Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

huh, never knew about the different mixes. my LP is the closet mix.

http://olivier.landemaine.free.fr/vu/live/1968/vuad6805.gif

I just listened to both mixes. Vocals are different, the closet mix also has only one guitar which sounds to me like neither of the guitars on the original vinyl mix. The percussion and the bas could very well be the same though.

http://olivier.landemaine.free.fr/vu/live/1971-73/vu_ad_710501_youngstown_vindicator_april_29_1971.jpg

Steven, i know you have recorded many of Beantown's finest classic rock albums of the 70s, but seriously, ffwd to the final verse ("put jelly on your shoulder")... Lou does this elongated falsetto on the closet mix ("lie down upon the carpet"). the prominent guitar (not sure if that's lou or sterl) that's present on both tracks also does more blue note bends on the closet mix. NOTE: I am NOT A/B-ing this shit, I have heard both versions enough that they are ingrained in my brain.

Trust me for I am
Peter G. (aka "lil queequeg")

The guitar present in both mixes is Lou for the record. Sterl got the shaft in the closet mix, no wonder he named it so.

blue note bends

Yeah, this was the descriptor I was trying to come up with. Neither guitar on the original mix does this the same way, or as much.

Can I just say that doing my research for my previous post I had to revisit the reunion tour album which has to be without a doubt one of the biggest flaming piles of shit ever amassed?

the version of some kinda love on there is pretty bonkers. lou is terrible, but cale's piano pounding drowns him out at the end!

Chuckling at Ralph Stanley resolutely refusing to find a way to fit "tickles me down to my toes" into the meter every single time he reaches that line.

Steven, i know you have recorded many of Beantown's finest classic rock albums of the 70s, but seriously, ffwd to the final verse ("put jelly on your shoulder")... Lou does this elongated falsetto on the closet mix ("lie down upon the carpet"). the prominent guitar (not sure if that's lou or sterl) that's present on both tracks also does more blue note bends on the closet mix. NOTE: I am NOT A/B-ing this shit, I have heard both versions enough that they are ingrained in my brain.

ha, I will confess that I listened to the first two minutes A/B and said "these are the same performance for the most part," I haven't made it all the way through. I will] say that I remember plenty of blue bending notes on the French vinyl which was my listening copy during the eighties - it was one of the things I found most unusual about the song.

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Someone who didn't pay enough attention to VU lyrics.

he was Chinese so maybe hadn't understood the song perfectly.
I mean since WL/WH is such a popular lp over there & all

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feel like leading off the 1969 LP is a good idea, not sure how i feel about it not ending with "I'm Sticking With You" ... but 'Ride Into The Sun' is rad too.

meant to say "feel like leading off the 1969 LP with Foggy Notion is a good idea"

As long as it leads off with the six guitar notes missing from every non-vinyl-VU release of the song.

also, leaving out ferryboat bill! COME ON.

I admit I am kinda tempted by this

mostly because all my Velvets stuff has always been cassette/CD (apart from a very odd pressing of WL/WH)

I don't know if I've only ever heard the 'closet mix' or what but every mix I've ever heard has sounded exactly the same. Maybe the older mix just isn't in circulation much these days...

xp it does look cool. i think sundazed said it would retail for around $100. which isn't outrageous, i guess. it's a little outrageous.

not to just keep posting things from sundazed's facebook page, but this is neato!
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/417395_10151070916863791_1241806119_n.jpg

Yeah, those tape boxes were the CD covers for the discs in the box set from the mid-90s. I remember trying to understand what the heck the notes next to each track meant.

I love that "Sister Ray" is handwritten in, having crossed out "Searching."

"Really? This isn't the Coasters tune? Are you sure?"

the peel slowly and see tape box is slightly different
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hWb26SAoAv8/TxKs2EWwctI/AAAAAAAABl8/JpeNwegCPfo/s1600/void%2525280%252529-2.jpeg
i can kind of imagine the velvets jamming on searchin' by the coasters.

Yeah, definitely. "I'm Gonna Move Right In" slightly resembles "Searchin'."

listening to the sundazed track order for 1969 now. works OK -- weirdest inclusion is "move right in". unless they've uncovered a vocal track for it, it still sounds like an unfinished jam. i like it, but i find it doubtful the band would've released it back then. and they've left out finished tunes like andy's chest, she's my best friend, ferryboat bill etc.

xp yeah you're right "move right in" kinda borrows the searchin groove.

jpg #1 = mono
jpg #2 = stereo

guys I think Sister Ray was called "Searching" by the tape op because of the repeated line "I'm searching for my mainline" throughout the song.

guy you may be right

No "she's my best friend"? That's crazy. Song is awesome.

I couldn't figure out what "Searching" was... first guess was "Beserking"

$100 for 5 Sundazed LPs (+posters & neat-o box) sounds about right. Their Quine set is that much for 6 records.

yeah $20 per album seems perfectly reasonable to me

re: she's my best friend -- anti doug yule bias? seems wrong -- he sang lead on both the third LP and loaded, would've been surprising if he didn't get a vocal showcase on the lost album.

had no idea Yule sang that

those pictures of the masters are so great. i could look at them all day.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2s7ap2v.png

haha, have you got the one with Cale's keyboard that has a speech bubble saying "SCREE!"
for some reason that's always stuck in my head

i can't find that one! my friend used to have the whole book of great pop things, pretty funny.
http://i49.tinypic.com/1zulqf.png
http://i50.tinypic.com/2uzp9uo.png

oh wait no, there's the SCREE!

Lester chuggin a mug o' nutmeg! (what no cough syrup?)

have we posted this yet in this thread?
http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/richmedia/images/cover.gif
$95 ...

http://tuppencemagazine.co.uk/entertainment-news/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/velvet-underground-and-nico-6-cd-box-set-45th-anniversary.jpg
oops -- this

did we miss that SQUEEZE has been released on CD at last?
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51hukBjhLwL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0087PL42I/thevelvetunde-20

Part of Velvets' suit against Warhol's use of banana thrown out.