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I'm not into VU bootlegs really, but apparently this is a big deal. It's the ONLY available live stuff from 1967 and has only become available in literally the last two days. Recorded just after the release of The Velvet Underground And Nico and featuring the debut performance of Sister Ray (19 mins long) and the *previously unheard* song I'm Not A Young Man Any More. That's right, A NEW VELVET UNDERGROUND SONG. And it's fucking good too. This version of Sister Ray absolutely shreds and is what the Velvet Underground are all about.
posted to MetaFilter by stinkycheese
at 4:03 PM on February 29, 2008
(61 comments)
Syd Barrett, the iconic, ephemeral, sadly recently-deceased founder and original frontman of Pink Floyd, recorded several singles and an LP (plus at least one song on their second LP) with the band before his genius was amputated by mental illness and they became an arena rock dinosaur. He also recorded two solo albums, the
making of which was almost as interesting as the gentle, crystalline, almost fractal-like music contained on them. However, as Barrett aficionados have long known, the solo sessions produced many more recordings than were eventually released. Now, though, all known Barrett material that wasn't commercially released has been assembled in a fan-made collection: Have You Got It Yet?,
version 2.0 of which has just been released to the world. More download links inside.
posted to MetaFilter by DecemberBoy
at 12:31 PM on March 1, 2008
(39 comments)
The Times Machine allows easy browsing of every edition from 70 years (1851-1922) worth of New York Times in the original format. Very cool.
posted to MetaFilter by peacay
at 6:01 AM on February 25, 2008
(44 comments)
I love reading sites like kottke.org and Neatorama (and, of course, Metafilter). It's exciting - I never know what I'll come across next. What are some other sites that have lots of interesting stuff, preferably on a daily basis (but less often is fine as long as the content is high quality)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by jasminerain
at 1:14 PM on February 21, 2008
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I've been trying to find some info on soaking marijuana in alcohol, specifically to determine what the effects would be in drinking such a mixture. Everything I've found so far, suggests that a marijuana/alcohol mixture makes a good tincture for presumedly medicinal purposes. There is also a vodka beverage infused with marijuana seeds that is supposed to be quite terrible. Alcohol is said to be good for extracting THC and I've seen some sources suggest using it to make hash.
Just for fun, I've put about an ounce of chopped bud into a bottle and filled it with rum. But before I drink it, I'd kinda like to know something about dosage and strength. So anyone out there ever try this before?
posted to Ask Metafilter by xmattxfx
at 9:04 AM on October 3, 2005
(17 comments)
In 1968, three sisters from Fremont, New Hampshire -- Dot, Helen, and Betty Wiggin -- started a band, under the encouragement, support, and management of their father, Austin.
Dot recalls that the girls would rise late, practice for two hours, then work on their home-schooling. Then they did their calisthenics, rigidly prescribed by their father, and rehearsed two more hours in the evenings when Austin was home. Over the next 8 years, Austin would rent out the Fremont Town Hall many Saturday nights for a dance;
the sisters, known collectively as "
The Shaggs," would play their music, while their mother, Annie, would collect tickets and sell sodas (with help from more of the Wiggin siblings). In 1975, Austin Wiggins died; the sisters, without their father to spur them on, laid down their instruments and got on with the rest of their lives.
posted to MetaFilter by not_on_display
at 9:22 PM on January 20, 2008
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I'm having vegans over for dinner. Vegans that know how to cook. Foodie vegans. Hip, cool, foodie vegans. Did I mention that I am not a vegan, vegetarian or hip?
posted to Ask Metafilter by brinkzilla
at 9:47 PM on January 19, 2008
(34 comments)
Dying Speeches & Bloody Murders
digitizes over five hundred broadsides owned by the Harvard Law Library, all of them devoted to "last dying speeches"--that is, sensational accounts of crime, punishment, and (fictional) confession, intended to be
sold at public executions. The New York State Historical Association has an
online exhibition devoted to nineteenth-century American murder pamphlets. You can find a couple of seventeenth-century examples at the
Early Modern Web and the
Folger Library.
Old Bailey Online briefly puts this literature into context. (Main link via C18-L.)
posted to MetaFilter by thomas j wise
at 5:20 PM on January 4, 2008
(11 comments)
The Peace Drug
The Washington Post Magazine takes a look at MDMA as a cure for PTSD.
posted to MetaFilter by empath
at 4:53 PM on November 27, 2007
(76 comments)
Where are people going now that Oink is gone? Is there anything that compares?
posted to Ask Metafilter by hazyspring
at 5:14 AM on October 23, 2007
(34 comments)
Ellsworth Kelley, Bill Blass, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and a host of lesser known but equally talented
painters, designers,
sound engineers and actors served together during World War II in the
Ghost Army – the 23rd Headquarters Special Troops, a unit whose existence remained an
official secret until 1996.
German soldiers referred to them as the "Phantom Army," because one moment they were in one place, and the next, they were attacking their flanks or from the rear. Together, they made rubber tanks and fake Jeeps; their
changing unit insignia were designed to fool spies and allied units alike. They recorded the sounds of Allied units building bridges or moving troops and broadcast them from special
sound trucks, leading the Germans to conclude that the U.S. Army had more troops in more places than it did. "
Guys drew, or painted, all the time," documenting their lives, the lives of their fellow soldiers, and that of the local populations in wartime Europe.
posted to MetaFilter by rtha
at 11:35 AM on October 5, 2007
(23 comments)
Creepy High Voltage Installations
The Russian countryside yields sometimes most improbable sights - abandoned artifacts and installations from bizarre military/scientific research, strangely futuristic forms left to rust and decay - to be found by a curious photographer.
"Master" stumbled upon this installation close to Russian city of Istra (50 km from Moscow) quite by chance, and these mysterious shots were percolating for a while around the web, until the answer was found. According to
this little, cryptic, and quite secretive website [in Russian], the weird alien-like towers are the Experimental Grounds for High-Voltage Generation, the only open-air kind in the world. Amazingly, it's still in use... as the powerful lightnings rip through the night and the darkened forest - much like in "The Prestige" movie.
posted to MetaFilter by psmealey
at 11:50 AM on July 4, 2007
(38 comments)
CRUD CRUD, brief reviews from a thrift store record collection. Also,
Gibble Gabble, spoken-word record reviews, from the same collector.
posted to MetaFilter by serazin
at 11:03 AM on June 8, 2007
(6 comments)
2BR02B
is a short story by the late Kurt Vonnegut
(so it goes) from 1962, brought to you now by Project Gutenberg.
posted to MetaFilter by buriednexttoyou
at 6:58 AM on May 4, 2007
(17 comments)
Amazing collection of several galleries full of Japanese "urban ruins" photos, including
abandoned amusement parks,
refineries,
apartment blocks,
hospitals,
schools,
bowling alleys, & much more, including
Battleship Island, the (previously
posted) abandoned coal mining island off the coast of Nagasaki.
Via.
posted to MetaFilter by jonson
at 11:04 PM on December 5, 2006
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