Comments on: New VU

New VU

stinkycheese — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:03:22 -0800

I'm not into VU bootlegs really, but apparently this is a big deal. It's the ONLY available live stuff from 1967 and has only become available in literally the last two days. Recorded just after the release of The Velvet Underground And Nico and featuring the debut performance of Sister Ray (19 mins long) and the *previously unheard* song I'm Not A Young Man Any More. That's right, A NEW VELVET UNDERGROUND SONG. And it's fucking good too. This version of Sister Ray absolutely shreds and is what the Velvet Underground are all about.

By: snofoam

snofoam — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:07:58 -0800

your favorite band may suck, but this certainly doesn't.

By: mai

mai — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:10:44 -0800

[this is good]

By: mai

mai — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:11:27 -0800

Upon listening for thirty more seconds, let me amend that. This is absolutely fucking fantastic.

By: kuujjuarapik

kuujjuarapik — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:18:25 -0800

Lou's not a young man anymore.

By: jtron

jtron — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:18:43 -0800

if I open up that .zip file and it's goddamn Rick Astley heads are gonna goddamn roll

By: stinkycheese

stinkycheese — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:20:54 -0800

I stake my stinky name on these goods. The link is solid.

By: juiceCake

juiceCake — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:21:39 -0800

[this is good] Indeed. I don't have a favourite band, so I don't have a favourite band that sucks.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:30:56 -0800

Only a thousand people will ever download this zip file, but every single one of them will go out and make a Web page with a zip file on it.

By: anazgnos

anazgnos — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:32:52 -0800

Yeah, that's some great stuff. On Dime, somebody claimed to have a DAT copy of the 2nd (or 1st) night as well to be seeded. I am into VU bootlegs. There's so few of them in existence that anything new is an event, and for one like this, with such a high pedigree both historically and in terms of recording quality, is a major event.

By: Flashman

Flashman — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:40:32 -0800

Zip file, we're gonna have a real good time together.

By: aladfar

aladfar — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:44:01 -0800

It's alright.

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:45:38 -0800

OMG

By: about_time

about_time — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:51:51 -0800

Awesome, thank you.

By: mykescipark

mykescipark — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:55:01 -0800

Deee-lish. Thanks!

By: LarryC

LarryC — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:55:21 -0800

Astro Zombie: "Only a thousand people will ever download this zip file, but every single one of them will go out and make a Web page with a zip file on it." That cracks me up. Thanks for the post!

By: aladfar

aladfar — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:59:34 -0800

It's alright.

By: kingfisher, his musclebound cat

kingfisher, his musclebound cat — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:04:46 -0800

This is too good for me to leave work, where I am staying late alone with a beer and blasting this thing. Thank ya.

By: FelliniBlank

FelliniBlank — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:08:49 -0800

Oh sweet bleeding Jesus Horatio Christ in a sidecar handbasket on a pogo stick. Have I mentioned that I worship the very ground that your cheese stinks upon? So, like, thanks.

By: unwordy

unwordy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:16:41 -0800

Fantastic link--thanks!

By: ianaces

ianaces — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:18:17 -0800

amazing! i've been listening to the Velvet Underground all day today-- probably for the first time in several years-- and now i find this? holy synchronicity, batman!

By: mds35

mds35 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:21:08 -0800

fuck this shit. show me where the dee-lite bootlegs at.

By: mds35

mds35 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:21:22 -0800

just kidding. fucking awesome, this.

By: The Tensor

The Tensor — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:27:10 -0800

Shenanigans. That so-called "new Velvet Underground song" was clearly photoshopped.

By: uosuaq

uosuaq — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:28:09 -0800

So very postworthy. Well done.

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:31:55 -0800

I can't download this at work, so if the file disappears before I get home, somebody will up it to Mediafire or equivalent, amirite? Huh? Pls?

By: Kronoss

Kronoss — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:33:24 -0800

Awesome. This is like Christmas on Leap-year day.

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:33:48 -0800

Utterly fantastic. Where's it been all this time?! There's a whole bootleg trading circuit and that one is brand new...

By: ianaces

ianaces — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:43:50 -0800

it sounds awfully clean for an acetate but there are tale-tale vinyl crackles. could this have been pressed on vinyl and overlooked? highly doubtful, but it's an odd combination for something this rare and the fidelity being (relativity) high.

By: FelliniBlank

FelliniBlank — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:47:59 -0800

Where's it been all this time?! There's a whole bootleg trading circuit and that one is brand new... Seems like every few months some mindboggling "new" thing appears on Dime that has somehow been squirreled away for decades without ever trickling out onto the various circuits. "Say, would anyone be interested in hearing my recording of Jimi Hendrix playing the USSR national anthem at a private party at Ronald Reagan's house?"

By: FelliniBlank

FelliniBlank — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:51:12 -0800

could this have been pressed on vinyl and overlooked? Weren't vinyl versions eBayed a few days ago? And then someone immediately liberated a rip to FLAC, and the rest is hysteria.

By: lupus_yonderboy

lupus_yonderboy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:18:25 -0800

Slightly OT, my friend died and left over 5000 bootleg cassettes, many from shows he'd booted himself. This includes Miles in Brooklyn, probably the most complete Hawkwind bootleg collection ever, perhaps similar for the Canterbury scene, psychedelia, Terry Riley, Stockhausen, Heldon, and random weirdnesses from the 60s and 70s. Other friends of mine purchased the tapes from his estate, and they sit in boxes. I have the financial resources but not the time to arrange for thing to percolate. It will be at least half a year or more before I do... If anyone is moved by this description to throw themselves into it, do let me know. The idea would be to set up some system to digitize all the cassettes, put them out for free on the internet, and conceivably try to recoup some of the time and money by selling hard drives containing the whole thing uncompressed. The whole thing would be sub rosa, it'd be inconceivable to get all the copyright approval, the prime goal is to preserve and spread this trove of music. Simple enough, I have several friends who'd cooperate, I know what to do, and lack only the time.

