Category: Lou Reed

The Velvet Underground – Boston Tea Party, 1969

The Velvet Underground
Boston Tea Party
1969 Various Dates
Scorpio 1969-1/2/3/4

Liberated bootleg

Lineage: Silver CD > EAC (secure mode) > WAV > FLAC (level 8 w/ Align on sector boundaries)

Line-up:
Sterling Morrison
Lou Reed
Moe Tucker
Doug Yule

This set compiles 4 audience recordings of Velvet Underground shows at the Boston Tea Party in 1969.

January 10, March 13, and July 11 are from the famous ‘Professor’ reels (two others exist: December 12, 1968 at The Boston Tea Party, and August 2, 1969 at Hilltop Festival).

March 15 is also known as “The Guitar Amp Tape”.

“Move Right In” on disc 2 is from January 10 recording and should be placed between “Heroin” and “I’m Set Free”.

“Candy Says” on disc 4 is from March 15 recording and should be placed between “I Can’t Stand It” and “Waiting For The Man”.

Despite the back cover reads otherwise, disc 1 has actually 9 tracks (no track separation between “Heroin” and “I’m Set Free, same between “What Goes On” and “I Can’t Stand It”), and disc 4 has 11 tracks (track 1 “Intro” is not listed).

Original artwork (300dpi) with slipcase included.

PLAY LOUD! ENJOY!

Disc 1:
01 – Heroin / I’m Set Free (11:55)
02 – Run Run Run (7:21)
03 – Waiting For The Man (8:40)
04 – What Goes On / I Can’t Stand It (9:47)
05 – Candy Says (3:48)
06 – Beginning To See The Light (5:20)
07 – White Light White Heat (5:30)
08 – Pale Blue Eyes (5:51)
09 – Sister Ray (21:08)
TRT 79:20
01-09: January 10, 1969, Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts

Disc 2:
01 – Move Right In (3:44)
02 – Heroin (5:52)
03 – Candy Says (3:54)
04 – Ferryboat Bill (3:58)
05 – Waiting For The Man (5:01)
06 – I’m Set Free (4:19)
07 – What Goes On (5:57)
08 – I Can’t Stand It (5:37)
09 – Beginning To See The Light (5:18)
10 – Story Of My Life (2:15)
11 – White Light White Heat (6:52)
12 – Jesus (3:21)
13 – Sister Ray (22:24)
TRT 78:32
01: January 10, 1969, Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts
02-13: March 13, 1969, Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts

Disc 3:
01 – I Can’t Stand It (5:44)
02 – Waiting For The Man (6:59)
03 – Ferryboat Bill (4:04)
04 – I’m Set Free (4:47)
05 – What Goes On (7:35)
06 – White Light White Heat (7:31)
07 – Beginning To See The Light (5:23)
08 – Jesus (3:23)
09 – Heroin (8:16)
10 – Sister Ray (25:59)
TRT 79:44
01-10: March 15, 1969, Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts

Disc 4:
01 – Intro (0:26)
02 – Waiting For The Man (7:22)
03 – Jesus (3:31)
04 – Run Run Run (14:12)
05 – I’m Set Free (4:54)
06 – White Light White Heat (6:25)
07 – Candy Says (4:08)
08 – Pale Blue Eyes (7:07)
09 – Beginning To See The Light (6:41)
10 – Sister Ray (21:02)
11 – Candy Says (4:09)
TRT 79:59
01-10: July 11, 1969, Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts
11: March 15, 1969, Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts

Disc 3 is particularly interesting. Also known as “The Legendary Guitar Amp Tape” (the original cover was misprinted as “Legendaly,”) it’s a strange recording because someone thought it would be a good idea to hide the microphone inside Lou Reed’s Guitar Amp. The result should have been predictable – a recording of Lou’s guitar with the rest of the music in the background.

I received this collection via FTP and made no changes.

