What goes on has always been a favourite of mine but I've never been sure how much of the guitar brilliance was Lou and how much Sterling. This version suggests Lou was a big part of it and I never knew he did the lead break (reminiscent of his much later New York album)... great stuff. The guy was a pretty decent player. And a genius songwriter and great vocalist... RIP Lou
+Stanley Yeh YO ,STANLEY SIT BACK & LISTEN BETWEEN THE LINES!! THANK GOD DUDE BROUGHT HIS CASSETTE DECK THAT NIGHT!! 3-4 KILLER ZEP SHOWS FROM SAME VENUE IN '69!!!!!! A
This recording is a cool relic, and thanks, but to the person in the thread below who claims that Lou Reed would've claimed that he was a superior guitarist to Jimi Hendrix, I can't believe that is an authentic quote. Lou was honest and not a fool, and he would know better than anyone that his guitar playing was closer to that of a beginner (a loud, funky beginner) than it was to arguably the greatest electric guitarist of all time. If you see "A Film About Jimi Hendrix", an excellent documentary, Lou is interviewed in the film and he is obviously awed by Hendrix. Hendrix was not the sublime songwriter that Lou was, so each had their gift. I've been playing guitar for five decades and there is an objective reality about the nature of virtuoso playing.
+Robert Hollander True, but Lou loved to fool around and say that kind of bullshit, in the end i just find it funny, like the one he answer that he wants people to take drugs because its better than Monopoly.
I agree. I find more enjoyment in sloppy raw soloing than I do incredibly skilled technical soloing, but it truly is all subjective. Everybody finds what they like the most in music and that's their right.
Hendrix did everything himself. An electric troubador and the highest possible level of artistic self- expression.Lou had a lot of support for his depth and darkness beginning with Warhol and the uniquely gifted Velvets. Reed played one or two notes for every dozen of Hendrix who often sounded like two or three guitars at once. But both could hit that SOUND and TONE just so. Jimi was an entertainer as well as an artist and sold more records. We'll never know what he might have become. Reeds personal issues interfered with his career. Fame didn't help him at all. Not at all. Nothing he did after the Velvet Underground really mattered. Jimi had a gift from the gods, given freely. Lou sold his soul and paid the price for it. Both had untouchable genius and, for different reasons, both were done by the end of summer 1970.
@nasser wiz You haven't listened to Hendrix. And you've certainly not looked at the author of his songs. But I'll bite: how many songs did Hendrix "cover"?
@Mullard 5Y3 You mean the professed goals of Velvet Underground? Agreed. Warhol was famous for being famous; he was a promoter who got attention by being "weird," not an artist.
@@jnagarya519 Warhol was a true genius. He got the art world to see a stack of Brillo boxes or soup cans as 'Art'. When everything is Art nothing is Art. There's only a narrative.
@@jnagarya519 A few covers not many but they're pretty good... Hey Joe Wild Thing All Along the Watchtower Johnny B. Good Like A Rolling Stone Star Spangled Banner Catfish Blues Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band Sunshine of Your Love Dear Mr Fantasy Tomorrow Never Knows Drifters Escape Come On part 1
I have wondered for decades about that better than Hendrix quote but at times this recording makes me wonder. Maybe when he was really on he was better for moments at least.
Bullshit. People who don't know what to believe, but are desperate to be "hip," will believe there is something special about these recordings. I was there: they sounded like many other amateur bands: nothing special.
Doesn't matter if you were there - you clearly have no idea what you were hearing. The matrix recordings, etc, etc, etc, etc, and even these recordings of just Lou's guitar amp, prove that they were the best rock band ever, period (even after Cale was replaced by Yule).
I love how people now all try to do what they were doing back then with distortion and technique, with delay and reverb. You can't write good songs with plug-ins or pedals.
Hay I like The Velvet Underground a whole lot. I am Jimmy whom had postedmy tracks and videos on RUclips to. My gig is The Be Tunes I have practiced myguitar much like a style like Lou Reed and Jimi Hendrix. Check out The Be Tunesand compare my style. I have made up songs titled, Lost Women Here Lost WomenThere, Pretty Lost Souls Lost in Olyerioum, Dreaming All In Love With You, FortuneOf The Future and many more. I know I'm not all in a band with band members yetbut it is all made in home studio recording equipment.
