HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER.

When you see a headline exclaiming newly uncovered color footage of the Velvet Underground, you, like me, might immediately hope for live footage of the original VU with John Cale and the whole shopping bag. Though it is color footage, and there are live clips, they are short, the sound is awful and it's 1969, the Doug Yule era (I looked right past the year). But I got sucked in, momentarily, because that's about all you'll see of the Velvets, short moments. Oh well, on to the next thing.

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Color footage of the Velvet Underground performing in 1969 unearthed! at Dangerous Minds

LOUB DYLREED

All credit here for this pairing goes to Probe is Turning-On the People. A demo of the Velvet Underground sounding like Dylan, and an alternate take of Dylan doing "Desolation Row" sounding like the Velvet Underground. Both songs were recorded in July, 1965 in New York City. Oh yeah, you know they were watching each other. Ever so close to worlds colliding.

Poke around over at the Probe. There's a lot of great esoteric music. These were posted in 2011 and he'd already been posting for a few years then. Dude must have a record huge collection. You'll see.

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Listen:
Velvet Underground - Prominent Men (demo) mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People Session 338
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row (alternate take) mp3 at Probe Is Turning-On the People

GO THERE. I DON'T CARE.

Aquarium Drunkard recently posted a Velvet Underground show from January 10, 1969. Exactly fifty years ago today. Man, the shit just keeps coming. Amazing that there's still stuff popping up all these years later. So, I went looking for some more VU meat and found a handful of different mixes from a pre-release acetate of the first LP. Posted here some time back, a little scratchy, but it you're a VU fiend probably no more scratchy then your worn out copy of the first LP, plus it's different mixes. All of this is probably only of interest to someone who's into the Velvets. Fuck it, I'm not going to rationalize things. I'm going to go listen to some alternate versions I've heard a dozen times, of songs that I've heard a hundred times.

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Listen:
The Velvet Underground :: The Boston Tea Party – January 10, 1969 at Aquarium Drunkard Live set, 12 songs
Velvet Underground - Acetates at Beware of the Blog Rough mixes of songs from the first LP
Velvet Underground - Rock & Roll (demo) mp3 at Review Stalker
Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love (live) mp3 at Ernie Film The guitars on this one rule, near perfect amount of slop, licks and chunka.

RALPH STANLEY COVERS THE VELVETS

I've got no idea how this slipped past me. Wait, I do. I'm not enough of a Bowie fiend, or even Velvet Underground fiend, to know about every burp and fart they ever recorded. So the fact that an early cover of the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting For the Man" by a band called Riot Act, with Bowie on vocals, slipped past me shouldn't surprise me. What did surprise me is that the Riot Squad was covering it practically before it was released. In late 1966, Bowie's manager at the time returned from a trip to New York with an pre-release acetate of the first Velvet's album, given to him by Andy Warhol. The Riot Act started performing "I'm Waiting For the Man" right away. Bowie was only in the band for a couple months, so the recording was done soon thereafter. It didn't see release until 2013.

After hearing it, I started thinking about the whole Lou Reed/Bowie thing. That top photo above appeared in a magazine around 1972, and led to speculation that they were more than just friends. I don't remember being all that surprised by it, rather I found it funny because another photo in the sequence revealed that the third wheel obscured by their smooch is Mick Jagger. After all of the ostracizing dynamics of the Stones, it was nice to see him the odd man out.

Here's a smattering of versions of two Velvet Underground songs, "I'm Waiting For the Man" and "White Light, White Heat", another song that Bowie and Reed shared more than once. The real oddball down there is unrelated to Bowie or Reed (other than Reed's authorship). It's a cover of "White Light, White Heat" by bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley. The shit you find...

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Listen:

Riot Act - I'm Waiting For the Man (streaming) at YouTube
Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For the Man mp3 at Sabet (?)
Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For the Man (alt take) mp3 at Beware of the Blog
David Bowie and Lou Reed - Waiting For the Man (live 1972 London) (streaming) at YouTube
Velvet Underground - White Light, White Heat mp3 at The Rising Storm
David Bowie and Lou Reed - White Light, White Heat (live 1972 London) (streaming) at YouTube
Ralph Stanley - White Light, White Heat mp3 at ATumblr (?)
Video:
Lou Reed (w/VU?) - I'm Waiting for the Man (live, 1972) at YouTube
David Bowie and Lou Reed - White Light, White Heat (live NYC 1997) at YouTube

JAM BAND? YEAH, SURE. WHERE DO WE SET UP?