Lou Reed – Florence, Italy (06/14/80)

Lou Reed
Parco Delle Cascine
Firenze, Italy
June 14, 1980



Lineage: tv or fm broadcast – ?- cd-r in trade – Nero wav – flac 6

01 Standing on Ceremony
02 How Do You Speak to an Angel
03 Sweet Jane
04 Real Good Time Together
05 I’m Waiting For the Man
06 Coney Island Baby
07 Vicious
08 Walk on the Wild Side
09 Heroin
10 The Kids
11 Caroline Says II
12 The Power of Positive Drinking
13 So Alone (snippet)
14 My Old Man
15 Keep Away
16 Street Hassle
17 Rock ‘n’ Roll
18 You Keep Me Hanging On

LOU REED, vocals and guitar
STUART HEINRICH, guitar
CHUCK HAMMER, guitar
ELLARD “MOOSE” BOLES, bass
MICHAEL FONFARA, keyboards
MICHAEL SUCHORSKY, drums

Lou Reed – Passaic, NJ (01/08/87)

Lou Reed
Capitol Theatre
Passaic, NJ
1987-01-08


SBD

  1. Real Good Time Together
  2. Sweet Jane
  3. Turn To Me
  4. New Sensations
  5. Satellite Of Love
  6. Underneath The Bottle
  7. No Money Down
  8. Mistrial
  9. The Last Shot
  10. Walk On The Wild Side
  11. Street Hassle
  12. Tell It To Your Heart
  13. I Remember You 04:25
  14. I Love You Suzanne
  15. The Original Wrapper
  16. Doin’ The Things That We Want To
  17. Video Violence / Sister Ray
  18. Legendary Love
  19. Vicious
  20. Down At The Arcade
  21. Intros
  22. Rock & Roll

Lou Reed – Mont de Marsan, France (08/07/77)

Lou Reed
Mont De Marsan, France
07 August 1977

track 01: Sweet Jane 8.46
track 02: Rock And Roll Heart 3.47
track 03: Waiting For The Man 8.29
track 04: Rock And Roll 9.45
track 05: Vicious 4.29
track 06: Walk On The Wild Side 5.31
track 07: Kicks 11.54
track 08: Satellite Of Love 7.10
track 09: Leave Me Alone 24.41
track 10: Banging On My Drum 5.16
track 11: Heroin 12.17

Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
Stuart Heinrich: guitar
Michael Fonfara: keyboards
Bruce Yaw: bass
Marty Fogel: sax
Michael Suchorsky: drums
Joanne Kamorin: backing vocals

lineage: Maxell XL11 trade cassettes – (WavePad) – wav – flac (level 8) – you

original recording engineer unknown
transfer to wav by lurid_uk February 2008
uploaded to Dime by lurid_uk February 2008

Late summer saw part 2 of Lou’s 1977 European tour. He would complete these dates before closing the year with some shows in Australia and New Zealand. Over the summer, Joanne Kamorin had been installed to provide backing vocals and Stuart Heinrich had replaced Jeffrey Roth on guitar. This was a difficult time for Lou: his relationship with Rachel was falling apart and they had several separations during late 1977. The binaural live tapes he had made in Germany earlier in the year had been rejected by Clive Davis and he would have to add some new studio material to them before they would be released as “Street Hassle”. There were also other problems during the tour – Lou reportedly threatened at least 1 promoter, sacked his soundman “and kicked the monitors off the stage” during one show.

This recording historically circulated as “Mont De Marsan Punk Festival”, but that festival took place on the 5th and 6th August. (One of the organisers of the Punk Festival was Marc Zermati, who was also (jointly) responsible for the the first Velvet Underground vinyl bootleg – “Evil Mothers”). I suppose it could be argued that Lou “headlined” the festival by appearing the next day…..There are long gaps between some songs (over 3 minutes after “Sweet Jane”) while guitars are being re-tuned, and the audience get quite restless at times. Lou doesn’t directly address the audience during the whole show other than to say a cursory “thank you” just before leaving the stage. He manages to fit in only 2 tunes from his last LP – the lightweight “Rock And Roll Heart” and a (relatively) lengthy buzz-saw rendition of “Banging On My Drum” – his ode to “drug masturbation”. There are no “new” songs. “Kicks” gets the usual 1977 treatment – speed manic and menacing. “Leave Me Alone” also gets a long, long workout – possibly the longest available recorded version of this song.

This is a reasonable quality audience recording – the vocals are a bit muffled but there’s not too much tape hiss. At least one other audience recording of this show exists, but it is incomplete and (in my opinion) inferior to this one.

distribute widely but do not sell!

