Gadzooks, I was there! Anyway, some friends and I attended one of the Velvets' gigs at the Boston Tea Party in summer 1968, and they played Sister Ray. My ears were buzzing for three hours afterwards, but I had the time of my life.
I was one too. Started college early with a plan. And tbh the older you get, the more lost you get lol. Even with a plan it could collapse on ya still. So prepare for the worst, cherish the good and not overwhelming moments, and keep vibing to VU.
KEEP GOING SCOTIA. Seemingly is exactly the right word. Sidestep the mess just by choosing to in thought and feeling and keep going. A way will appear, just don't spiral down too far. Sounds hippy but. Survival is victory, fk em.
toffeebomb that’s the thing, they’re so appreciated now but back then people didn’t like that they were so loud. I love them so much, tbh some of the most legendary bands were not fully appreciated in their time. I love talking to velvet underground fans haha 😂😊
That guitar is like the sound of Reeds struggle in coming back to functional life after months of bi-weekly electro shock treatments. No summer of love for Lou and those with a desperate need to 'vent'!
Always loved this version of SR, especially the opening that sounds like the creation of the universe. I wouldn't have expected to enjoy random video segments attached to it, but this was beautifully done. Exhilarating to watch and hear, especially thinking about Lou. RIP...
@@mj.l No that's Cale. The amp for his electric organ wasn't delivered on time so he had to go without for this concert. That's why he gets drowned out by Lou and Sterling. That's also why he isn't playing with EXTREME distortion like on the album.
I got to see them Glastonbury 93, without a shadow of a doubt most important band I ever seen. Sure woulda been better during their halcyon period, but beggars can't be choosers.
Absolutely brilliant ...I was just slightly too young to appreciate them in 67 .68 but I knew of them ..I was too much into hendrix. .Floyd and the Beatles. .but about 1971 I started listening to the underground and have never stopped since ..still love John cale and saw lou reed couples yrs b4 he died
Steven Campbell They turned all the amplifiers to 10 and all the needles were in the red. It made the recording engineer crazy, "You can't do that!" he said. We're the VU, we can do whatever the fuck we want and it will be transcendent.
jeez, i know this band for years and always thought they were this bob dylan soft music kinda group. I've been checking out some live performances and men whas I proven wrong. Love this raw, psychedelic sloppy style. Especially live, the music is so energetic.
They have their fair share of soft songs, particularly on their self-titled third album and a few on their debut, but White Light/White Heat is an extraordinarily loud album. I couldn’t agree more with your statement. I recently started listening to this band and I instantly fell in love with their awesome style! Plus Lou Reed just oozes cool.
I also instantly fell in love with their style. Haven't really listened to other bands since this post (10months ago). White light indeed is loud, but their earlier live perfomances before that album are also really loud. I never heard a band before in this way, it's truly unique. Weird thing is this ''loudness'' makes me so calm, almost like a new, unknown meditative state. Music never archieved this state of mind for my, but the velvets sure unlocked something new. I listen to this, and other songs right before I go to sleep, and I fall asleep so peacefull, while the music is so chaotic, yet calming. And your point about Lou is really valid, as it is for John.
Almost exactly 55 years ago in February of 69 they played a double bill with the Dead at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh. That would be a night to try to remember…. No tape of the VU performance that night has surfaced … yet…
Unprecedented! Lou reminds me of the immortal words of his erstwhile contemporary Captain Beefheart: "I'm not even here. I just hang around for my friends." LOU: 1942-2013. THE CAPTAIN: 1941-2010.
caribman10 You really got to see them playing at the Dom?? I've never even met anyone who got to see them back then. I would give anything for a time machine to take me back to NYC in '66...
Any time I see a video showing Gerard ad his whip I know I'm in the right place.. Weird thing is that the Underground were the house band at a dive bar, The Dom, in the basement of the Polish National Home on St. Marks Place in New York. From that they became a legend.
Someone’s probably already mentioned it before, but I love how in this recording it sounds like they were wrapping up on playing Heroin at the beginning and then swiftly transitioned into this with no trouble. Music to my ears.
Thru it all somehow Mo keeps that backbeat going. Incredible that this same band was capable of performing songs like Pale Blue Eyes and I’ll Be Your Mirror.
This is The Velvet Underground version of Pink Floyd's Interstellar Overdrive haha oh and this video is an amazing work of art. It suits with the music very well.
I DI have to be picky but am remember him saying g "the musical possibilities inherent in"...AND he had studied under Copeland, early doors..As it were...Then Lamp the Young etc etc. This is very Hendrix. P.s i am a fan!
