The Velvet Forum

ANYONE HEARD THESE GUYS?Must be the best cover album,band FICTION from Czech rep released album Neverending Party/a tribute to The Velvet Underground in 1995,leader of the band was a member/leader of The Plastic People of the Universe.GREA ALBUM AND SHOULD BE SOUGHT AFTER.PLASTIC PEOPLE DEDICATED THEIR LIVE TO UNDERGROUND MUSIC AND WERE PERSECUTED AND LOCKED UP MANY TIMES FOR PLAYING VU AND UNDERGROUND MUSIC AND STILL PLAYING NOW FOR 37 YEARS!!!!!JUST SAW THEIR SHOW LAST SATURDAY-AWESOME!!!!EVEN LOU REED PLAYED PART IN A MOVIE ABOUT PLASTIC PEOPLE AND ADMIRING THE BAND FOR HOW THEY STRUGLED AND HOW GREAT THEY PLAY THEIR TUNES AND WAS EVEN PLAYING WITH THEM ON PRAGUE!

Plastic People are great, I play in a band called Gutter Moon in Zürich and our drummer a Czech guy from Brno played with them on some French festival gigs back in the Eighties.He still has all ther original albms on vinyl, I must copy them sometime!

Recently got hold of some PPU stuff namely Man With No Ears, Egon Bondys..., Beefslaughter. Egon is pretty good, sometimes very good velvetsy rock/free jazz. The jury's still out on the other two, but I'm only a couple of listens in.