Re-seed note:
This upload contained 3 songs which were from St. Cyprien the day before. Deleted those tracks for the re-seed. And had to correct SBEs.
Done by TLH and re-encoded to flac (8).

Lou Reed – Boston, MA (10/29/76)

Lou Reed
Orpheum Theatre
Boston, Mass.
1976-10-29
WBCN FM

Unofficially released as “I Never Said I Was Nice.”

Lineage : Unknown > FM broadcast > cassette > unknown > flac > Magic Audio Cleaning Lab > CD > EAC > Wav > Flac Frontend > flac8 > me > you

Tracklist:

Disc 1 (43:10)

  1. A Sheltered Life (2:46)
  2. The Kids (5:35)
  3. Claim to Fame (3:18)
  4. Vicious Circle (4:15)
  5. Walk on the Wild Side (5:19)
  6. Coney Island Baby (7:29)
  7. Rock and Roll Heart (3:12)
  8. Charley’s Girl (5:09)
  9. Kill your Sons (6:07)

Disc 2 (41:26)

  1. Satellite of Love (6:04)
  2. How do you think it feels (7:21)
  3. You wear it so well (4:58)
  4. Temporary Thing (6:45)
  5. Ladies pay (4:50)
  6. Heroin (11:28)

Lou Reed – Cleveland, OH (05/27/80)

Lou Reed
Agora Theatre
Cleveland, OH
5-27-80 (late show?)

Source: Soundboard
Lineage: Master reels > professionally transferred (unknown process & equipment) > wav > CD >
EAC > wave > wavemerge > cdwave (retracked – dead air and repeat material omitted) > TLH >
flac (lvl 8)

Release date: 6/26/07

Disk 1

D1T01 Sweet Jane
D1T02 I am waiting for the man
D1T03 Coney Island Baby
D1T04 Vicious
D1T05 Perfect Day
D1T06 Heroin
D1T07 How do you speak to an angel
D1T08 Berlin
D1T09 The Kids

Disk 2

d2T01 /how do you speak to an angel
d2T02 heroin
D2T03 The power of positive drinking
D2T04 My Old Man
D2T05 Applause and Crowd Banter
D2T06 The Bells
D2T07 Pale Blue Eyes (Band Intro) Pale Blue Eyes/

The Band

Chuck Hammer – Guitar Synth
Stuart Heinrich – Lead Guitar
Michael Fonfara – Keyboards
Ellerd Moose Boles – Bass
Michael Suchorsky – Drums

Notes:

  • I have banged my head of this one for a while now to try to figure out a few points of conflict.
    I have exhausted all resources I could find to add some clarification so I am going to put this
    out in hopes that someone may have some information on this, I am certainly no Lou Reed expert.
    Points of conflict are listed below. Overall a great sounding source and from what I can tell
    is totally uncirculated up until now. No editing other than retracking and removing dead air and
    repeat material has been done on this since the professional transfer.
  • When I received the raw waves, there were three different tracks for “Heroin”. Two are
    definitely different and the last was a partial from d2t02. I have omitted the partial track.
    The other two baffle me. d1t06 and d2t02 both seem to be complete. d1t06 is 9:31 seconds and
    d2t02 is 15:23? D2t02 is also preceded by a 30 second snippet of “how do you speak to an angel”
    that seems to fade seamlessly into the second take of heroin. This would lead me to believe that
    there is some missing material.
  • D2t03 and d2t04 also had duplicate tracks. These were omitted.
  • I have seen two records of set lists for a show at this venue for this date. Neither of them
    match this source. I have talked with the one fellow from a Lou reed site and he noted
    that there was an early show and a late show for this date. He only knows the late shows exists
    because he was informed by a band member that it was taped and has never seen or heard the set
    so he was unable to add much clarification.
  • d2t05 this track is 9 minutes of crowd banter. I included it to preserve the integrity
    of the show.

