Velvet Underground Trainspotting Question

This works really well. Kinda thinking of this as the definitive version now (especially since they used the '80s mix).

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!

Oh, I tried that once, it sounded godawful, but technology has moved on from me using a 4-track portastudio..

yeah it's by no means perfect, but pretty listenable. maybe the closest we'll get!

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.

I think even Lou would have loved that one.

No idea where to post this but I thought this might be a good spot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYdH4vKd6M

what's the longest version of sister ray, the matrix version?

pretty sure, yeah, 38 minutes? the La Cave version mixed w/"Murder Mystery" is only 28.

Disc 3, "Complete Matrix Tapes", 37 mins.

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

From John Tilbury's biography of Cornelius Cardew.

now THAT is some trainspotting

I think I said it at the time, I read it so you don't have to.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEBUSzmUQAA5QWs.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DEBUSzkVYAALdV3.jpg

(don't think this record actually exists, but haha, what if it did!)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/253014171696?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&fromMakeTrack=true

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4GgAAOSwXeJYC7mC/s-l1600.jpg

I... kinda want it

re: disco dazzler - no "in the light of the miracle", no credibility

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

Uh... lol, sorry about that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad73QMHa5HI

Wow

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

that's amazing, great find

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...

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

that's the same as the "1969" disc in the recent 3rd album boxset, iirc

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)

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.

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.

You know 'albumsthatneverwere'?

Might want to toddle along there right about now...

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)

Mark G OTM

is there a good VU book?

I like Richie Unterberger's White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-by-Day

yeah, a great resource. the NY Art coffee table book is nice as well.

The Gerard Malanga one is a good intro, but we're well past that stage now, right?

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.

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.

awesome, looks like i'm gonna be picking up unterberger's

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

hey thank you!

great idea!
that film is so frustrating, lol. so close, yet so far from an actual VU concert film.

getting a "corrupt file" message of some kind when I try to expand the .rar folder though ...

I got a "not a .rar file" message

that's weird, I just tried downloading it and it works for me, but oh well - try this instead:

https://www.4shared.com/folder/tQRfRnrY/Velvet_Underground_Boston_Tea_.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgT0D7jU0AAlntM.jpg

is Sesnick holding a severed head?

LOL @ the idea of listening to WLWH at a cocktail party with that crew (would have loved to see the live performance, tho)

that is nuts, where did you find that?? Also makes me think - how many pictures are circulating of Sesnick from that era? He looms large over any bios but I don't really recall seeing any shots of him before.

it's from cashbox magazine. there are a couple more pics of sesnick, but there aren't many

"Sesnick in luxury" in the original edition of "Uptight"