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I had a really good scan over that Stephen Shore contact sheet and can't see any indication that they are in a professional studio, it looks like it could be a band rehearsal (can't see Moe) in an anonymous corner of the Factory possibly. But there's a couple of frames where you can see an audio recording is going on, there are mics and a tape recorder set up - is that Danny Williams operating them?
camforrester wrote: ↑05 Jun 2022 20:49 I've seen that selection of shots before too...definitely a taped rehearsal, I reckon that was a good few months before they went into the studio too as Lou was still playing a Kent Copa and Sterling a Gretsch 6120 single cutaway, very similar but not the same guitar that Lou later used for the album sessions
John and Sterling look very much like they do in the USA Artists clip from early 1966. Could the guy with the glasses therefore be a sound recordist from WNET?bleach wrote: ↑05 Jun 2022 19:06I had a really good scan over that Stephen Shore contact sheet and can't see any indication that they are in a professional studio, it looks like it could be a band rehearsal (can't see Moe) in an anonymous corner of the Factory possibly. But there's a couple of frames where you can see an audio recording is going on, there are mics and a tape recorder set up - is that Danny Williams operating them?
In looking through Twitter images of the VU at Scepter last week I spotted an intriguing response, made in 2017 by Tyler Wilcox of the Doom And Gloom From The Bomb blogsite, stating Faison was his wife's cousin. I wrote Tyler to ask whether he'd ever interviewed Faison, and received this reply:Note Dave Faison in one of those Scepter pics. Has he ever been interviewed re his time with the Velvets? I don't recall ever seeing an interview with him.
Dave Faison passed away in the 1990s (I believe). I never met him, but I knew his son Jere a little bit when my wife and I lived in Boston — sadly he passed away a few years back, too. Interestingly, Jere crossed paths a few times with John Cale in the mid-1990s when he was the soundman at TT the Bear's in Boston. If I remember right, Jere told Cale that his dad used to work with him in the VU and Cale said that back in the VU days, Dave always wore a cape! Definitely too bad that there doesn't seem to be any extant interviews with him.