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post #31 of 39
9/5/07 at 1:20pm
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Originally Posted by jonnyhambone View Post
I hope you know 'Oar' by Alexander Skip Spence...recorded beautifully but quite lo-fi. He played all the instruments and did most of the recording after he wrote all the songs during an institutional stint. Really a classic and gorgeous album in the lo-fi vein.
The same Skip Spence of (early) Airplane & Moby Grape?

Hmmm...Must check the record out! The words 'alley' and 'right up my' come to mind!
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post #32 of 39
9/5/07 at 1:23pm
naughty moves - triple extasy
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post #33 of 39
9/5/07 at 7:06pm
There's definitely a lot of music that I like that's low-fi. A lot of black metal comes to mind.

For example, I have a tape demo, limited to 15 copies, from a band out of Quebec that was recorded on a one-track tape player, and it sounds exceptionally awesome. A lot of other black metal tape demos I have are the same, but that's one that I specifically know was recorded in just about the most low-fi way imaginable.

I've heard a lot of artificially low-fi music as well. RJD2's Deadringer comes to mind, with its constant vinyl pops and clicks. As much as that album is amazing, I find that those sounds detract from it in certain places. We'll see what happens when the album itself is played from vinyl when the copy I ordered comes in. There'll be metapops.
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post #34 of 39
9/5/07 at 11:45pm
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mcmyers...you should listen to "The Guitar Amp Tapes."
One bootlegger, instead of plugging into the soundboard, asked Lou Reed if he could plug directly into his guitar amp. Thirty plus minutes of Sister Ray, hearing nothing but Reed's distorted guitar.
Very nice.
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post #35 of 39
9/6/07 at 1:56am
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Originally Posted by PhaedrusX View Post
mcmyers...you should listen to "The Guitar Amp Tapes."
One bootlegger, instead of plugging into the soundboard, asked Lou Reed if he could plug directly into his guitar amp. Thirty plus minutes of Sister Ray, hearing nothing but Reed's distorted guitar.
Very nice.
That's crazy! VU is one of the few bands that I almost prefer their live stuff, but plugging directly into Lou's guitar sounds a little extreme.

Have you heard Can's live CD set, Box? It's not all good, but the first song on the first CD "Jinx" is worth the price of the whole package, in my opinion. It starts with billowing clouds of feedback that twist this way and that, and suddenly, through the mist, appears a funky beat, and off it goes. It might be the only rock music I've ever heard that sounds genuinely like jazz, but is still good, and still rocks. Supposedly they composed it onstage. Amazing. And I guess it qualifies as lo-fi.
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post #36 of 39
9/6/07 at 10:26pm
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Yeah, it's one of those recordings that you seek out after you've heard everything else.
But still, those crazy big Vox amps have gotten a lot of the credit for the VU's sound, and to hear them isolated is quite a unique experience.
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post #37 of 39
9/7/07 at 12:10am
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Originally Posted by PhaedrusX View Post
mcmyers...you should listen to "The Guitar Amp Tapes."
One bootlegger, instead of plugging into the soundboard, asked Lou Reed if he could plug directly into his guitar amp. Thirty plus minutes of Sister Ray, hearing nothing but Reed's distorted guitar.
Very nice.
I WANT TO HEAR THIS!
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post #38 of 39
9/7/07 at 3:58am
ok i got the vu bootleg box set - a walk with the velvert underground

LOVING IT! lou reed is effing awesome
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post #39 of 39
9/7/07 at 7:02am
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Nice purchase, jinp6301.
There are a lot of bootlegs floating around out there, but it's good to see a big chunk of it compiled in one set.
I'll look for this one myself.
Peace.
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