Flaws:

  • d1t01 There is a volume spike in the first 30 seconds of the track.
  • d2t01 This is a 30 second partial of “how do you speak to an angel”. The beginning is cut
  • d2t07 Cut at the end. Source courtesy of Mightyfox – Fox’s Pick # 1 Tracked, flaced, and text created by bgreen

Lou Reed – Los Angeles, CA (12/01/76)

Lou Reed
“Live At The Roxy – Cassette Version”
December 1,1976
Roxy Theatre
Los Angeles, CA

The tracklisting is:
Disc 1 (55:42)
01: Intro (9:24)
02: Sweet Jane (4:54)
03: I Believe In Love (3:50)
04: Lisa Says (7:10)
05: Kicks (11:40)
06: She’s My Best Friend (5:45)
07: I’m Waiting For The Man (12:57)

Disc 2 (43:26)
01: A Sheltered Life (10:32)
02: You Wear It So Well (4:58)
03: Claim To Fame (3:01)
04: Vicious Circle (4:29)
05: Walk On The Wild Side (11:17)
06: Coney Island Baby (9:06)

Lineup:
Lou Reed – vocals, guitar
Michael Fonfara – keyboards
Bruce Yaw – bass
Marty Fogel – sax
Michael Suchorsky – drums

KMET FM Radio Broadcast
Lineage : I downloaded this new torrent from the Cooking For The Down Five blog as flac files which listed it as a “complete first generation tape of the KMET FM Radio Broadcast”.
After that I put it through Magic Audio Cleaning Lab > CD > EAC > Wav > Flac Frontend > flac8 > Qualitybootz >My PC > You

From Dave @ QB:
This concert has appeared in at least four guises over time, each with slightly different tracklistings/times:
1. Claim 2 Fame [CD source]
2. Super Golden Radio Shows [CD source]
3. Sweet Lou [LP source]
4. Cassette Source [Gordon L’s source!]
In my opinion the sound is very good, and to my ears is better than the Claim 2 Fame CD. It sounds like it could even be the source for that CD as it has extended versions of many songs including the various DJ chat that has been edited out of the Claim 2 Fame CD.
I have made some alterations to this cassette version:
a) I have boosted the left channel (due to drop in level) on Kicks (from 7:13), She’s My Best Friend, I’m Waiting For The Man, You Wear It So Well, Claim To Fame, Coney Island Baby (from 1:25).
b) I very slightly gave extra punch to most songs as they sounded slightly thin.
c) I smoothed over some of the joins between tracks (ie this shows that it wasn’t taped continuously off the radio) and a couple of drop-outs.
d) I moved the start of some tracks (this, and (c) above, is why the timings are now different to the original blog files).
e) I faded out the ends of both CD’s slightly so they didn’t end abruptly.
f) I removed Heroin which has been officially released (on Between Thought And Expression boxset).
I have included new artwork as well as including the artwork originally included on the Cooking For The Down Five blog.
Originally uploaded on Dime on 11th March 2011 by me.
Enjoy!

The Velvet Underground – Pre-VU

Velvet Underground
‘Pre-VU’

This fan-released set contains all known recordings by three members of the VU before the formation of the band.