By: nanojath

nanojath — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:20:11 -0800

Many thanks, Mr. Cheese. I always knew your stink was the good kind. If anyone misses out on this and can't find it, just drop me a line, and I'll... uh... give you a stern lecture about downloading, yes sir, that's what I'll do. Because piracy is WRONG. But seriously, just drop me a line.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:32:35 -0800

waits with baited breath for d-load to finish Might just have something new for my swank bar DJ gig next week

By: treepour

treepour — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:36:01 -0800

Oh man, that version of Sister Ray. Thank you so much. This made my year -- and I say that confidently, knowing that we're only 1/6 of the way through.

By: escabeche

escabeche — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:58:39 -0800

Downloaded this a week ago and have been listening to it constantly ever since. How could "I'm Not A Young Man Anymore" have never ended up on record?

By: lumpenprole

lumpenprole — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:04:09 -0800

Jebus, the quality on this is better than some of the stuff that made it on the canonical records. Second to escabeche, how the hell was "I'm Not A Young Man Anymore" on an album? This song is pure VU gold. thankyoutthankyouthankyou

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:14:27 -0800

Some good places to find information on VU bootlegs.

By: lovecrafty

lovecrafty — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:18:48 -0800

Holy smokes. This is awesome.

By: peeedro

peeedro — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:23:01 -0800

This is good.

By: edgeways

edgeways — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:50:33 -0800

You know what I like about this, apart for the songs being great and a VU song that hasn't seen the light of day since... whenever, is that it is encoded at a nice high bit rate 250VBR, so none of this bootleg + 64kbit = extra crappy but tantalizing. nice nice nice

By: edgeways

edgeways — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:07:44 -0800

(Incidentally, I understand Lou is giving the Keynote at SXSW this year)

By: kenlayne

kenlayne — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:37:25 -0800

Huzzah, this is beautiful noise. What a creepy, hooky guitar line, too. VU still shocks and thrills, four decades later.

By: cazoo

cazoo — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:53:39 -0800

That guitar riff is absolutely infectious.

By: DecemberBoy

DecemberBoy — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:58:09 -0800

I think I just came. This is so awesome. Thanks so much for letting me know about this. Did anyone ever digitally rip the contents of that alternate acetate version of Velvet Underground & Nico that was on eBay a while back? If you can afford to buy it, you can afford a non-damaging laser turntable to digitally record its contents. It would be a shame if it just sat in some rich collector's storeroom.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:01:48 -0800

I am no Velvet Underground fan. But, you guessed it, this is good. Please. 545 New Yorkers near to lupus_yonderboy, hope him. For the love of Hawkwind.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:03:17 -0800

Silly preview box, the important part should be in big sparkling letters.

By: picea

picea — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:21:36 -0800

Thank you.

By: Phred182

Phred182 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:37:23 -0800

Sidebar-worthy. Thank you for an experience, sc. This is too good for me to leave work, where I am staying late alone with a beer and blasting this thing. Thank ya. I suspect hundreds of us did the same.

By: tiny crocodile

tiny crocodile — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:51:47 -0800

Yay!

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:15:25 -0800

This made my week. Both ears thank you.

By: juiceCake

juiceCake — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:46:51 -0800

fuck this shit. show me where the dee-lite bootlegs at. I wouldn't mind that, they put on a great show, but indeed, the genre isn't great for bootlegs.

By: Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:48:00 -0800

Sweet Jesus. 20 years after I first heard them, and 40 years after their first shows and I just can't comprehend what it is that is so damn cool about The Velvet Underground. Listening to this new recording reminds me of hearing them for the first time. (I just noticed that there has been a smile on my face since the opening riff started playing 15 minutes ago.)

By: adamvasco

adamvasco — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:50:43 -0800

Thank You. [This is excellent.] *pushes back chair, rocks out.*

By: basicchannel

basicchannel — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:09:26 -0800

Joy Division covered Sister Ray and it always makes me laugh that Ian Curtis refused to enunciate "suckin' on my ding dong." Thanks for this!!!

By: DecemberBoy

DecemberBoy — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:45:53 -0800

Having listened to it now, I can confirm it's totally awesome. The version of Sister Ray is incredible. 19 straight minutes of ding dong suckin', mainline searchin' goodness.

By: BitterOldPunk

BitterOldPunk — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:04:02 -0800

O M G This has made my week. Thank you stinkycheese, thank you, from the bottom of my curdled, blackened heart.

By: generalist

generalist — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:30:28 -0800

SO GOOD. thank you.

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:58:17 -0800

Chris Stein of Blondie played at the Gymnasium with his own band and remembers seeing The Velvet Underground there. From Warhol Stars: "...the rest of The Velvets had arrived. After a while they started to play and they were like awesomely powerful. I had never expected to experience anything like that before..."

By: Drexen

Drexen — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:18:09 -0800

I wasn't really a Velvet Underground fan before, because I hadn't really heard any of their stuff. Now I have, so I am. Thanks!

By: aquanaut

aquanaut — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:41:24 -0800

coolest. band. ever. thank you sooo much.

By: grubby

grubby — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:43:34 -0800

awesome of awesome. Thank you for sister ray. And thank you for that new song. And thank you for reminding me to listen to the VU. And thank you for reminding me to buy a new guitar amp. And thank you for reminding me what to sing about.