The Velvet Underground Matrix tapes to finally see full release

And here we go

Velvet Underground, The Matrix Tapes
CD1 – Set One:
01 I’m Waiting For The Man (Version 1) (14:06)
02 What Goes On (Version 1) (8:58)
03 Some Kinda Love (Version 1) (4:59)
04 Heroin (Version 1) (8:13)
05 The Black Angel’s Death Song (6:20)
06 Venus In Furs (Version 1) (4:38)
07 There She Goes Again (Version 1) (3:08)
08 We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 1) (3:16)
09 Over You (Version 1) (2:24)
10 Sweet Jane (Version 1) (5:12)
11 Pale Blue Eyes (6:08)
12 After Hours (Version 1) (2:58)

CD2 – Set Two:
01 I’m Waiting For The Man (Version 2)
02 Venus In Furs (Version 2) (5:16)
03 I Can’t Stand It (Version 1) (7:54)
04 There She Goes Again (Version 2) (2:54)
05 Some Kinda Love (Version 2) (4:12)
06 Over You (Version 2) (3:07)
07 After Hours (Version 2) (2:37)
08 We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 2) (3:42)
09 Sweet Bonnie Brown/Too Much (7:54)
10 Heroin (Version 2) (10:08)
11 White Light/White Heat (Version 1) (9:30)
12 I’m Set Free (4.48)

CD3 – Set Three:
01 We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 3) (3:18)
02 Some Kinda Love (Version 3) (4:40)
03 There She Goes Again (Version 3) (3:02)
04 Heroin (Version 3) (8:34)
05 Ocean (11:03)
06 Sister Ray (37.08)

CD4 – Set Four
01 I’m Waiting For The Man (Version 3) (5:31)
02 What Goes On (Version 2) (4:34)
03 Some Kinda Love (Version 4) (4:46)
04 We’re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together (Version 4) (3:26)
05 Beginning To See The Light (5:42)
06 Lisa Says (6:05)
07 New Age (6:41)
08 Rock And Roll (6.58)
09 I Can’t Stand It (Version 2) (6:54)
10 Heroin (Version 4) (8:18)
11 White Light /White Heat (Version 2) (8:45)
12 Sweet Jane (Version 2) (4:20)

gah

even if the arranged-by-live-set structure makes it more intuitive than with a Complete Recording Sessions box, it's refreshing to see a box where the different Versions of songs are on different discs, when so many boxes but multiple takes of the same song back-to-back

put multiple takes

hell yeah

even if the arranged-by-live-set structure makes it more intuitive than with a Complete Recording Sessions box, it's refreshing to see a box where the different Versions of songs are on different discs, when so many boxes but multiple takes of the same song back-to-back

At laaaaaaast

Yessssss!

YESSSS!!!

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Sweet.

AWESOME

I'm ready to settle back and pull up my cushion.

i might have to leave a little early, i have college in the morning

http://www.matrixfillmore.com/

Wonder if they ever will officially release the cole avenue stuff (from whence lou's famed football monologue comes) or if it'll just stay in bootleg land.

Excerpts from the End of Cole recordings will make up two discs of the upcoming 6-disc Squeeze box set.

A year later, they'll release a Complete End of Cole Recordings box.

Isn't the footlogue on the Mercury 2lp, or is there more than one?

Yes it is, but as Lou talks about "your Cowboys", it's case closed on it being recorded in Dallas.

Yeah there are a handful of tracks from cole ave on live 69. Definitely worthy of its own release considering the dearth of pro recorded VU.

http://howafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2078227_Champagne-Celebration-Celebrate-700x450.jpg

Didn't actually realize there were two matrix sweet Janes -- will be interesting to see how much of it was off the top of Lou's head.

And it's being released on my 50th birthday too!

kinda amazed that amazon listing turned out to be legit

Has anyone else gotten word of it besides the metro times piece?

... uhhhhhhh, don't do this to me

Ha well the track list seems legit

Excerpts from the End of Cole recordings will make up two discs of the upcoming 6-disc Squeeze box set.

IIRC a European label (maybe Captain Trip?) did, in fact, release a box set of live recordings from the post-Reed year when Yule was leading the band. no, I didn't buy it.

Yeah Final VU. It's ok but goes w/o saying it is for completists.

I got one.

It's ummm....

Well, they clearly had a good time (together).

Funny how Doug sings none of the Velvets songs he sang on-record, but lots of Lou-sung ones. Obviously, who else etc..

is moe tucker on any of those live recordings or is it doug yule + UK randoms?

Yeah moe and Doug are on all of it. Willie Alexander and ... I forget who else ...

...yoko ono, sid vicious, that guy who won a reality show to be the lead singer of boston...

Walter Powers?

Yes! Anyhoo kind of a benign country rock velvet underground cover band.

I remember Yule telling a story about when the Reed-less Velvets had just played a show in NYC, and David Bowie comes up to Yule afterwards and starts talking his ear off. After about five minutes Yule realizes, ah, this guy thinks I'm Lou.

http://i.imgur.com/K3WwrVe.jpg

http://media1.fdncms.com/metrotimes/imager/u/original/2367782/matr.png

In the tradition of the Peel Slowly and See box, this box should be called For Immediate Release, If Not Sooner...

