The Velvet Underground: Edinburgh 1993 (Soundboard) FLAC

Venue: The Playhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland
Date: 2 June 1993
A "Nothing Songs" release
Lineage: Silver CD -> .aif -> CD-R -> .aif -> xACT flac conversion (level 8)

DISC1
01 Real Good Time Together
02 Venus In Furs
03 Guess I'm Falling In Love
04 After Hours
05 All Tomorrow's Parties
06 Some Kinda Love
07 I'll Be Your Mirror
08 Beginning to See the Light
09 The Gift
10 I Heard Her Call My Name
11 Femme Fatale
12 Hey Mr. Rain
13 Sweet Jane
14 Velvet Nursery Rhyme
15 WL/WH

DISC2
01 I'm Sticking With You
02 Black Angel's Death Song
03 R&R
04 I Can't Stand It
05 IWFTM
06 Heroin
07 Coyote
--rehearsal/soundcheck--
08 Venus In Furs
09 Beginning to See the Light
10 I Heard Her Call My Name
11 Femme Fatale
12 Hey Mr. Rain
13 Sweet Jane

OU: When it comes to bootleggers, there is nothing I hate more than them making money off of starving fans. What Nothing Songs has done is exactly that. Several of their "releases" were actually downloaded from THIS site! So, this is a big SCREW YOU to Nothing Songs.
As for this set, the sound is really excellent. There are some very slight flaws in the recording...an edit here and there (first couple of seconds of Sweet Jane are cut), but nothing that makes this less than a superb soundboard recording. However, there are some dropouts during the soundcheck.
Unfortunately, Lou's voice is WAY in front of everything else. I never liked the Reunion gigs. A seminal noise-art-punk influence had decayed into a pop band. Listen to Disc 1/Track 1 for a perfect example of what I mean. I can't fault any of 'em for cashing in on their legacy, but I still refused to pay to go see 'em live in 1993. Everything sounds so crisp and clean...as if meant to be played on the radio! Yikes!!
I will say that Cale sounds great as usual (especially his piano on ATP) and Sterl's guitar lines sound as perfect as I have heard on any VU recording from the 60's. Moe is simply...Moe! Lou's voice sounds great (compared to today), but his phony banter with the audience is nauseating. I remember reading how before the reunion gigs, Lou was frustrated with the sound he was getting from his guitar on "I'm Waiting for The Man." He just couldn't get it to sound as powerful as on the records. Moe had to remind him that he used to ONLY hit the strings on the downstroke during that song!
I love the rolling country guitar during "I'll Be Your Mirror," but damn, will Lou shut up at the end of "Rock & Roll?!?!" Shut the F@'a2K up and play!! (crap, I just quoted Zappa in a Lou post) Cale's voice is pretty true to the originals.
Granted, a bunch of middle-aged people aren't going to sound as ferocious playing live as when they were 20 (aside from The Stooges...maybe), but this is a fantastic document of the Reunion Tour. I'm willing to say that it is better than the official release, which Lou personally oversaw. Go figger.

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Velvet Underground: Strasbourg 1993 (VG+ Aud) FLAC

previously uncirculated

Date: 1993-06-23
Venue: Stade de la Meinau
City: Strasbourg
Country: France
Source: Audience
Deck: Sony TCD-D7
Micro: Aiwa CM 30

Open air show - Opening for U2 - ticket scan included.
OU: I have decided to share my uncirculated DAT master recording of this show.
It was recorded from the first row right in front of the speaker stack on the left side of the stage.
Sony TCD-D7 with Aiwa CM30 -> DTC-55ES -> ION USB Recorder -> Soundforge 9.0 -> dbPowerAmp -> FLAC

01 Sweet Jane
02 Some Kinda Love
03 Venus In Furs
04 Beginning To See The Light
05 Hey Mr Rain
06 Afterhours
07 All Tomorrow's Parties
08 White Light/White Heat
09 The Black Angel's Death Song
10 Rock And Roll

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The Velvet Underground: Psychedelic Sounds From The Gymnasium 1967 (

2008 Release
XLD Rip
Cue, Log, m3u, md5, st5, ffp
complete Artwork 300 dpi
XTV-CD 144

More material from the Gymnasium recordings is finally issued in February 2008 on the bootleg LP Live At The Gymnasium. According to Psychedelic Sounds From The Gymnasium liner notes, the reel-to-reel tape was recorded on the final night - Sunday April 30th 1967.
http://olivier.landemaine.free.fr/vu/live/1967/perf67.html