A thirty six minute version of "Sister Ray", live, excellent quality, 1969. The photo above is earlier, but it's a cool photo. One blonde reason why. Sue me. Anyway, if you dig "Sister Ray" at it's most Sister Ray-ish, you'll like this version. Some of you might hate it. Again, sue me.

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Listen:

Velvet Underground - Sister Ray mp3 (Live, 1969) (via Box.net) at Across the Kitchen Table  Once at Box.net, click on the blue "Download (*84.5 MB)" in the top right. That's right, 84.5 MB. Quite the commitment. You can always click the streaming doohickey and listen to it while you work on your spreadsheets.

MORE VELVETS SHAKE

Just a little catch up here, a couple Velvet Underground things that were floating around out there. I don't think I've posted either before, but I'm too lazy to check. If you want to call me on it, by all means, knock yourself out. Just check the past VU posts (scroll down) for a fair bunch of stuff, mp3s, videos and bonus dead links. Here's the two I just ran across and, what the hell, the instrumental version of "Guess I'm Falling In Love", just because it's a crunchy racket that I can't get enough of.

The French documentary below features footage of Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico live at Bataclan. Near as I can guess, it's that Bataclan, the venue that got shot up a couple days ago.

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Listen:
Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love (instrumental) mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (rehearsal) mp3 at Aquarium Drunkard Go there to get it.
Video:
Velvet Underground - French Documentary at YouTube Includes footage from Bataclan

STICK TO YOUR SOUP CANS

This will get you Velvet Underground freaks in a tizzy, but note, it's bittersweet. First the good news. It's 33 minutes of a live performance at the Boston Tea Party in 1967, in color, with synched sound. Now the bad news: It was filmed, purportedly, by Andy Warhol, who apparently had seen the Velvets enough at that point that he found the kid doing the light show and the audience far more entertaining. The quality flat out blows. Warhol was not a cinematographer, you know that. But the camera work on this one is so bad that it seems like he was just learning to use the camera. The capture above is about as clear as it gets (the title was added). But, you VU freaks will probably want to see it. Check it out soon, because it was just posted about a week ago, and if it was filmed by Warhol, you can bet it won't last long.

The other videos linked below are the only other Velvet Underground videos that have surfaced in the past few years, and they're much better quality, which is to say passable versus shitty. The first is the band playing at the factory, shot by Warhol, in black and white. The others are of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, with Gerard Malanga in all of his whipping glory. There's just a couple songs down there to satiate your ears. Check the other old posts for lots of other Velvets stuff, including live stuff, pre-Velvets stuff, alternate takes, blah blah, blah....freaks.

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Listen:

Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love (Instrumental) mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
Velvet Underground/Lou Reed - Rock 'n' Roll (four mp3s) at Review Stalker LP, demo, alternate take and solo live.

The Roughnecks - You're Driving Me Insane mp3 at The Big O Pre-Velvets
Velvet Underground - Noise mp3 at The Big O From The East Village Electric Newspaper.
Velvet Underground - Twenty six oddballs at The Big O

Video:

Velvet Underground - A Symphony In Sound at YouTube 1966, another Warhol film

Velvet Underground - A Symphony In Sound, Production notes at a fan site

Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable with The Velvet Underground at UbuWeb 1966

Two more Exploding Plastic Inevitable clips at Plaztikmag 1967

METAL PERFECT DAY MACHINE

You've undoubtedly heard that Lou Reed passed away today. If you're young, you may not know who he is, or if you do, don't understand what the fuss is all about. If you lean towards hipster, you may think that anything after the Velvet Underground sucked. If you're a little older, you might just know his only hit, "Walk On the Wild Side". If you're a music geek, you may love much of his work, or you may hate it. Or both. When you step back and take your personal listening habits away from the equation, what you come away with is a ground breaker; someone genuine, cool enough to be uncool, a streetwise degenerate, melancholy sap, a survivor, and writer of songs ugly and beautiful, cooler than shit, and total pap.

