Re: The Underworldlive.com thread
 

The good word from the archive:

"roll up roll up...its the super christmas giveaway! following in the footsteps of retailers all over the world, we're starting our christmas sale before christmas.....

on the other hand, we thought it was perhaps time for a little early christmas present for you all. we have completed the zurich video section and coming soon is the audio from the amsterdam gig in the 2005 audio section.
while you get your teeth into these new additions, we continue to work on some treats from the set of live dates.

we haven't had much of a break since we have been home, keeping busy in the studio and getting set for what's shaping up to be a very busy 2007...bring on the mince pies and tinsel in the meantime."


Very kind and lovely of you! i'm enjoying and looking forward!:)
wuv,
holden

Re: The Underworldlive.com thread
 

Velvet underground ey?
http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...MEWA:IT&ih=020

Re: The Underworldlive.com thread
 

hey karl

if you want a 256kbps mp3 of that acetate... I could hook you up

Re: The Underworldlive.com thread
 

well - I'm assuming that at least someone would want it - or hasn't gotten it yet

(honestly - I forgot to upload it a while ago)

hXXp://www.megaupload.com/?d=KB4R3HI1

change the "XX"
to "tt"

link should still be good

Re: The Underworldlive.com thread
 

How on earth do you have an MP3 of THAT particular Acetate?

cr
an
k!

Re: The Underworldlive.com thread
 

no kidding!! not that i'm complaining through . . . ;)

Re: The Underworldlive.com thread
 

haha, hogarth.

i just had to take a final on british art from 1700-1860. if art history wasnt my minor i would have been toast since it was a very... arduous class.
but i now i can talk yer ears off about it. we started with him and gainsborough so memory isnt so great but i do recall that hogarth wanted to
a. make money, but also wanted to do history painting. so to support that unprofitable medium he did stories within engravings.
b. tell those that werent aristocratic to stop putting on aristocratic airs
c. teach as many people as possible about what he called the most beautiful line in the world, which was really just an elongated 'S'

man.
i dont know how this benefits me but i like it anyway.

Re: The Underworldlive.com thread
 

Good stuff! Before i became a full-fledged geologist, i did a double major in art and geology (just to confuse my breain and avoid making up my mind). Once took a class called History of Graphic Arts, which spend a lonnng time on Hogarth.

Engravers, etchers, printers...i have a lot of respect for these guys, because of the tremendous effort of the process of creating. the natural talent's one thing, to make a lovely picture, but to execute each line into wood, metal, whatever, and then have it turn out as a print is tremendously difficult. Many of my etchings were smudge-tastic! :p

p.s. Karl et al., are you fans of M.C. Escher? His engravings will do your head in! I went to the Escher museum while in Den Haag, Holland...seeing the clasics up close was amazing.

Re: The Underworldlive.com thread
 

regarding the current status of the acetate:

http://pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/..._on_eBay#40203

Re: The Underworldlive.com thread
 

ok - well I got those mp3's with some very lucky searching online, and found out about the acetate via a David Bowie message board, either just before or just after the acetate went on sale

now -> the origins of these mp3's are a bit sketchy... they're from one of the following two possible sources

1) the ebay seller, early on - ripped the vinyl onto cd-r. Which makes total sense, as every time you'd listen to it, the sound quality would drop more
2) the mp3's are ripped from another completely different acetate made of the same source material

my guess is that the mp3's are from the first option, as there are absolutely positively no more than a total of 3-5 acetate copies total.

It's believed that David Bowie is the owner of one of them.. and got it back before the final version of "The Velvet Underground & Nico" was released [he even managed to cover (and I think even release) the track "Waiting for the Man" before the VU version was ever released] , and I think I read somewhere that a copy in really shoddy condition was found in a cardboard box in like Maureen Tucker's basement

and I highly doubt that Tucker or Bowie would be leaking mp3's... know what I mean?

{edit}
I should also add that now there are some people online stating that option #2 is where these mp3's are from, saying that the copy on ebay "sounds much better" -> but how would you know that, unless you had both sets of tracks back-to-back... and personally- I wouldn't even believe the seller himself unless I was able to do back-to-back comparissons