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This is absolutely FANTASTIC taxine!!

May 11, 1969 (i think)

Great post!

Yes is from may 1969. there are at least 3 different color lettering.My copy has blue lettering & gold.I saw a photo with red lettering & gold from a big NY collector.

Is the White Lightning listed on that flyer/poster the same as the one from Minneapolis which featured ex-Litter guitarist "Zippy" Caplan? Might be a stretch as I'm sure there were plenty of bands back then who would've named themselves after another term for acid!

~Adam

velvetfan wrote:another fucking delay on the Deluxe book from Amazon:
Items Ordered Approve
The Velvet Underground: Deluxe Edition, Johan Kugelberg, et al
Updated Delivery Estimate: December 3, 2009 - December 11, 2009
Your approval required by: December 1, 2009

Good news to everybody waiting for the Deluxe. I got overnight email from Amazon confirming shipping

alfredovu wrote:

velvetfan wrote:another fucking delay on the Deluxe book from Amazon:
Items Ordered Approve
The Velvet Underground: Deluxe Edition, Johan Kugelberg, et al
Updated Delivery Estimate: December 3, 2009 - December 11, 2009
Your approval required by: December 1, 2009

Good news to everybody waiting for the Deluxe. I got overnight email from Amazon confirming shipping

Ditto! Got the same email......I'm watching the post. All you U.S. members, Happy Thanksgiving

From Eaby Seller today at $295

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: DELUXE LIMITED EDITION


"This is a handsome book with more full-color images than a strong acid trip. If you dig on The Velvets, you should buy it." ~Dazed & Confused

"The book has minimal text (including an exclusive interview between bandmates Lou Reed and Maureen Tucker). The strength lies in the knockout imagery. It visually traces the narrative of the group, and of the '60s era itself. The wraparound-sunglasses, all-black amphetamine cool of their early days as Andy Warhol's house band, to the bell-bottom jamming of their swan song period." ~Raw

?The Velvet Underground: New York Art is the ultimate visual biography of the greatest rock band in history. The new hardcover tome was lovingly and exhaustingly compiled by Johannes Kugelberg who managed to unearth a staggering amount of never-before-scene images.? ~VMAN


The Velvet Underground is an astonishing assembly of rare objects and artworks and the first book of its scale to document the formative years of the band Time Out magazine named the greatest New York musicians of all time. From never-before-seen photographs of the band?s first live show in New York to Andy Warhol?s cover and poster designs, Lou Reed?s handwritten music and lyrics, underground press clippings and controversial reviews, flyers, handbills, and posters, the materials here comprise a uniquely comprehensive survey of the first rock group ever to transcend the genre and embrace underground popular culture.

Including a conversation recorded especially for the book between founding members Lou Reed and Maureen Tucker, this beautifully illustrated book is the first to present a definitive picture of the band?s genesis and development in the extraordinary New York scene of the mid- to late-1960s.

This is the DELUXE LIMITED EDITION -

- 308 pages

- Beautifully bound large White Box opens from the front and side and contains:

- THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: NEW YORK ART Book with contributions by Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker, Doug Yule, Yaclav Havel and Jon Savage

- A CD Recording of two tracks available nowhere else taken from Maureen Tucker's 1968 acetates:

1. We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together
2. If You Close The Door (After Hours)

- 7" Vinyl record of the above two tracks pressed especially for this limited edition and housed in

a heavy cardboard folder which is Hand-Signed by Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, and Doug Yule.

- Limited to 400 copies, not numbered.

Dammit! Will someone PLEASE clarify how, if at all, these versions of Afterhours and Real Good Time Together differ from any other versions?

Mark wrote:Dammit! Will someone PLEASE clarify how, if at all, these versions of Afterhours and Real Good Time Together differ from any other versions?

As soon as my copy arrives, I will rip it from cd and make it available for posting. I don't know how to post it on rapidshare or whatever, but I can sent it to someone who can. Keep watching this space.

Got my copy Saturday?so cool it was signed by Lou + Maureen + Doug! Super-beautiful!!

"Real Good Time" is a demo. It's not the one on Another View. Full band but bare bones, only Lou singing. Pleasant enough. "After Hours" sounds like a demo/rough take. They may be those 1969 acetate versions found on Mainline bootleg...? Anyway, the two songs?nothing totally special really. I'm glad my copy is signed, otherwise I would have just sent the dang thing back and ordered the paperback version of the book. I'm not saying the book itself isn't awesome, but...it didn't 100% blow me away for the price. The fact it's the signed edition makes it worthwhile.

Sounds really nice! You should try to get a Cale signature in the cardboard folder too!