The Velvet Forum

in 1994, as an 18 year old, The only Velvet Underground i'd really been exposed to was 'VU'. A friend gave me some bits and bobs from VU&N and WL/WH and around the same time, the Peel Slowly and See box set came out and I grabbed a copy. The next 6 months was spent listening to the VU on a loop as a ...

any definitive opinions/evidence on whether it's Lou or not? I can only find conjecture but to these ears,... yip.

it's definitely Here She Comes Now, but nothing more than both writers riffing on a sliding D chord - i don't think there's any deliberate plagiarism or homage here...?

Lady Godiva would be fun live. I have a 4 track tape somewhere of me trying to cover it at uni. No vocals despite living in Wales where i could have easily found a John Cale soundalike. Might upload it for fun sometime - i used to cover loads of Velvets tracks as they were just so much fun to ...

it's been posted here by the very chap that mad.... found it. : )

That's how i remember the 60s, for sure...

it's such a splendid fake and it's unbelievable what people will believe. similarly faked (but not at all Velvet related - unless you count a tenuous link through Sonic Youth or the fact it sounds not dissimilar to some Velvets boots - so not for everyone's taste). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

Simon Love wrote:

iaredatsun wrote:
There will also be a digital exclusive

I wonder what?

A 10 minute recording of Lou Reed counting his money.

"1 dollar 20 cents, 1 dollar 21 cents, 1 dollar 22 cents..."

that is something i would make the journey to the big smoke for! Quite an undertaking.....

Hello Simon Love. We may have briefly been in a band together, danced at Twisted and I could have had sex with your leg to the MC5 at Ian and Sharon's wedding. Or that may have been another Love, my memory is foggy. Either way - small world and kudos on getting Doug involved on a track! That sounds ...