I agree that Lou played great guitar until the 70's. :-) I never rated Hendrix's lead playing but he's a GREAT rhythm guitarist! (Obviously this is totally personal perception/opinion, like pretty much everything!)
Less self-indulgence -- except for the heroin, and whatever other drugs he indulged. Your comment makes no sense; it is, to quote you, sheer indulgence without a shred of substance.
Perfect for anyone planning to hold a VU karaoke night!!
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What goes on has always been a favourite of mine but I've never been sure how much of the guitar brilliance was Lou and how much Sterling. This version suggests Lou was a big part of it and I never knew he did the lead break (reminiscent of his much later New York album)... great stuff. The guy was a pretty decent player. And a genius songwriter and great vocalist... RIP Lou
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the drums on “i’m set free” are massive.
all these comments are spot on and no haters. i love VU people
The haters can suck my ding dong
@Fiona Mills 🤭
@@gabrielquezada9665 Lol!
Planning to get stoned and staring at walls tonight.
epic
first time i heard this i had to cry out loud, so beautiful so real
Raw, lit, fast, droning confusion thru out love VU
Just listened again, couldn't find my old '80's copy of the bootleg LP. Jeezus, does this ROCK!
Lou Reed gets all the credit in the comments below for the guitar playing but Sterling Morrison was the lead guitarist.
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Your listening to Lou on this recording .
@@kernalkarma4752 His guitar may be the brightest in the mix, but there’s bleed from the other instruments for sure
god i wish this was remastered
chaos that reels you in
Everyone was doing the same thing. Nothing unique here.
Controlled chaos , a beautiful thing .
It's head bang in' music at its finest! I can't believe it....
I had this on CD under a different name back in the 90s - so good!
The holy grail . Wow !
This is like hearing a kickass band playing 2 houses away and not being invited
🙄 Not being invited is slightly better than turning up and being forcibly taken away in a police van 🤕
Trust me 👉 I am expert. 🤕
My ears are bleeding... and I like it.
Im loving it! he should have done this more often, i love the rawness
+I Kill Communists It's more of a metaphorical bleeding, if you want to get all technical about it ;)
Awesome! A MUST hear...
Gosh, I can't stand it...
This is what we are looking for with VU.
+Stanley Yeh YO ,STANLEY SIT BACK & LISTEN BETWEEN THE LINES!! THANK GOD DUDE BROUGHT HIS CASSETTE DECK THAT NIGHT!! 3-4 KILLER ZEP SHOWS FROM SAME VENUE IN '69!!!!!! A
This recording is a cool relic, and thanks, but to the person in the thread below who claims that Lou Reed would've claimed that he was a superior guitarist to Jimi Hendrix, I can't believe that is an authentic quote. Lou was honest and not a fool, and he would know better than anyone that his guitar playing was closer to that of a beginner (a loud, funky beginner) than it was to arguably the greatest electric guitarist of all time. If you see "A Film About Jimi Hendrix", an excellent documentary, Lou is interviewed in the film and he is obviously awed by Hendrix. Hendrix was not the sublime songwriter that Lou was, so each had their gift. I've been playing guitar for five decades and there is an objective reality about the nature of virtuoso playing.
+Robert Hollander True, but Lou loved to fool around and say that kind of bullshit, in the end i just find it funny, like the one he answer that he wants people to take drugs because its better than Monopoly.
+Rsboots LOL.
+fox pals Fine. I love Neil Young's one note solo on Cinnamon Girl. What we like or don't like is subjective, so enjoy.
I agree. I find more enjoyment in sloppy raw soloing than I do incredibly skilled technical soloing, but it truly is all subjective. Everybody finds what they like the most in music and that's their right.
funny that why a lot of people get into heroine is because of boredom of all things
Hendrix did everything himself. An electric troubador and the highest possible level of artistic self- expression.Lou had a lot of support for his depth and darkness beginning with Warhol and the uniquely gifted Velvets. Reed played one or two notes for every dozen of Hendrix who often sounded like two or three guitars at once. But both could hit that SOUND and TONE just so. Jimi was an entertainer as well as an artist and sold more records. We'll never know what he might have become. Reeds personal issues interfered with his career. Fame didn't help him at all. Not at all. Nothing he did after the Velvet Underground really mattered. Jimi had a gift from the gods, given freely. Lou sold his soul and paid the price for it. Both had untouchable genius and, for different reasons, both were done by the end of summer 1970.
