omg
shit like this is gonna keep turning up for the next 50 years, isn't it?
― sleeve, Monday, 11 January 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
50TH ANNIVERSARY EXTRA DELUXE EDITION COMING SOON
― tylerw, Monday, 11 January 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
wow $750 seems a bit cheap for something like that
― ﷽ (diamonddave85), Monday, 11 January 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
yeah, considering how much that acetate went for...
― tylerw, Monday, 11 January 2016 15:34 (eight years ago) link
huh, so there is a VU exposition coming to Paris in March through August (link in English), at the Cité de la musique
looks cool! there's some kind of museum exhibition (it's in the space where the big Miles Davis exposition was a few years back, which was rad). and also several concerts in the space, including Television playing Marquee Moon, and John Cale playing the first VU album, with Etienne Daho, the Libertines, Animal Collective, Lou Doillon, Nick Franklin from Lemon Jelly, and Mark Lanegan.
also there are conference talks and debates on the band, musical workshops around the work of the band for both kids & adults, experimental film "experiences"
I am so there.
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 11 March 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link
I had a great time relaxing in the "mini EPI" room at the Andy Warhol / Ai Wei Wei exhibition in the National Gallery of Victoria the other month. Was enjoying the art and then stepped thru a door into a room full of beanbags and all four walls projecting Factory footage, Chelsea Girls, VU rehearsals, screen tests, coloured dots, Malanga with his whip, et al. And a great mix of VU obscurities played loud. My wife had to come back and get me after half an hour.
― MatthewK, Friday, 11 March 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
yeahhh that sounds like fun
― tylerw, Friday, 11 March 2016 21:50 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdmFDNSUYAAYbA3.jpg
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:20 (eight years ago) link
pretty damn solid attempt to bring lou's live vocal to the studio instrumental of guess i'm falling in lovehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb8GfC2o9Eo&feature=youtu.be
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
This works really well. Kinda thinking of this as the definitive version now (especially since they used the '80s mix).
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
yeah, even though it occasionally slips up, that pretty much fits with it being from the WL/WH era. and the twin Sterling guitar solos sound cool too!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:43 (eight years ago) link
Oh, I tried that once, it sounded godawful, but technology has moved on from me using a 4-track portastudio..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:55 (eight years ago) link
yeah it's by no means perfect, but pretty listenable. maybe the closest we'll get!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:56 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, not bad. I guess they slowed down the studio take.
Basically, I tried editing in individual Lou snippets. It was rub. Packed it after 20 seconds worth. Oh, and then I tried singing it myself. mmm, no.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
I think even Lou would have loved that one.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
No idea where to post this but I thought this might be a good spot:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYdH4vKd6M
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 23 October 2016 04:28 (seven years ago) link
what's the longest version of sister ray, the matrix version?
― just another (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
pretty sure, yeah, 38 minutes? the La Cave version mixed w/"Murder Mystery" is only 28.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
Disc 3, "Complete Matrix Tapes", 37 mins.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 14:41 (six years ago) link
The Scratch Orchestra apparently did a 45 minute version of "Sister Ray" at a concert in '69/'70 - even longer than the Velvets were doing themselves at the time...― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 21:58 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― The Return of the Thin White Pope (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 January 2016 21:58 (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
From John Tilbury's biography of Cornelius Cardew.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
now THAT is some trainspotting
― sleeve, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
I think I said it at the time, I read it so you don't have to.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEBUSzmUQAA5QWs.jpghttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEBUSzkVYAALdV3.jpg
(don't think this record actually exists, but haha, what if it did!)
