Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

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

Is the Todd Haynes doc available for streaming or DVD? An Amazon search turned up no physical media it seems.

Apple TV for streaming, and there is a Criterion bluray/DVD coming in … November?

a previously-unknown song from "squeeze"

http://velvetforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=146101

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0U9VVPqhLY

saw the doc when it came out last year and finally rewatched last night. the bit when "Venus in Furs" comes in, like 45min into the film... god, what an incredible, breathtaking moment haynes sets up. all the thousands & thousands of times i've listened to those songs in innumerable different versions and permutations over so many years, i never thought i'd recapture the feeling of hearing the velvets for the first time again, but it truly comes across in that moment. that first note hits and my heart stops and i'm right back to that first time listening to the banana album as a kid. the electric shock of the new combined with that dreamlike feeling of familiarity, like "that's IT, THAT'S the sound I've been straining to hear but couldnt quite imagine!" what a blessing to be able to access that feeling again.

^good post!

yes

I kinda wanna get the Criterion version but our screen isn't big enough to really do it justice

That says everything I wanted to say about it. Made the familiar music fresh and strange all over.

geez, i have to see this. i'm so bad at watching music docs :/

That moment was so great in part because there were about fifty minutes of buildup before it happened.

Although before that they play a snatch of it over the titles near the beginning.

It’s like a magic trick - they show it to you, then convince you it doesn’t exist, then bring it back