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Hubble captures the spiral galaxy NGC 2841, 46 million light-years away in Ursa Major. Its bright core, dust lanes, and blue stars stand out, but fewer emission nebulae suggest lower star formation. Fiery young stars likely cleared the remaining gas. Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, WFC3 Team

Hubble captures the spiral galaxy NGC 2841, 46 million light-years away in Ursa Major. Its bright core, dust lanes, and blue stars stand out, but fewer emission nebulae suggest lower star formation. Fiery young stars likely cleared the remaining gas.

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The Velvet Underground - The Playhouse, Edinburgh, Britain, 6-2-1993 <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEpfnAY3l3fpw_9BHmzf31RVgIr0aXLQ9TL8Tut7tW_uT3_0j3n8w4xwV2_lke5uSLMPCUe7UZlljVxpOxlEWSnmMfZtR1_XefgNzD8duregVv8lAx1iy9IA_ZF6B2Hs7-JlvqedPl_MTfwuauo3KEuIoyOjQrxKWaB5YwlJPmn69e0OsI9eAr7xzQgZI/s800/edinburgh1993.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEpfnAY3l3fpw_9BHmzf31RVgIr0aXLQ9TL8Tut7tW_uT3_0j3n8w4xwV2_lke5uSLMPCUe7UZlljVxpOxlEWSnmMfZtR1_XefgNzD8duregVv8lAx1iy9IA_ZF6B2Hs7-JlvqedPl_MTfwuauo3KEuIoyOjQrxKWaB5YwlJPmn69e0OsI9eAr7xzQgZI/s320/edinburgh1993.jpg" width="320"/></a></div>The Velvet Underground is one of the most legendary and revered rock bands of all time. But it seems like their 1993 reunion tour has been mostly forgotten. Maybe that's because the only way most people have of judging it, the official live album that documents it, "Live MCMXCIII," was curiously lackluster. Perhaps this concert bootleg will change some minds. I like it a lot, and I much prefer it to the official album.<p></p><p>Velvet Underground member John Cale considered the official album a disappointment, mainly due to the way it was mixed. He later commented:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">The trouble is that we had an opportunity here with the live album to really show what the band sounded like and it really doesn't give it to you. Some of the bootlegs that came out of the tour are almost a truer vision of what the band sounded like than the well recorded one, because the well recorded one really didn't take advantage of the ambiance of the room in the mix of the music. And that's what we were always pushing at. We wanted to fill the room up with this noise. Unfortunately it wasn't quite as present in the mix as I would have liked it to be or others would have liked it to be either.<br/></p><p>I wonder what Cale would think about this particular bootleg. I didn't post anything from this reunion tour prior to this, because I thought there was nothing but rough audience bootlegs. But I recently discovered this. It's either a soundboard or an FM radio broadcast. Either way, I think the sound quality is as good or better than the official live album.</p><p>Now, let me say a little bit about the reunion tour in general. The two main singers and songwriters in the band, Lou Reed and John Cale, put out an album together in 1990, "Songs for Drella." While they toured together to support that album, they were joined on stage for a single song at a concert in France by the other two original members of the Velvet Underground, Maureen Tucker and Sterling Morrison. That set the stage for a reunion tour with all four of them.</p><p>The tour began in Edinburgh on June 1, 1993. This was the second night of the tour, also in Edinburgh. Creative juices must have been flowing, because the last song played here, "Coyote," was apparently written jointly by Reed and Cale mere hours before the concert began. That's according to some banter in the concert by Reed. But that also matches the information at setlist.fm, because it wasn't performed on the first night, and this was the first time it was played in public. </p><p>The tour was a relatively short one, hitting different countries in Europe over six weeks. There was a plan to follow it up with a North American tour, a studio album, and more. But relations between band members quickly deteriorated, and all further reunion plans were canceled at the end of the six weeks. So we're very lucky to have this excellent recording from the second night of the tour, before the troubles began. By the way, the "Live MCMXCIII" was recorded over a couple of nights in Paris, France, about two weeks later. So maybe the band was already in decline by then compared to this night, who knows.</p><p>John Cale was only in the Velvet Underground for their first two albums, "Velvet Underground and Nico" and "White Light/White Heat." So, not surprisingly, many of the songs in this concert came from those early albums. But it's interesting to see Cale take part in the songs that were recorded after he left, such as "Sweet Jane" and "Rock and Roll." This reunion tour was probably the only time he ever did that. </p><p>Also, Cale didn't sing lead vocals much at all while he was a member of the Velvet Underground, but he did have a long, successful solo career as a lead vocalist afterwards. So I liked how he sang lead on a few of the songs here, taking vocals that had been done by Nico or even by Reed.</p><p>Although the bootleg was excellent in most respects, it did have some problems. The biggest problem was that all but the first minute and a half of the song "I Can't Stand It" was missing. So I used the "Live MCMXCIII" version to patch in the rest. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title. Also, in some cases (but not most cases), the applause at the ends of songs was cut off. So I patched in applause from the ends of other songs to give every song a normal sounding ending.</p><p>Sterling Morrison died of a degenerative disease (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma) just two years after this tour, so we're lucky it happened when it did.  <br/></p><p>This album is an hour and 55 minutes long. <br/></p><p>01 Real Good Time Together (Velvet Underground)<br/>02 talk (Velvet Underground)<br/>03 Venus in Furs (Velvet Underground)<br/>04 talk (Velvet Underground)<br/>05 Guess I'm Falling in Love (Velvet Underground)<br/>06 After Hours (Velvet Underground)<br/>07 All Tomorrow's Parties (Velvet Underground)<br/>08 Some Kinda Love (Velvet Underground)<br/>09 I'll Be Your Mirror (Velvet Underground)<br/>10 Beginning to See the Light (Velvet Underground)<br/>11 The Gift (Velvet Underground)<br/>12 I Heard Her Call My Name (Velvet Underground)<br/>13 Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground)<br/>14 talk (Velvet Underground)<br/>15 Hey Mr. Rain (Velvet Underground)<br/>16 talk (Velvet Underground)<br/>17 Sweet Jane (Velvet Underground)<br/>18 Velvet Nursery Rhyme (Velvet Underground)<br/>19 talk (Velvet Underground)<br/>20 White Light-White Heat (Velvet Underground)<br/>21 I'm Sticking with You (Velvet Underground)<br/>22 The Black Angel's Death Song (Velvet Underground)<br/>23 Rock and Roll (Velvet Underground)<br/>24 talk (Velvet Underground)<br/>25 I Can't Stand It [Edit] (Velvet Underground)<br/>26 I'm Waiting for the Man (Velvet Underground)<br/>27 Heroin (Velvet Underground)<br/>28 talk (Velvet Underground)<br/>29 Coyote (Velvet Underground)</p><p><a href="https://pixeldrain.com/u/f2j62dqb">https://pixeldrain.com/u/f2j62dqb</a></p><p>alternate:</p><p><a href="https://bestfile.io/en/WKgJXJR7BeX4jH2/file">https://bestfile.io/en/WKgJXJR7BeX4jH2/file</a></p><p>The cover photo isn't from this concert, but it's close. It was taken three days later at the Forum in London. From left to right, that's Cale, Reed, Tucker, and Morrison. For the band name at the top, I used the art from the official live album.<br/></p> <div style="clear: both;"></div>

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YouTube video by PettyYou007 Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967

It's an old song. But I think it has a vibe for today's stress.

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