John Brown I remember that too, Cale I think said that he"liked to explore the musical possibilities inherent in monotony" after working with la Monte Young. He was a Copeland scholar before that. Once described as being, with John Hamill, one of two individuals capable of scaring an audience on their own. Great, great band, inspired Roxy Music and Bowie. Not bad!
Gadzooks, I was there! Anyway, some friends and I attended one of the Velvets' gigs at the Boston Tea Party in summer 1968, and they played Sister Ray. My ears were buzzing for three hours afterwards, but I had the time of my life.
Reckon you saw the best at their best …
I passed out at the Tea Party during a John Mayall Blues Breakers show. Turns out I'd been tripping for two days and forgot to eat. Fun times.
@NickRowsell yep with Cale in the band,best line up
How lucky you are!! I wasn't born
Lucky guy
This is my favorite band, and im really high right now
Try early Roxy Music the . If you haven't.
Very high edit this video.
hey, I don't tell you my problems!
For real tho
Hey man😡, do not be promoting drugs on this video, they're bad for you 🤢
As a working class teenager with no clue where to go in life and everything seemingly against me, I need this band right now.
I was one too. Started college early with a plan. And tbh the older you get, the more lost you get lol. Even with a plan it could collapse on ya still. So prepare for the worst, cherish the good and not overwhelming moments, and keep vibing to VU.
You said it. They accompany the times pretty well
@@abanana2561 Generation Z is not all that different from Gen X
@@bbomg02 I agree
KEEP GOING SCOTIA. Seemingly is exactly the right word. Sidestep the mess just by choosing to in thought and feeling and keep going. A way will appear, just don't spiral down too far. Sounds hippy but. Survival is victory, fk em.
Imagine hearing this thing live back in the day... my eardrums would implode... and I'd have no problem with that.
toffeebomb that’s the thing, they’re so appreciated now but back then people didn’t like that they were so loud. I love them so much, tbh some of the most legendary bands were not fully appreciated in their time. I love talking to velvet underground fans haha 😂😊
parden? i didn't quite catch that
Lou Reed and his venomous guitar... I love it!!!
That’s a Great way to describe his style!
That guitar is like the sound of Reeds struggle in coming back to functional life after months of bi-weekly electro shock treatments. No summer of love for Lou and those with a desperate need to 'vent'!
@@toxotorana Awesome comment!
He was on fire when this went down …
I believe alot of the lead is Sterling.
This is pure badass rock and roll.
Love the Velvet Underground forever! 🎸 🎶
Thank god for Andy and his camera capturing this amazing band on film and having the insight to see the potential of their music .
Hiya Frank!
@@Royale_with_Cheeze Hello Vincent
Amazing footage
Always loved this version of SR, especially the opening that sounds like the creation of the universe. I wouldn't have expected to enjoy random video segments attached to it, but this was beautifully done. Exhilarating to watch and hear, especially thinking about Lou. RIP...
It just screams mass emotions but haphazardly not organised social networking
And Cale. Betwys' finest...Anyone else FROM Carmarthenshire?
Top tune.
pretty sure that's doug yule on organ.
post-cale
@@mj.l No that's Cale. The amp for his electric organ wasn't delivered on time so he had to go without for this concert. That's why he gets drowned out by Lou and Sterling. That's also why he isn't playing with EXTREME distortion like on the album.
@@jakesheehan9916 on second listening, of course you're right. it's a beautiful thing
After hearing this, it's clear where Les Rallizes Dénudés got there style
Yeah they've claimed white light was a massive influence.
They continued where White Light/White Heat left off.
Also Can.
Absolutely put studio version to shame. Wish I coulda heard them live back in the day.
I got to see them Glastonbury 93, without a shadow of a doubt most important band I ever seen. Sure woulda been better during their halcyon period, but beggars can't be choosers.
Original lineup?
It was barely 2 and a half years.
Late 60s I went to hear them at Boston Tea Party every chance I had...Small crowds...kinda loud!
the best rock song ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
alexandre saragoça y
Damn, I like this even more than the album version.
Absolutely brilliant ...I was just slightly too young to appreciate them in 67 .68 but I knew of them ..I was too much into hendrix. .Floyd and the Beatles. .but about 1971 I started listening to the underground and have never stopped since ..still love John cale and saw lou reed couples yrs b4 he died
One of the greatest live recordings ever with the coolest video... No joke
Mo keeps that beat going
Recorded in only one take now that's awesome.
That's usually the case when playing live.
+David B I meant the original studio version.
