hey, remember that guy that found that velvet underground acetate for 75 cents...

-- sean gramophone (sea...), December 1st, 2006. (later)

otm

Presumably he's saved it to mp3?

some bowling shoes
an old 12 on rap-a-lot
couple of dollarbin smiths singles
and 2x attache cases (hmmmm!)

why arent u accusing 75 cent guy (and s1ocki even!) of the same?

kudos

This makes me so damn happy.

http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3495078

http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildatar.php?itemnr=4874863840

Personally, I would be. I'm surprised this wasn't done through some big auction house or something that vets bidders....

we're in six didgits now.

high bidder bought some home-gym and a violent femmes cd latley.

My understanding is that Eric and his friend *wanted* it to sell to a record label and give it a good home. As they early articles about the acetate surfaced and interest mounted, they shopped it to several labels and I think they were in last minute negotiations with one excellent reissue label, when that fell apart due to the sudden appearance of that crummy sounding Japanese bootleg. The idea being that the material had hit the marketplace and was then not something the hardcore fans would never have heard, even if in inferior quality.

Eric doesn't have a computer; he has to go to the co-op bike shop down the block and use theirs. I was in his shop yesterday and he was clearly really bummed out by the whole "eBay chicken" thing -- he is one of the raddest people and has immaculate cred. in the record buying/ selling community (not to mention his vinyl only record label is fucking ACES -- and as a caveat or whatever, we're doing an Anglin Bros. reissue together and getting started on a of Tony Schwartz collection). Dude is old school but not ridiculous about it; he never checks popsike or gemm before pricing his records, as far as I know.

Anyway, I guess my point is that I'm sure that no one would have guessedd this thing would get so out of hand. I think they thought this would be the most fair way to sell this thing, to just let the market decide or whatever. Eric's getting bombarded with hate mail over this thing and he can't figure why -- he's just helping his friend sell this record that the dude found, you know?

Now it's over a hundred thousand?! I guess it's more eBay chicken? Fucking bummer.

fair would have been to approach libraries / colleges / other cultural institutions, if selling it to a record label didnt pan out! at the very least, the record could be properly preserved, archived and made available to the public for educational purposes. right now, that's certainly not the case.

PS- I found a picture of Maria blogging about this record:

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0TAAlAOYYLQvbAtgNJJ7b4xkfKZhq*6gx*i0cF7VzIvFkvnonz17!j1!NReyP2vGP!lz8gvfrUhsA!xKhDwLk3qVyM80Vs6IhGstLPf0!3jX68LiDuC6qoA/idolgrab.jpg

Shiny's the wrong word methinks... how about borderline listenable? It's tough to get rid of that much surface noise without warping the music a bit.

I wasn't planning to do them all but if there's a particular track you'd like to hear I'll give it a whirl.

13 hours to go, current high bid approx. $25K, bidder ID kept private

http://cgi.ebay.com/VELVET-UNDERGROUND-NICO-1966-Acetate-LP-ANDY-WARHOL_W0QQitemZ300060897304

US $25,200.00 - 0.75 = $25,199.25 for Mr. Hill! Sold for 33,599 times the amount he paid for it.

Which would have gotten a lot of headlines if only that fake crap hadn't happened last week. Now, it's "only 25,200"

This is amazing: http://open.spotify.com/user/andyzax/playlist/7Gk5LAmxjb92qrJtnwTueK
"I Couldn't Hit It Sideways: 12 Excruciatingly Bad Velvet Underground Covers" - a Spotify playlist

haha

dave navarro - venus in furs

yeeeeeeeeeeecchh

Best part of that list is that one of my favorite albums from 2010 in on it: The Voices Factory. Dude who made the list (and those who hear it) can think what they want, but I've been saying for a while that this Italian group has made the best Velvets tribute ever. So, um, fuck you Spotify Playlist idiot.

Sometimes they're better than the originals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAP6rACzWsU&feature=fvsr

...and have the good sense to cover some of the best VU songs that nobody ever bothers with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX9wV1ePgPk&ob=av2e

Seriously, I played this album more than anything but Fucked Up in 2011. So there.

The Bettie Serveert all-VU covers album is worth tracking down too.

I'm pretty passionate about the Voices Factory thing, actually. Like it's allowed me to genuinely enjoy the VU catalog for the first time in years. I think at this point it's almost impossible for an American male to cover VU and do anything distinctive. Voices Factory hit it from this almost 1st-album-Slapp-Happy perspective that really kills. The band is far from perfunctory, and you never get a sense that they don't get it, or that they're being condescending. Song selection is generally perfect. They even do something worth hearing with Sister Ray. They ought to be getting awards, rather than snark...

I couldn't listen to it sideways

Forgot about that Bettie Serveert album

They ought to be getting awards, rather than snark...

http://www.imprintitems.com/sitewide/images/products/prodbigimgs/5860403.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/713EH3EFSSL._SL500_AA300_.gif

Anyway, this reminded me that I had a great album with some cool covers cued up on spotify Count's Rock Band: Do Not Listen If You Hate Coltrane or Maggot Brain

doug yule's tide

i don't think there's anything else i once liked that looking back brings me more shame than that dave navarro album. ta be fair to me i was 16 and a slow developer. can't remember if i liked the venus in furs cover in particular, but i did think it was cool he was covering the vu.