The daily totals have been above on all but six days since Dec. The hot spot through the surge has been the Wilkes-Barre ZIP code of , and by a considerable margin. From Dec. The agency said EST on Sunday. I did find my crowbar that's gonna come in handy and that's the hard part because there's Capitol was the culmination of months of false claims about election fraud, including a litany recited by then-President Donald Trump in a.
We are selling gal. LP tanks with new valves installed. Ma i loro testi sono troppo scandalosi e loro stessi si stancano delle continue censure imposte alle loro esibizioni. Una sera, nonostante un esplicito divieto, eseguono "Black Angel's Death Song" e vengono licenziati in tronco. Questa variegata congrega di artisti forgia un'immagine misteriosa e inquietante del gruppo, nel quale la batterista Maureen "Moe" Tucker prende nel frattempo il posto di McLise.
I Velvet Underground debuttano con Nico nel febbraio del al "Cinematheque"; di qualche mese dopo, la prima esibizione ufficiale dello show di Andy Warhol al "Dom Theatre". L'"Andy Warhol Up-Tight" annovera una stravagante compagnia di giro, che sconvolge le notti newyorkesi. Oltre alle canzoni dei Velvet Underground e di Nico, lo spettacolo comprende le proiezioni dei film di Warhol, le luci di Danny Williams, la danza di Gerard Malanga ed Edie Sedgwick, le diapositive e i filmati di Paul Morrissey, le fotografie di Billy Linich e Nat Filkenstein, le riprese di Barbara Rubin e l'attiva partecipazione del pubblico.
Una pellicola dalla gestazione travagliata: le riprese, infatti, vengono interrotte dall'irruzione della polizia negli studi, a causa delle lamentele per il rumore eccessivo.
I testi abbinano frenesia sadomasochista e immagini in libera associazione. Il suono complessivo sembra scaturire da un matrimonio tra Bob Dylan e il marchese de Sade. Filtri di gelatina di differenti colori sopra le lenti trasformano le immagini di vecchi film e bianco e nero in caleidoscopi colorati. Tutto viene fuso insieme in un'estasi di isteria collettiva, in un rituale edonistico in cui i fantasmi del dolore la droga, l'emarginazione, l'alienazione, il crimine, la paranoia vengono trasfigurati in arte ed esorcizzati.
E naturalmente, i "disgustosi batteri newyorkesi", pallidi ed emaciati, rivestiti di cuoio nero e argentato, fanno ancora scandalo. Malanga, viene arrestato dalla polizia di San Francisco e detenuto in carcere per una notte con l'accusa di detenzione di un oggetto atto a offendere la sua frusta Un rituale malsano e depravato, un incubo scandito dal battito ossessivo e nevrastenico della metropoli.
Moderni come nessun loro contemporaneo, ma impregnati di un primitivismo selvaggio, Lou Reed e soci riescono a forgiare un suono unico e inaudito , con una viola elettrica, una chitarra in piena distorsione con il volume sempre al massimo, un singolare tam tam e una seconda chitarra a dare sostegno alla prima.
Ma i Velvet sono i cantori della New York turbolenta e viziosa di quegli anni, ne intonano l'apologia trionfale e il lamento funebre. Il degrado urbano si veste delle tinte surreali della pop art e dei suoni delle avanguardie per diventare opera d'arte. E il sole della West Coast tramonta per sempre nelle cantine di New York per lasciar posto alle tenebre dei Velvet Underground. La successiva "Waiting For The Man" vede ancora protagonista Reed in un rock'n'roll ruvido, con un ritmo monocorde e un cantato distaccato e ripetitivo: una stella polare per tutto il successivo Detroit-sound di Stooges e Mc5.
Il testo narra le ansie e le paure di chi aspetta la sua dose da "The man", ovvero lo spacciatore che si aggira dalle parti di Lexingstone Street. Ogni raggio di sole apparso finora si spegne per sempre in "Venus In Furs".
All the best from Germany Walter. I've just started my own website similar to this one. You can tell from the title: Albums That Should Exist. I've already got about 20 albums posted there. I hope that Sonic is just taking a well-earned break, and both Paul and I had the same idea to start our own blogs, and came up with almost the same name!
