The Velvet Underground
Sweet Sister Ray’s Murder Mystery
Label: Brand New Beat
Cat.No: BNB 921007

Track List:

01 Sweet Sister Ray – 39:42 – (La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio, April 30, 1968)
02 Sister Ray – Murder Mystery – 28:22 – Sister Ray (La Cave, January 29, 1969)
03 That’s the Story of My Life – 01:58 – (La Cave, October 4, 1968)

Lineage Unknown.

The Velvet Underground
Caught Between the Twisted Stars
Label:Scorpio (3) – GBS5Series:The Genuine Bootleg Series

Exploding Plastic Inevitable (b/w Poor Richard’s)

Melody Laughter
Femme Fatale
Venus In Furs
Black Angels Death Song
All Tomorrow’s Parties
Waiting For The Man
Heroin
Run Run Run
Poor Richard’s
Heroin
Venus In Furs
Sister Ray

The Chic Mystique Of Nothing Songs

Nothing Song
Radio Ad For The EPI At The Trip
Nothing Song
Venus/Heroin
Chic Mystique
Train ‘Round The Bend / Oh! Sweet Nuthin’
Train ‘Round The Bend / Oh! Sweet Nuthin’
Sister Ray

Sweet Sister Rayn’s Heroin

Sweet Sister Ray
Sister Ray
Hey Mr. Rain
Heroin

Illuminations Of Atonality

Sister Ray
Lady Godiva’s Operation
The Gift
Run Run Run
What Goes On
Guess I’m Falling In Love

A Short Lived Torture Of Cacophony
Black Angel’s Death Song
The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group Of All
A Distant Mirror
VU Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Introduction By Patti Smith
Last Night I Said Goodbye To A Friend
Ghost Story
I’m Waiting For The Man

Credits

Bass – Doug Yule
Bass, Organ, Viola, Vocals, Other [Mephistophelean Aura] – John Cale
Chanter [Chanteuse] – Nico (3)
Guitar [Lynchpin], Other [Ironic Raconteur] – Sterling Morrison
Guitar [Ostriche], Guitar [K-9], Vocals – Lou Reed

Liner Notes – Jonathan Richman, Larry McCombes, Nick Modern, Richard Goldstein (4), Robert Somma, Timothy Jacobs (2)
Other [Factotum] – Andy Warhol
Other [Muse] – Edie Sedgwick
Other [Snap, Crackle, Pop] – Gerard Malanga, Mary Woronow
Percussion, Other [Dream Theorist] – Angus MacLise
Percussion, Other [Olatunjian Diddleyisms] – Moe Tucker

Notes
CD1
1-8: Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966
9: Poor Richard’s Club, Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1966 [This track is actually Heroin and Venus In Furs from Ronald Nameth’s Andy Warhol’s EPI film and ends with 1’17 of an unidentified Sister Ray]

CD2
1: Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966 [Begins with the radio ad for the EPI at The Trip]
2 : New York City, December 1965 [Actually USA Artists, WNET TV, NYC, February 7, 1966]
3: Delmonico’s Hotel, New York City, January 8, 1966 [Actually The Dom, NYC, April 1966. Instrumental used as film soundtrack in Jonas Mekas’ Walden]
4: Second Fret, Philadelphia, May, 1970 [Ends with an unlisted 2:20 Instrumental – same source as the hidden track on Ostrich/Hilltop CD but Longer – probably excerpt from Sister Ray live at The Gymnasium in April 1967].

CD3
1,4: La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio, April 28, 1968
2: The Boston Tea Party, Boston, Massachusetts, March 15, 1969

3. Wembley Arena, London, June 6, 1993.

CD4
1: Listed as Searchin’, actually Sister Ray, “Swan” mix”, Mayfair Studio, New York City, September 1967
2: mono mix, Mayfair Studio, New York City, September 1967
3: recorded live at Wembley Arena, London, June 6, 1993
4: Hilltop Rock Festival, Ringe, New Hampshire, August 2, 1969
5: 1968 live [this is really the same version as 1969 Live album]
6: recorded live – Gymnasium, NYC, April 1967 (early set) [The track ends with a 1:00 excerpt from Sister Ray also live at The Gymnasium April 1967]
7: New York City 1965 [actually a part of Columbus ’66 Melody Laughter recorded backwards…]
8, 9: Le Bataclan, Paris, January 29, 1972
10: this is collage including the VU Rock & Roll Hall of fame introduction by Patti Smith, the band accepting the award, the band playing Last Night I Said Goodbye To A Friend, then Ghost Story from the Bataclan show, then 53 seconds of I’m Waiting For The Man from Max’s Kansas City ’70.

The package is a CD size cardboard one, with 4 individual CD sleeves inside, each made to look like a 45 RPM singles picture sleeve. There is a photo of the Trip Club poster, Poor Richard’s poster, Balloon Farm poster, and a few photos of the band and a photo of Andy Warhol peeling a large banana on the back cover.
The 64-page booklet includes a Sterling Morrison interview with Greg Barrios originally printed in Fusion, March 6, 1970, a review of VU & Nico album by Timothy Jacobs from Vibrations No. 2, July, 1967, Chicago Happenings by Larry McCombes from Zig Zag, Vol. 5, No. 1, April/May, 1974, New York Art And The Velvet Underground by Jonathan Richman from Vibrations, September 1967, A Quiet Night at the Balloon Farm by Richard Goldstein, Problems in Urban Living by Robert Somma, and another interview with Sterling, Reflections In A Lone Star Beer by Nick Modern, et al.
This set is supposedly a limited edition of 500 copies.