"I've got my own album to do"-worthy.

412 Broadway was post-'73... (later The Stone). See my link upthread for the true Matrix location.

Moe is on the first two discs of the "Final VU", and the last four tracks on disc4 which were radio-broadcast.

The very last gig wasn't meant to be billed as the VU at the time, according to the booklet.

I wonder what the odds are that Mo and Doug are seeing any money from all these ridic reissues

think they're good ... doug said in a recent interview that there is a VU "group" that handles things and gets royalties where they're due. not that either of them are getting rich, i'm sure, but they get checks.

and hey we have cover art
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/A1Msv2Zh1NL._SL1500_.jpg
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/810HMWgsJxL._SL1500_.jpg
it's real!

at last Danny Cox achieves immortality

Be still my beating heart etc

looks like basically the same packaging style as the quine tapes?

Not quite as good... fuck it though, it could come wrapped in toilet paper and I wouldn't care.

One month to go.

I'm not a young man anymore.

her Tim parts Stand up like fireworks
Not bet? Not her..
tom parts.
Linger on... yr pail blue eyes...

here's my final bit of VU clickbait for the year -- a defense/celebration of doug yule: http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/976-in-defense-of-the-velvet-undergrounds-doug-yule/

Yeah would be very interesting to hear how much was improvised early on. Or take to take. Wondering if well known covers are based on one off versions of lyrics.

The publishing co they formed was called something like 3 Prong because they could freely improvise and return to the steady backbeat.

nice seasonally-appropriate Yule piece

haha, yes. tidings of Yule!

Classic.

Nice work, Tyler!

let's get high and listen to the velvet underground live

Redux?

i stand with brad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqZKN9GA2t8

holy shit

what really gets me about that version is that with all the mayhem and sped up Lou Reed verses, the backing vocals are absolutely perfect each time through

doug yule (i think?) was on his game!

The Matrix Tapes set is extraordinary. Ocean is wow. Love them so much.

this isn't matrix tapes related exactly but this show from the same year is astonishing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7XqY7IhJrk

the twin guitar solo on "what goes on" is like mind expanding

totally. mind expanding / mind splitting (white light / white heat).

Yeah this recording is muddy AF, but that moment really shines thru...

SterMo's solo on "I Can't Stand It" is awesome, too

SterMo!
That'd be Lou on lead on "I Can't Stand It"

Really?!

yeah, the freakier guitar work is almost always lou

I may need to go back VU school... is it Lou who plays lead on album version of "I'm Set Free"? (Also, who plays rhythm gtr on album version of "What Goes On"?)

Lou plays lead on "I'm Set Free" ... I think there's two guitars happening on "What Goes On"

pretty sure that classic hard rhythm strummin' on "What Goes On" is Lou.

OK, thanks, that's what I thought... I always thought those freaky lead gtr lines were Sterling,'s tho!

definitely two rhythm guitars here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxq63cYIY1c

and when you hear a guitar freakout (heard her call my name, run run run, i can't stand it etc) it's Lou.

Sterling's solos are very different from Lou's!

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Yeah, I was referring to the hard strummin' in the foreground...

Tom - for my reference, what are some prime examples of Sterling solos?

pale blue eyes, story of my life, first solo in sister ray, foggy notion

Solos on Foggy Notion are immense.

Thanks guys

Back to the Matrix Tapes -- it's funny how, in one take of "I'm Waiting for The Man," Lou clarifies: "...that's Puerto Rican!" (after the line "He's wearing Dior shoes, and a big straw hat").

I think he sings "PR shoes," hence his elucidation of the acronym

ty VU scholars for explaining SterMo vs. Lou guitar parts!

Whaaaat... my mind is being blown today!

the "Legendary Amp Tapes" should shine some light on what Lou plays

studio 'what goes on' has the best rhythm guitar of all time. also i think lou and sterling recorded takes of the solo bit in there and decided they liked how they sounded all layered on one another. i could have made that up but it makes sense

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Apparently the official lyrics (© EMI Music Publishing) have it as "Beat up shoes"(!?)

I found a few other ppl online saying they always thought it was "Dior shoes" (like me), but apparently we are in the extreme minority.

Really ? I thought I heard it as PR shoes and finally had it clarified in a VU companion book after years of wondering what it was.
Some type of special point to the shoe or something from what I remember.

it's definitely p.r. shoes, lou said on several occasions, and that's what's printed in his lyrics collection.

xxxp - i think it's all just Lou on the WGO solo — he took three stabs at overdubbing it and then they decided to mix 'em all together to get that fuzzed out bagpipe sound.

Well, pardon me (SUH) -- I just listened back to the original album track (the one I've been listening to since I was 15)... and I agree it is, very clearly, "PR shoes"!

Here's a gtr question -- on that album track, is it Lou playing rhythm & Sterl playing lead?

guys it's "see your shoes and I see your hat" and i won't be told otherwise

lolz
i think it's sterling playing the riff on "waiting for the man"

see your shoes and hat, raise you $26

these recordings are so freakin good

it is some of the best music

otm

thx for bump, will listen to this later today

also listen to "sweet sister ray" which is turning 50 years old this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFaOyQbDTKs