New VU book by Clinton Heylin - Feb 2005?

[simonm]

All Yesterday's Parties: The Velvet Underground In Print, 1966-1970
By Clinton Heylin

I came across this advance notice looking for info on the Joe Harvard book. I find Heylin's prose style dull, but he does get to the detail. Should be ok.
There's another book coming out too, in December; looks like a cheesy coffee table job.

[bleach]

I liked his book about bootlegs (although it had big gaps in the story). Flawed but fascinating nevertheless.

I hope that doesn't mean that it will just be a rehash of all those articles & cuttings we already have in that Velvet Underground Companion & those sometimes unreadable VU 'scrapbooks'.

[Chance]

Ooh, this is cool. I've always liked Heylin's style. Parts of the bootleg book are bogged down with discussions of legal statutes and and court decisions, which - though integral to the story - can get tedious, but in other works he's pretty entertaining. Opinionated but knowledgeable. He's done some nice work on Dylan and Joy Division that I've seen. This should be worth checking out.

Interesting fact I learned from Heylin: It took less studio time for Bob Dylan to record all the albums he released from 1961-76 than for the Beatles to record "Sgt. Pepper."

[Pernod time]

That was a great book, I really enjoyed it