God, that live recording of Venus in Furs. It's like some occult hymn that's existed for as long as humanity has. Utterly spellbinding. I can't imagine the audience being anything other than speechless.
How I would kill to be in this performance. Too bad we couldn't see The Velvets, but if there's anything to learn from such a footage (which is new to me, didn't even know this existed), is that no matter how obscure the band is, there will always be an audience listening to you, like us today listening to The Velvets.
It's painful that the photographer didn't have the foresight to shoot even a few moments of the band...it would have been great to see Sterling's playing his solo...but at least it's another little glimpse I guess! I came across it a few years ago and thought I'd upload it as I'm sure a great many haven't seen it.
@@CAMFORRESTER I really hate it that Sterling, or The Velvets for that matter, is really obscured like that, but then again, they wouldn't be my favorite band if the answers were given to me so easily, especially for Sterling, the true enigma, in my opinion. I guess the beauty is in the mystery....
@@kjcs_1896 vimeo.com/521485453 If you skip to 45:14 and look VERY closely, you can JUST about see Sterling playing bass, and Moe Tucker's mallet whacking her bass drum toward the left of the frame during the voiceover section (which is cut from the shortened clip I've uploaded). I never noticed this before just now.
@@CAMFORRESTER That is just amazing. One of very few footage of Sterling playing bass! I guess another Velvet footage has been unearthed, if only just a glimpse. Cool!
I have NEVER seen this footage, and I thought I saw and heard everything. Part of the allure of the Velvets is about how little there is to watch of them. The only live performance I've seen of them in their prime is the Warhol footage of them from the lighting booth, as well as the famous Factory jam.
'498 3rd Ave' by Klaus Wildenhahn: vimeo.com/521485453 If you skip to 45:14 and look VERY closely, you can JUST about see Sterling playing bass, and Moe Tucker's mallet whacking her bass drum toward the left of the frame during the voiceover section (which is cut from the shortened clip I've uploaded). I never noticed this before just now.
@@kelechi_77 vimeo.com/521485453 If you skip to 45:14 and look VERY closely, you can JUST about see Sterling playing bass, and Moe Tucker's mallet whacking her bass drum toward the left of the frame during the voiceover section (which is cut from the shortened clip I've uploaded). I never noticed this before just now.
@@kelechi_77 "A documentary that details the early days of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the film tells the story of the making of the dance Scramble, showing the daily routine of the dancers involved, and other aspects of producing new work. Includes performance footage at the Philip Johnson Glass House, with music by the Velvet Underground." - Merce Cunningham Trust
It is him, he's just singing it higher than on the album recording. He often did that live, usually fuelled by amphetamines of course! Here's another live performance from the same year: ruclips.net/video/e0cQAHrTcpQ/видео.html
@@russellurwin7396 It varies, as he changes the melody a lot...but generally yes, it's about an octave higher. The deeper style of the studio vocal would have been difficult for audiences to hear in a live situation, and the only way to have achieved it would be setting the microphone gain really high, to the point where feedback would be inevitable (in the studio the vocals were overdubbed separately using a condenser microphone and lots of compression, whereas live it would have been a dynamic mic with no compression, plus leakage from all the surrounding noise)...and in those days feedback was a nightmare!
it's definitely Lou and our boys. This film has been in circulation since it was shown on German TV in the late 1980s/early 1990s. I have always been so frustrated that it contains so little VU. A friend of mine contacted the original filmmaker a while back, and no, there is nothing that was not used in the film....
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God, that live recording of Venus in Furs. It's like some occult hymn that's existed for as long as humanity has. Utterly spellbinding. I can't imagine the audience being anything other than speechless.
Quite agree, quite agree!
How I would kill to be in this performance. Too bad we couldn't see The Velvets, but if there's anything to learn from such a footage (which is new to me, didn't even know this existed), is that no matter how obscure the band is, there will always be an audience listening to you, like us today listening to The Velvets.
It's painful that the photographer didn't have the foresight to shoot even a few moments of the band...it would have been great to see Sterling's playing his solo...but at least it's another little glimpse I guess! I came across it a few years ago and thought I'd upload it as I'm sure a great many haven't seen it.
