The Velvet Forum

There should be a few more (and hopefully we get to hear them) since it's supposedly this tape:

"Audio: tape listed in What Goes On fanzine, Best of 1&2 issue, 15 minutes (incomplete), C+. Status: unconfirmed, uncirculated"

Makes me wonder about the other tapes with the same status.

I don't think it's for most people here, but this is probably my favorite VU cover:

Apoptygma Berzerk - All tomorrow's parties

https://youtu.be/c8JOZ0CK2F4

I think it sounds like (a tribute to) VU at Max's.. Most songs are played too fast and with the absence of Moe & Cale it sounds pretty straight. It works pretty well on the tracks from that era but not so well on the Cale-era songs IMO. Especially the lead vocal is not up to scratch on the old songs...

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Hoping for another track soon, ms Rayon..

"Indeed, Hermes’s taste for Reed’s music is comparatively square: he cites the third Velvet Underground LP as the band’s best and skims over genuinely innovative deep-fan favourites, such as Lulu, Reed’s final album"

Surely he means deep-fried fans? Or am I missing something?

Thanks! This was well made, I enjoyed it.

Think the story is that the tape was in the car and she recorded something from the radio over a portion of the tape (Sister ray, Mr Rain (!!) and Venus in Furs except the last few seconds).

Lou supposedly borrowed and returned it (without making a copy one wonders?).

There's a new bootleg out: https://www.trashwax.com/product/velvet-underground-the-other-side-of-the-mirror-lp-very-ltd-edition-400-copies/ For completists only I would say, considering everything is available elsewhere. It's a bit of a mystery to me why anyone would come up with this in 2023. Nice ...

Thank you, ms Rayon!! Came across this essay on Nico's first album by Paul Williams where he writes about Little Sister that: "“Little Sister” is either the first song Lou Reed and John Cale wrote together or the first on which Cale requested and received credit. Lou did the words; John did the musi...

Thanks for the input, Mark. I've never seen that Twitter-post before. >Is Klimek still in Cleveland? If so, with Doug Snyder (Columbus 1966) being in the Ohio area as well, maybe it's time for someone to head out there >on >a road trip with a suitcase full of cash... I remember reading here on the f...