The Velvet Underground - Etc.



The second part of the Velvet's Request to be fulfilled by DaddyRich for a good friend of the blog. I only wish I could remember where these came from and how they got to me - when in doubt I always send thanks to SFRP and the great people there. Enjoy more rare Velvet Underground goodness....yum.


1. Cycle Annie
2. The Ostrich
3. Sneaky Pete
4. You're Driving Me Insane
5. Conversation
6. Foggy Notion
7. Inside Your Heart
8. I'm Sticking With You
9. Ferryboat Bill
10. Noise



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The Velvet Underground - And So On

I seem to be filling more and more requests as this day goes on... Anyway - this one was close at hand and since not nearly enough vinyl gets posted here, I am proud to be able to give to those who don't already have. This collection has enough interesting rarities and oddities to keep Velvet's fans up all night. Hope you enjoy and I will get back to my regular scheduled sharing and sit on the requests for a while...

1. Guess I'm Falling In Love
2. It's Alright (The Way That You Live)
3. Pale Blue Eyes
4. One Of These Days
5. Radio Ad
6. Black Angel's Death Song
7. I'm Not Too Sorry
8. Stephanie Says
9. Loop


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The Velvet Underground - 4/25/66 At Scepter Studios, Norman Dolph acetate


I can never truly say enough about the cool cats at SFRP who share the best of the best along with the rarest of the rare. It is a privilege to be a prt of such a community that embodies the music-sharing ideal and I am eternally grateful. All that aside this here is the post I referred to earlier today and apparently many people already have d/l it, but this is for the few who haven't. Great stuff and not likely to be purchased by anyone who doesn't have deep deep pockets ( I believe the auction at eBay was over $25,000 a few days ago). So please sit back and enjoy the beginning sounds from the legendary Velvet. 'Heroin' and 'I'm Waiting For The Man' - sheer heaven over here at DaddyRich's desk...

"This acetate, which is possibly the only surviving copy, represents the first Velvet Underground album as Andy Warhol intended it to be released. " - SFRP



1) European Son 9:03 (Diff Take)

2) Black Angel's Death 3:18 (Diff Mix)

3) All Tomorrow's Parties 5:56 (Diff Mix)

4) I'll Be Your Mirror 2:11 (Diff Mix)

5) Heroin 6:16 (Diff Take)

6) Femme Fatale 2:36 (Diff Mix)

7) Venus In Furs 4:39 (Diff Take)

8) I'm Waiting For The Man 4:14 (Diff Take)

9) Run Run Run 4:23 (Diff Mix)

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The Velvet Undergound - Bootleg Series Vol. 1 : The Quine Tapes

Since I have had some kind requests that have come in a timely fashion - basically things I was planning on uploading anyway - I will start a mini-spotlight on Lou Reed and Velvet Underground rarities at this here blog. Up first is the first 2 discs of the beloved Quine Tapes and more to follow....

Gotta love cduniverse for their concise descriptions...

"In the '80s, former Richard Hell guitarist Robert Quine hooked up with Lou Reed for a critically acclaimed batch of albums regarded by many as the Velvet Underground visionary's finest solo works. However, this was not the first time Quine and Reed's paths had crossed. In 1969, young Velvets fan Quine surreptitiously recorded a string of Velvet Underground gigs during what turned out to be some of the group's last great moments before slowly splintering apart the following year. Though Velvets fans have heard other live versions of much of this material, a great deal of what's heard on these three discs is illuminating, and some of it is downright revelatory. The often-overlooked sweet side of the band is shown in the wistful ballads "Sunday Morning" and "Femme Fatale" and the Mo Tucker vocal showcases "After Hours" and "I'm Sticking with you, but it's the rock & roll fury of the group that drives this collection. The minimalist-inspired guitar-drums-organ din of "Foggy Notion," I Can't Stand It," and "White Light/White Heat" is the very definition of carefully controlled chaos. Perhaps the biggest treats are the three wildly differing versions of the half-hour epic "Sister Ray." The thrilling, eclectic treatments of this tune show that the iconoclastic Velvets had more in common with the blues-rockers and first-generation jam bands of the time than latter-day revisionists would care to admit."


I have here the first 2 Discs of the set - 3rd to come soon


DISC 1:
1. I'm Waiting For The Man
2. It's Just Too Much
3. What Goes On
4. I Can't Stand It
5. Some Kinda Love
6. Foggy Notion
7. Femme Fatale
8. After Hours
9. I'm Sticking With You
10. Sunday Morning
11. Sister Ray
DISC 2:
1. Follow The Leader
2. White Light/White Heat
3. Venus In Furs
4. Heroin
5. Sister Ray

More Rare Velvet Underground to come real soon, since the kind folks at SFRP have shared the Holy Grail of V.U. rarities and I will in turn share it with you all, hopefully tonight.