The Velvet Forum

Guys.....I've found this website via Black Cat Bone (another geeky music forum) which has a covers database. Here's a VU section which is quite comprehensive:

http://www.secondhandsongs.com/artist/90.html

Dutch beat band The Riats did a cover of "Run, Run, Run" on a 45 circa '67 or '68. The B-Side, I believe, was Sunday Morning. This track can be found on a bootleg comp of obscure Dutch beat called Highlights In The Lowlands. It is a strange version, as The Riats turn it into a poppy, organ driven number; removing much of the original's edge.

Also, in the "Uptight" book, mention is made via a letter from Lou Reed to Gerard Malanga whereby Lou gives his OK to the Italian band Equipe 84 to record a version of "Heroin." Does anyone know if this ever happened?

Resurrecting an old thread with info on a new cover:

Sunray (featuring Sonic Boom) - Ocean EP (12" vinyl, Earworm Records)
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=22800

13 minute cover version of 'Ocean', apparently. Sonic Boom is the ex-Spacemen 3 member. The audio snippet at boomkat sounds quite nice.

You can hear the entire VU&N covered here. Billy Idol did quite a number on Heroin.

Speaking of covers, I heard a live cover of Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams in early July by Patrick Riguelle (Belgian artist) and friends. That's pretty rare, isn't it? And Absynthe Minded, another Belgian Band, covered Waiting For The Man (because I was yelling for it during the entire show, I can be quite the pest). Both covers were nice.

Cameo Role wrote:David Bowie covered the VU excessively.

THE FEELIES MAN! How have they not been mentioned? They did Run Run Run/European Son/What Goes On as a medley, and also did WL/WH and Waiting for the Man along with covering numerous other acts.

somewhere, i have a boot of them doing a whole set of velvetunes....

Echo and the Bunnymen need to be beaten for the bitch-up that's their version o f 'run run run'

Just came across a version of the Yardbirds with Jimmy Page doing a cover of Waiting For The Man at the Shrine Auditorium on May 31,1968. It starts off as Smokestack Lightning and then moves into WFTM before going back to Smokestack at the very end. The sound is kind of crappy, but it's interesting.

They evidently covered WFTM on other occasions as well. I haven't finishe downloading it yet but they did it again at the Fillmore West. I hope the sound on that one is a little better than the first one.

This obviously is not a cover, but I cannot think of a more appropriate place for this post.

There was also an Australian band using the VU name; the lead singer of which claimed to have no knowledge of Lou, Cale & Co. Rather, he claimed to have gotten the name from book of the same name, just like our heroes.

The Aussie VU discography is pretty slim, just one 45 consisting of West Coast covers: Somebody To Love/She Comes In Colors. The A-Side has been comped and is a pretty cool runthrough of the Airplane classic complete with opening burst of feedback that might have done Lou proud.

The Oz VU would eventually become AC/DC.....


"AC/DC was formed in 1973 in Australia by guitarist Malcolm Young after his band, the Velvet Underground, collapsed (Young's band has no relation to the seminal American group)."

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... 2gtq6ztu4p

http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrari ... rling.html
ROIO of the Week [Recordings of Indeterminate Origin]

Remembering Sterling Morrison

Japanese indie musician, Shinobu Goto, has teamed up with Ariomi Morimoto to form LDY (Love-Doc-Yukorin) and recorded the tracks below for the forthcoming The Warrior Heart Of The Velvet Underground, a compilation that is dedicated to Sterling Morrison.

Click on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality, stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s).

Track 01 Murder Mystery Version 1
Track 02 Murder Mystery Version 2
Track 03 Candy Saids

Lineup:
Shinobu Goto - Guitar/Voice/Metronome
Ariomi Morimoto - Guitar/Voice/Rhythm Machine

The tracks were recorded on October 29, 2006 at Tokyo's Museum Studio and the album will be released on Dec 10, 2006 as FREE/MAIL WARE.

The other tracks in the compilation:

Ride Into The Sun Establishment - Ariomi Morimoto
Sunday Morning - Daisyblue
After Hours/I?m Sticking You - Daisy Blue
I?m Waiting For My Man - Cobalt
Run Run Run - Warsawpact
Foggy Notion - The Sludge
Here She Comes Now - Eyescream
European Son - Takayuki Shinohara
Melody Laughter - Up-Tight
All Tomorrow?s Parties - Big Forest YB
What Goes On/Ocean - Myon
White Light/White Heat - Hananojyo
Lou Reed - William?s Electric Jet Lunch
Who Loves The Sun - Flower Mama Records
Sunday Morning - New Young Man
Move Right In - Kusyun

Visit http://shinobugoto.net/ (live information section) for updates.

Click here to download Shinobu Goto's version of Sister Ray.
http://www.bigomagazine.com/MP3/MP3/SGsisterray.mp3

Official sites:
Shinobu Goto: http://shinobugoto.net/
Ariomi Morimoto: http://dr-blog.asiandrug.jp/