Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

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.

big collection of VU ephemera up on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_nkw=velvet+underground&_sacat=0&_odkw=velvet+underground&item=380472629445&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&_osacat=0&hash=item5895ef98c5&_ssn=mc2--mc5

http://www.ebay.com/itm/VELVET-UNDERGROUND-Praise-Ye-The-Lord-New-LP-/350468769535?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item51999106ff

curious about this anyone heard it?

can't see the image?

it's the Praise Ye the Lord boot, mostly late period stuff

oh yeah, that's got some interesting stuff -- only live versions of oh sweet nuthin and train round the bend. oddly, despite its cover, those second fret recordings are sans moe.
http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=5248
also, lou singing lead on candy says.

wow Live at Max's Kansas City is really worse than I remember it. Why did this even get released? the drumming is criminal - dude plays the same pattern on every song (except After Hours) and then steamrolls over everything with stupid fills at the end of every bar. The Jim Carroll comments are funny but beyond that ugh

Why? Because it concluded the Velvets' deal with Atlantic records.

oh. right.

could they not get the rights to the live 1969 tapes (or any other, better tapes for that matter)?

Not at that time, no.

The 1969 tapes got issued in 1974 I think.

definitely the worst VU release, but i still get some enjoyment out of it. it is strange that they released it, contract filler or not -- it was released pre-Transformer, right? it must've sold like 200 copies when it was first put out. crazy how laissez faire lou was about the band during that era -- "you want your brother, who plays nothing like moe tucker, to be in the band? sure, whatever." the sound is radically different w/o moe in the band, like everyone in the band plays in a completely different way.

i dig that long, boogie-ing some kinda love on the expanded Max's.

Moe was off on maternity leave. She was at the gig, apparently.

Actually, Billy does alright on "Waiting for the man", but yeah.

yeah billy was just the temporary fill-in, but still, it's like they gave him zero direction (i think he even has said he hadn't heard the records before he got the gig).

So, it's not his fault.

I mean, it's him on "Loaded", isn't it? He does OK there.

yeah, i think it's a mix of him and a session drummer on loaded. i'm willing to cut the guy some slack, he was only 17, wasn't he?