Tracklisting:
01 - I'm Not A Young Man Anymore (7:15)
02 - Guess I'm Falling In Love (4:12)
03 - I'm Waiting For The Man (5:30)
04 - Run Run Run (6:55)
05 - Sister Ray (18:51)
06 - Booker T. (6:37)

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The Velvet Underground: Cleveland 1968-9 (FLAC)

Sweet Sister Ray's Murder Mystery

Brand-New Beat BNB921007
Lineage:Boot CD> HD > WAV > FLAC

01-Sweet Sister Ray
Recorded April 30,1968
At La Cave,Cleveland.Ohio
Lou Reed-White Gretsch Falcon
John Cale-Viola
Mo Tucker-Bass
Sterling Morrison-Gibson Guitar

02-Sister Ray - Murder Mystery - Sister Ray
Recorded January 28,1969
At La Cave,Cleveland.Ohio
Lou Reed-Guitar
Sterling Morrison-Guitar
Mo Tucker-Drums
Doug Yule-Bass,Keyboards

03-Story Of Life
Recorded October 2,1968
At La Cave,Cleveland.Ohio
Lou Reed-Guitar
Sterling Morrison-Guitar
Mo Tucker-Drums
Doug Yule-Bass

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The Velvet Underground And Nico: The Norman Dolph Acetate 1966

Unripened - The Norman Dolph Acetate (2007)
Cue, Log, m3u, md5, st5, ffp
complete Artwork 300 dpi
The bulk of the songs that would become The Velvet Underground & Nico were recorded in mid-April, 1966, during a four-day stint at Scepter Studios, a decrepit recording studio in New York City. This recording session was financed by Warhol and Columbia Records' sales executive Norman Dolph, who also acted as an engineer with John Licata. Though exact total cost of the project is unknown, estimates vary from $1500 to $3000
Actual recording at Scepter was done rather quickly in about two business days (roughly 8-10 hours) while the third was spent listening to the material and the fourth was spent mixing. Soon after, Dolph sent an acetate disc of the recordings to Columbia in an attempt to interest them in distributing the album, but they declined, as did Atlantic Records and Elektra Records. Eventually, the MGM Records-owned Verve Records accepted the recordings with the help of Verve staff producer Tom Wilson, who had recently moved from a job at Columbia.

Scepter Studios acetate version
Norman Dolph's original acetate pressing of the Scepter Studios material contains several recordings that would make it onto the final album, though many are different mixes of those recordings and three are different takes entirely.
The acetate was pressed on April 25, 1966, shortly after the recording sessions. It would resurface decades later when it was bought by collector Warren Hill of Montreal, Canada in September 2002 at a flea market in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City for $0.75. Hill put the album up for auction on eBay in November. On December 8, 2006, a winning bid for $155,401 was placed, but not honored. The album was again placed for auction on eBay and was successfully sold on December 16, 2006 for $25,200.
It is important to note that ten songs were recorded during the Scepter sessions and only nine appear on the acetate cut. Dolph recalls "There She Goes Again" being the missing song (and, indeed, the version of "There She Goes Again" that appears on the final LP is attributed to the Scepter Studios session).
Though rumors have circulated concerning an eventual official release of this version of the album, this has yet to be confirmed or announced by any major record label.
However, a ripped version of the acetate began circulating the internet in January 2007. Bootleg versions of the acetate tracks have also become available on vinyl and CD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground_and_Nico

Tracklisting:
01 - European Son (8:52)
02 - The Black Angel's Death Song (3:14)
03 - All Tomorrow's Parties (5:52)
04 - I'll Be Your Mirror (2:10)
05 - Heroin (6:12)
06 - Femme Fatale (2:36)
07 - Venus In Furs (4:29)
08 - I'm Waiting For The Man (4:10)
09 - Run Run Run (4:23)

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The Velvet Underground: All Tomorrow's Parties (FLAC)

not the cover
The Velvet Underground
Title: All Tomorrow's Parties
Lineage: Master Warhol Museum CD -> CD(gen1) -> .wav -> CD(gen2) -> .aiff -> .flac (level 8)

