Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

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?

Yeah, about three different drummers on Loaded, including him.

Then again, it was Deep Purple's drummer on their next album!

yeah I think he acquits himself pretty well on Loaded - this set is just weird. It sort of reminds me of the Funkadelic Meadowbrook release where it's a brand new (and very different) drummer's first ever time playing with the band.

this is cool -- might be old, but it's new to me?
http://www.uncut.co.uk/the-velvet-underground/john-cale-on-the-velvet-underground-nico-news
cale walks through the debut song by song.

Not seen that before, worth keeping yeah.

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

Yes, that is great

um
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=U6CKz3ZmCps#t=1009s

I'm waiting for the Scoobiesnacks!

wtf?

haha, love the Warriors reference too with the DJ woman. Did Scooby sing something about the wicker man?

Has anybody picked up the new cd box set yet? How does the Columbia University set sound? Has it improved at all?

Heard about a Japanese bootleg of the set being remastered about 5 years back and wondered waht that was like, if it's now been deemed suitable for official commercial release I'm wondering if that means anything good soundwise. There are some tracks on there I love as it is but might love even more. That Run Run Run sounds like Dresden being raided.
Is it from some kind of original master tape now?

i think it is supposed to be from the original tape? not sure how much diff it'll make. still an amazing recording.
i haven't heard the box set yet, is it out?

this is apparently going to be a "black friday" release for you collectors
http://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_photo/418455061281p
cover is kind of poorly executed?

Just seen this. Is it a bootleg?
http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/37215916/0/La-Cave-1968/ListingDetails.html

La cave '68.

Or are the official bootleg series coming out in bursts.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_photo/418455061281%3A245

that la cave thing is an old bootleg.

right, things are probably reappearing with the box set coming out. Didn't know Play sold actual bootlegs though.

Think both the box set and Nico's THe End are 29th October according to Amazon anyway. Not sure if that'll be actual til it happens.

The Seeds 1st lp is supposed to be the same day.

la cave really is one of the best boots! has that ridiculous improv'd lyrics version of pale blue eyes.

"sister ray went down to mexico..."

from what i gather, the VU was playing that song for awhile, at least back to the latter days of Cale's membership in the band --- would be interesting to hear what other lyrics lou was singing on that tune before he actually "wrote" the song.

I think Unterberger has Pale Blue Eyes having a very early introduction/appearance in the band's setlist if that's the song being atlked about. Think it might have even been as early as '66.

Has anyone heard this? (or perhaps, more appropriately would anyone want to hear this?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_V.U._1971%E2%80%931973

I downloaded it long ago but didn't make it through the first disc. It was pretty rough going as far as I remember.

But parts of it have more VU members than parts of Loaded, so it couldn't be all bad...?