Guess I'm Polling in Love: The Lou Reed Memorial Velvet Underground (and solo material) Ballot Poll Thread

When is the rollout, Shakey, Monday?

Will probably start monday afternoon

thanks

B-b-but don't you think it should really start Sunday Morning?

'Monday Afternoon' would have been a shit album opener

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/JerryReedMMM.jpg

Shoulda made it "Farm Machinery Music" but I got tired of messing with it.

Ha

Finish it why not

You won't regret it

Just do what you feel most.

Put Jerry on your shoulder.

Roffle
http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/nigel.png?w=361
Seems that Farm Machinery Music is on the charts in Japan

(roffling at put Jerry on your shoulder, not my own post)

Jerryboat Bill won't you please come home...

But if Jerry Reed would just come back it would be all right.

I wanna talk to that Jerry Reed, man, why'd he throw a capo during "Okie"?

I did not actually vote in this poll for reasons I will explain later and will no doubt be chastised for by Shakey, but that will not stop from kibitzing during the rollout, which I'd like to think is the way Lou would have wanted it.

okay voting is closed - 43 ballots total received. I'll start a results thread shortly

woohoo!

Would be a good idea to link to it:
Bimble Says: The Lou Reed Memorial Velvet Underground and Solo Careers Poll RESULTS THREAD

Stilling chuckling in 2014 at "Put Jerry on your shoulder."

Pfork article on "Sweet Sister Ray":

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/309-invisible-hits-sweet-sister-ray/

hey, i wrote that! be gentle with me.

haha missed that! nice work.

uggghhh i haaaate that guy

oh hey tyler

OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

Nice work Tyler, some of the sounds Lou gets from his guitar on that track are... actually indescibable!

thanks! and yeah, some of that guitar/feedback is one of a kind, not really sure what sort of gear he would be using at this point. btw there's one other complete track from that night, which you can grab here: http://ow.ly/vRMJR

Let’s also take a minute to consider the following anecdote from Michael Carlucci, who says the Cleveland fan who recorded the ‘Sweet Sister Ray” tape “(left) it in his car. His sister used the car, saw the tape, put it in a cassette player and started recording her friends laughing and being stupid. He wanted to kill her.” That’s why the tape fades out just as “Sister Ray” begins. Also missing is a half-hour version of “Hey Mr. Rain.” Read it and weep!

*weeps*

seriously

Great piece, tylerw! As for the gear, maybe Lou's guitar was the insanely hot-rodded Gretsch Jonathan Richman described in Up-Tight. Other than that, they were probably using Vox amps, but dunno if it was US or UK Vox (huge difference).

In that Jonathan Richman interview for Lou's birthday earlier this year posted on another thread, he said he was pretty surprised at first to discover that the Velvets didn't use off-brand guitars but the the same makes and models as everyone else.

yeah! also hilarious to hear jonathan talk about how quiet they actually were (at least compared to the volume of bands now). i dunno, i was listening to that guitar amp tape and the dudes sound fucking loud. like, crazy loud. but i guess in terms of actual wattage, they were limited.

hmm as I think abt that tape anecdote, isn't he talking abt Jamie Klimek of Mirrors? iirc he was the dude who taped all those Cleveland VU shows.

(Xp)Truth be told I kind of wanted more detailed anecdotes about his extensive interactions with them but, Jonathan being Jonathan, it was really more about him reiterating how much he loved them and was influenced by them and still can't get over them, which was still something I guess.

xp i believe so, him and mirrors guitarist jim crook. in fact, i found this while i was researching:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVLlSdO539g
pretty sure klimek is at least the guy who taped that later La Cave show with Yule. there are rumors of other tapes, but they might just be rumors.

There was some good stuff about Sterling though: "People talk a lot about Lou Reed, Jonathan, but what they don't realize is that nothing goes on in this band without my say-so."

haha yeah. i thought it was pretty touching when Richman talked about seeing Lou in the 90s -- when Lou said he was proud of him, Jonathan cried! A perfect anecdote.
i do think Richman should write a memoir of some kind, though that might be the last thing he'd ever want to do. i don't know, he's an interesting guy!

I would buy that instantly.

me too. even if it was comprised primarily of lists of his favorite organic grocery stores and long ruminations on slack key tunings

i'd be ok with that. he's just interesting because he really doesn't fit into any narrative that I can think of (even tho he's tangentially related to a lot of different things).

At this point if the "real" Jonathan stepped out from behind the persona, it could potentially be hugely disappointing if not horrifying. We've had a long time to get used to the Jim/Iggy split. Cf "Wakefield" if not Flitcraft.

The journey kicks off with the band (most likely just Cale, Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison; drummer Maureen Tucker isn’t audible here) chugging steadily, slowly over a spare, spidery riff.

Now unless my ears deceive me, when Cale starts up on organ, you have Lou + Sterling on guitars and there is definitely a bass guitar there too (not bass pedals, as far as I can tell, and I'm not sure Cale played those anyway) so I can only assume Mo was playing bass!

i thought it was pretty touching when Richman talked about seeing Lou in the 90s -- when Lou said he was proud of him, Jonathan cried!

Hey, he's an emotional guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7mHg0H6sy8

Wonder if Donald Fagen was around to witness that.

Put Jerry on your shoulder.

And
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slaAGS7f0LU

hey it's the hideout!!