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Big news story at the time by the sounds of it, and Lou supposedly wrote The Gift in the same period. Unlikely to be a coincidence, right?

Not a bad idea...

I was just wondering if anyone was in contact with a guy called Patrick who used to post on this forum quite regularly as Stooge? He very kindly lent me a VU tape about 10 years ago, which I managed to mislay and found recently. I sent him a private message on the forum to check his address so I cou...

I used an IP plugin for Firefox that seemed to do the job. Just get rid of it afterwards and wash your hands!

The Piero Heliczer documentary 'The Invisible Father', made by his daughter Therese, is streaming for the next few days as part of the Female Eye film festival. Cale is interviewed briefly but aside from that it's well worth watching imo. Fascinating character who played a very underrated and under-...

Well, they recorded a version Beginning to See the Light with Cale of course. And Pale Blue Eyes and What Goes On have both been anecdotally mentioned as being played with Cale in the summer of '68. And if - if - this listing from the NYPL Lou archive is accurate, they recorded most of the others wi...

https://i.postimg.cc/1zqF07Tx/velvet-underground.jpg Yesterday I came across this VU.picture at The Record Plant office 1969 that look absolutely new to me.New year and keep looking for new stuff.Welcome family to the normal live again. :P :P https://roughlydaily.com/2018/09/27/one-of-these-days/ T...

That's a fantastic shot of Moe, Bleach. Where's it from?

Thanks - first time I've had chance to see this. It's pretty great.

Don't forget the May 1970 show is on the Loaded deluxe edition that came out a few years ago. Seem to remember the taper saying the quality of the transfer wasn't as good as the one done in the 90s for the never-released Bootleg Series. He put that 90s transfer on YouTube I think, although it doesn'...