symphony of sound boot i.d?

Ack Ack Ack · Post by **Ack Ack Ack** » 11 Mar 2006 03:54

hi all, great forum you have here! was wondering if someone could help me out with a boot i recently downloaded. its called 'a symphony of sound' and i take it its the soundtrack to the film. there is so much information on this forum that i'm totally confused with what i have. can anyone help i.d the bootleg or give a link to where i can read more, it doesn't seem to be on oliver's site at all...

it is 7 track in total:
track 1: 9.09
track 2: 11.26
track 3: 8.23
track 4: 14.11
track 5: 6.31
track 6: 3.59
track 7: 1.51

is this the complete soundtrack? have these tracks been on the screen test and caught between twisted stars box? i'm all confused...

really sorry if this has come up in previous topics but this board is sooo dense its going to take me a few days to get through all the messages!

thank you!

Chance · Post by **Chance** » 11 Mar 2006 04:28

Welcome aboard, feel free to ask anything at all, we're a pretty friendly bunch. :) I can't say I recognize what you've got, but someone will probably pop in soon enough who can help you out. If it's the Symphony jam, I've never seen it broken up into individual tracks, I've got it as a 53 minute track.

What are you actually hearing on those tracks? Do they all seem to be a single jam session broken up, or do you have dialogue from the film or individual songs? Give us a little description.

Ack Ack Ack · Post by **Ack Ack Ack** » 11 Mar 2006 17:52

the artwork that it came with is the same as 'symphony of sound' on this page: http://www.badreputation.de/velvets.html

the first 5 tracks are instrumental and i do recognise them from the film. track 6 you can hear someone (nico?) very slightly talking in the background and on 7 its a very, very scuzzed out version of i'll be you mirror with nico singing.

it all comes in at around 53 minutes so i guess its maybe the same as the track you have chance. is this the full soundtrack?

wsd77 · Post by **wsd77** » 12 Mar 2006 19:26

Tracks 1 to 5 are from the Symphony of Sound film, tracks 5 and 6 are (I believe) from The Dom, Apr 66. Don't have any more details to hand at the mo...

Post by **ferges** » 12 Mar 2006 20:24

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January 1966
Factory, New York City
The Velvet Underground And Nico: A Symphony Of Sound

Film: by Andy Warhol, 67 min, 2 reels, B/W.
A video tape of 2nd reel circulates unofficialy.
A pirate "audience" screener video (recorded during a film projection) also exists, and it has the complete film.
The complete film is now available officialy on VHS format, released in 2002 by RaroVideo Visioni Underground.

The previous info is from http://members.aol.com/olandem/vu.html

I don't know about the lineage of this boot, because I got it in a trade.
Apparently, it's an audience recording (a good quality one), obtained during one screening
of the movie. The jam is divided into tracks, but I don't have any info. Anyway, it's a pleasure
for VU fans and improv music fans in general.

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Just got hold of this, it's brilliant, much better quality than the 20 minute version I previously had - thanks!

Just a bit of info - only the first 5 tracks from this are from A Symphony of Sound (tracks 1-3 from reel 1, and tracks 4&5 from reel 2). The last 2 tracks were actually recorded live at The Dom, New York in April '66. Track 6 is an extract from a long instrumental jam (aka Chic Mystique) and track 7 is I'll Be You Mirror (aka fuzz-guitar overload version).

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 12 Mar 2006 23:00

wow, thanks everyone! mystery solved!

Kill Mick · Post by **Kill Mick** » 13 Mar 2006 13:25

If memory serves correctly it was me who posted the "Just got hold of this..." part of the above message. I got the track from Sharing The Groove a couple of years back, it's very good quality compared to other versions I've heard - as far as I know the only downside is that it doesn't include the 4-5 mins of the band tuning up that I believe are on some versions?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 13 Mar 2006 18:45

ah well, i can live without hearing a tune up i suppose. the boot is really good quality... anyone here on soulseek?

an occasional flicker · Post by **an occasional flicker** » 17 Mar 2006 23:27

Hi all - I (a mysterious ex forum regular) mastered that as a CD, it's not a commercially produced bootleg, and there are no less than 4 versions that issued forth from my CD-R drive - I traded all of them steadily in 2001/2. Glad to see they're getting around. The first version was just the film soundtrack, recorded from the audience at a screening in London in the mid 1990s. To that I added an edited version of Chiq Mystique from the Dom off a bootleg vhs [this is what you have, Ack Ack Ack], then I got the full version (in better quality than the Twsited Stars set) from the official Re:Voir vhs of the Jonas Mekas Warhol film - basically an enlarged version of his earlier film Walden. The fuzzy I'll Be Your Mirror was on that tape too. I included it for fun on the CD just because there was space, and as a kind of suggestion of what a racket the early VU could produce. When I got the official rarovideo VU&Nico film I substiuted a 'better quality' version with fewer track divisions and including the tuning up at the beginning. I edited it off the original as I always found it irritating when I listened to the original cassette recording. I sent a CD of the first version to Olivier and he was upset that I'd edited it, but to me the music starts with the drone, not the tuning. I divided it into tracks because I found that I liked some bits better than others - the last section ("they say it's still too loud!") is my favourite. You can hear me cough on there too, near the beginning. In some ways the sound on the 'audience' recording of Symph still sounds better to me, the vhs sound is a bit flat.

That's about all there is to know about it

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Ack Ack Ack · Post by **Ack Ack Ack** » 19 Mar 2006 21:32

an occasional flicker wrote:Like this - ACK ACK ACK ACK!

haha! exactly! what a band...