The Velvet Forum

LCB wrote:I saw a posthumous Doors album for sale, in 1987.....I regret not getting it.......if only for a huge laugh....

Other Voices is so weird... I listened to the LP in a record store once. Opener "Variety Is the Spice of Life" starts of with an intro that makes you think it's 1968/69, circa "Hello I Love You", until Ray Manzarek starts croaking his impression of a singer. I almost fell off the stool laughing and couldn't take it seriously anymore. And to think the only two Top 40 hits The Doors ever had in the Netherlands were post-Morrison... ("Mosquito" and "Tightrope Ride").

the Iggy as Morrison story almost seems like a great idea, in that light.....

There is a vinyl copy up for bid on eBay right now:


Velvet Underground - Squeeze LP RARE 1972 PSYCH EX/NM
Item number: 4833299623

for anyone who might be interested.

I'd be willing to guarantee that, had Squeeze been released as a Doug Yule solo album, a lot of Velvets fans would have listened to it and said "Wow, this could have been the 5th Velvets record." Squeeze is a pretty good record if you can forget about the name on the cover and just enjoy it for the music. I feel that its release on CD is long overdue. Even if they put it out on CD under the name "Doug Yule", I'd be perfectly happy as long as I could get the material.

You can download it here:

http://chocoreve.blogspot.com/2005_06_0 ... chive.html

There is a bunch more VU stuff here, too, if it is still working.

Let's hope it is

I just recently got the best-sounding vinyl rip of Squeeze that you're likely to find anywhere. It was given to me as .WAV files. The one problem is, instead of recording both sides as one .WAV file, then splititng the tracks, he recorded each track individually. This caused two problems:

1. Sometimes the space in between songs was both at the end of one track and at the beginning of the next track.

2. Sometimes the fadeouts didn't complete fully.

To get around these, I took the .WAV files, removed all space, both before and after each track, then took the last 1 second of audio and did a fade out on all tracks that did a fade. On the tracks which just end, I just let them end normally.

After this was done, I inserted two seconds of blank space at the end of each track (except "Louise" since it's the last track).

So basically now you have all 11 songs with proper endings or fadeouts, and 2 seconds of blank space between each track, essentially a "made for CD" version of the album.

The actual sound quality of the songs was NOT modified in any way. No filters were applied, nothing. I only played with the spacing and last 1 second of the fadeouts.

Once all was said and done, I encoded them into 128kbps WMA files.

If anyone is interested in this rip, send me a PM and I'll hook you up.

I've just received a message from Doug Yule in response to a couple of questions I sent him about Squeeze - specifically about Ian Paice's involvement on the record and the identity of the sax player and backing vocalists. This is what he said:

Ian did all the drums but I'm not surprised he doesn't recall it. We only spent a short time on tracking and basically I coached him through the tunes. I don't think he really had time to get to know them very well.

The sax was played by a guy named Malcom whose last name I don't know. The female vocals were done by females. I think two and at least one was black. It's all very fuzzy. It might have been one singer tracked two or three times. I know we tracked Malcom twice and I asked him to retune to make it sound like a section.

I wonder if Malcolm is Malcolm Duncan, who played with the Average White Band and did session work with various bands around this time?

Hey all, first post. About "Squeeze"...I just got my copy today in the mail via a seller on ebay. I'm actually enjoying it. You can't really compare it to the first two albums or the post-Cale material even...nowhere near as brilliant. Still, in its own way, it's a good album. A good mix of Beatles, later day VU and the Beach Boys. Maybe not a lost classic, but worth owning. I'd give it maybe 3 out of 5 stars. As others have stated, if this were released as a Doug Yule solo album it would have met with a warmer reception. Or even if Sterling Morrison had played on it, it may have stood a chance.

Sleeze