issue to my understanding. (I only read the Haynes interview, which someone posted.)
― birdistheword, Saturday, 27 March 2021 17:38 (three years ago) link
The Jonathan Richman's bit is a long piece written by him, not an interview. He's good! Entertaining and informative.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
Richman's piece is worth the price of admission alone ...
Also cracked me up to see my name in the same font size at the bottom haha.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwmzNYcUUAAsgbd?format=jpg&name=medium
― tylerw, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
dude tyler congrats for real!
― I like signing up to dead sites (sleeve), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
woo!
― assert (MatthewK), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 00:05 (two years ago) link
That’s my brother Tyler on typeface.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 00:41 (two years ago) link
haha, thank you — it's really a glorified sidebar, but I'll take it!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
that's AWESOME! seriously, that's a sick set of names to be bolded with!
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 01:43 (two years ago) link
Should have said:That’s my brother Tyler on boldface.
― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link