(If you already possess it in full, you might still appreciate some of the refinements I’ve made.) It's the one, complete (non-Matrix) show that everyone should have. It’s a great performance, and it is absolutely the best audience recording of the band in this period. The leftover songs from “1969 Live” (*) came from this show, including the album's opening address to the audience and first song.
#The velvet underground rar 320kbps
The three volumes outlined below are zipped up together here, as 320kbps mp3s - 500MB total. It's nowhere near perfect, but it's not all over the place. (i.e., No attempt has been make to make these diverse recordings "sound like" each other.) However, those who are familiar with VU recordings of this sort will find that I have significantly fixed the problem of wild volume variations between and within songs. I have applied no compression filters, and very, very little frequency-EQing. I had good, known- or seemingly-uncompressed sources for most of this material, though some come from mp3s. We got lucky in our unluckiness, I guess. That’s a sad truth about the poor quality of the few tapes that exist, but it’s also miraculous that so many songs actually exist in versions that you want to hear repeatedly. Many of these selections are the only live recording of a song (at all), the only audience recording of it, or the only version in which the vocals are clear (enough) and the distortion low enough to deliver for real. The "Live 1969" leftovers are here in the context of their original show, some tracks are pulled from the Quine tapes, and all the rest are unreleased. I’ve tried to fix that with these 3.5 hours of lovingly selected audience tape performances. So, the live VU universe lies in splinters around the amazing soundboard monolith of “The Complete Matrix Tapes.” Likewise, it upgraded nearly a third of the performances on “The Quine Tapes.” Practically speaking, this compilation replaces “1969 Live,” the glorious, old, murky double-LP, which was whittled down to four unique tracks, when the release of “The Complete Matrix Tapes” provided upgrades of all the other performances. It contains a version of every composition that made it onto an audience tape, with one exception, and only three compositions are repeated: 39 tracks, 36 different songs. This compilation is intended to be the second place to go for 1968-1969 live Velvet Underground, in the period when both Mo Tucker and Doug Yule were in the band.
The first thing to say about this mix is that none of these performances appear on “The Complete Matrix Tapes” (November 26-27, 1969).