Mine is here if you want to check it out, and it includes some albums that I posted links for in the comments section of Sonic's site over the past few years. This particular project is one of the best on the site, but for sonic and any visitors who care, here are a few key adjustments: 1.
The vocal-less instrumental sounds better, but it's missing the lyrics. What to do?? A: combine the instrumental and vocals into a superior track that works great. Somehow no one on this page has noted the exclusion of "Countess From Hong Kong," which I think is tragic. The song is great. Yes, it was co-written with Cale, but the demo wasn't cut until late-'69, which I think puts it in play for 'IV'. It slots in between "Ocean" and "Ride Into the Sun," giving the latter a better end-of-album segue.
Which brings me to And, finally, the cover isn't period appropriate. Sonic does great work and who knows if he'll care what I think, but perhaps someday this will get another official upgrade. The Velvet Underground — IV. December Upgrade. Side A :. One of These Days. Lisa Says. Ferryboat Bill. Foggy Notion. Side B:. Coney Island Steeplechase. Ride Into The Sun.
With the master tapes discovered in the s and remixed, the material originally saw the light of day on compilation albums VU and Another View. The original mixes, as well as newer remixes that emulated the sound of those original mixes, were finally released on the 45th anniversary The Velvet Underground super delux boxset.
Upgrades to this December edition are:. Although the band was tired of MGM Records—or perhaps reading the writing on the wall and anticipated a drop from the label due to a lack of commercial potential—The Velvets continued recording a follow-up to The Velvet Underground while touring throughout , biding their time until their management found a better label.
With half the album in the can, The Velvets took the summer off to continue touring and returned to The Record Plant on September 5th for more work on the project. While a multi-layered instrumental version exists, the multitracks containing the vocal overdubs seems to have been lost, and unfortunately only exists as an acetate.
In the end, fourteen new songs were recorded between May and October—most of which were excellent, studio captures of this incarnation of The Velvet Underground who had become a live-performing machine throughout But by the end of the year, MGM had dropped The Velvet Underground from their roster of artists and the mastertapes were filed away in a vault, forgotten and never to be heard again in that decade or the next.
It should be noted that the actual band members seem to have differing opinions on what the intent of these recordings was. Mo Tucker sides with Reed, stating she was under the impression they were recording a proper fourth album although she confusingly claims that The Record Plant recordings were not it.
In contrast, Doug Yule claimed they were simply professionally-recorded demos for the album that would eventually be Loaded.
Who are we to believe, if we believe any of this at all? Regardless, the multitracks of the Record Plant sessions along with a few unreleased John Cale-era tracks from were accidentally found in the vaults in the mid s, remixed and released as the compilation album VU in Perfectly timed during a revival of interest in the band, the album was a hit; it was probably no coincidence that VU featured rather modern mixing techniques such as gated reverb on the drums wowing audiences that a band from the 60s could have such a modern sound!
With fans complaining of the anachronistic mixing of the Record Plant sessions, the vintage mixes were finally given an official release in on the 45 th anniversary super delux boxset of The Velvet Underground. Also included were freshly-made remixes of the remaining seven songs, created to match the sound of the vintage mixes. My reconstruction attempts to use the best of these Record Plant Sessions and present a finished, cohesive album, as could have been released by the end of as the fourth Velvet Underground album.
We will be using all original mixes or the new mixes found on The Velvet Underground super delux boxset. All introductory studio chatter is edited out as well as some outros faded out, as per what the final tracks probably would have been released as.
The resultant album is a strong collection of twelve tracks that amount to just over 40 minutes, the perfect Velvet Underground album. While succumbing to a more polished sound, we also essentially have a more energetic version of The Velvet Underground , bridging the gap between that and Loaded. Also, we can fully appreciate the underrated powerhouse of Doug Yule, a forgotten hero who kept the band together without John Cale.
A document of a short-lived era of the band usually only heard on live recording like The Quine Tapes , IV are the waves to ride us into the sun. Let's have a real good time together. Sources Used :. The Velvet Underground CD boxset.
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