The Velvet Forum

Criterion releases Todd Haynes film in December Has complete Moe and John interview. Has complete versions of some of the art films shown in the documentary such as Venus In Furs. https://www.criterion.com/films/33386-the-velvet-underground?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=title-annou...

Just started checking some of my Up-tight detail questions in Unterberger's White Light/White Heat book, didn't find anything new about WYTiD, but found this as related and very interesting [to me at least]: p145 [1967.April - Also...]: Gregg Barrios notes that he supplied footage of Nico singing '...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jonas-Mekas-S ... B0716J7W8S

It’s also availible to stream at Amazon, but I can’t watch it from my location.

It's too bad UMG didn't strike a deal with the Warhol museum to use some of the audio here on VU&N 45th. More interesting, imo, than the Factory Rehearsal bits. Agree, it's a shame they didn't include any of the soundtracks at all. Here's a short segment from the Nico Icon documentary in better qua...

1966: European Son from Film-Makers Cinematheque Chic Mystique from The Open Stage Heroin from Poor Richards Music from the Nico Crying Reel The Nothing Song 1967: I'm not a young man anymore, Guess I'm falling in love and Sister Ray from The Gymnasium Whatever you can hear from Walk & Talk, I heard...

But they would have been miming, right? That would blow. Not necessarily. Although bands largely mimed on Upbeat, some recorded live like Otis Redding when he recorded a few songs on the show in late 1967. I'm still hoping it shows up and is live, but I've seen the dvd-r sets of the hours of extant...

Btw, found this on youtube, it's Klimek's band Mirrors performing a cover of Sweet Sister Ray a couple of years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVLlSdO539g

This is interesting. They were without doubt on the same show, so I wonder why their appearance hasn't seen the light of the day...

Could it perhaps be that The Yardbirds segment has been copied to another tape, and the rest of the show has disappeared?

It is an interesting idea, but I don't think Klimek is interested in getting approached about his velvet tapes at the moment, atleast from what I've read on this forum in other threads. Even if he would like that, the original tape has likely deteriorated in the past 50 years (I'm not sure however w...

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/05/todd-haynes-to-screen-footage-from-new-velvet-unde.html https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/05/todd-haynes-velvet-underground-doc/ I had almost forgot about this, but it sounds promising that it will have new interviews from the members. Let's also hop...