The Velvet Forum

I thought that the Jan 1970 VU Pennsylvania tapes were probably mis-dated and was correct - from the track listings they are the commonly available Jan and May 70 Second Fret recordings. I've not listened to them yet to assess sound quality but they're unlikely to be better than what we have ...

Could be good (not the AI one) - Unterberger's level of research is second to none. Anyone know if this is a totally new book or a revision of his Day By Day one?

Wow - after all this time, a new tape. Not exactly peak era VU of course but sounds really interesting all the same. Will you be uploading it anywhere?

Hard to say but I wonder if it was a bit of a cover story. I don't think they actually had a deal at the time Squeeze was recorded (I guess Sesnick arranged for it to be recorded independently?), so maybe in the intervening year he was mainly just shopping it around before Polydor picked it up.

He's talking about Squeeze, which was recorded in London in Nov/Dec 1971 but not released till much later, for obscure reasons. They also recorded versions of Friends and She'll Make You Cry at Atlantic in late 1970 - shame these have never surfaced as they feature the full Doug/Walter/Sterling/Mo ...

Are you sure these are legit? Not bootlegs?

Just thinking about this mysterious Squeeze test press. Did it ever sell? Would be amazing if a recording happened to make it into circulation.

Yes it's clearly Cale. Don't use Google's worthless AI answers for anything.

I'd like to know too. It's such an odd collection isn't it? Some major obscurities (notably Hedy) and a couple of totally unrelated 1970 live tracks - which are somehow as good quality as I've heard anywhere.

Surely if they were recording songs repeatedly to give out to people, they wouldn't have left all the multiple takes and false starts in?

(PS Hi Geoff!)