The Velvet Forum

smile - you're going to be big stars.....photo by Billy Name, late 1968 or early 1969....

got it now I think.....

not working obviously....more work needed!

lurid wrote: ↑17 Nov 2025 21:47 testing my ability to post pics here:

groovy folks dancing to the VU in June 1967...

testing my ability to post pics here:

groovy folks dancing to the VU in June 1967...

if it helps I could provide him with the raw files as transferred from the cassettes....

Liquidatore wrote: ↑13 Nov 2025 13:02 These are great, many thanks! I have asked Captain Acid (the king of bootleg speed and azimuth correction) to see what he can do, hopefully he will be happy to do his thing. I'll keep you posted.

Forgive my ignorance/poor memory but can you remind me about the "tape damage"? Was it audible on original LP pressings or on the original 45? I wonder whether anyone here would even need this, but - All analogue 180gm pressing VU&N with traditional sleeve Stoughton style tip-on sleeve. Looks like ...

the present owner of the master reels from Jan 2 1970 transferred and shared them as mp3 files a while back: they also sounded "slow". If someone could tell me how slow they are I could speed/pitch correct them to see what they sound like. I think the vinyl boot that came out a few years ago is also ...

I can't explain the 1972-11-01 concert - it does sound fine to me (and iirc it sounds the same as the "Some Kinda Love" bootleg LP which it was the source for many years ago) I do remember reading that the VU sometimes deliberately de-tuned their guitars when playing live so that they could use ...

I speed/pitch corrected this by -1.0 semitone - link below. Lou Reed 1972-07-29 Aylesbury audience recording BA copy speed corrected (the original transfer ran too fast, so this version is corrected by -1.0 semitones) Friar's Club Borough Assembly Hall Market Square Aylesbury 1972-07-29 01: audience ...

as I said in a previous post - this really is a first world problem isn't it! I use a piece of software called "Wavepad" to process .wav and .flac files - it has a speed/pitch correction function which is easy to use and seems to give good results. I had already corrected the 1972-07-29 Aylesbury ...