Tammy Wynette followed by Shane McGowan; all I'm sayin'.

If you are of a certain age, his work probably intersected with events in your own life. You may have hummed along with "Walk On the Wild Side" when it was a hit, not knowing what it was about. You may have been introduced to the Velvet Underground through his solo versions of their songs on his LP "Rock 'n' Roll Animal" LP, featuring the overly long solos of Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter (later, after you'd grown out of you masturbatory guitar solo phase, wondering what he was thinking ), Maybe you remember hearing Metal Machine Music and thinking "the fuck is this?", or hearing "Sally Can't Dance" and going "I give up". You may have bought the Live in Italy on cassette, based solely on the fact that Robert Quine was in his band, and listened to it while you finished your hostel hopping through Europe. You may have played "Perfect Day" at half of the friends' wedding receptions you DJ'd at. You may have the face of your late brother flash before you every time you hear "Pale Blue Eyes". You may have come to admire Reed for what he was.  Motherfucker was and is Lou Reed. There's only one.

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Listen:
Lou Reed - Perfect Day mp3 at The Cargo Culte
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music, Part 1 mp3 at WWMMD (?)
Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes mp3 at Motel de Moka

Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love (Instrumental) mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu

Velvet Underground/Lou Reed - Rock 'n' Roll (four mp3s) at Review Stalker LP, demo, alternate take and solo live.
Lou Reed - Acoustic Demos (1970) (via MediaFire) at A History of The Underground Recording Industry 31:52 minutes

Pre-Velvets:
The Primitives - Do the Ostrich mp3 at Beware of the Blog
The Primitives - Sneaky Pete mp3 at Beware of the Blog
Video:
A Night With Lou Reed (hour long 1983 live set) at YouTube with Robert Quine on guitar
Visit: 
Past Velvet Undergound and Lou Reed posts A lot of the links are still good.

VU SHAKE

I was listening to an unlabeled mix yesterday, dated 10/09. The instrumental version of the Velvet Underground's "Guess I'm Falling In Love" came on. It sounded righteous. This has happened before, same song. I never have to go looking for it. Every once in a while it just pops up, as if reminding me it's time to revisit its awesomeness. I still totally dig it. I like that it sounds like the Velvets, but it doesn't sound like the Velvets. It's kind of garage, but it isn't. Without the vocals, if you hadn't heard the song before, you might not be able to tell what band it was, or even what year. If you haven't heard it before, give it a go.

There's also a link to two different versions of "Some Kinda Love" at Boogie Woogie Flu. Nice write up too. If you haven't poked around here much, there's a bunch of Velvets related stuff that's been posted in the past. Scroll down this page. A lot of the songs are still there.

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Listen:
Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love (instrumental) mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Velvet Underground - Some Kinda Love (Closet mix) mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu Go there to get it
Velvet Underground - Some Kinda Love (Val Valentin mix) mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu Ditto
Note: No idea if the photo is the same incarnation that recorded any of these, I just dug the photo.
Visit:
Other Velvet Underground posts Scroll down

LEVEL TWO LOU

Oh jeez. More Velvets. But there's some pre-Velvets Lou Reed things too, more than the Beachnuts and the Primitives stuff that's been widely circulated for years. Actually, these have all probably been all over the place, if you're in the Velvet Underground Next Level of Fiendom club. I am not. I'm in the That Looks Interesting, What the Hell club, where pretty much everything goes. There's just a few below, but there's a lot more at The Big O, twenty six in all. I don't need twenty six, but you might, if you're some kind of level two VU pledge.

Of the few I've listened to, the early favorite is "You're Driving Me Insane" by the Roughnecks, an early Lou Reed band of which I know nothing about. You ought to just go there and jut give them all a shot. Note: "Afterhours" by the Carol Lou Trio was written by another Lou Reed and is not related at all to the Lou Reed were talking about. Someone goofed somewhere.

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Listen
The Roughnecks - You're Driving Me Insane mp3 at The Big O
The Velvet Underground - Noise mp3 at The Big O From The East Village Electric Newspaper.
All twenty six cuts at The Big O
Earlier:
All previous Velvet Underground posts  I swear I'm not a level two-er. I just keep running into things.

