Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 07:34:33 EDT From: Freak4ad@AOL.COM Subject: New Bettie Serveert album I haven't seen anybody mention the new Bettie Serveert album, but I picked it up Saturday. It is a tribute album of sorts to the Velvet Underground (but live in Amsterdam). The artwork is the best I have seen for an American BS album. The songs are well done, and they choose some of my VU favorites like Stephanie Says, Venus In Furs, Sunday Morning, and Afterhours. Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 11:00:00 EST From: Cameron Webb Subject: Re: Bettie Serveert VU > In the new issue of 'Puncture', there's an ad for a record 'Bettie > Serveert Plays Venus In Furs'. It's on the Brinkman label. An album of VU > covers apparently. Anyone have this? It's s'posed to be good for ya'. I'm a huge Bettie Serveert fan but I must say I was a little disappointed by this collection of VU covers. I was unfamiliar with a lot of the VU songs - of course "Sunday morning" sounded great - and to be honest most of them fell short of Bettie's originals. Although I think Dust Bunnies was great I don't think they'll ever have an album as great as Palomine again. Tha album is recorded live. Was it some kind of tribute night? Anyone from the list go to it? The sleeve art is nothing spectacular but very nice none the less. Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 16:55:30 +0200 From: dovey Subject: Re: Bettie Serveert VU There is a company (I believe it is Marlboro) in Holland that is sponsoring concerts as a new way of advertising since it is no longer allowed to advertise smoking very openly. So they let a dutch band play covers of a band they like. And the band makes a little tour in the country (say 10-15 concerts), and the tour is called a flashback tour (because of the older songs). And Those concerts take place in bars or clubs (basically places where people smoke a lot). Bettie Serveert wanted to play Velvet underground songs and they did. Its a cover night but they might have taken the job seriously and turned it in a tribute night kind of thing. Somewhere on the line they must have record one of those a nights and found it good enough to release it on a cd. But that was not is the intention of these projects. But there are made recordings for television (no it not broadcated yet).