QUOTE(nyarlathotep @ Jun 24 2003 - 04:43 PM)
foobar2000 is playing
The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray from Peel Slowly And See 5CD Boxset.
Coincidence? At the moment I'm also listening to the Velvets... albeit in a slightly different form.
- M.
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VELVET UNDERGROUND: Caught Between the Twisted Stars
4-CD bootleg set (Scorpio GBS5)
Disc One - Exploding Plastic Inevitable b/w Poor Richard's
1. Melody Laughter (30:02)
2. Femme Fatale (2:48)
3. Venus In Furs (4:58)
4. Black Angels Death Song (4:12)
5. All Tomorrow's Parties (5:58)
6. Waiting For The Man (4:29)
7. Heroin (6:47)
8. Run Run Run (8:46)
9. Poor Richard's (9:56)
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."
Disc Two - Chic Mystique Of Nothing Songs
1. Nothing Song (28:42)
2. Venus / Heroin (3:42)
3. Chic Mystique (26:12)
4. Train 'Round The Bend / Oh! Sweet Nuthin' (19:08)
1 : Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966
- This track begins with the radio ad for the EPI at The Trip.
2 : USA Artists, WNET TV, NYC, February 7, 1966
3 : The Dom, NYC, April 1966
- This track is the instrumental used as film soundtrack in Jonas Mekas' Walden.
4 : Second Fret, Philadelphia, May, 1970
- This track ends with a 2:20 instrumental - same source as the hidden track on Ostrich/Hilltop CD but longer excerpt.
Disc Three - Sweet Sister Rayn's Heroin
1. Sweet Sister Ray (39:33)
2. Sister Ray (24:30)
3. Hey Mr. Rain (7:10)
4. Heroin (6:36)
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
Disc Four - Illuminations Of Atonality
1. Searchin' (17'25)
2. Lady Godiva's Operation (4:53)
3. The Gift (12:10)
4. Run Run Run (8:51)
5. What Goes On (8:55)
6. Guess I'm Falling In Love (5'13)
7. A Short Lived Torture Of Cacophony (2:20)
8. Black Angel's Death Song (3:39)
9. The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group Of All (3:30)
10. A Distant Mirror (10:55)
1 : Sister Ray, "Swan" mix, Mayfair Studio, September 1967
2 : mono mix, Mayfair Studio, September 1967
3 : Wembley Arena, London, June 6, 1993
4 : Hilltop Pop Festival, August 2, 1969
5 : listed as "1968 live"
- This is really the same version as 1969 Live album.
6: The Gymnasium, NYC, April 1967
- The track ends with a 1:00 instrumental excerpt - same source as unlisted track on disc two.
7 : listed as "New York City 1965"
- Actually a part of Columbus '66 "Melody Laughter" recorded backwards...
8, 9 : Le Bataclan, Paris, January 29, 1972
10 : Collage
- This is a 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 (Phew!).
Notes: 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, 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 Richard Somma, and another interview with Sterling, Reflections In A Lone Star Beer. This set is supposedly a limited edition of 500 copies.