@@CAMFORRESTER I really hate it that Sterling, or The Velvets for that matter, is really obscured like that, but then again, they wouldn't be my favorite band if the answers were given to me so easily, especially for Sterling, the true enigma, in my opinion. I guess the beauty is in the mystery....
@@kjcs_1896 vimeo.com/521485453
If you skip to 45:14 and look VERY closely, you can JUST about see Sterling playing bass, and Moe Tucker's mallet whacking her bass drum toward the left of the frame during the voiceover section (which is cut from the shortened clip I've uploaded). I never noticed this before just now.
@@CAMFORRESTER That is just amazing. One of very few footage of Sterling playing bass! I guess another Velvet footage has been unearthed, if only just a glimpse. Cool!
@@CAMFORRESTER does Sterling usually take the solo on Waiting for the Man?
‘Well you could look at that band and wonder where all the sound was coming from with just four people there.’
Manna from Heaven!
Never seen or heard this before.
Thank you!
I have NEVER seen this footage, and I thought I saw and heard everything.
Part of the allure of the Velvets is about how little there is to watch of them. The only live performance I've seen of them in their prime is the Warhol footage of them from the lighting booth, as well as the famous Factory jam.
Cam, thanks for sharing. As a fan since the 70's, I've never seen this,
Never seen this before!! Many thanks. For some reason this reminded me of 'La dolce vitta'.
Never seen before footage of the VU!
Such a tight band
people from the past point your damn camera at the VU challenge
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Whats the name of the german documentary?
'498 3rd Ave' by Klaus Wildenhahn:
vimeo.com/521485453
If you skip to 45:14 and look VERY closely, you can JUST about see Sterling playing bass, and Moe Tucker's mallet whacking her bass drum toward the left of the frame during the voiceover section (which is cut from the shortened clip I've uploaded). I never noticed this before just now.
Is this real?
Yep! Scroll to June 3rd, 1967:
olivier.landemaine.free.fr/vu/live/1967/perf67.html
@@CAMFORRESTER OH damn! I was thinking it was a mash up of live audio with 60s dancers footage, great job man!
@@kelechi_77 vimeo.com/521485453
If you skip to 45:14 and look VERY closely, you can JUST about see Sterling playing bass, and Moe Tucker's mallet whacking her bass drum toward the left of the frame during the voiceover section (which is cut from the shortened clip I've uploaded). I never noticed this before just now.
@@CAMFORRESTER just noticed it, good catch! May I ask what is the documentary about? It seems pretty interesting and I'd like to watch it
@@kelechi_77 "A documentary that details the early days of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the film tells the story of the making of the dance Scramble, showing the daily routine of the dancers involved, and other aspects of producing new work. Includes performance footage at the Philip Johnson Glass House, with music by the Velvet Underground." - Merce Cunningham Trust
Doesn't sound like lou singing on WFTM, does sound like the VU though. Definitely Lou singing Venus.
It is him, he's just singing it higher than on the album recording. He often did that live, usually fuelled by amphetamines of course! Here's another live performance from the same year: ruclips.net/video/e0cQAHrTcpQ/видео.html
Do you think it's a full octave higher than the recorded version otherwise how would it fit against the performance.?
@@russellurwin7396 It varies, as he changes the melody a lot...but generally yes, it's about an octave higher. The deeper style of the studio vocal would have been difficult for audiences to hear in a live situation, and the only way to have achieved it would be setting the microphone gain really high, to the point where feedback would be inevitable (in the studio the vocals were overdubbed separately using a condenser microphone and lots of compression, whereas live it would have been a dynamic mic with no compression, plus leakage from all the surrounding noise)...and in those days feedback was a nightmare!
it's definitely Lou and our boys. This film has been in circulation since it was shown on German TV in the late 1980s/early 1990s. I have always been so frustrated that it contains so little VU. A friend of mine contacted the original filmmaker a while back, and no, there is nothing that was not used in the film....