01. Walk Alone
02. Venus In Furs/Crackin' Up
03. Rythm & Blues Instrumental
04. Run Run Run into Miss Joanie Lee
05. Day Tripper into Boom Boom Boom
06. Rockabilly Instrumental
07. Blues Instrumental
08. Heroin
09. There She Goes Again
10. Green Onions
11. There She Goes Again
12. Heroin
13. I'll Keep It With Mine
14. European Son/Suzie Q
15. Get It On Time
16. I'll Be Your Mirror

01-11: rehearsals, The Factory, January 3, 1966
12-14: Up-tight, The Cinematheque, New York City, February 6, 1966
15-16: rehearsals, The Factory, March 7, 1966

OU Notes: This is the unedited, unfiltered, full-file All Tomorrows Parties bootleg. Here is the story...
Back in the prehistoric days, before torrents and FTP, was this thing called "trading CD's thru the mail." One of the guys who I traded with said he had something very special if I'd like to hear it, on the condition that I never trade it until he said it was OK to. He sent me this! Someone who had access to the CD recorded it and made a copy for himself and a friend. That friend made me a copy, which is where these files were extracted from.
Now, I dated this really strange chick for a while after meeting her one night after a gig in Luxembourg. Many of you know her as Rosie Lee. She was in a band called the Fluffernutter Devices and was a HUGE fan of the VU. She asked if she could have a copy of this disc, so I converted it so she could play it on her portable player on her band's van. It was this lossy copy that made it onto the site a while back and it was from these lossy tracks that Nothing Songs put out one of their bullshite compilations.
(I'd like to point out that quite some time ago, just before I met Rosie actually, the person who provided me this disk stated that it was OK to circulate it.)
So, anyone who purchased the Nothing Songs set containing these tracks is actually listening to MP3's converted to MP4's. I saw some idiot paid over $100 on ePay for a bootleg of these tracks. What an idiot!* OU Comments, not my own ;)

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Velvet Underground: Boston 1968 (VG AUD) FLAC

Velvet Underground 12 Dec 1968 Boston audience recording

Boston Tea Party, 12 December 1968

disc 1
track 01: intro (00.35)
track 02: Heroin (08.28)
track 03: Move Right In (05.13)
track 04: Waiting For The Man (06.27)
track 05: I'm Set Free (04.26)
track 06: Foggy Notion (07.47)
track 07: Beginning To See The Light (06.31)
track 08: Candy Says (04.01)

disc 2
track 01: White Light White Heat (06.01)
track 02: Jesus (03.50)
track 03: Sister Ray (26.11)
track 04: Pale Blue Eyes (5.58)

Lou Reed: guitar, vocals
Sterling Morrison: guitar
Doug Yule: bass, organ, vocals
Moe Tucker: drums

lineage: cassette - CDr - EAC - WAV - FLAC (level 8) - you

original audience recording by the "professor"
uploaded October 2007 by lurid_uk

This was the first show of a 3 night stay at the Velvets "second home", the Boston Tea Party. This recording, reputedly made by the "professor", was not included on the recent Scorpio 4CD box set (for reasons known only to the boys at Scorpio - maybe they're saving it for a future release along with the Hilltop Rock Festival tape).

This show has long been my personal favourite of all the extant Tea Party recordings. Lou and Sterling's guitar playing is outstanding, and Moe never misses a beat. "Move Right In" is just great - Sterling sounds just like a tape loop and Lou's "improvised on the spot" lyrics are tantalisingly almost intelligible. "Foggy Notion" is a joyful breeze, with buzzsaw guitars and fine vocals. Going by Lou's introduction, this would appear to be the first public performance of "Candy Says". It's certainly the only Velvets recording of it which I am aware of where Lou actually sings it himself - he cant quite reach the high notes but there's a certain weary tenderness to his vocal which I dont think Doug ever managed to achieve, live or in the studio. This is undoubtedly my favourite version of one of my favourite songs.

No words I can write can adequately describe this performance of "Sister Ray" - over 26 mins of musical mayhem and lyrical debauchery. It is simply outstanding.

Overall, the sound quality is not great, but very listenable. It could no doubt benefit from a little equalisation but I've not tried to improve it in any way. My cassette "claims" to be a 4th generation copy of the professor's original reel. With a bit of luck Scorpio have access to the "remastered" version which Polygram made from the professor's master tape, and will release it to us all soon.