Disc 1

01: Leave Her For Me (Lewis Reed) – The Jades
02: So Blue (Phil Harris / Lewis Reed) – The Jades
~~Single, Time 1002, USA, 1958
03: Your Love (Lewis Reed) – Lewis Reed
04: Merry Go Round (Lewis Reed) – Lewis Reed
~~Unissued sides, 1962
05: The Ostrich (Reed / Sims / Vance / Phillips) – The Primitives
06: Sneaky Pete (Reed / Sims / Vance / Phillips) – The Primitives
~~ Single, Pickwick City PC9001, December 1964
07: Why Don’t You Smile (Philips / Vance / Reed / Cale) – The All Night Workers
~~Single, Round Sound RS-1, 1965:
08: I’ve Got A Tiger In My Tank (Motta / Philips / Sims / Vance / Reed) – The Intimates
~~Single, Epic 5-9743, 1965:
09: Ya Running, But I’ll Getcha (Phillips / Reed / Sims / Vance / Phillips) – The J Brothers
~~LP: The Four Seasons / Johnny Rivers / Neil Sedaka – The J Brothers – Design SDLP 185, 1964:
10: The Rose (Phillips / Reed / Sims / Vance) – Terry Phillips
11: Flowers For The Lady (Irby, Jr. / Phillips / Reed / Sims / Vance) – Terry Phillips
12: Wild One (Phillips / Reed / Sims / Vance) – Terry Phillips
~~LP: Swingin’ Teen Sounds Of Ronnie Dove & Terry Phillips – Design SDLP 186, 1965
13: Don’t Turn My World Upside Down (Reed / Phillips / Vance / Sims) – The J Brothers
14: Soul City (Reed / Phillips / Vance / Sims) – The Hi-Lifes
15: Teardrop In The Sand (Reed / Phillips / Vance / Sims) – The Hollywoods
16: Wonderful World Of Love (Reed / Phillips / Vance / Sims) – The Liberty Men
17: You’re Driving Me Insane (Reed / Phillips / Vance / Sims) – The Roughnecks
18: First Impression (Reed / Phillips / Vance / Sims) -The Hi-Lifes
19: I’m Gonna Fight (Reed / Phillips / Vance / Sims) – The Hi-Lifes
20: I’ve Got A Tiger In My Tank (Motta / Philips / Sims / Vance / Reed) – The Beachnuts
21: Cycle Annie (Reed / Phillips / Vance / Sims) – The Beachnuts
22: Johnny Won’t Surf No More (Reed / Phillips / Vance / Sims) – Jeannie Larimore
23: It’s Hard For A Girl In A World Full Of Men (Reed / Phillips / Vance / Sims) – Connie Carson
~~LP: Soundsville – LP, Design SDLP 187, early 1965:
24: Tell Mama Not To Cry (Vance / Sims / Reed / Phillips) – Robertha Williams
25: *Maybe Tomorrow (Vance / Sims / Reed / Phillips) – Robertha Williams
~~Single, Uptown 707, early 1965
25: *Maybe Tomorrow (Phillips / Vance / Sims / Reed) – Ronnie Dickerson
26: Merry Go Round (Phillips / Vance / Sims / Reed) – Ronnie Dickerson
~~LP: Irma Thomas / Maxine Brown / Ronnie Dickerson – Grand Prix KS-426, 1965
27: Strip-Tease (Gainsbourg / Goraguer) – Nico
~~unissued demo, December 1962
28: I’m Not Sayin’ (Lightfoot) – Nico
29: The Last Mile (Oldham / Page) – Nico
~~Single (UK), Immediate IM-003, 20 August 1965
30: Why Don’t You Smile (Phillips / Vance / Reed / Cale) – The All Night Workers
~~bonus track. Sped up one tone. See if you prefer it.
31: Little Deuce Coupe – The Surfsiders
32: Surfin’ is the Life For Me – The Surfsiders
~~LP: The Surfsiders Sing the Beach Boys, Songbook Design SDLP-208, USA, 1965 (rumored to be Lou Reed on lead vocals).

Disc 2

1: Hot Scoria – John Cale (guitar) and Angus MacLise (cimbalom) – 2 March 1964 or 1965
2: Day Of Niagra – John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus Maclise, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela – 25 April 1965
3: Stainless Steel Gamelan – John Cale and Sterling Morrison (cembalet/fretless guitar) – Mid 1960s
4: At About This Time Mozart Was Dead And Joseph Konrad Was Sailing the Seven Seas Learning English – John Cale (wollensak), John Cale and Sterling Morrison (viola, guitar) – May 1967

Lou Reed – Philadelphia, PA (03/08/96)

LOU REED
THE ELECTRIC FACTORY
PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA
MARCH 8, 1996

MASTER AUDIENCE RECORDING AUDIENCE RECORDING BY THE KING OF ROCK

SONY D3>1ST GEN CASSETTES>STAND ALONE BURNER>WAV>FLAC

BAND: Lou, Rathke, Fernando, Thunder

SETLIST:
disc 1
01. sweet jane
02. nyc man
03. dirty blvd.
04. new sensations
05. i’m waiting for the man>>>vicious
06. set the twilight reeling
07. doin’ the things that we want to
08. satellite of love
09. i love you suzanne
10. video violence
11. trade in

disc 2
01. egg cream
02. the original wrapper
03. hooky wooky
04. straw man
05. riptide
06. magic & loss
bonus 930 Club, Wahington, DC 1996-03-09
07. hang on to your emotions
08. heroin

no mp3’s, no selling, YES SHARING – ìYour last shirt wont have a pocketî – Lone Taper
please no remaster/reposts – it is what it is.
ìIt ainít perfect, but it ainít badî
Enjoy!!