Re: (TV) OT: aww...if she ever comes now, now...vu text(s)

[eric gregory <crackcity_2000@yahoo.com>]

hey russ,
check out (if it's still in print) the VU book bockris
& poet/dancer gerard malanga did jointly...came out in
1985 & it's called "UPTIGHT: the story of the
VU"...it's a plimpton-styled compendium of quotes &
"iwasthere" commentary from many major/minor
players/hangers-on...it also has chapters dealing with
each & every album...it's a great intro to the band.
there's also a more "scholarly" book called something
like "the VU companion" which features essays by a
variety of types on the VU/reed & their "academic"
applications...
the bockris lou bio was an obvious character
assassination but it was still a great read...bockris
also hepped to the fact that reed always wanted to be
lenny bruce, which makes a hell of alotta sense...
"here she comes now" is sublime.
but so is "sister ray"


--- Russ Van Rooy <russvr@blarg.net> wrote:
> In the yet another tired perusing of the case files
> of the Velvet
> Underground Department: , I ,too, must express
> myself. It will soon become
> clear to those of you who really know The Velvet
> Underground  that I do not
> know of what I speak, so forgive me Lord.  I've been
> listening to the Velvet
> Underground  pretty casually since I was a teenager
> ,but in the past few
> years I've been listening to them more "studiously",
> if you can imagine
> that.  Recently I realized I did not have White
> Light/White Heat ( the "best
> of"s only carry "White Light/White Heat"  but none
> of the other (better)
> songs), so I bought it. I was totally amazed how
> different it was from both
> Loaded, The Velvet Underground, and The Velvet
> Underground & Nico. The most
> interesting aspect for me was to hear John Cale sing
> and narrate some of the
> songs.("The Gift", "Lady Godiva's Operation") The
> songs, too, seemed
> different - harder rocking , the guitar sound more
> over-driven, the drums
> louder - something I can't quite articulate I guess.
> This also lead me to
> buy John Cale's first solo, Vintage Violence, which
> I just listened to for
> the first time yesterday. (First impression - way
> different fromwhat I
> expected - almost folky/Van Morrison-ish) I found it
> kind of amusing how
> similar, at least to my ear, Yo La Tengo's "Mushroom
> Cloud of Hiss" is to "I
> Heard Her Call My Name" .  I read the Bokaris bio of
> Lou Reed. I get the
> impression from this list that that book is not very
> truthful ? Reed comes
> off pretty horribly, an artistic enfant terrible.
> But Bokaris still
> portrayed him to be a genius musician. This is gonna
> piss someone off, now
> did I read this in Bokaris, or did I just dream this
> up myself: Lou Reed is
> the Jerry Lewis of rock and roll ? I guess that
> might sound sort of
> insulting but I really mean it in an affectionate
> way...
> Okay , one more random thought. I don't know how it
> is in other parts of
> North America. or in Europe, but here in Seattle I
> cannot find one good book
> on the Velvet Underground at all . Does such a book
> exist ? What is the
> definitive history of this band ?
> 
> Over and Out. Nanu nanu. - Russ
> Oh, my personal favorite on White Light/White Heat
> is "Here She Comes Now"
> which I like because it's the Velvets attempt at
> something Flower power-y !
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