Saturday, May 31, 2014

STICK TO YOUR SOUP CANS

This will get you Velvet Underground freaks in a tizzy, but note, it's bittersweet. First the good news. It's 33 minutes of a live performance at the Boston Tea Party in 1967, in color, with synched sound. Now the bad news: It was filmed, purportedly, by Andy Warhol, who apparently had seen the Velvets enough at that point that he found the kid doing the light show and the audience far more entertaining. The quality flat out blows. Warhol was not a cinematographer, you know that. But the camera work on this one is so bad that it seems like he was just learning to use the camera. The capture above is about as clear as it gets (the title was added). But, you VU freaks will probably want to see it. Check it out soon, because it was just posted about a week ago, and if it was filmed by Warhol, you can bet it won't last long.



The other videos linked below are the only other Velvet Underground videos that have surfaced in the past few years, and they're much better quality, which is to say passable versus shitty. The first is the band playing at the factory, shot by Warhol, in black and white. The others are of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, with Gerard Malanga in all of his whipping glory. There's just a couple songs down there to satiate your ears. Check the other old posts for lots of other Velvets stuff, including live stuff, pre-Velvets stuff, alternate takes, blah blah, blah....freaks.

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