So great to see this rare TV performance from a 1968 Lawrence Welk show here (download video, 5 megs, mpeg file), or stream via, what else, You Tube. Good to see the Velvets inspiring the audience to cut a rug, which probably didn't happen much at Max's Kansas City where people probably stood around being uber-cool.
A'wunnerful, a'wunnerful!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | April 07, 2006 at 12:43 PM
and to think i always left the room when that show came on. is that cut on the album shown at the beginning of the clip? is it my imagination or did i hear a jazz LP years ago recorded by the Lawrence Welk Band that was really good.
Posted by: Kenny in Baltimore | April 07, 2006 at 02:27 PM
That clip is bull shit and you know it!
Fake as fake can be.
Posted by: Awesome | April 07, 2006 at 04:04 PM
Totally fake. BTW MR.Bali Hai the cut you're looking for is called Sister Ray and it appears on the Velvet's White Light/White Heat.
Posted by: Waldo Jeffers | April 07, 2006 at 04:09 PM
duhhh of course its a joke.
Posted by: krebstar01 | April 07, 2006 at 06:51 PM
A very crap joke. Even a 5 year old could do better than this.
Posted by: Gerald Osbourne | April 08, 2006 at 09:21 AM
Geez. We take our VU so seriously. Personally, I laughed my head off at this one.
Posted by: WmMBerger | April 08, 2006 at 09:37 AM
Oh c'mon, that was great! I really think it was the VU. That was definitely Mo bangin away on that one drum. Nice work on the Vox by Mr. Cale. Surely just a coincidence that it was posted on youtube on April Fool's Day Eve.
Posted by: Brian C | April 08, 2006 at 10:38 AM
Audio mash-ups are bad enough...now we have to endure these confounded **video mash-ups** for the next few years?
The idea is kinda neat, but the execution on this one misses the mark completely. Like audio mash-ups, the novelty wears-off in about 3 seconds ("Oh, the Lawrence Welk Orchestra...and the Velvet Underground...ooh, funny!...next clip, please...")
Woulda been funnier seeing the Velvet Underground playing over Welk's "Baby Elephant Walk"
better link next time...Alexa
Posted by: Alexa | April 08, 2006 at 03:10 PM
this is no recent "video mash up" kids,,,
http://pages.ripco.net/~economy/darren.html
funny enough to me...
Posted by: penelope | April 08, 2006 at 06:19 PM
Trype, trip, trap. It is more fun to find stuff like this on the "Blog" than most crap people spend hours attaching their ears and eyes to on the internet.
Lighten up and take it with a grain of salt instead of rubbing salt into the sore. It was rather funny.
Posted by: HalfSpeed | April 08, 2006 at 06:45 PM
PENELOPE SAID:
this is no recent "video mash up" kids
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Oh, OK...it's not a video mash-up...it's an "experimental short" -
I liked it better when it was just a video mash-up and not a student film.
Alexa
Posted by: Alexa | April 09, 2006 at 02:00 AM
Someone writing "this is fake" is almost as funny as the video itself. -Tom
Posted by: Tom W | September 26, 2007 at 12:42 AM