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 July 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/253014171696?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&fromMakeTrack=true
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4GgAAOSwXeJYC7mC/s-l1600.jpg
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 October 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
I... kinda want it
― niels, Thursday, 19 October 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
re: disco dazzler - no "in the light of the miracle", no credibility
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Thursday, 19 October 2017 21:51 (six years ago) link
Watching college football with the folks and heard a VU song come on during a commercial break, did a little research and learned that Syracuse has rights to "Head Held Up High" from alumnus Lewis Reed. This wasn't the exact commercial but was available on the 'tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcumYhKbekw
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 25 November 2017 18:46 (six years ago) link
Uh... lol, sorry about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad73QMHa5HI
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 25 November 2017 18:47 (six years ago) link
Wow
― Modern Zounds in Undiscovered Country (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 November 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
Spent an afternoon at the library going through some newspaper microfilm - managed to unearth an EPI review from a show in my hometown, Nov 12 1966. Vaguely dismissive in all the best ways - "I guess the whole thing would be pretty wild if you'd just swallowed some LSD but I don't know much about that."
https://i.imgur.com/5dQ8mT2.png
― whitehallunity, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
that's amazing, great find
― sleeve, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
yeah, I was pretty pleased with myself, haha, especially cause it gives some partial setlist confirmation, namely that they did 'Black Angel's Death Song'. Now if I could only dig up a tape...
― whitehallunity, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 21:20 (six years ago) link
assumed thiw as revived due to this, the provenance is a bit dubious, but the tracklist compiles a fair amount of stuff in one place which is nice
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076GFJN1N?tag=mfconvert-20
there's another forthcoming box set this spring which also promises this 1969 album, not sure if the tracklist will be the same
― akm, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 23:55 (six years ago) link
that's the same as the "1969" disc in the recent 3rd album boxset, iirc
― sleeve, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 00:00 (six years ago) link
plus studio extras from the White Light White Heat 45th anniversary (side 4, which is actually 1968 with Cale not 1969 with Yule but w/e)
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 00:52 (six years ago) link
It looks like that new Vinyl box Universal is pushing is a straight port of the Sundazed box. I also saw that stand-alone 1969 collection in a shop the other day. I think it was an RSD thing put out by Universal Music, so genuinely not dubious.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 02:41 (six years ago) link
Actually, scratch that about the box sets. The Sundazed Box is the first three albums and Chelsea Girl in Mono, with a single stereo LP of selected 1969 studio recordings. The new Universal Set is a limited edition featuring the four original albums plus Chelsea Girl in Stereo, in addition to the double LP of 1969 studio cuts.
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
You know 'albumsthatneverwere'?
Might want to toddle along there right about now...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 12:55 (six years ago) link
new universal box sounds great but it's fucking overpriced IMO. I'd rather pick up the sudazed box and have mono and then scrounge up the double 1969 elsewhere (or buy that shuga one that just came out; although I hear there are quality issues with it)
― akm, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
Mark G OTM
― Lyudmila Pavlichenko (dandydonweiner), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 21:29 (six years ago) link
is there a good VU book?
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:43 (six years ago) link
I like Richie Unterberger's White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-by-Day
― Brad C., Tuesday, 2 January 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
yeah, a great resource. the NY Art coffee table book is nice as well.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
The Gerard Malanga one is a good intro, but we're well past that stage now, right?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
yeah definitely good stuff in Up-Tight (and great photos in the original version) — skews a bit too heavily on the warhol years, but that's to be expected, I guess.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
Yeah drag that later reprints of Uptight get rid of so many of the photos. Do the same ones appear in Unterberger, been a while since I looked in that.THey kind of epitomised cool for a while there so good to have photos of them.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 2 January 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
awesome, looks like i'm gonna be picking up unterberger's
― scoff walker (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 2 January 2018 21:19 (six years ago) link
bumping this cause I've been on a Velvets kick today and decided to try eq'ing the audio from the Warhol Boston Tea Party film to make it a little more coherent. It's far from 'good' but I think it's a little better than what it was. I cut out some of the more distracting tape cut sounds too, except in Sister Ray cause I wanted to preserve as much of it as possible.
Link if anyone's interested:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/umskd1u3ldk51bg/Velvets%20Boston%2067.rar?dl=0
― whitehallunity, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 02:54 (six years ago) link
hey thank you!
― city worker, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 13:08 (six years ago) link
great idea! that film is so frustrating, lol. so close, yet so far from an actual VU concert film.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link