The Velvet Forum

Many thanks, Alfredo. The book is wonderful!

And it arrived from Madrid to my doorstep in the heart of Europe within the week. Great turnaround!

I'm up for chipping in if there's going to be a community effort.

Many thanks for the fascinating e-mail exchanges!! 'Melody Laughter' is given as the mooted title (with question mark) of the first improvisation on the 1993 Raven Records 3CD compilation, What Goes On. The "Mind The Magic" release of Valleydale (on two separate discs called "Live In Columbus") is f...

Are the 2 'Hey Mr Rain' really unreleased ? I think they have made a more sympathetic remix of them, than the 80s versions, for this release. I guess that can count as unreleased in a sense. There certainly is room for improvement there. If anything Moe's drums should be raised considerably in the ...

I was checking the delivery date of the set in my local record shop today (yes, we've still got one left!) and they also confirmed that it will arrive on the 5th.

Great sleuthing job... very well done!!

Now, can you take it to the next level? What time and day was the picture taken? I'm guessing 3.45 pm on a Thursday in early Spring.

The word "returned" is crucial, if the sleeve notes were written at the latest, a month before Hunky Dory's release, that's November 1971. Who out of the VU had "returned"?.

I've always understood Bowie's phrase in the sense of "returning the favour".

Thanks for the tip. It works a charm!

On a related note (re: skull tattoo), I saw this for the first time today.

http://www.blowuparchive.com/details.ph ... (1967).jpg

Anybody still looking for the two files missing from the torrent can find them at alt.binaries.music.shn, or in a single zip-file here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CX3AXM5K