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Velvet Underground: London 1993 (VG Aud) FLAC

1993-06-06
London,
Wembley Arena
(incomplete, but very good AUD)
Silver-CD "Live USA ´93" (Vampire Records VR 50007) - Database: http://members.aol.com/olandem3/bootcd93.html
Lineage: Silver-CD > EAC > WAV > FLAC Frontend (Level 7 and tested)

Tracklist:
01 Venus In Furs
02 I Heard Her Calling My Name
03 Sweet Jane
04 Rock And Roll
05 We´re Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together
06 The Gift
07 White Light, White Heat
08 Hey Mr. Rain
09 I Can´t Stand It
10 I´m Waiting For My Man
11 Some Kinda Love
12 Coyote

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Velvet Underground: Caught Between the Twisted Stars

4 CD Box Set
Silver CD's > Flac [level 6] >You!
* All notes and info below from the extensive VU web site, THE VELVET UNDERGROUND WEB PAGE. For more info about this box set drop by: http://members.aol.com/olandem/bootcdbo.html

Disc One - Exploding Plastic Inevitable b/w Poor Richard's:
1. Melody Laughter (30:02) / *OMITTED
2. Femme Fatale (2:48) /
3. Venus In Furs (4:58) /
4. Black Angels Death Song (4:12) /
5. All Tomorrow's Parties (5:58) /
6. Waiting For The Man (4:29) /
7. Heroin (6:47) /
8. Run Run Run (8:46) /
9. Poor Richard's (9:56).

1 : Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966 * OMITTED - on the 'Peel Slowly & See' Box set, 2 to 8: Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966 / 9 : Poor Richard's Club, Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1966. This track is actually Heroin and Venus In Furs from Ronald Nameth's Andy Warhol's EPI film and ends with 1'17 of an unidentified Sister Ray.

Disc Two - Chic Mystique Of Nothing Songs:
1. Nothing Song (28:42) /
2. Venus/Heroin (3:42) /
3. Chic Mystique (26:12) /
4. Train 'Round The Bend / Oh! Sweet Nuthin' (19:08).

1 : Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio, November 4, 1966. 2 : USA Artists, WNET TV, NYC, February 7, 1966 / 3. The Dom, NYC, April 1966. / 4. Second Fret, Philadelphia, May, 1970.
This track ends with a 2'20 instrumental - same source as the hidden track on Ostrich/Hilltop CD but longer excerpt.

Disc Three - Sweet Sister Rayn's Heroin:
1. Sweet Sister Ray (39:33) /
2. Sister Ray (24:30) /
3. Hey Mr. Rain (7:10) /
4. Heroin (6:36).

1, 4 : La Cave, Cleveland, Ohio, April 28, 1968 / 2 : The Boston Tea Party, Boston,
Massachusetts, March 15, 1969 / 3. Wembley Arena, London, June 6, 1993.

Disc Four - Illuminations Of Atonality:
1. Searchin' (17:25) / *OMITTED
2. Lady Godiva's Operation (4:53) / *OMITTED
3. The Gift (12:10) /
4. Run Run Run (8:51) /
5. What Goes On (8:55) / * OMITTED
6. Guess I'm Falling In Love (5'13)/
7. A Short Lived Torture Of Cacophony (2:20) /
8. Black Angel's Death Song (3:39) / *OMITTED
9. The Biggest, Loudest, Hairiest Group Of All (3:30) / *OMITTED
10. A Distant Mirror (10:55).

1 : Searchin', "Swan" mix, Mayfair Studio, September 1967 *OMITTED - from White Light, White Heat/ 2 : mono mix, Mayfair Studio, September 1967 * OMITTED - from White Light, White Heat / 3 : Wembley Arena, London, June 6, 1993 / 4 : Hilltop Pop Festival, August 2, 1969 / 5 * omitted because although it's listed as "1968 live" this is really the same version as 1969 Live album / 6: The Gymnasium, NYC, April 1967. The track ends with a 1'00 instrumental excerpt - same source as unlisted track on disc two / 7 : listed as "New York City 1965", actually a part of Columbus '66 Melody Laughter recorded backwards... / 8, 9 * omitted because the 'Le
Bataclan, Paris, January 29, 1972' was releasedofficially in a limited run from Pilot Records in 2004. / 10 : this is collage including the VU Rock & Roll Hall of fame introduction by Patti Smith, the band accepting the award, the band playing Last Night I Said Goodbye To A Friend, then Ghost Story from the Bataclan show, then 53 seconds of I'm Waiting For The Man from Max's Kansas City '70 [ed. note: phew!].

