(TV) Blue Mask, the Velvets

["SCOTT ALDRICH" <scott.aldrich@worldnet.att.net>]

Hi all,

I started listening to Blue Mask after all the discussion, and I like Bob
Quine and Lou's work, but Fernando Saunders bass playing sounds a bit too
Jaco-funky for my taste. Kind of ruins it for me. I thought it would be
White Light/White Heat revisited, which in a way the Voidoids is. Does Live
In Italy have this feel as well? Speaking of the Velvets I'm listening to
"Hey Mr. Rain" right now. This is the Velvets sound Yo La Tengo goes for in
my opinion. Lou and Sterling's almost country/R & B feel of the 3rd record
and Loaded (i.e. "What Goes On", "Beginning To See The Light") against John
Cale's psychedelic howling viola. Masterful pop. On the question of "Ocean",
I was introduced to it through 1969 as a kid, really dug the VU demo version
(from between the 3rd record and Loaded), but after hearing the fully
orchestrated version on the box set (and I suppose on Fully Loaded?), that's
the version that sends shivers down my spine. That as an A-side and "Ride
Into The Sun" as the flip would have been a psychedelic single to rival
"Strawberry Fields"/"Penny Lane", the Kinks "Days"/"She's Got Everything" or
"Wonderboy"/"Polly", or better yet any Dave Davies single from the era. In
fact "Ride Into The Sun" sounds like a lost George Harrison song from the
White Album to me! Really. Anyone else?
Scott 
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