White Light/White Heat : The Velvet Underground : Review : Rolling…
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White Light/White Heat : The Velvet Underground : Review : Rolling…
Rolling Stone – Nov 23, 2006
– a collection of newly discovered tracks from 1968 and ’69 – and the repackaging of the group’s first three albums helps redress the imbalance. Unfortunately no quality control at this stage will ever compensate for the inability of studios at the time to cope with the Velvets’ death-ray fuzz guitar or the evil scrape of John Cale’s viola in “Heroin” and “European Son” on the Nico album. But the refreshing clarity of these new versions frequently provides revealing glimpses into the guts of the Velvets’ remarkable sound and prophetic vision. In “Sunday Morning” also on the Nico album you can hear much more clearly the mournful bowing of Cale’s viola under the abrupt Duane Eddy cluck of Reed’s guitar. Together these two elements illustrate the precarious balance between the smudged elegance of the band’s pop essence and the graphic honesty of Reed’s drug and sex tableaux. The mad barrelhouse piano comping in “I’m Waiting for the Man” practically leaps out of the brittle mix while the eerie doubling of Nico’s breathy Dietrich vocal heightens the haunting air of the song’s sad martial cadence… “Temptation inside Your Heart” combines playful R&B goofiness with a bright busy beat and a great strangled guitar solo. The casual horror in so many of Reed’s early songs sometimes made it hard to indulge his more reflective moods. But performances like “Stephanie Says” and Reed’s charming duet with Maureen Tucker the childlike “I’m Sticking with You” show how tender he could really be and how sensitively the Velvets could translate that feeling. Most of the other tracks on V.
‘I guess I’m quite old-fashioned’
Telegraph.co.uk – Nov 23, 2006
“I started to feel melancholic for a lost time thinking I would be one of the last people to experience that world. My dad raced cars and rolled cigarettes in his white T-shirt. “It was Buddy Holly and tis Redding and Johnny Cash metal cars and hamburgers and milkshakes at the weekend. There was something innocent and sweet about it that’s going you know. Maybe the next generation will have something better but I’m somewhat old-fashioned I guess. ” Flowers has a reputation for criticising musical contemporaries something which he ascribes to these old fashioned values… ” Flowers has a reputation for criticising musical contemporaries something which he ascribes to these old fashioned values. “I get frustrated with everything” he confesses. “I think people are lazy and that goes for making music too. “My dad’s generation were tougher maybe because they had to survive. If he does something he’s gonna do it right. Whether it was putting up sheet rock or rewiring places or working on cars with him I learned about getting things done. And I think that’s why people like our songs.
The Gauntlet: Bleed The Sky Metal News
thegauntlet.com – Nov 23, 2006
States Dave Culbert: “I am very thrilled to be the new guitarist for BLEED THE SKY. I’ve been playing guitar since the age of 9 so I’m going on eighteen years now. All my life I’ve wanted to spread my music to the masses and now the chance is here. I am fully prepared to bring BTS all that I have learned through the years and my experiences plus create the most mind-blowing in-your-face fucking metal I know all of you have been waiting for. Regarding rhythm guitarist Wayne Miller and bassist Daylen “Disco” Elsey Robinson explains further: “Wayne’s still on the upward battle to full recovery. He’s still experiencing what doctors can only explain as minor nerve damage in his left hand due to his hospitalization back in June of this year. Wayne will still be fully participating on our upcoming record and we all need to keep him in our prayers during this difficult recovery… Daylen (Disco) Elsey has parted ways with BLEED THE SKY. He’s been currently playing with our good friends in Silent Civilian and has been kept very busy with their touring schedule. We love Disco to death and know that he will bring a new level of energy to Silent Civilian. We’ve brought in bassist Ryan Clark from Guymon klahoma who’s been a personal friend of the band for close to 10 years now. We know he’s stepping into this with the enthusiasm we need. Much love to Disco and we wish him the best. BLEED THE SKY currently have five songs worth of new material for their sophomore record.