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| TarTar |
Posted - 07/16/2004 : 15:04:37
I just picked up Volume 1 of the VU shows from 1969. It's fantastic. So is Volume 2, which I bought for my brother. He and I agreed these live recordings are a very compelling listen, perhaps more so than the records.
I've heard that there are only 11 VU shows in their entirety, and then fragments of others. Does anyone here have a link to a site where someone has all those shows? I'd like to get ahold of some other live shows.
And of course, I mean the Velvet Underground when Lou Reed was with them. Anything from after that doesn't count.
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| WolfManMikeLonely |
Posted - 07/19/2004 : 20:07:26
Well I didn't know anything about Velvet Underground Live at Max's Kansas City coming out soon. Haven't heard much coming from any Velvets except that overpriced Cale, Nico and Reed live album that came out recently, Reeds "The Raven" and his new live album and such lately. The only one I picked up was "The Raven" and it had a few good songs in between the creepy ass poetry readings.
"Hey fuck you if you don't like it."
-Johnny Thunders
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| soundofataris |
Posted - 07/19/2004 : 20:05:05
I think Live at Max's Kansas City was simply postponed til aug 3rd, which is quite soon.
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| peter radiator |
Posted - 07/17/2004 : 14:08:03
I have almost all of the high-quality unauthorized recordings of The Velvet Underground that are known to exist, both aural and visual.
These include interviews, studio outtakes, rehearsals, alternate mixes and live shows.
I have not taken the time to update my list in quite a while, but I am happy to share those recordings with other nice people.
The Quine Tapes are wonderful, to be sure, but I think there are other tapes out there from the same era that are just as compelling, and that often contain better performances.
It's my understanding that the Rhino expanded version of Live at Max's Kansas City has been scrapped. This could have changed.
However, if it has not, I have a pristine copy straight off the master of the entire Brigid Polk cassette tape that they were going to use for their expanded edition.
Send me a private message with your trade lists (any artists), and in the next week or so, I'll get a comprehensive VU list out to you all.
Please make sure you let me know the quality of the recordings you have for trade, and whether or not they can be burned Disk-At-Once without gaps between the tracks. If they can't, I don't want them.
I can provide excellent-quality dubs on CD-R, Hi-Fi VHS, and DVD-R.
Thanks.
~ Peter Radiator
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| WolfManMikeLonely |
Posted - 07/16/2004 : 18:30:18
Yeah, Quine is gone... Now Kane is too. Oh well pretty soon all the good musicians will be dead. A friend of mine said eventually all that we're going to have left is Marky Ramone and Ringo Starr. It sucks that the Dolls just started this unholy reunion thing and Kane was probably about to make more money than he did in his last twenty years. My dog ate disc one of the Quine tapes when she was a puppy, I really liked the whole thing but I don't feel like I want to pay the money for that box set again. Oh well.
"Hey fuck you if you don't like it."
-Johnny Thunders
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| soundofataris |
Posted - 07/16/2004 : 16:31:41
Yes, Robert Quine passed away a couple of weeks ago. Its very sad. In an almost related note, the bassist of the New York Dolls just died yesterday. Very sad.
Rhino records is going to release a deluxe edition of the Velvet Underground Live at Max's Kansas City, which is an offical bootleg of their last ever show with Lou. The VU went on for many more years, sadly enough. (Though yule gets no credit for what he did, it should have ended.) Its gots lots of extra stuff and is more then twoce as long as the origional, I understand
Kerry in a landslide! |
| martha_promise |
Posted - 07/16/2004 : 16:05:59
Peter,
Are you speaking of the "Quine Tapes?"
If so, it's funny that you mention it. Just this week I was listening to Jonathan Richman (the man who was too loud) and rolled past his tune "Velvet Underground". So I popped in "The Quine tapes" volume 1, and listened to all three discs and obviously they were as incredible as ever.
Didn't Robert Quine just recently pass away?
Also, I happen to agree with both you and your brother. As great as their studio albums are, the live recordings are unbelievable. I'm not aware of how to aquire all 11 (complete) shows. If you or anyone find out, I'd definitely do my darnest to pick them up.
How about the hour and a half of "Sister Ray?"...with the last one melding into "Foggy Notion".
Yeah, this stuff blows my fucking hair back...Honestly.
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 07/16/2004 : 15:26:09
That's very cool...Sorry I don't know of a link but I have heard and might own some live VU... but for some reason I thought their studio stuff sounded so much better. Do your like your live CD or their studio stuff better? |
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