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

WHAT THE HELL

Here's a trio of covers that hit the spot, though I gotta be honest. I don't think that the Velvet Underground, George Baker Selection, and Motorhead originals can really be improved on, but it is kind of cool hearing these in styles that differ quite a bit from the originals and aren't entirely hokey. Two are by Union Avenue, a Scottish band that seem to borrow a lot from Johnny Cash, and by that I mean it sounds as if it's entirely intentional. Not surprising considering that Union Ave is the street that Sam Phillips parked his ass on way back when. The other is by a bluegrass band, the Meat Purveyors, doing the Velvet's "What Goes On" as if looped on Red Bull and moonshine.

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 Listen:
Union Avenue - Ace of Spades mp3 at Cover Me
Motörhead - Ace of Spades mp3 at Shelter From the Norm 
Union Avenue - Little Green Bag mp3 at Cover Me  
George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag mp3 at The Adios Lounge 
Velvet Underground - What Goes On mp3 at Rock Town Hall
The Meat Purveyors - What Goes On mp3 at Cover Me 

DON'T BLINK

Here's an oddball, and I'm not going to go on and on about it. In short, it's the Yardbirds doing the Yelvet Underground's "Waiting For the Man", live in 1968, just months after the first Velvet's LP was released. It's an audience tape, and it's from 1968, so as you would guess, the quality of the recording sucks dry shit. But it is an oddball, of a great band covering another great band that you wouldn't ordinarily associate them with. Considering that the LP didn't sell much when it came out makes it all the more compelling, that the Yardbirds were cognizant of the VU. This is one odd combination and probably won't pop up again, and that far outweighs shitty sound quality. There's another cover below, of the Yardbirds doing Dylan's "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)" from a BBC session. The sound is a lot better on that one

Note: Though it's obvious, in the interest of CYA I should point out that the image above is a fake album cover. The last thing I need is the Warhol estate nitpicking around here.

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Listen: 
The Yardbirds - I'm Waiting For the Man mp3 at Aquarium Drunkard Go there to get it, and soon. The kill their links after they've been up a while.
The Yardbirds – Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) mp3 at Cover Me
Just so you don't feel gipped:
Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For the Man mp3 at Barrrel of Nails
Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
The Yardbirds - Happenings Ten Years Time Ago mp3 at Rocking Classics
The Yardbirds - White Summer (live) mp3 at Speed of Dark 

NEVER THOUGHT I'D HEAR THIS

I don't have to have everything. Still, I marvel at what slowly creeps out over the years. Take this sucker for instance. A couple of Modern Lovers sets from two different nights, by the classic line up (Jonathan Richman, Ernie Brooks, Jerry Harrison and David Robinson). It's bootleg quality, but if you like their first LP (you had better know that one), it's worth a listen. These are from 1970-71, and the Cale produced stuff on that first LP was done in 1972, just as a reference point. In any case, if you don't know the band at all, you may want to sample the single songs below. If you're still not interested, there's still another live set by the Velvet Underground at the another post. This is what I mean. So much stuff has crept out over the years, that a Velvet Underground live tape has started to become a ho-hum moment.

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Listen:
Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso mp3 at DJNoDJ
Modern Lovers - She Cracked mp3 at The Rising Storm  
Modern Lovers - I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu
The Live Stuff:
The Modern Lovers - Live at Stonhenge Club at Aquarium Drinkard Two sets in one zip. 1970-71 Ipswich, MA.
The Velvet Underground - Live at the Boston Tea Party at Aquarium Drunkard 1969

DUDE, STICK TO SOUP CANS

An hour of the Velvets filmed by Warhol sounds enticing doesn't it? That's what I thought.  Most of you total Velvet Underground fiends have probably already seen this one, and if you're not one of them, it might be boring as hell.  If you walk away from this learning anything, you'll know that Andy Warhol is one hack cameraman. It's as if he just discovered the zoom lens on his camera. In his defense, it was intended as a backdrop film for their live shows, so that might explain the two bit camera work. Regardless, it's worth a glance for historical purposes, or an hour viewing if you've got a high threshold. If you're looking for some listenable Velvet's stuff, check the older Velvets posts here (scroll down).

