The Velvet Forum

I'm sure you're all aware that Norman Dolph died last week. It was an opportunity for me to re-read this great interview: https://www.furious.com/perfect/velvetundergroundbook.html Wasn't aware of his death, so thanks for the [sad] news. For his remembrance, here's another, later [2013] interview w...

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 'I...

Looking forward to this release, but what I'd really love to hear is something from when they were a 4 piece with Maclise. When they were doing improvised soundtracks for Piero Heliczer events or slowly edging towards the sound that was fully formed by early 1966. That to me is the lost piece of th...

Personally, I'm interested to know if they performed It Was a Pleaure Then at the EPI. That's my favorite collaboration of theirs with Nico. Nico about It Was a Peasure Then . Source: 1982.Mar.24, Muziekkrant OOR #6, page 25/27, interview by Bert van de Kamp [note in same issue on page 24/25 is an ...

Hi, I'm looking to find the source of this quote, attributed to Lester Bangs. I'm after the quote in whole, not just the first clause: Modern music starts with the Velvets, and the implications and influence of what they did seems to go on forever. in Up-tight [p126]: "I belong to the generation fo...

Worth mentioning is that on the January 1st, 1966 rehearsal tape, Sterling Morrison can be heard playing the riff to Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams(right before Lou asks him to play Walk Alone) on his electric guitar. Sounds pretty enticing, and to me might just be the best (non) version of the song....

Searched some more... On the World Radio History website didn't find any info about above EPI members' or Warhol's radio appearances, but more info [most complete?] about Studs Terkel * Encyclopedia of Radio - The Museum of Broadcast Communications [2004, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers] https://worldr...

Searched some more... Furthrmore found that a week earlier Warhol seems to have appeared in an evening program at radio WBBM: source: 1966.Jun.18, Chicago Tribune, section 2 page 10 page: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/201524726/?terms=warhol thumb: https://img.newspapers.com/img/thumbnail/201...

Searched some more and think I found the original broadcasting date and time: Friday 1966.Jun.24 at 10hr [morning!] on WFMT's Wax Museum [with Studs Terkel] Warhol was announced as Studs Terkel's guest, but it seems instead 5 EPI members turned up in Studs' radio studio. Don't know if this was broad...

Thanks to all who replied in this topic, but so far comments are about 1965 demo version[s], while I'm after WYTiD played at EPI performances [1966-67], as described by Ingrid Superstar in Up-tight. So basically info [ preferably contemporary ] about live versions of WYTiD performed between the 1965...