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 (five years ago) link
hey thank you!
― city worker, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 13:08 (five 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 (five years ago) link
getting a "corrupt file" message of some kind when I try to expand the .rar folder though ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
I got a "not a .rar file" message
― Brad C., Tuesday, 10 April 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
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
― whitehallunity, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgT0D7jU0AAlntM.jpg
― tylerw, Monday, 25 June 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
is Sesnick holding a severed head?
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 25 June 2018 15:27 (five years ago) link
LOL @ the idea of listening to WLWH at a cocktail party with that crew (would have loved to see the live performance, tho)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 25 June 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
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.
― whitehallunity, Monday, 25 June 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
it's from cashbox magazine. there are a couple more pics of sesnick, but there aren't many
― tylerw, Monday, 25 June 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
"Sesnick in luxury" in the original edition of "Uptight"
― Mark G, Monday, 25 June 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
yikeshttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DyvA4tZXcAA3lzQ.jpg:large
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
AND THEN
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
god that is fucking enraging
― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
seems too dumb to be real, but hey this is 2019.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:24 (five years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51aSkiBkT2L._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
is this image in public domain then. Or does that get bypassed by it being a cartoon of the image. Oh with certain famous artists added.
Turning chronologies upside down is so hip, innit.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:28 (five years ago) link
Maybe it's a "Bob Marley with a picture of Jimi Hendrix T-shirt" kind of joke.
― nickn, Thursday, 7 February 2019 04:13 (five years ago) link
Who's the 'we'? is it a like totally solipsistic viewpoint, as in the venue owners. Like I bought this and then only discovered this a while later. So obviously nobody else could have known about them before.You don't osmose the VU from being on NYC streets then?
― Stevolende, Thursday, 7 February 2019 09:34 (five years ago) link
What could be more trainspotty than a modern classical composer spending 26 minutes dissecting "The Murder Mystery"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw_fWpymCDg
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 04:24 (five years ago) link
Hey now, that “asinine banal piano phrase” is my favorite part. Really liked this bit of overthinking. I didn’t know about the Warhol novel, Which does seem like it must have influenced it.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
I've never heard anyone in the VU ever talk about why this track was recorded, given that they had lots of material they could have recorded, or how it was recorded or how it was written etc.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 15:58 (five years ago) link
He's right that it's weirdly un-discussed for a band so thoroughly interviewed and written about. I'd like to know the story of how Reed got the text into the Paris Review in 1972.
― eva logorrhea (bendy), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
Lou was sorta moving around in the New York poetry world in his post-velvets / pre-solo career days. there's a radio interview from the late 60s where he talks pretty extensively about Murder Mystery.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
some detail here: http://www.richieunterberger.com/vuexc11.html
I've always felt the chords were very bossa nova influenced.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 16:26 (five years ago) link
ooh, case in point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44GRRnhZSGM
That's like the quietest Youtube video ever.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
skip to 7:45 or so https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1061089/m1/?fbclid=IwAR0Dof08ymTgh_TMVC81JvkVd5zzu0oikt9vTmvJgl_-GPOTbBtQGlk37aw#track/1
― my future think tank (stevie), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 07:11 (five years ago) link
Sweet! Same performance...
https://static.spin.com/files/1411225-velvet-underground.jpg
― The Vangelis of Dating (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 08:00 (five years ago) link
love how it goes "friends and vacation" then off to a rock show, the VU play and it instantly cuts to Brakhage style film painting and manipulation
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 10:49 (five years ago) link
ha, Moe is wearing a New York Jets sweatshirt
― Brad C., Wednesday, 6 March 2019 14:24 (five years ago) link
Getting that fleeting glimpse of the VU definitely made my week.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
Some more trainspotting over here https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/183242727312/the-velvet-underground-white-rock-lake-dallas
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
awesome clip!
and congrats on 10 years of doomin' and gloomin' tyler!
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 7 March 2019 00:34 (five years ago) link
one day the lost macdougal street version of the first velvets album will be released
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Thursday, 7 March 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
thank you stevie !!!
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 March 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
xp you don't mean the acetate do you? because that was on the 45th anniversary VUaN set.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 7 March 2019 02:17 (five years ago) link
no, i'm making a sort of joke about lou reed writing the songs for the first vu record as greenwich village folk songs
i'll be happy if somebody just puts out that rehearsal tape by one of the pickwick bands with reed and cale, that sounds like something i'd love, even if they don't wind up playing "do the ostrich" for twelve minutes or something ridiculous
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Thursday, 7 March 2019 03:24 (five years ago) link
isn’t that stuff on the first disc of the “peel slowly” box ?
or
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 March 2019 03:33 (five years ago) link
fits the stated requirements
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 7 March 2019 04:52 (five years ago) link
i could never really listen to that first disc because they stuck all the takes of each song together on one track, i appreciate the completionist instinct but come on was it not worth the bother of properly editing?
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Thursday, 7 March 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
i actually just listened to that first PSAS disc for the first time in a while yesterday — great stuff, but yeah, weirdly put together. there was a bootleg LP from a little while back that pulled together the best takes (and added other early demos): https://www.discogs.com/The-Velvet-Underground-Prominent-Men/release/3506704
― tylerw, Thursday, 7 March 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
Has the Peel Slowly And See/Fully Loaded version of Loaded - ie, the long versions of Sweet Jane and New Age - ever been pressed on vinyl?
― my future think tank (stevie), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 12:30 (five years ago) link
Also when Lou says "just watch me now" on Sweet Jane, what are we supposed to see?
― my future think tank (stevie), Wednesday, 20 March 2019 12:31 (five years ago) link