the velvet underground white light white heat live 1968

Earliest known live recording of White Light White Heat recorded December 1968 at The Boston Tea Party. Film loops by Andy Warhol and Danny Fields.

[@sizzlegirl]

Friday, August 16, 1968 the Boston Tea Party, located at 53 Berkeley Street (Boston's South End), was the very epicenter of my first rock concert ever. It was here that I witnessed Lou Reed (sans Nico) perform White Light/White Heat after an opening act by Eden's Children. I sat on the wood floor immediately in front of the band the whole evening with the bands amplifiers stoked all the way up to 11. The stage was only 12-inches off the main floor so I got the full thrust of the booming sound...and trust me...it was VERY loud. The Boston Tea Party played host to MANY top bands including Led Zepplin, Hendrix, Santana and Ten Years After. I recall paying about $3.00 to get in, and for a 15 year old that was a lot. Seating capacity was around 350 people, and believe me we'd be packed in like sardines. There weren't many rock-n-roll concert venues back then, so places like the Boston Tea Party and the Fillmore's was as good as it got. Those were indeed 'the good old days' and I wouldn't trade those memories for anything. I hope to one day witness a resurgence of garage bands. Peace out...

[@dogranch]

Right on.

[@gavalar7485]

Thanks for sharing... tell me MORE!! I'm sooo jealous, I've always felt I was born in the wrong era. (Gen x-er)

[@karimtabrizi376]

Amazing anecdotes

[@abanana2561]

Tell us mooore

[@Tamar-sz8ox]

Rock and roll 🎸 punk rock history !

[@eddietasker9110]

Rip Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick

[@xvbiffbangpow8579]

wow why y´all styled like how we grew up ?

[@skeletonkey6]

& Nico!

[@garthkolbeck8674]

I once cleaned houses with a lady who told me she saw The Velvet Underground at The Second Fret coffee house in Philadelphia... I was suitably impressed!

[@BlackRoomProductions]

That lady----Aimee Mann

[@davidkoral1673]

I love to watch rich people dance. It reminds me of the days before the pandemic when we were forced to attend company holiday parties.

[@andrewtedlow6552]

Doug’s terrific bass playing is really up front in this version.

[@briank.7686]

Best Music Video ever made perhaps....in 69! Who better to film the best video than Andy Warhol and Danny Williams? So smart what they did with all the clips, all the crude "technology" they could use...interspersing lights indoors with movie camerea shots of NYC at night, black and white lights also....brilliant...Video shot from cars in teh city rolling at night....all put together at different places....just great minds.....and Lou and the Velvets.

[@davidlescht4865]

I saw Lou Reed perform a few times in NYC and long island in the late 70s. He could put an audience in a rock and roll trance.

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

This is wild...brilliant live version. I think the film clips were filmed by Danny Williams. He was a film maker, factory artist and Warhol's lover.

[@fashionistalagerfeld1954]

Then he went into the sea

[@seannee3896]

The Sixries were over by 1968, but it took ten more years before everyone knew it.

[@aisforapple2494]

I believe the two events that ended the 1960s were the Manson Family murders and the free concert, headlining the Rolling Stones at Altamont Speedway.

[@ilovetomorrow]

Good one.

[@kelechi_77]

@@aisforapple2494 French May 1968 Riots as well

[@cousineerie9604]

Wrong on both counts

[@mjlotus]

Killer version. Great video.

[@yolandajohnson8685]

PURE CLASSIC ROCK, it's RAW!!!!

[@junkiefreak5905]

this is so good, its giving me an immense urge to share this with as many people as i can. my valium heart beat

[@xvbiffbangpow8579]

man why y´all styled like how we grew up ? weird as fuck

[@macjam9090]

Brilliant version

[@sethdonnelly1994]

Awesome! The Velvets were in a league all of their own when it came to raw, relentless jams... By the way, have you got a dollar?

[@trudawg2965]

No man I haven’t got the time time

[@hurricanetinas1837]

really great version💥

[@santiagosanchezblanco9430]

Thanks,Lyndon B.Johnson.

[@davidklein1903]

It sounds great to me. Thanks for sharing it.

[@juanalbertorendonsalazar1908]

Sorpréndete y fascinante

[@mickgough3574]

Superb.

[@maja-kb5ge]

oh wow mr. dogranch, i owe you, sir. this is great

[@sidDkid87]

*Great stuff!!! Thanks for uploading!!!*

[@paolo66626]

Wonderful American rock band

[@BicycleJoeTomasello]

Yeah and we are still here hahaha

[@mikelawrence6840]

thanks for uploading this!

[@drstevie]

WOW !!!

[@gerardop9633]

Vi varias peliculas de Andy Wharhol,alguna en Amsterdam/Holanda en 1973,y luego en tve España.Mucho ruido y pocas nueces

[@vinny9708]

Amazing thanks

[@tar0286]

Eddie is a mighty cutie.

[@dark_magus6738]

VU the Best group music live

[@lukeheywood7334]

Watch that speed freak gonna shoot it up every night of the week. .. white light way down in my toes.. great song

[@juancarlossalceda2431]

Siempre me ha parecido que la original, era muy corta, y que me dejaba poco complacido, como cuando hechas un polvo y no te sale bien... No 3s que esta versión me guste más, pero se aproxima a la que yo quiero.

[@klaushock6133]

💜tHANX A LOt💜

[@jpm9628]

Fuck yeah

[@alvesmonteiro5022]

speed by speed

[@markheidema3699]

The guy at the end with the sunglasses is creepy.

[@colingordon8265]

It's called LSD.

[@cruzncrow380]

You're so right Sean only it took a lil more for some people! LOL😆

[@ardelgado]

Speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeedddddd

[@devinkhoury4490]

sooooooooo highhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@stephenward8328]

Ditto

[@ForARide]

dogranch, do you know which lineup this was? Was John Cale on this recording or had he already been replaced by Doug Yule? Cheers

[@andrewtedlow6552]

I hear Doug’s voice.

[@Aleprofessor100]

Não consigo entender como Zappa e Reed não gravaram um disco...

[@brandonmartin4758]

They didn't like each other for a majority of there careers

[@tranqlity]

Lou Reed já falou que não gostava da música do Zappa, e inclusive não gostava dele, pois ele boicoteou eles para sairem da primeira gravadora deles, a Verve.

[@MrRatherino]

and they never played the Fillmore because ......

[@johnhughes9019]

They did in *May* *1966*

[@paulsolon6229]

In the end:
Uninteresting
Non vital
Forgetful

[@julianmarsh1378]

somebody wrote that the 60s were over by 1968....but whatever, 68 or 69....yeah what came next was 'nice music' but sheet.....

[@Tenskwatawa4U]

Did I hear a blues harp for roughly a measure or so?

[@moscamuerta]

Wheree??

[@chromaticAberration]

@@moscamuerta At about 3:06

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

@@chromaticAberration Guitar.

[@atlasking6110]

No. Correct yourself.

[@Tenskwatawa4U]

@@atlasking6110 Go fuck yourself.

[@atlasking6110]

Wow, that was some horrible video. Anyone hoping to actually see the VU playing live...well, this isn't that.