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Re: Never Get Emotionally Involved With a Man Woman Beast or Child

Post by bleach » 06 Mar 2018 01:15

Maybe it was from this item in the archives?

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Re: Never Get Emotionally Involved With a Man Woman Beast or Child

Post by Mark » 07 Mar 2018 00:57

Wow. If you listen closely one of the backing voices is definitely Cale.
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Re: Never Get Emotionally Involved With a Man Woman Beast or Child

Post by searchin4mymainline » 07 Mar 2018 15:49

Maybe it was from this item in the archives?
I think that package is more likely to contain a copy of the Pickwick Studios tape. The postcodes on the package are 11th May (and 12th May 1965), and Olivier's site dates the Pickwick Studios tape as May 11 1965. The site dates the demo tape with "Never Get Emotionally Involved..." to July 1965 (same month as the tape on first disc of PSAS.)

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Re: Never Get Emotionally Involved With a Man Woman Beast or Child

Post by iaredatsun » 07 Mar 2018 23:18

searchin4mymainline wrote:
07 Mar 2018 15:49
Maybe it was from this item in the archives?
I think that package is more likely to contain a copy of the Pickwick Studios tape. The postcodes on the package are 11th May (and 12th May 1965), and Olivier's site dates the Pickwick Studios tape as May 11 1965. The site dates the demo tape with "Never Get Emotionally Involved..." to July 1965 (same month as the tape on first disc of PSAS.)
Yes. Unterburg cites the Pickwick tape as 5th May. And there's a photo of a tape box to prove it. That tape also has some solo Cale piano work on it. Whether the stuff in the box is exactly the same remains to be seen.

Interesting that someone else has a copy of that tape, as Unterberger told how he'd only been able to hear it sitting in a car in a carpark, as played by the owner of the tape.
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Re: Never Get Emotionally Involved With a Man Woman Beast or Child

Post by Elvis Plebsley » 08 Mar 2018 21:27

I remember reading an interview with Tony Conrad where he said that he owned the Primitives rehearsal tape before giving it to John Cale in recent years.

The evidence suggests that Lou was in possession of the Pickwick tape after mailing it to himself in 65. Unterburg’s mystery person also has a copy.

We know that Cale believed that he had the finished demo tape at the time of PSAS, but the tape he dug out and handed over was the wrong tape. Perhaps he found it in his basement or Lou had a copy in his archive and it has now been unearthed.

I would quite like to hear all this stuff.

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Re: Never Get Emotionally Involved With a Man Woman Beast or Child

Post by iaredatsun » 08 Mar 2018 23:49

Elvis Plebsley wrote:
08 Mar 2018 21:27
I remember reading an interview with Tony Conrad where he said that he owned the Primitives rehearsal tape before giving it to John Cale in recent years.

The evidence suggests that Lou was in possession of the Pickwick tape after mailing it to himself in 65. Unterburg’s mystery person also has a copy.

We know that Cale believed that he had the finished demo tape at the time of PSAS, but the tape he dug out and handed over was the wrong tape. Perhaps he found it in his basement or Lou had a copy in his archive and it has now been unearthed.

I would quite like to hear all this stuff.
I guess that now Lou has passed on, we are more likely to hear the stuff in his archive than the stuff Cale has in his possession. An ironic turn of events, given that Lou was the reason this stuff was not seeing the light of day, and why Conrad handed his box of VU tapes to Cale.
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Re: Never Get Emotionally Involved With a Man Woman Beast or Child

Post by hkmartin » 12 Jul 2021 00:05

Here's my shot at transcribing the lyrics while I was at the Lincoln Center Library last Thursday...
Well I got this friend and let me tell you, man, he's real hip
An anthropologic [?] , that's his bit
But never once does he blow his cool
Because he always follows the wondrous golden rule.

Chorus:
Never get emotionally involved with man, woman, beast or a child
With cobblestone streets and subway turnstiles
And by World War Three you’ll have developed style.

But he's a liar because he's got hung up
On an androgynous small buttercup
Of stamedes [?] and pistilades [?] flowers did he
Which happens by the way when you get involved emotionally
So

(Never get emotionally involved, etc.)

Oh you should have seen it, oh MY GOD what a sight
A fully grown man writing poems at night
To his silly old flower blooming in night air
As alliteration blossoms off in his chair
To which I came attached one dusky noon
When I sat up and caught some stuffing and string
A deja vu my friend turned in dismay
And then, thank God, I heard him once more say

(Never get emotionally involved, etc.)

Well then it happened well I am sad to related
Oh while eating spaghetti off this girls' Chinese plate
He drooled and he slobbered over the design
And down his mouth dribbled three month old port ($19 a quart - a gift from his mother)
OH

(Never get emotionally involved, etc.)

It seems those who tell you what to do
Have already done it before they do
But it don't even matter, even if it's true
Because you know damn well
You know you're gonna to the same thing too

(Never get emotionally involved, etc.)

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Re: Never Get Emotionally Involved With a Man Woman Beast or Child

Post by Mark » 12 Jul 2021 14:01

Thanks so much for doing this. Surprisingly cute for Lou, although there are a few turns of phrase there that couldn't be anyone else. I can just hear him singing the "MY GOD what a sight" line...
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