How 'bout those Maureen Tucker solo albums?

there's one called i think "i stayed a week there the other night" that is pretty good, though i haven't heard it in a long time -- guest stars galore! all of the velvets, sonic youth people and a bunch of others. my favorite thing on there is her ultra slow version of waiting for the man ... what is moe up to these days anyway? retired?

yeah, i have i stayed a week, it's really good. i also have a great promo compilation called hot gig-gettin' numbers (which i guess she used to solicit gigs) that has stuff from the solo albums plus her version of "be my baby" and a few odds and ends. don't know what she's doing now, her website hasn't been updated in 5 years. i saw her play in 1999 or 2000, she was fantastic. ended with a 10-minute plus version of "bo diddley" that is one of the greatest things i have ever seen/heard.

Life In Exile After Abdication is pretty good. Great version of Goodnight Irene.

i saw her play drums behind some kinda lame band in LA way back in 96 or 97. a weird show, to say the least. probably about 20 people there, most of whom i can only assume were there to see Moe play the drums ... for a not very good alt-rock band. But yeah, the best part was where she came out from behind the kit and sang and played noisy guitar on "Bo Diddley." She hung around afterwards and was super-nice.

The one with "Hey Mersh" is classic, haven't heard the others. I saw her tour that album with Half Japanese, what a double bill.

Magnet, tyler?

yeah! honestly, maybe they were OK, I really have no recollection ...

The nicest famous person I ever met. But you know that, right?

I saw her tour that album with Half Japanese, what a double bill.

Saw that one too, great show. Years later, I realized that Sonny Vincent was in that edition of Half Japanese.

yeah, saw that tour as well. They went to the Powerhaus in ~Maida Vale. Thought that might be my only chance.

Until she came back with Sterling in the band, and went and played Reading Uni.

Well, it would have been rude not to!

Half Japanese played Reading Uni??? When was that?

Or Moe Tucker solo? Either way, WTF!

No, not the halfjaps, that was the Moe/Sterling band.

That was the time we all got to meet Moe and Sterling after the gig. I got my gig ticket signed, others had thought about it and brought in their VUBanana lp sleeves...

When? Blimey oreilly. Aroud the time of "I spent a week there the other night".

AMG sez that was 1991. Ah well, I was there 94-97 (and lived there after uni til 2001).

Sounds about right.

I have Life In Exile After Abdication on CD, which has an EP she did with Jad Fair tacked on as bonus tracks with a great version of Guess I'm Falling In Love (Jad singing).

I Spent A Week and Dogs Under Stress are worth getting too. I've never been able to find her earlier 80s stuff.

Her "Playin' Possum" album is awesome. Reminds me of the Shaggs and Moldy Peaches.

Life In Exile After Abdication is a seriously excellent album. For sheer intensity and wit, "Hey Mersh!" and "Spam Again" kick Lou's ass from here to Thursday.

spotify link

Lou plays guitar on "Hey Mersh".

Hey, Lou kicked his own ass!

Found Playing Possum at the community station last night. I found Life in Exile months ago but didn't see Playin, I didn't think we had it. The version of "Round and Round" on Playin Possum is my absolute favorite. Oh shit! her version of Heroin totally rules, too.

yeah, i think the argument could be made that Life In Exile is more Velvet-y than anything Cale or Reed did in their solo careers. Maybe after this NYC talk they're giving next week, Moe, Lou and Doug will get a band together.

:( :( :(

Mo Tucker is a Tea Party activist

TS: Mo Tucker vs. Ringo Starr

it's ok Elvis, she was never really the incredible revolutionary drummer the indiesphere's been contending she was so it's not that huge a loss

It's like finding out that someone has been turned into a zombie.

"shit, what the fuck are these guys doing? i didnt know it was this sort of band. okay...let's just drum kind of steady and hope it works out"

It's from all those years working in a Georgia Wal-Mart.

Certainly explains the anti-union tendencies!!!

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/atoz/2010/10/moe_tucker_interview_2010_politics_tea_party_velvet_underground_video.php

regardless, i wish to be buried with life in exile after abdication

can't say i don't feel somewhat sick & sad in the wake though. like, i'd like to have brunch with her.

everyone's fave tea partier has a sundazed comp coming out!
http://www.sundazed.com/shop/images/LP5315-MoeTucker.jpg
should be good

even being in the VU doesn't excuse baggerism.

sadean transgression gone srsly awry.

really like the charles douglas lp she co-produced/drummed on

Looks cool

i love her solo LPs.

sundazed is still a thing?

Sundazed has benefited greatly from the vinyl revival. Plus they cater to an audience that still buys physical copies of stuff.

Whoa! 3 LPs!

That's too many!

I mean, I actually have all this already (pretty sure), A nice one-LP 'best' would have been marv.

well I don't have any of them so a 3LP set sounds perfect to me!

do you think they'll have the entirety of playin possum? or that will you love me tomorrow single etc.?

I only have two of her albums, but this would be a must for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh-tWcC0rkM

here's the tracklisting
1. Bo Diddley
2. Heroin
3. Slippin’ and Slidin’
4. Around and Around
5. Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
6. Ellas *
7. I’m Sticking With You
8. Guess I’m Falling in Love
9. Andy
10. Hey Mersh!
11. Pale Blue Eyes
12. Chase
13. Talk So Mean (alternate mix)
14. Do It Right *
15. Fired Up (single version)
16. Too Shy (single version)
17. That’s B.A.D.
18. Lazy
19. Blue, All the Way to Canada
20. Then He Kissed Me
21. Fired Up *
22. I’m Not
23. I’m Waiting for the Man
24. Spam Again (live)
25. Crackin’ Up
26. I’ve Seen Into Your Soul
27. Danny Boy *
28. Poor Little Fool
29. I Wanna
30. To Know Him is to Love Him
31. Last Night I Said Goodbye to My Friend
32. After Hours
* CD ONLY TRACKS

Mo's comments on her time in the VU, from Legs McNeil's interviews for Please Kill Me:

http://www.vice.com/read/moe-tuckers-snapshots-of-the-velvet-underground

So very fucking cool, thanks! Here's still hoping she does her own book. Anybody heard that Sundazed boxette?

haha, yeah the stuff about her and warhol is fantastic.
it would be great if she wrote a book or something. in a band full of unlikely stuff, her story might be the most unlikely of all.
still need to get that sundazed anthology though.

i'm listening to Abdication for the first time and it sounds so far ahead of its time, even with "Chase" which is basically a SY track ca. Bad Moon Rising

yeah, i love all these albums but even though VU is so crazy well known and investigated by trainspotters, her solo albums seem to be mostly off the radar

playin possum ought to be in print. don't think it's even appeared on a proper CD.