Visit:
The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony In Sound - Full story behind the film at a Nico fan site

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

This is for you Velvet Underground fiends that may not have caught it yet.  It's a 1967 live gig from a New York venue called The Gymnasium.  It was posted here about three years ago, but those links petered out and I just ran into it again.  It's notable for a few reasons.  One is that it's among the material that Robert Quine taped, but was not included in the sanctioned bootleg "Quine Tapes". (Quine would later play guitar for Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and Lou Reed.)  It's also significant because it includes the first ever live performance of "Sister Ray", and another song "I'm Not A Young Man Anymore" that has never been released anywhere else.  Just for good measure, there's a single song below, an instrumental version of "Guess I'm Falling In Love", which is also included on the live thing with vocals. It's significant because I think it's hot shit. (It's been posted a few times before, but bears repeat posts, it's that hot of shit.)

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Listen:
Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love (instrumental) mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban 
The live thing:
The Velvet Underground - Live at The Gymnasium at Captain's Dead Five songs, downloadable as individual mp3s.

HEY STOMP. BANG ON THIS.

Watching the Olympic Closing Ceremony (which really is just a pop concert), I had to stop for a second. Motherfucking Stomp? I thought they were done. Really? Stomp, huh? I'll give you "stomp."

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Listen:
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music, Part 1 mp3 at WWMMD (?)
Bonus filler:

Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love (Instrumental) mp3 at Boogie Woogie Flu Essential.

Pre-Velvets:
The Primitives - Do the Ostrich mp3 at Beware of the Blog
The Primitives - Sneaky Pete mp3 at Beware of the Blog

MINT CONDITION DIRT, AS-IS

Try as I might to toss up a few newer things every now and then, sometimes trying to find anything that measures up to older stuff is like banging your head against a wall. It's not like there isn't enough new stuff out there, it's just that most of it is not of the "Who the hell is this?!" variety. My frustration tonight occurred primarily at The Hype Machine, a music blog aggregator, I clicked randomly through five or six pages of music blog posts and found nothing that would get me riled up. (The Hype Machine can be found here. If you find anything worthwhile, I'm all ears.)

So, here's a a few I found at one of the ol' reliables, Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban. The first one, "Guess I'm Falling In Love" by the Velvet Underground, has been posted (and slobbered on) here before. It's one of my favorites, a nearly perfect rock 'n' roll record. It does many things well; the pace of it, the stops and starts, the way the solo starts at :50, the outtake/demo+ quality of the recording, Nothing is overdone, nothing is extreme, It is just a compact song, with everything unnecessary left out (including vocals on this version). (I know the Velvets image above is the earlier incarnation, but it's a cool photo.)

It's from a old post of thirty songs that the A-Bones have covered. Two of the A-Bones, Billy Miller and Miriam Linna, run Norton Records, which means they are fully qualified to pick good songs, and these are good. Most of the songs are older than the Velvets cut, and some hover on the esoteric side of corny, but they all seem to have that certain something that makes the Hype Machine seem totally irrelevant.

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Listen:
Velvet Underground - Guess I'm Falling In Love mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
The Torquays - Stolen Moments mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Betty Dickson - Shanty Tramp mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Larry Williams - You Bug Me Baby mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Rudy Grayzell - Judy mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
The Sabres- Take Up the Slack Daddy-O mp3 at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Visit:
Songs the A-Bones Taught Us (part 1, 30 songs) at Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban
Songs the A-Bones Taught Us (part 2, 19 songs) at Beware of the BlogNorton Records

YEAH, YOU'RE WHAT, 25?...FIVE WHAT??

V.U. fiends have been going ape in the past couple of weeks over a previously unreleased live recording of the band. The only available live recording available from 1967, it contains an unreleased song, "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore," not available anywhere else, and the debut live performance of "Sister Ray", (known in these parts as "Nico's Piss Break"). The sound's not bad, particularly for a bootleg of a show that old. If you're a Velvets freak, you're not even reading this; you've already skipped out to download and dissect it. Me, I don't need everything. I'll just listen to "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore" and try not think too hard about about the incredibly insightful lyrics.

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The Velvet Underground - I'm Not a Young Man Anymore mp3 and the whole The Velvet Underground Live at the Gymnasium NYC enchilada at Dead Flowers.