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ah, ok, nothing very new then. some of the Chelsea Girls stuff I have on CD-R sounds like it would be interesting but the sound quality is so bad that it's torture to listen to... probably a recording taped from a cinema screening as you say.

[oops - that title should be 'new-ish bootleg" :/]

hi all - I came across this bootleg on eBay sold listings.



has anyone got it? is the sound ok/ better than really bad?

i can hear some of the Symphony of Sound soundtrack here and there, but don't recognise all the projected film sounds,

wow, yes! thanks!

Can't make a direct comparison but the 2018 Spyglass version is definitely speed-corrected, and sounds very good on vinyl. Can't imagine the EA version is conspicuously better. The track times on the Spyglass CD are the same as on the Easy Action CD - could be from the same master...

BTP entrance c1969

oh - someone is selling original VU BTP posters on uk eBay - I was going to bid on this one - I've always loved it and it ends on my birthday, but with nearly 2 days to go, it's close to my max £ bid already :( maybe someone else here will get it? nice clear image anyway https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1...

I was just thinking about the given title Youngman 11-66 - youngman is the term for a hustler in John Rechy's queer classic City Of Night published by Grove Press in '63. I'm sure Lou would have had it on his bookshelf next to Hubert Selby's Last Exit To Brooklyn - could that have been a reference f...

Wow - yeah! I really like this version - it's like a different song from the Gymnasium version, rooted in the Booker T /Move Right sound, as Mark suggests. Great to hear - I'm really into the slower more stretched-out arrangement. Little Sister was a bit more of an oddity, and I haven't listened to ...