The Velvet Underground: Live at the Gymnasium, NYC
Furious Wank writes on the Libertines Forum:The Gymnasium, NYC
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.
I'm just listening now and i can already say that, in addition to the historical importance of these five recordings, this thing rocks like a motherfucker.
DOWNLOAD IT NOW
http://www.mediafire.com/?9zcetzynbvo
1. I'm Not A Young Man Anymore (previously unheard VU song)
2. Guess I'm Falling In Love
3. I'm Waiting For The Man
4. Run Run Run
5. Sister Ray (debut live performance)
(feel free to pass this link around all you like - i think a lot of people are gonna be excited to hear this)
Listen to "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore":
[Download the MP3 Here]
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Labels: live, mp3, rarities, velvet underground
posted by Mike at 7:32 PM
7 Comments:
What a great birthday present that was!! :-D
The recording of "Guess I'm Falling in Love" was previously released on the Peel Slowly and See box set.
I'm quite certain there are a few other bootlegs from 1967 available. My personal favorite (forgive me if it isnt 1967) is them playing Heroin minus Lou Reed, plus an organ, with John Cale singing from the Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour.
Truly amazing, can't wait to hear and send to my VU fds! thx.
i just put your link to my kokdamon blog.
Fantastic, and thank you! I wonder if they'll ever release another VU Bootleg Box, the first one a few years back was great fun. This should definitely be on it.
The Gymnasium gig is described in a little detail in the Peel Slowly and See booklet (by David Fricke), as follows:
The Velvets were now being left more and more to their own devices. By the Spring of 1967 the Exploding Plastic Inevitable had run its course. In April the Velvets gave one of their last EPI performances at the Gymnasium, a short-lived Czech health club-turned-boho disco on the Upper East Side. Partygoers jumped from the balcony onto a trampoline that had been left over from the gym ("That freaked a lot of people out," Cale remembers) and the Velvets' set was fortunately recorded.
The Gymnasium version of 'Guess I'm Falling in Love' has been a bootlegger's favourite for years and it's easy to hear why. The song is a wily slice of good-humoured sexual innuendo ("I've got a fever in my pocket/You know i gotta move/Yeah Babe/I guess I'm falling in love") powered by the metallic chomp of a Chuck Berry-esque riff, the crosscut slash of Morrison's bent-twang lead break and the robust kick of the Cale-Tucker backbeat. The Velvets had a go at Guess I'm Falling in Love in the studio the following December, but the track, included in the 1986 compilation Another View, survived only as an instrumental. The rough-house live take, complete with Reed's comic vocal swagger, remains the definitive blast.
That song, together with the Gymnasium ramble through the Velvets' corroded-Stax instrumental BookerT is a vivid prelude to the guitar madness that would envelop White Light/White Heat.
[The Gymnasium version of BookerT is also on the Peel Slowly and See box set.]
thanks for posting this! amazing recording. only thing is the file was removed from mediashare do you know of anywhere else to find this gem
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