Steven Campbell They turned all the amplifiers to 10 and all the needles were in the red. It made the recording engineer crazy, "You can't do that!" he said. We're the VU, we can do whatever the fuck we want and it will be transcendent.
I can't believe this is between 1968 and 1969!
The sound is so ahead of its time that I feel chills..
This band was sent to us back then by the universe
the feedback is so fucking sick
is there any live footage of Sister Ray?
D Rago Doubt it, I'm 60 and still waiting to see good footage of prime-time VU.
Yeah I haven't seen any either and I'm with you I want to see some prime time live footage of the velvets
True rock n roll, dirty fuckin guitar, I want play like them.
I prefer this sister ray's version, it's so amazing !
greatest band ever? yes for me!! awesome job with the video.
This, again, proves how brilliant they actually were. This is Masterclass, everything else is not even High School.
coming back to this 5 years later this whole video is nan amazing work of art. TVU were really ahead of their time.
11+ minutes of well spent time... The video/film is fucking excellent...
A Real "Art Piece" it Captures More of That Days than Any Other Video Uploaded Concerning the Velvets, I do Love It....
My band played Sister Ray at our middle school talent contest. I,was like 14 years old I think…lol Of course, we won.
Wish I could get my band to do that. The win was definitely deserved, I bet it sounded radical.
It was killer. The year was 1969…..wooooo
did you play the 27 minute version. my mother taught me that as an 8 year old
Incredible version - great recording
Wow that explosive fuzz tone
best version of the best song of all time
LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS CRAZY FOOTAGE AND WALL OF SOUND! This video is TOPS!
Watched Lou Reed bk in 79 had a blast, got a tee shirt, still hot to watch and obviously hear... It was loud 🔊 man...
Wow this version is heavy as hell!
jeez, i know this band for years and always thought they were this bob dylan soft music kinda group. I've been checking out some live performances and men whas I proven wrong. Love this raw, psychedelic sloppy style. Especially live, the music is so energetic.
They have their fair share of soft songs, particularly on their self-titled third album and a few on their debut, but White Light/White Heat is an extraordinarily loud album. I couldn’t agree more with your statement. I recently started listening to this band and I instantly fell in love with their awesome style! Plus Lou Reed just oozes cool.
I also instantly fell in love with their style. Haven't really listened to other bands since this post (10months ago).
White light indeed is loud, but their earlier live perfomances before that album are also really loud.
I never heard a band before in this way, it's truly unique. Weird thing is this ''loudness'' makes me so calm, almost like a new, unknown meditative state. Music never archieved this state of mind for my, but the velvets sure unlocked something new. I listen to this, and other songs right before I go to sleep, and I fall asleep so peacefull, while the music is so chaotic, yet calming.
And your point about Lou is really valid, as it is for John.
Oh, they started off in that mode but they decided their music needed a little Red Bull
Almost exactly 55 years ago in February of 69 they played a double bill with the Dead at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh. That would be a night to try to remember…. No tape of the VU performance that night has surfaced … yet…
i really don't know what to comment, this is just so powerful
This is just prime hipness, look at the guy with sunglasses on who is drinking coke i have never seen anything so hip wow
That's Lou Reed.
so heavy metal!
Unprecedented! Lou reminds me of the immortal words of his erstwhile contemporary Captain Beefheart: "I'm not even here. I just hang around for my friends." LOU: 1942-2013. THE CAPTAIN: 1941-2010.
Mirror Man sessions rock out.
Another great
Why does listening to and watching The Velvet Underground and friends make me feel invincible.
They definitely energize your soul
The constant mo tucker holds the music to order.
The soundtrack our lives. rock n roll yeah
way ahead of their time!!!
Good god this is great, wish I wasn't only 13 and about 13 miles away from where this was going on.
teens got everything but taste... but imagine how cool you'd have been though to witness VU at 13
nothing would happen, too soon ...
I was 18 and lived across the street (22 St. Marks) from The Dom where the VU played and it was life-changing...
caribman10 You really got to see them playing at the Dom?? I've never even met anyone who got to see them back then. I would give anything for a time machine to take me back to NYC in '66...
Well I’m 12 so I’m better than you
thank you lou and vu for your music ... r.i.p.
ecstatic ecstasy....a national treasure
Any time I see a video showing Gerard ad his whip I know I'm in the right place.. Weird thing is that the Underground were the house band at a dive bar, The Dom, in the basement of the Polish National Home on St. Marks Place in New York. From that they became a legend.
Those were the EPI shows, hardly a dive bar scenario with the whole Warhol extravaganza accompanying it. Their Cafe Bizarre shows were dive bar shows.
