The Velvet Forum

Thanks Gaz, extremely well informed as ever.

The Cale Hunter Ronson Lang tapes... are these out there somewhere? I know there was briefly some talk of a release quite a few years back.

Any possibility you might be persuaded to open your collection from this period on Dime once more at some point?

That's interesting. So although the Cowgirls LP was put out by Curtin, they weren't his tapes? Or were they? What you say about the masters being lost and 'best of' tapes making it into circulation makes a lot of sense. I remember when you torrented some of the 1978 stuff a few years ago there was a...

Thanks, that's very kind of you to dig those out. I think those are from the Even Cowgirls Get the Blues LP. What I'm really looking for (but didn't mention in my original post for the sake of brevity) is another set of songs from the same night which I've seen on people's lists in the past, one of ...

Fascinating to see that early version of Coney Island Baby. I'd never thought of it before but it makes sense it being from 71 - Lou maybe wasn't inclined to be quite so tender and reflective by 75!

Does anyone happen to have either of these two Cale shows?

18-07-77 Brunnsparken Festival, Orebro
31-12-79 CBGB

Been looking out for those two for years but they never seem to surface online. Would be great to hear them if anyone has em.

There's some on the sleeve of either the Etc or And So On bootleg LP, sourced from Sterling I think, that states those songs were recorded at a place on Broom St not Ludlow. I suspect Ludlow is just lazy fact checking on the Peel Slowly box. The sound is very different from the earlier session so it...

Are we going with late 1965 as the date of that demo with Sheltered Life etc then? Personally I still think late 66/early 67 makes more sense...

Thank you - great find. I always find these glimpses into the lost world of the pre-Warhol VU fascinating.

Wow. If you listen closely one of the backing voices is definitely Cale.

Wonder how much crossover there is with the 11 poems that were published in Nigel Trevena's Velvets book?

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