IT'S THEM AGAIN

Yep. More Velvet Underground related shake. These come courtesy of Probe Is Turning-On the People. It's an interesting mix of covers and oddballs from right around the time of that first LP, most from 1967.  The first song is a cover of "There She Goes Again" by Banana, a band of American GIs, recorded while they were in Vietnam (get this, they were in a jungle, powered by a generator). Then, (you know he had to make an appearance) Bowie with an unreleased version of "I'm Waiting For The Man". Apparently Bowie had a pre-release test pressing of the first VU LP. This is early Bowie, circa '67. For my money, the best thing included is a cover of "Run, Run, Run" by a Dutch group, the Riats, supposedly the first VU cover released on vinyl, again, in '67. It's a neat organ driven version, pretty different fromm the original. Then the Riats tackle "Sunday Morning", on the flip. That's followed by the Yardbirds' cover of "I'm Waiting For The Man" was posted here a few weeks ago. The rest of the songs aren't covers, just vaguely related. The first of those is Bowie with the Riot Squad doing a song called "Little Toy Soldier", which just mentions the Velvets, then two other bands that may or may not have copped the Velvet Ungderground name intentially. One is Velvet Undergound Ltd, from that hub of decadence, Enid, Oklahoma, and then another band called Velvet Underground from Austrailia.

If you happen on this post a few weeks after it was posted, a tip about how to navigate the Probe page is in order. His posts are done in "sessions". This set is from Session 419, so, if it doesn't appear at the top of the page linked, just poke around. The sessions are in reverse chronological order. While your digging around, check out his other posts. The Probe's taste runs the gamut, and the stuff he posts is, more often than not, stuff you won't run across elsewhere.

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Listen: 
Velvet Underground Covers and What Not at Probe Is Turning-On the People Ten mp3s in a zip
Posted before: 
Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love (Instrumental) mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu Essential.
Pre-Velvets Reed and Cale:
The Primitives - Do the Ostrich mp3 at Beware of the Blog
The Primitives - Sneaky Pete mp3 at Beware of the Blog 
Full length set:
Velvet Underground - Live at the Boston Tea Party at Aquarium Drunkard Twelve song set. 
More Velvets:
All previous Velvet Underground posts with a lot of links that are still live