Monumental demonstration.
just insane,
Pure joy for my ears and my eyes
This is THE BEST! I've always felt I was born too late. If I'd been there I would've died of music overdose!
perfection never again
So long Lou...thanks for the music. Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed 1942-2013
Someone’s probably already mentioned it before, but I love how in this recording it sounds like they were wrapping up on playing Heroin at the beginning and then swiftly transitioned into this with no trouble. Music to my ears.
Awesome love the drummer he’s really got Anton’s back it doesn’t come any rawer or purer ah how ya travelling lots of love from me Brisbane Australia
tweed boy myself 🙏
Drummer is Maureen Tucker a lady not a guy
mad fuckin genius mate! mister lewis fuckin firbank reed and sterling morrison
Thru it all somehow Mo keeps that backbeat going. Incredible that this same band was capable of performing songs like Pale Blue Eyes and I’ll Be Your Mirror.
Great!!! Well done the video!!!😎
🖤🎉
hey bo diddley ! Love Tucker rythm
This is The Velvet Underground version of Pink Floyd's Interstellar Overdrive haha
oh and this video is an amazing work of art. It suits with the music very well.
Both of which are amazing.
Iamman i upload 5 times a day for 6 months hell yeah dude.
le plus grand groupe de tout les temps
Pure enjoyable art
This is great!
Great version!
F@cking awesome !!!
This is how a 6 piece band should play (with Nico on the tambourine and Malanga playing his whip)xxx
YOU ARE SOOOOOO RIGHT!
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes !!!!
had to smile when the n.m.e. described this as " exploring the possibilities inherent in monotony..."
I DI have to be picky but am remember him saying g "the musical possibilities inherent in"...AND he had studied under Copeland, early doors..As it were...Then Lamp the Young etc etc. This is very Hendrix.
P.s i am a fan!
great times. great music,
John Brown I remember that too, Cale I think said that he"liked to explore the musical possibilities inherent in monotony" after working with la Monte Young. He was a Copeland scholar before that. Once described as being, with John Hamill, one of two individuals capable of scaring an audience on their own.
Great, great band, inspired Roxy Music and Bowie. Not bad!
John Brown Amen to that John.
sorry for repeating self. Sort of appropriate!
Ohhhh ! Je ne connaissais pas ! Ça déboîte sa race, c'est nickel !
Thanks a lot
THANK YOU
Welch ein Lärm....großartig...
The best band of all time.
greatest rock band ever?
Todd G. Levin Yup
yeap
It's Nice Psychedelic！
This beats Hendrix! 1968 when things got radical!
Bad ass psychedelic!! 1968 the crazy radical year!
The one tune to be left on mars!
S'fuckin Genius .... No question ..
Doug yule does a great job on keyboard...really gifted guy
it's cale
@@mj.l true
@@mj.l no it's not - this is the "guitar amp" recording from Boston 15th March 1969 so it's definitely Doug on organ
0:30 - 0.37
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figo!!!! ciao from italy!
ニコ、カッコいい。この時代の女性ボーカルはやっぱりカッコいい。
The VU Machine blows doors on take off
순도 100% 미친 음악ㅋ 순도 100% 똘아이 음악ㅋ 비디오의 장면들은 하나하나가 정말 멋지다ㅋ
Lllike our day and age
Nico was gorgeous back in the day😊
Holy shit thats so raw power first punk show.
Punk lol
나의 가슴을 사정없이 박박 긁어주는 노이즈ㅋ 노이즈가 부글부글 끓어오를때 내 마음도 부글부글 끓어오른다ㅋ
Brilliant drums
A wall of sound/noise. It gives me a powerful feeling. The only other band with this level of noise I can think of was Nirvana.
Jesus and Mary chain? This definitely birthed them
@@leonm3961 for sure
Very Sonic youth
I wish I could have seen Sun Ra ...that should be entered into the conversation
PAVEMENT.
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fk'n Awesome !
NYアンダーグラウンド、このシーンがなかったらpunkもNWもポストpunkも生まれなかったのだろうな🌟そのぐらいすごいカッコいい。
Nobody will ever be as cool as Lou Reed
異常にかっこいい
Great!
fuckin great
We all have a Christmas song - this is mine !
Rob Dykes
You need help with that comment. Need more rehab pal.
i like a bit of a white xmas too. whip it on me jim
Santa dressed in black leather....likin it!!
Ho ho ho! lol!
Wonderfull !😯😎🤡👹👻👽!!!!
Nice
Nico very cool, very funny, very unself-conscious