Notes: the package is a CD size cardboard one, with 4 individual CD sleeves inside, each made to look like a 45 RPM singles picture sleeve. There is a photo of the Trip Club poster, Poor Richard's poster, Balloon Farm poster, and a few photos of the band and a photo of Andy Warhol peeling a large banana on the back cover. The 64-page booklet includes a Sterling Morrison interview with Greg Barrios, a review of VU & Nico album by Timothy Jacobs from Vibrations No. 2, July, 1967, Chicago Happenings by Larry McCombes from Zig Zag, Vol. 5, No. 1, April/May, 1974, New York Art And The Velvet Underground by Jonathan Richman from Vibrations, September 1967, A Quiet Night at the Balloon Farm by Richard Goldstein, Problems in Urban Living by Richard Somma, and another interview with Sterling, Reflections In A Lone Star Beer.

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The Velvet Underground: Searchin' For My Mainline (Various Sourced 3 CD Box set) FLAC

3-CD box set
Too Much/Just Right Productions for Diamonds In Your Ear
Germany, 1993

CD1:
1. Andy says/Venus In Furs/Heroin (4'46) - WNET TV, February 1966
2. Loop (excerpt) (1'08) - Aspen flexi-disc, 1966
3. Diaries, Notes & Sketches (3'53) - film soundtrack, 1966
4. A Symphony Of Sound (19'11) - film soundtrack, 1966
5. Heroin (5'16) - Poor Richard's, 6/23/66
6. Venus In Furs (3'27) - Poor Richard's, 6/23/66
7. Waiting For The Man (6'00) - La Cave, 10/2/68
8. White Light/White Heat (4'06) - Second Fret, 1/2/70
9. Foggy Notion (7'14) - Second Fret, 1/2/70
10. Beginning To See The Light (5'28) - Boston Tea Party, January 1969
11. Sister Ray (9'09) - Second Fret, 1/3/70
12. Heroin (6'27) - rehearsal, Paris 1/25/72

CD2:
1. All Tomorrow's Parties (2'49) - Verve single, mono edit, 1966
2. Countess From Hong Kong (3'20) - acetate demos, late 1969
3. Ride Into The Sun (3'45) - acetate demos, late 1969
4. Real Good Time Together (2'35) - acetate demos, late 1969
5. I Found A Reason (3'16) - acetate demos, late 1969
6. What Goes On (11'10) - Hilltop Festival, 8/2/69
7. Run Run Run (7'43) - Hilltop Festival, 8/2/69
8. Candy Says (3'57) - Boston Tea Party, 3/13/69
9. Oh Jim (1'16) - Woodrose Ballroom, 4/17/70
10. I Can't Stand It (5'56) - Boston Tea Party, January 1969
11. Sister Ray (20'59) - Boston Tea Party, January 1969
12. Interview (5'47) - Lou Reed, KVAN Portland, Oregon, 1969
13. Waiting For The Man (3'43) - Lou Reed/Patti Smith, 5/4/77

CD3:

1. Sweet Jane (7'56) - Second Fret, 1/2/70
2. Over You (3'09) - Second Fret, 1/2/70
3. Waiting For The Man (9'30) - Cale/Morrison, Arsenal show, TV3, Barcelona, 1984/86
4. Chelsea Girls (3'12) - Nico, BBC TV program, NYC, 1981
5. Heroin (8'17) - Lou Reed, Plaza Las Arenas, Barcelona, 6/19/80
6. Sister Ray/Leave Me Alone (17'14) - Lou Reed, Plaza Las Arenas, Barcelona, 6/19/80
7. Open House (4'29) - Reed/Cale, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 12/3/89
8. Pale Blue Eyes (4'11) - Tucker/Reed/Cale, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 12/3/89
9. Heroin (10'16) - Fondation Cartier, 6/15/90
10. Interviews (5'36) - Fondation Cartier, 6/15/90
11. Jesus (3'13) - Boston Tea Party, 3/15/69

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Extracted from original cds with audiograbber, converted to shn files with Shorten

The Velvet Underground, Vol. 2, © 1994 Fierce Pup Productions, courtesy of Sal Mercuri.

