On Oct 21, 2021, at 3:57 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall@...> wrote:
I just watched this:
Thanks!
It's really good, the rather well-groomed guy in the big posh house demonstrates what Moe Tucker plays on stacks of VU songs.
I feel like a total numpty not realising how unique her style was, maybe that's because what she did fitted just so perfectly in with the rest of the VU sound?
I love how completely unpretentious she was, well, seemed. And I too didn't realize how much I loved what she sounded like. And the way she looked playing.
I was prompted to watch it because I enjoyed the VU doc on Apple TV so much.
I saw it at a cinema last night! The theatre wasn't crowded but I just noticed that they've extended the showings for another week. Loved getting to know John Cale so well, how it all came about for hm was so interesting and so inspiring all over again. There's lots in it I loved. TH was lucky to get to use all that early Warhol footage. I could stare at his (AW) film "stills" forever, I really could. They're so gorgeous, so deep and so luscious in a way his silk screen portraits never were. I really think they're some of the best portraiture in all of art history (not that art history seems to matter even to future art historians, sadly, for future everyone). There were some young very hipsters in the audience, they came in late and they chatted and giggled through some of it (any would have been a lot) and left as soon as the credits started rolling (I wish I meant the opening credits). They seemed thoroughly untouched by it, as if they knew they should go see the film and know who VU are but not because it was something personally meaningful. That was my impression anyway. When I was young, this history (VU, etc.), music history meant so much to me, I had such reverence for it, was so thrilled by it. I still could listen to Venus in Furs for a thousand years.
I love the Primitives! Had not known about them.
hilda x
I'd also forgotten they reformed in 1993 - how did I not bust a gut to go and see them live?!?
adam
