THE VELVET UNDERGROUND LIVE 1969 w/LOU REED 1984 UK MERCURY NEAR MINT
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THE VELVET UNDERGROUND LIVE 1969 w/LOU REED 1984 UK MERCURY NEAR MINT
1969: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND LIVE w/ LOU REED1984 UK MERCURY (PRID 7) PRESSING OF THE FINEST DOCUMENT WE HAVE OF THE VELVET UNDERGROUND LIVE
COMPLIED BY MERCURY FROM TWO RECORDINGS: OCTOBER 1969, DALLAS, TEXAS AND NOVEMBER 1969, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
Matrix Side One: 9198029 A//2 ? 420 W 11 1
Matrix Side Two: 9198029 B//2 ? 420 W 11
Matrix Side Three: 9198030 1Y//1 ? E 420 11 11
Matrix Side Four: 9198030 2Y//1 ? E 420 11 21
Side 1: Waiting For My Man (7:00) / Lisa Says (5:46) / What Goes On (8:47) / Sweet Jane (3:58)
Side 2: We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (3:12) / Femme Fatale (3:01) / New Age (6:31) / Rock And Roll (6:00) / Beginning To See The Light (5:26)
Side 3: Ocean (10:46) / Pale Blue Eyes (5:50) / Heroin (9:42)
Side 4: Some Kinda Love (4:44) / Over You (2:15) / Sweet Bonnie Brown - It's Just Too Much (7:50) / White Light/White Heat (8:32) / I'll Be Your Mirror (2:17)
Outside of a handful of audience tapes of poor quality, no one thought to make a live recording of The Velvet Underground during their peak.
However, in 1969 a VU fan (who was a recording engineer) brought a reel-to-reel tape machine to the shows the band played during an engagement at The End of Cole Avenue in Dallas and the next month, the band played The Matrix in San Francisco, where a tape machine had been installed into the hall's sound system, and the band was allowed to record their set.
Five years later, long after The Velvet Underground had collapsed and Lou Reed's solo career was on the rise, Mercury Records compiled highlights of the Dallas and San Francisco tapes into a two-record set, 1969: Velvet Underground Live, and it is without question the best (legally-released) document of this band's considerable strengths as a live act.
While they were a somewhat more sedate band with Doug Yule on bass rather than Cale, they still had plenty of life left in them at this stage of the game; there are few voyages into the sonic unknown here, but Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison had matured into one of rock's most potent guitar combinations, Maureen Tucker was as distinctive a drummer as even picked up a pair of mallets, and with Doug Yule at her side they comprised a truly superb rhythm section.
Sounding tight, confident, and passionate on every cut, this set finds the band visiting highlights from all four of their studio albums, as well as a handful of previously unreleased numbers.
From the delicacy of "New Age" and "I'll Be Your Mirror" to the rave-up energy of "What Goes On" and "White Light/White Heat," 1969: Velvet Underground Live captures the many sides of their musical personality with commendable skill and is the best live document of the legendary band whose remaining influence cannot be over-stated
LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels with just a few light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked surfaces
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Great sound quality with a nice loud cut.
Plays beautifully throughout with practically nothing to fault.
No loud clicks or pops, just an occasional tick/touch of surface but I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate so this will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins. Worth the price of admission alone for the stunning 8 minute version of White Light/White Heat
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT
Apart from some wear on the corners the gatefold is clean, sharp and unmarked with all spine text clear and bold
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