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Mark wrote: ↑13 Jun 2025 22:56 Thanks! Sorry for not sharing what it is just yet, I just don't want to get ahead of myself in case it doesn't happen. Hopefully more news anon...

Very sensible.

Mark wrote: ↑11 Jun 2025 09:03 If what I'm planning comes off, I'll have many things to reach out to Johan about!

Good luck with your project, whatever its exact nature might be. Sounds interesting.

hallucalation wrote: ↑07 Jun 2025 17:25 Tony Conrad's tape archive as well. Plenty of stuff that is still under lock and key.

The VU related tapes back in the possession of Cale, it’s been said. Unless Conrad had private tapes of the band that he kept.

We surely know there’s a recording of Walk It and Talk It from the Gymnasium, and I presume it’s a part of a full set . And there’s a studio version of Guess I’m Falling In Love with vocals. It’s got tape damage but we don’t know how serious the damage is. But hard to imagine there’s enough for UMG t ...

I think any deal would have to go through UMG as the tapes were made when they were signed to MGM. And I presume any such release would also need to be signed off by the remaining group members on the recording - and that would be before anyone like LITA could be involved. A private deal with fans ...

Naive question – where might these off-air recordings come from? I ask as there is another JP session recording I'd like to find. All Peel Sessions, incl. links to detailed info, can be found through this this page https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Session_Artists If the audio you're looking f ...

Very nice to hear these. Thank-you for the upload.

Naive question – where might these off-air recordings come from? I ask as there is another JP session recording I'd like to find.

Maybe this one. You don’t mention the colour of the label. But I think the matrix matches. The one I link is a 1968 yellow label promo

https://www.discogs.com/release/3526141 ... White-Heat

A (now) unsettlingly expensive boot. One that, for some reason, i've never owned. In the end I settled for a CD – with those quotes just about legible.

Good to know who the quotes came from.

Thank-you. Cafe Royal are fantastic.