1 : WNET TV, February 1966 / 2 : Aspen flexi-disc, 1966 / 3, 4 : film soundtracks, 1966 / 5, 6 : Poor Richard's, 23/6/66
/ 7 : La Cave, 2/10/68 / 8, 9, 26, 27 : Second Fret, 2/1/70 / 10, 22, 23 : Boston Tea Party, January 1969 /
11 : Second Fret, 3/1/70 / 12 : rehearsal, Paris 25/1/72 / 13 : Verve single, 1966 / 14-17 : acetate demos, late 1969 /
18, 19 : Hilltop Festival, 2/8/69 / 20 : Boston Tea Party, 13/3/69 / 21 : Woodrose Ballroom, 17/4/70 /
24 : Lou Reed, KVAN Portland, Oregon, 1969 / 25 : Lou Reed/Patti Smith, 4/5/77 /
28 : Cale/Morrison, Arsenal show, TV3, Barcelona, 1984/86 / 29 : Nico, BBC TV program, NYC, 1981 /
30, 31 : Lou Reed, Plaza Las Arenas, Barcelona, 19/6/80 / 32 : Reed/Cale, BAM, 3/12/89 /
33 : Tucker/Reed/Cale, BAM, 3/12/89 / 34, 35 : Fondation Cartier, 15/6/90 /
36 : Boston Tea Party, 15/3/69.

12x12 inch boxed set, hand-numbered limited edition of 500 copies, 200 more reissued in 1996. Includes extensive liner notes by Dr. Rawk and Michelle Yow, and a sticker. 16 added tracks compared with LP version, unfortunately the sound is overall inferior compare with the vinyl set.

Fierce Pup VU fanzine says: "The legendary Searchin' for my Mainline was issued in a 3 disc box. The vinyl edition of this set, which features all live tracks from '66 to '86, has long been out of print. It was touted by many as the definitive VU boot. Its re-emergence on CD allows fans the opportunity to own some of the wildest, live VU ever recorded and a few oddities. While digital technology improves on the quality of the original vinyl, we're still dealing with some lo-fi sources here so don't expect miracles. The CDs' extented recording time permits the addition of many tracks not on the vinyl edition, although there is a glaring omission: Moe and Jonathan's I'm Sticking With You."

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Velvet Underground: Live at End Of Cole Ave. 1969 (Soundboard) FLAC

by request!

10/18/69
End Of Cole Ave.
Dallas, Texas
Publisher: Aulica - Never End
Reference: a11112ne3-1A
Date: 1994
Quality :Excellent
Source: silver CDs (ltd. ed. #0537)->EAC (secure mode)->FLAC
disc one, t01 - t14 = End Of Cole Ave, Dallas, Texas, October 19, 1969
disc two, t01 = End Of Cole Ave, October 18, 1969
disc two, t02 - t04 = 'live, more or less, in those days'.
art:
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Originally a limited numbered edition, packaged in a violet velvet pouch. Reissued in 1994 without number. There is also a 1994 reissue, Aulica Deluxe 9430.22, limited numbered edition in Chinese silk box without photos or liner notes but with different pictures on the disc. Small club recording with excellent sound quality - part of this set was used for the official 1969 Live album. Definitely another must-have.

DISC ONE:
01. I'm Waiting For The Man (7:26)
02. It's Just Too Much (2:54)
03. I'll Be Your Mirror (2:56)
04. Some Kinda Love (4:25)
05. Femme Fatale (3:27)
06. Beginning To See The Light (5:58)
07. I'm Set Free (4:41)
08. Afterhours (2:49)
09. I'm Sticking With You (2:40)
10. One Of These Days (3:29)
11. Pale Blue Eyes (6:23)
12. Ocean (6:02)
13. What Goes On (6:22)
14. Heroin (7:17).

DISC TWO:
01. Sister Ray (17:47)
02. Lisa Says (3:39)
03. Rock'n' Roll (5:06)
04. Blue Velvet Jazz Jam (30:13)

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