Lou had some great solo stuff though
@nasser wiz You haven't listened to Hendrix. And you've certainly not looked at the author of his songs.
But I'll bite: how many songs did Hendrix "cover"?
@Mullard 5Y3 You mean the professed goals of Velvet Underground? Agreed. Warhol was famous for being famous; he was a promoter who got attention by being "weird," not an artist.
@@jnagarya519
Warhol was a true genius. He got the art world to see a stack of Brillo boxes or soup cans as 'Art'.
When everything is Art nothing is Art. There's only a narrative.
@@jnagarya519
A few covers not many but they're pretty good...
Hey Joe
Wild Thing
All Along the Watchtower
Johnny B. Good
Like A Rolling Stone
Star Spangled Banner
Catfish Blues
Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sunshine of Your Love
Dear Mr Fantasy
Tomorrow Never Knows
Drifters Escape
Come On part 1
Mostly, I hear only Lou Reed 's guitar, but on the contrary, I feel something like this, a zen meditation ....
Well, the mic was placed in the guitar amp, so naturally you'll hear the guitar much more prominently.
That's why it's called the Guitar Tapes. Somehow, the only mic was placed in Lou's amp!
You know nothing about Zen.
@@jnagarya519 neither do you so chill tf out with all your comments
And when I listen to the legendary blank tape all I hear is blank.
Wow. This is like a dream. Quite glad I didn't buy the vinyl version I saw. Very strong coffee.
quality is beautiful and atrocious
Genius genius genius 👍
so raw
I wonder if there's a Sterling Morrison version available?
I have wondered for decades about that better than Hendrix quote but at times this recording makes me wonder. Maybe when he was really on he was better for moments at least.
Steven Moyano which quote?
Bullshit.
People who don't know what to believe, but are desperate to be "hip," will believe there is something special about these recordings. I was there: they sounded like many other amateur bands: nothing special.
Doesn't matter if you were there - you clearly have no idea what you were hearing. The matrix recordings, etc, etc, etc, etc, and even these recordings of just Lou's guitar amp, prove that they were the best rock band ever, period (even after Cale was replaced by Yule).
what an intricate wall of awesome. cheers!
Absolutly Fantastic ! Thank you !
Fantastic.. thanks for posting
THANK YOU
Squares don't have to be left in the dark anymore, searching out shit that used to be so obscure. Twiddle a few keys, and you're educated.
lou hit me inside
A much clearer version of this is now on RUclips go find it and turn it up.
Cool
I love how people now all try to do what they were doing back then with distortion and technique, with delay and reverb. You can't write good songs with plug-ins or pedals.
What amp is he using? I've read that he used a Fender Deluxe but there are some vids of Lou playing through a vox AC100 i think...
Was this ever released onto vinyl? It should be IMO. It should be the second bootleg series Quine tapes.
yeah i saw a vinyl copy !
Unfathomably great slab of vinyl from Tummy Tapes virtually lays to waste the rest of their catalogue. Let there be more of this.
What you're hearing is MONOTONY.
this is music at fucking rawist
Anyone know who’s amp the mic is on?
lou
this is the shit
Hay I like The Velvet Underground a whole lot. I am Jimmy whom had postedmy tracks and videos on RUclips to. My gig is The Be Tunes I have practiced myguitar much like a style like Lou Reed and Jimi Hendrix. Check out The Be Tunesand compare my style. I have made up songs titled, Lost Women Here Lost WomenThere, Pretty Lost Souls Lost in Olyerioum, Dreaming All In Love With You, FortuneOf The Future and many more. I know I'm not all in a band with band members yetbut it is all made in home studio recording equipment.
Lou could ha ha talk smack and such about much. Better than Hendrix Lou was not. Lou was hot, however.
Lou's guitar sucks but I like it.
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Today is Funnier than yesterday. ( As if that were possible )
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Lou's better than Hendrix - more attitude and less self indulgence
I agree that Lou played great guitar until the 70's.
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I never rated Hendrix's lead playing but he's a GREAT rhythm guitarist!
(Obviously this is totally personal perception/opinion, like pretty much everything!)
Less self-indulgence -- except for the heroin, and whatever other drugs he indulged.
Your comment makes no sense; it is, to quote you, sheer indulgence without a shred of substance.
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Legends-too bad Moe Tucker turned into a weird trump supporter 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