The Velvet Forum

lostblues wrote:

wornhill wrote:Just wanted to let anybody that was interested that the Norman Dolph acetate of the Velvet's original session is going up today for auction on Ebay. The seller's id is vinyl and it is a 10 day no reserve auction with a starting bid of 99 cents.

Funny thing that the owner of the acetate is called Warren Hill. I assume that you (wornhill) are the lucky one?
What are your feelings now? While becoming rich?
I keep my fingers crossed that you really get the money. And that we get a copy

AND, PLEASE, tell the whole thrilling story about it (contacts with majors, legal messes), WE WANT TO KNOW!

This is absolute madness. There is no way that is the only existing copy. They would have made several acetates, not just one for the engineer. Plus, its a bloody acetate. How many times can you reasonably play that until the sound deteriorates. Not 40 years worth of playing I can tell you that. And don't know who is going to end up paying upwards of $200K for this, but I hope this isn't some museum looking for a government grant. I wouldn't argue that this is worth that much. Maybe a couple of thousand. My god, the VU aren't as historically important as some would say. Just because they made great music, doesn't mean they deserve to be canonized.

Maybe it's all a fake and nobody knows

Chris

Nobody here bidding on it then?

i bid $66 on it but was somehow outbid...

Me too. I wanted to get it for my dad, he saw them on Lawrence Welk and thought they were pretty good.

Ok, less than 12 hours left...the record is still on auction.Any real bid coming??? I mean I dont know what 's going on...95 %(more?)of the bids smell dodgy.The guy that bidded 150000$ use to buy temporary spider man tattos for 2 bucks & empty ball point pens for $ 0,01. & sell cheap pendants.Almost all the bidders I checked are not into music.In an auction like this usually nobody bids until the last few minutes.There are more than 150 bids.I'm sorry but I think they went too far... By the way I'm happy with the bootleg of the "alternate copy" of this "unique scretched artyfact".

citizensmurf wrote:Plus, its a bloody acetate. How many times can you reasonably play that until the sound deteriorates.

As many times as you want:



http://www.elpj.com

Somebody bidded 15.000.000 $ (look at the cancelled bids)

That's gonna suck for them when they find out that the guy was serious.